Kris' Pet Priorities LLC

11/18/2025

UPDATE : Oakley has been FOUND SAFE!

Please keep a look out for Oakley! She is a friends dog.

❤️Home Safe.

📌Missing from Fowler Hollow in Port Matilda. Please contact if seen. Friendly but Skiddish.

11/17/2025

Merck is rolling out its mRNA rabies vaccine that SHED to humans.

Its called NOBIVAC NXT.

Please watch this video and do your research into this vaccine before using it on your family pet!

11/17/2025

This update made my morning!!

Great job by little Geno and his owner Jennifer and Vet Tech Shaina and Dr Menapace and all the staff at Halfmoon Valley Animal Hospital for the great job continuing to work with Geno through the years to establish calmer, safer vet visits for him! All that patience and training sure paid off since GENO now needs to go to the vet once a month!

See this link for a video of GENO and his owner shortly after doing a training package with Kris' Pet Priorities LLC in 2019.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AHzzjeE1k/?mibextid=wwXIfr

We helped his owner Jennifer to muzzle train GENO, teach him TOUCH, and start desensitizing him to vet visits! Great job Jennifer and Geno!! You made my morning! I just loved seeing Geno’s cute face first thing !

11/14/2025

A couple safety rules 🤦‍♀️:

Don’t “clean” a LOADED firearm. 😳

Don’t set ANY loaded fi****ms anywhere where your pets can reach them 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Be kind to your dog 🐕. You never know when they may elect to cap your you-know-what 😂

Be really kind to your cat 🐈‍⬛ if you are leaving a loaded fi****ms around. They don’t need a reason! 🤣

Hope this gentleman heals faster than his reputation will. 🙏🙏🙏

SHILLINGTON, Pa. — A 53-year-old man was injured Tuesday night after being accidentally shot by his dog in his home in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Police responded to the incident at about 11:15 p.m…

10/15/2025

Good reminder to keep your lithium batteries out of reach of your dogs.

10/15/2025

So busy working I forgot to post…

ZIA MIA turned 1 yr old yesterday!!!!

And this love ❤️ story between Rain and Zia Mia is strong as ever!

10/01/2025

ZIA MIA LEARNING ECOLLAR

On the road with 11 month old ZIA MIA getting our ecollar training in between clients. She is doing very well!

ZIA is VERY RESPONSIVE to her verbal cue “COME”. But I am also teaching her that a really low level e-collar stim also means COME. Just a different sensory cue.

Her ecollar training level on an Educator Micro ME-300 Micro (has a very light weight 1/3 mile receiver for smaller dogs) is level 6.
It is the lowest level she appears to discern.

For comparison I do not feel it until level 11. Most men can’t feel it until level 15. But ZIA can barely feel level 6. It probably feels like a flea or bug 🐞 on her.

Now she is learning that extremely low level tens unit type tactile stimulation means COME. She learns by me pairing that feeling followed by “COME”.

If she fails to respond to both the tactile cue and the verbal cue then she feels pressure on the long line until she comes. But she cannot refuse to COME. She is learning that is NOT an option. But COME is ALWAYS good and always momentary, so why wouldn’t she want to come. It’s a win-win and right back to the fun outdoors .

Until she learns a reliable recall I will keep her on a long line until she is 💯 % responsive to the ecollar stim.

I do not train ecollar with puppies younger than 6 months old.

ECollar training isn’t needed for most dogs. But if you have a rural property , like hiking with your dog, or have a prey driven little instigator / livestock or wildlife killer then its is a fantastic tool to train your dog to understand without stress, and definitely without pain. The ignorant haters using the words “shock” or “pain” have never learned how to use a good ecollar and probably have never had the equipment demo or in their hands.

This equipment will help me give ZIA MIA safe FREEDOM ♥️ she would never be able to experience otherwise.

It will also help me keep this little high prey drive cattle dog safe from venomous snakes 🐍, porcupines, skunks 🦨, coyotes, bears 🐻, or just chasing after deer 🦌 and getting lost.

NO APOLOGIES to the uneducated haters 🤷‍♀️ . I love my dogs too much not to teach them a tool that will allow me to give them unparalleled safety and freedom .

PM me if you want to learn more about ecollar training, or even if you want to debate ecollars. For the debaters, if you are open minded and mature enough to educate yourself to the equipment Id be happy to give you a free demonstration.

All my human clients MUST FEEL each and every level we might possibly use on their dog beforehand.

HAPPY TRAINING!

09/06/2025

I felt bad that my own dogs weren’t getting training time!

I usually train my dogs separately on new behaviors, but once they start understanding a behavior we try some group training.

Big Rain thought my positive marker YES! was the release and he broke causing Zia to break. They both got a Negative marker ET ET (not winning!) and were cued back into position. The only release cue for them is OKAY!

Not bad for their first group training.

09/04/2025

CAT HARASSER IN THE MAKING REIGNED IN!

I had such a fun time with these ladies, Michelle and Shirley, and their new boy BLITZ!! I was so glad they called when they did! Waiting until a dog like BLITZ gets BIG to start obedience training really compounds things and may even create liability.

BLITZ is going to be a Big Boy and he has an extra helping of prey drive and sniffing ability, both which can create problems if not redirected into healthy uses of these gifts! Add to it that BLITZ was blessed to live in the big woods full of critters and a house full
of cats 🐈‍⬛ !

I’m not even Yiddish, but Oy vey 🤦‍♀️!

So I modified BLITZ’s obedience package to make time for extra time for COME, LEAVE IT, and fun prey drive games while also desensitizing him to the family cats 🐈 and teaching BLITZ calmer behavior is expected in connection with them!! And for the record, no cats or wildlife were harmed in the making of a better BLiTZ!

BLITZ was also blessed to have a housemate older dog GIBSON who was incorporated into the training plan to help teach BLITZ manners and give him a fun playmate to drain extra energy!

CONGRATULATIONS BLITZ!!! Keep up the great work Michelle and Shirley! If you survive BLITZ’ first year the rest is downhill easy! 😁. Call 📞 me if you need me.

09/04/2025

GOD knows what He is doing ❤️
Interesting Fact of the Day...

Did you know that the little groove between a dog’s nose and upper lip isn’t just a random feature? It’s called the philtrum (or vegetal groove), and it was has an important purpose!

The philtrum collects moisture when a dog licks its lips and saliva collects there. The moisture then travels up to the nose, keeping it damp. A wet nose is far better at grabbing scent particles from the air—boosting a dog’s already incredible olfaction ability. This isn’t a lucky accident of evolution—it’s a perfect example of intentional design by the Creator, equipping dogs with the tools they need from the very beginning.

A dog’s sense of smell is up to 100,000 times stronger than ours.

Every dog’s nose print is unique, just like our fingerprints.

A dog’s nose is not only about smell – it’s also about social skills. Dogs greet each other through sniffing, gathering details about age, s*x, health, and even mood. It’s their way of shaking hands and starting a conversation. Nose-to-nose and nose-to-ground sniffing is the language of dogs.

So next time you see your dog’s nose twitching or their philtrum glistening, remember – it’s more than cute. Humans have a philtrum too, but it isn’t quite as well developed and well used as the dog’s!

The philtrum is God’s masterpiece and special gift to dogs especially!

08/04/2025

German Shedder RAIN feels better!