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Tail Waggers Academy

Tail Waggers Academy Offering positive reinforcement private and group instruction to meet all of your training goals.

03/31/2025

A lot of hard work went into the last six weeks.. looking forward to the next set of outdoor classes..

03/30/2025

Congrats to our Obedience 201 class for working through all of those distractions during class. Great job everyone!!

03/27/2025

Haha..

03/23/2025

Working on some leash walking in Obedience 101 today!

03/20/2025

Spring has sprung.. did you sign up for your intermediate outdoor class yet? Class Trip is on the schedule for Saturdays starting on April 5th! Each week we meet at a different location and start using the skills we learned in basics and put it to use in real life situations! Who’s coming? Stryker is ready to see his friends in class #

03/19/2025

🤦🏻‍♀️ why do dogs sniff on greetings you ask?? It’s all about gathering as much information as they can. 1. Have we met before? 2. Male or female? 3. Are you stressed out and/or sick?
4. What’s your diet like? Honestly that’s a lot of information just with sniffing.. how does your dog greet another dog?, Or are they going the old-fashioned way by sniffing or do they like to go headfirst??

03/18/2025

Work it Newtown🥰

03/17/2025

Happy Monday 😂 ☘️

03/16/2025

Tyler is not an easy spot to have class by any means because of all of the distractions there. When you think about it, the foundations that you are teaching your dogs and taking it to a different location shows you how much your environment does dictate your dogs behavior whether it be good or struggling. It doesn’t mean that your dog is not listening or blowing you off, but it does mean that you need to take things slow and break it down a bit more. It’s a process And it definitely does not happen overnight. Great job Ellie!

03/15/2025

What’s your favorite dog friendly place to eat with great food? Either in the area or out… we were out the Main Line and is always a go to for us. They have several locations to choose from.. where do you like to go??

03/13/2025

You know I’m always looking for trainable moments for my best boy here and when we were in to see his veterinarian yesterday, Dr Weiss, I noticed that tall dark and handsome had a really hard time holding it together because he loves loves loves her and everyone that literally works there.🤦🏻‍♀️. We have been coming here for years, so he knows the place very well. you know his focus is amazing, not yesterday. The reason why is his motivator had nothing to do with me or any food that I potentially had on me. His motivator clearly was giving kisses. My compromise with him was follow through on what I ask and then you can go give kisses. did he initially take advantage of the situation, absolutely. This is nothing to get frustrated over or mad, honestly, this is a trainable moment. I don’t want to give him treats when he is amped up to say hello to all of the special lady friends, but I do want him to at least approach them in a gentlemanly way if that makes sense. Training is lifelong and finding these trainable moments is what is going to help your dogs get through real life situations.

03/11/2025

Paying attention in class?? Yes please✔️.

03/07/2025

Stryker and I had an awesome opportunity to do some service dog training at Disney World this past week while we were at our service dog conference but it got me thinking about traveling with your dog.

When you pack up for vacations with your dogs, what are you packing? Some of the hotels that you stay at don’t really have the freezer space for frozen things so sometimes frozen treats are not an option.. how are you distressing your dog in that new environment ?

What are your activities for your dog? How is your dog in the car? We drove down and I have to be honest with you. We left Bucks County and Stryker woke up in North Carolina. He’s really good in the car and we stopped along the way for potty breaks and stretching his legs and I did sniff walks every time we stopped..

The things that I packed for him were a West Paw feast Mat because just in case the freezer is small that’s something that you definitely can fit in apartment size freezers and it’s flexible. His pumpkin, I put it directly in a Ziploc bag for easy transport, his food was put into individual bags along with his supplements that he takes every day so I did not have to worry about measuring things out , slow feeder, travel water bowl, one of hos blankets, a long line, and of course, all his favorite friends came, including Oinkers❤️. I brought some fish wrapped bones and of course His Benebone and a bag of treats. I also brought a copy of his vaccinations and looked for the closest emergency veterinarian center where I was staying.

His activities were I took him to a really nice dog beach in CoCo beach-yes he was a beast in the water 😂 and then when we got back to the hotel, obviously he had to get a bubble bath to get all of the sand off of him, which made him tired , he got his long walk in the morning and at night and during our conferences, he did get short walks in between. We did recall games in the hallways of the hotel to continue to practice his recall, and it also tired him out,When we went to Disney, we were there for four hours and I also practiced his spot on the Ferry ride to Magic Kingdom as well as in the park around the crowds, we also practiced leash walking through crowds, which was a great distraction. I can’t say that he practiced with food on the ground because literally the grounds were spotless. We had plenty of breaks while we were there because four hours at a theme park is exhausting. During our conferences from 8 AM until 6 PM daily he was literally in a spot position throughout the day. During our lunch break, he practiced not taking food off the floor as people were dropping things. When we went out to dinner with the other service dogs, they were also all in position while we ate. Everywhere I take him has to be a teachable moment and I have to follow through with what I trained him to do in order for him to be consistent with his follow-through. If I’m not consistent, and you all know tall, dark and handsome, he will view that as his loophole to do his own thing. So a lot of this is on me to follow through so he will also. I was incredibly proud of him for all of his follow-through.

I think one of the things that we sometimes don’t think about is when we bring our dogs on family activity based vacations or getaways
we do need to pick activities that they would really enjoy which also tire them out without overwhelming them

What do you pack for your dogs when you are taking them on vacations and what activities do you do with them?

03/06/2025

Here’s a throwback..8 week old Stryker and his sister Holly. How is he 5.5 years old already😭. Ok now I need to see your puppy pictures or your Gotcha Day pics…

02/27/2025

You have a mighty good focus Rowan🥰.

02/25/2025

I think Ponyo is very proud of himself today. Good job buddy 🥰

02/22/2025

Don’t forget that Wrightstown Farmers Market is dog friendly(dogs who do not bark or pull towards other dogs while they are at Bucks County Community college-East entrance) it’s a great way to support your local farmers while working on your leash walking 😊

02/21/2025

Happy TGIF from Oakley😘

Address

662 Durham Road, Lower Level
Newtown, PA
18940

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 7:30pm
Tuesday	8am - 7:30pm
Wednesday	8am - 7:30pm
Thursday	8am - 7:30pm
Friday	8am - 3pm
Saturday	8am - 2pm

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http://www.tailwaggersacademy.com/

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