Companion Synergy

11/01/2024

As we have been around for over 16 years now we have been blessed to get to know so many amazing pets! We embrace every one of your pets as a part of our family and when you have a loss, we feel that loss immensely. I personally built a bond with Tia and watched her grow and then grow old. We will all miss her but I will feel this for a while to come. I hope you’re running free after crossing that bridge! Rest in peace, love.~Christian

10/29/2024

I’m looking for the best care and I’ve found it!!! Mewow Companion Synergy

10/29/2024

Our newest golden retriever, meet Marty the one man party!

10/29/2024

We love our retrievers and they love our playgroups! These girls had such a great play day, nice and cool

09/16/2024

We have openings coming into the fall season. Give us a call or shoot us an email, we look forward to growing our family!

08/20/2024

Positive reinforcement training enhances your relationship with your dog:

"So ditch dominance. Park the prong. Stop the shock. Use treats to train your dog. If you stick to reward-based methods only, you’ll have a dog who is happier, has better manners, and has a better relationship with you." Read more in my NEW post at Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/fellow-creatures/202408/more-treats-please-no-tugging-the-leash-in-dog-training

07/05/2024

On this beautiful day we here at Companion Synergy would like to acknowledge that we live in the best country in the entire world and we have the best customers. Have an Amazing Fourth of July!!!

07/03/2024

12/19/2023

While feeling a bit reflective, and thinking about what to write today, I went into the archives to see what I’d written this month ten years ago. I ran into this post, which I’d forgotten about, and decided it deserved to come out of moth balls, like some Christmas tree decorations stashed in t...

12/14/2023

Dogs chase things that move and are interested in noises and movement.

08/10/2023

After playgroup it’s one big nap time and sometimes cuddles are a necessity 

08/10/2023

Lenny is loving being around so many great dogs! What a happy boy

06/15/2023

Reposted from Caring for Rescued ex Street Dogs (as shared by unrelated organization, Rescued By Training)
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What a great visual to help illustrate all the “normal” things that are around that your fearful dog may be sensitive to. When people tell me “there’s nothing for the dog to be scared of” I try to help them understand that maybe there aren’t things that we find scary but to a dog, maybe one who has never lived inside or with humans or in a busy place, there are plenty of things to be afraid of.

See the original post for a LOT more great information at
https://www.facebook.com/caringforstreetdogs/posts/pfbid02Adzodhu5YzirmcLtrw2q6r5PPLQzHE8NX8NMEdWvg1EPorpR1RPhmfc795LQB1pAl

01/06/2023

Before the week of rain we have been having we had a couple of fun shots!! Left to right Virginia, Poppy, & Moana

12/23/2022

Cool story!

https://www.facebook.com/100050152434108/posts/714587216889686/?mibextid=dDOYBg

Meet New York’s First Known Dog Walker. “Coming up Fifth Avenue last Friday morning was a pretty, trim-looking girl, who attracted the rather admiring attention of passers-by from the enjoyment she seemed to take in what was apparently a morning constitutional. It was a thoroughly uncomfortable day. A constant drizzle was falling, half rain and half sleet…She wore a trim little gray suit, with the skirt at ankle length. She had no umbrella and she walked freely and easily, her cheeks rosy with exercise and her hands free, except as she held a leash at the other end of which was a handsome Irish setter dog.

“The girl was apparently having more fun out of the walk than the dog. That was not surprising for what respectable and self-respecting hunting dog would like to be obliged to trot along Fifth Avenue. So the dog looked despondent and the girl happy for it was a matter of business with her, and she was being paid for it.”

According to The NY Times article in January 1899, an elderly lady of some wealth had gone to the Women’s Exchange to ask if anyone could be employed to “exercise my dog for me.” The unnamed girl answered the posting, making the tidy sum of $10 a month for an hour walk of the Irish Setter a day.

“Now the young woman’s mornings are all engaged wandering up and down Fifth Avenue exercising society pets… It is a good thing for the young woman. It is a blessing for the dogs, as it is the best thing they can get inside the city limits, and it is with great satisfaction to the fond owners of the dogs. So there is a new profession, and at least one woman is helping to support herself by means of it.”

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Text: New York Times
Photograph: DALL-E (AI generated photograph with prompt: 'Fashionable young woman walking an Irish setter in NYC in 1800s)

10/21/2022

Would like to welcome Nelly into the fold!!!! What a wonderful girl!!!!

10/21/2022

We would like to welcome Charlotte to Companion Synergy.

10/18/2022

A little humor on a Tuesday