Off The Grid K9 LLC

04/03/2025

🎉 Congratulations 🎉 to everyone who completed the 6 week Foundation & Basic Obedience Course! I’m missing a handful of people’s graduation photos but when they do their final test, I will add their photos in. What a fantastic group of people and dogs, everyone did so well!

03/28/2025

Relationship… it’s everything. Without it, you have nothing.

03/25/2025

I am so happy another local pet business invests their time and funds 💵 into continuing education and bringing more therapies to our community! I have utilized redlight therapy on my animals in the past and saw great results. It’s a fantastic, noninvasive modality!

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I'm excited to announce that I've completed my red light therapy certification and am now accepting clients. Ready to provide effective, noninvasive therapy for your pets' wellness needs! ✨✨

03/23/2025

There is a lot of confusion in regard to the difference between service dogs, emotional support animals, and therapy dogs. The photo (pictured below) helps lay out some of the differences.

🐾Training a REAL service dog often takes hundreds of hours of time (and not all dogs make the cut!) Contrary to popular belief… you cannot go online, purchase a vest and ID for your pet dog and pay 💰 for it to be a “registered service dog”.

ADA states… “A service animal is a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for a person with a disability.”

“A service animal must be under the control of its handler. Under the ADA, service animals must be harnessed, leashed, or tethered, unless the individual’s disability prevents using these devices or these devices interfere with the service animal’s safe, effective performance of tasks. In that case, the individual must maintain control of the animal through voice, signal, or other effective controls.”

https://www.ada.gov/resources/service-animals-2010-requirements/

Who enforced ADA regulations?

“The Department of Justice enforces the ADA through lawsuits and settlement agreements to achieve greater access, inclusion, and equal opportunity for people with disabilities.”

03/21/2025

This is Casey! Since day 1 he has thrived in my Enrichment & Wellness program. Casey, is visually impaired but having impaired vision doesn’t mean he needs any less than the average dog. Despite his new “disability” (… I don’t think he believes he even has one at all!) the only thing we do different is help him safely navigate the facility and outdoor walks. Per “doctors orders” we are encouraging Casey to use his remaining senses. Mental and physical stimulation is for ALL dogs, even our little buddies with disabilities. !

03/21/2025

Thank you to Jayson for taking these photos in my Wednesday class! It’s been so exciting watching everyone and their dogs develop over the last few weeks.

03/19/2025

*** UPDATE- CLASSES ARE FULL ***

Group classes have been incredibly successful! The next round of Foundation & Basic Obedience class’s are set to begin:

✅ When: Monday April 7th and Wednesday April 9th. Class is once a week (Monday OR Wednesday) for 6 weeks.

✅ Time: 5:30pm-6:30pm

✅ Where:
Hairy Stylz Salon
5813 US-8
Rhinelander, wi 54501

✅ Cost: $120 With a $20 deposit required to hold your spot in class. The deposit goes towards the total cost of the class.

We had a waitlist from an overflow of interest in our first round of classes, so there are only a few openings left for this next round of classes (2 spots left for Mondays Class, 3 spots left for Wednesdays class).

Please, message here on Facebook or text (715)966-6751 to reserve your spot. There is a $20 deposit required to hold your slot in class that can be paid via check, Venmo or cash.

03/17/2025

Big Red got to visit Tomahawk School District on a therapy dog mission!

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03/17/2025

In response to the comical email I received last week. My battered and abused animals, forced into physical exercise, strapped in, and unhappy🤣😂

03/16/2025

One of the most overlooked and least appreciated aspect of dog ownership is good dog management skills.

Dog management helps us prevent a dog from practicing or rehearsing unwanted behaviors by controlling their access to situations or objects that might trigger those behaviors.

How we manage our dogs on a day to day basis not only helps prevent poor behavior from developing but it also plays a big part in helping us modify behaviors after they have developed.

As a dog trainer, if I could only choose two tools, I would choose a long line and a crate!

03/14/2025

Meet Rooster!

If you looked up “dompamine” in a dictionary, a picture of this dog would be under the description. Rooster (aka “Roo”, “Smooch” or “little guy”) is happy go lucky, loves everybody and is the typical “ball obsessed” Border Collie.

If there was a dog sport for “making the cutest face to solicit attention”… Rooster would take home gold🥇 EVERY time. Rooster is all “action” and makes jumping 6 feet in the air look easy. He enjoys long walks in the woods, “checking” his birds, and tug. His favorite thing of all is playing ball and messing with his cat Junior.

Fun fact: Rooster knocked his own front tooth out playing fetch. We now loving tell him to “show people his hillbilly tooth”. 🦷

03/13/2025

Meet Finch!

Finch is a (almost) 2 year old field line Labrador who absolutely loves to work! Like most Labrador Retrievers her favorite thing to do is retrieve (who would have guessed?!) on land and in water.

She is convinced that when dogs get loaded up, she should always be “a chosen one”. Her other favorite activities include (but are not limited to) training in town and ignoring the general public (she could care less about anyone else but her handler), tug, scent work, running on the slatmill, and swimming.

Fun fact: Finch completely dislocated her outside toe on her back right foot colliding with her housemate. We now lovingly call her “Princess Wonky Toe”.

03/12/2025

Meet Big Red!

Red is one of my personal dogs. I can regularly be seen around town with a red dog at the end of my leash. Hounds are often times thought to be “untrainable” but the people who say that couldnt be more wrong. Red holds several AKC titles, is a registered therapy dog through Therapy Dogs International and loves to be my demo dog during classes and lessons.

Reds favorite things to do are finding a soft spot to lay in front of the wood stove, playing ball with his Border Collie buddy Rooster, running in the woods and using his nose, and training with his mom to earn pieces of string cheese!

03/09/2025

Let’s take a moment to address uneducated assumptions and opinions like the one below. To be clear, my dogs absolutely LOVE to exercise, they love to play, they love to work and they LOVE their treadmills. I don’t FORCE them to do anything. They willingly and happily load themselves up and often choose to continue to stand on their equipment in hopes that I’ll strap them back in so they can run again.

These are the same people who think working dogs are forced into work, that their quality of life is less because they have a “job”. They couldn’t be more wrong… just like this email I received.

03/09/2025

The recipe for the perfect partnership begins with preheating your heart to create a strong bond. After preheating your heart, go ahead and add a couple heaping scoops of trust (you really can’t add too much). Prep your work space with loads of playtime with your partner. Playtime is key and should never be skipped in this recipe (and it cannot be substituted). Once your heart has been prepped, trust and playtime have been added make sure you don’t forget to apply a good amount of structure and boundaries. Without the structure and boundaries this recipe will have some trouble on its hands. Add in a dash of adventure and few heaping scoops of obedience. Throughout the recipe be sure to continuously apply proper socialization, down time and a good exercise regimen. Add a little love and affection on top and the recipe for the perfect partnership is complete. Follow me for more recipes!

02/28/2025

This post is in loving memory of Elaine, Ozzie, Bear, and Sunny. Each of these dogs recently passed away and were apart of my life for years. Thank you to my clients who continue to let me play a part in your dogs lives.

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“Sometimes it's a dog that fills the void," I said, watching the way the room felt different without him in it. She looked at me, waiting.

"People come and go. They make promises they can't keep, love you with conditions, leave when things get hard. But a dog? A dog just stays. No questions, no demands. Just there, filling the empty spaces you didn't even realize were growing inside you."

She sighed, nodding. "It's strange, isn't it? How something so small can take up so much room in your life?"

"Not strange," I said. "Just rare. The kind of love that doesn't ask for anything but still gives you everything. The kind that finds you when you need it most, and somehow, without words, makes you whole again."