Happy Hounds Center

Happy Hounds Center We are a full service canine center. We offer behavioral training based daycare, boarding, training classes and private sessions and canine assisted therapy.

We are a full service canine center, from daycare and boarding to training we have you covered! We currently offer training classes and private training sessions in our Trainers Co-op. Join Sue for super fun Agility, get help with a reactive dog or build strong foundations with Alexo, Start your puppy of right or refine your dog's obedience skills with Finn, learn how to train your own service dog

or learn how to transfer the skills from the training center to the real world with Colleen. For people interested in animal assisted Therapy Colleen offers Paws for Joy Canine Assisted Therapy with therapist Cris Carl on Saturday mornings Nov-Apr. Our daycare and boarding is going back to our vision of daily enrichment, training, appropriate play and more individual attention for each dog every day. Our daycare and boarding area has over 6,000 Sq ft of climate controlled indoor play areas and outdoor fenced play areas. Staff trained in canine body language, appropriate play, and enrichment. Stay tuned for the new services to be added over the next few months! check our website for more details! www.heroesbts.com

Monday fun 12/23
12/23/2024

Monday fun 12/23

12/23/2024

Everyone got some time working on leash skills last Wednesday! Finally getting the time to post these sice FB will only let me post one at a time. The games we are playing are Reward Zone, Back and Forth and chase me backwards. These are all great games to teach a natural heel on a loose leash and focus on your walks!
Apollo is showing the next level of the games when the leash is no longer needed. When you start this make sure you are in a safe, preferably fenced, area with very little distractions.

Fri fun 12/20
12/23/2024

Fri fun 12/20

12/23/2024

Everyone got some time working on leash skills last Wednesday! Finally getting the time to post these sice FB will only let me post one at a time. The games we are playing are Reward Zone, Back and Forth and chase me backwards. These are all great games to teach a natural heel on a loose leash and focus on your walks!

12/21/2024

Don't forget to save the dates for your dogs 2025 pedicures! Next one is on Saturday Jan 4th from 9:30-12:30!!

Address

203 Long Plain Road
South Deerfield, MA
01373

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm
Thursday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm
Friday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm
Saturday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm
Sunday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm

Website

http://www.happyhoundscenter.com/

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Everyone got some time working on leash skills last Wednesday! Finally getting the time to post these sice FB will only let me post one at a time. The games we are playing are Reward Zone, Back and Forth and chase me backwards. These are all great games to teach a natural heel on a loose leash and focus on your walks! #Apollo Apollo is showing the next level of the games when the leash is no longer needed. When you start this make sure you are in a safe, preferably fenced, area with very little distractions.

Everyone got some time working on leash skills last Wednesday! Finally getting the time to post these sice FB will only let me post one at a time. The games we are playing are Reward Zone, Back and Forth and chase me backwards. These are all great games to teach a natural heel on a loose leash and focus on your walks! #Maisey

Carlos

Cosmos

Mia is learning a new gymnastics game. I love that she shows a lot of the stages of learning in this video from confusion to distraction to understanding. She also shows how a small change (the leash coming off) starts the learning process over again.

This video shows the Tillie doing a stalking behavior when Cosmos went off to sniff something else. She was doing a lot of biting and holding (not hard enough to break skin) as he ran by. This is a common behavior of dogs who are overstimulated in play. I stopped the video so I could correct that behavior by putting her on leash and settling the play.

In this video you will see acceptable rough play. They are wrestling with open mouths and play/fake biting. Cosmos is doing a lot of behaviors to change the play. You will see him spin, run and disengage or body block Tillie when she bites at his legs. At the end Cosmos was thinking about humping to show her he was in charge but I stepped in to disrupt and settled the play so Cosmos doesn't learn the humping habit.

In this video Cosmos is tired and doesn't want to run anymore. You will see him deescalate and correct Tilly when she offers inappropriate play advances, such as spinning when she bites his back legs, lifting his head and avoiding her when she bites at his face and walking off to sniff. Tilly gets the message, shakes off which lowers her heart rate and joins Cosmos in sniffing.

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State of the art climate controlled facility offering doggy daycare and boarding services, as well as a retail space selling products we use for our own pets!