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02/23/2024

Happy Friday!

02/21/2024

Welcome Alamea!

She is one special little Doggie! Her parents have been my clients for a very long time. I took care of their previous dog Puipo for many years and was so sad when he passed away.

I was so happy to hear when they told me that they adopted a new dog and wanted to start having her join me right away. When they first got her she had some dog fears. She was definitely nervous. But after having one pack walk with very neutral, calm dogs, she completely changed her outlook on dogs and is now even having some playtime with them.

Yay for Alamea!

01/11/2024

Happy Thursday. 🐕❤️🌤️

12/29/2023

Happy Friday! On into the new year. 🎉

hope everybody had an amazing 2023 and I hope for an even better 2024!

12/21/2023

Tongues out Thursday? Happy Holidays! 🎄🎁🎅🏻🪔🤶

12/06/2023

Training your dog can be overwhelming..

There’s a lot of information out there and it’s hard to figure out exactly which way to do it.

I made a dog guide that is not only free, but gives you step-by-step directions.

To get my free dog training guide, so you can start training your dog today just comment “MAUI” below.

11/29/2023

Happy Wednesday! Taking new clients!

I have three openings for my training pack walks!

I only take six dogs at a time they fill up fast, and I hardly ever have openings.

we work on tons of manners and behaviors, while on the walk. So your dog will get lots of physical and mental exercise while out.

The walks are an hour to an hour and a half They are $55, includes pick up and drop off at your house.

Dogs must be people dog friendly.

Message me today to get started!

07/20/2023

Coffee Thursday 🐕☕️

07/14/2023

Thursday Happy Pups

07/08/2023

Why pack walks???

Dog pack walks can provide several benefits for dogs! Here are some advantages of incorporating pack walks into your dogs routine:

1. Socialization: Pack walks allow dogs to interact with other dogs in a controlled environment, helping them develop social skills and better behavior around their canine counterparts.
2. Exercise: Walking in a group stimulates physical activity, providing dogs with regular exercise that helps maintain a healthy weight, improve cardiovascular health, and promote overall fitness.
3. Mental stimulation: Pack walks expose dogs to new environments, scents, and sights, which can engage their senses and provide mental stimulation. This can prevent boredom and help alleviate behavioral issues caused by excess energy.
4. Training opportunities: Walking in a group setting offers valuable training opportunities. Dogs can practice walking politely on a leash, responding to commands, and improving their obedience skills with the guidance of their handler.

06/11/2023

Date Weekend

01/20/2023

TGIF

01/05/2023

Ready to train your dog in 2023? 🐕 ❤️

🎉 Congrats!!

Training your pup before, during, or after unwanted behaviors arise makes you an awesome pet parent. 🐾

Virtual high five! 🙌

Would you:

✅ Like your pooch to walk nicely on a leash around other dogs?

✅ Come when called 100% of the time so you can take them on more adventures and outings?

✅ Greet guests nicely when they come to the door?

✅ Have people comment "Wow! I wish my pup was that well behaved"...

If any of all of the above sounds like you, that is great!

Let's connect.

I am a local certified trainer and I'm here to help!

I have programs available now but spots won't last long.

So, if you want to chat to see if I can help you and your pup, send me a message now, and let's connect. 💬

12/15/2022

Having a balanced dog is like a three legged stool.

Doesn’t look like much.

But it stands for so much.

So lets say we sit on it but if it was missing any one of its legs it would be unbalanced, It might even fall over and hurt us or break itself more.

The stool could represent many things.

How to have a happy life, how to have a successful retirement, and even how to have a balanced dog.

So like we said if the stool was missing one of its legs it would be unbalanced.

Which is why these three legs represent how to have a healthy happy relationship with your dog.

First one, which 99.9% of us do is give our dogs love. we love giving love we love our dogs it’s easy. Which is good because it’s important.

But the other two legs are just as important.

Leg number two: physical health. Meaning physical activity, a walk, fetch, run, whatever you do to get physical exercise for your dog. Physical health also means your dogs diet. What you are feeding them and when and how much all go into her/his physical health. Most people are providing physical health to a certain point but at times can just fill it the wrong way. ie. feeding them a poor diet or physical exercise without follow-through of mental exercise which leads us to our next leg.

And finally leg three: mental health. Rules and boundaries. All well as mental exercise. This is the most neglected leg. Without mental exercise and rules and boundaries a dog gets bored and gets into trouble. This is where most bad behaviors stem from.

Now without all three of these legs we have an unbalanced dog. Whether you give love and give physical activity but lack on the mental health. Or let’s say you give love you give rules and boundaries you give mental exercise but you’re not fulfilling the physical health you will always have an unbalanced dog.

The goal is to give even love, physical health, and mental health. The goal is to have balance.

11/11/2022

Nani learning how to be calm and relaxed around other dogs. She did so amazing. 😊

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
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Friday	9am - 5pm

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Videos

The Coffee Test! Can you hold a mug of coffee and walk your dogs without spilling it?

Day 1 of training! Loading up the clicker so I can teach this girl wonderful things!

Ollie doing lots of thinking during this session. We love to promote thinking! Marker words YES (you did it correctly) NOPE (try again)

Three pups. Three different training goals. River knows his commands well and would stay forever until I give him a release word but can worry about others getting treats and not him. Lucy knows her commands well and is pretty good with distractions but not so good at duration she tends to pop up right after a treat thinking that she is at the end of the command. But is very quick to respond to corrections. Yianna is pretty new to training. She knows her commands and will do them quickly but has trouble focusing after the cue. She needs more direction in her corrections to understand what is the right and wrong choice.

Klay is learning how to be polite on leash. That way his owner and him can both enjoy the walk. They are both rockstars and had a nice walk! They connected amazing with each other and Klay is learning to be more aware of his owner while on a walk!

Heels and Auto Sits this morning!

Happy Tuesday! Structured fetch! ❤️❤️

This shy guy finally playing with his bestie!

A lot trainers and owners unintentionally make the mistake of making the treat reward the end of the behavior. Meaning your dogs are ending the calm state of mind with an high energy activity (getting food). The treat reward is just a nice part of the behavior being asked. The ultimate reward is being released from the asked behavior. Ending a calming behavior with a calming release makes that calming state of mind linger in the dogs brain much longer than ending with the fun yummy treat. Another thing I have noticed is that we get lazy about not following through. In this video just as we are about to get up Walnut broke his down/stay. I could have easily just released everyone else since that was what I was about to do anyway. But Walnut needs the follow through and straight forward directions or he can get pushy on leash. So he was asked to down again which is didn’t and was given leash pressure until he downed. Which he did! Training takes a lot of patience and consistency but always brings happiness in the end!

Training Day 1 for Bailey. He needs some help with his Recall. He did so well we quickly added distance and distractions. He still has a ways to go but started off great!!