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Smarty Paws Canine College LLC

All the worlds a Game and you my Friend are the player!! We are Smarty Paws Canine Care LLC. I know . . I have been been there. What was I thinking?! I mean . .
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Your Dog is family and when the break down in communication becomes unbearable it is real pain and helplessness you feel. Questions like:
Is there really anything that can be done? Am I the right person for this character? These are questions that keep you up at night and wondering what the meaning of Life with a dog is really about. you have had dogs before but this . . this is like nothing you

have ever dealt with before. Let Us Help

Training:
We offer customizable training program packages to suit you and your dogs specific needs. The goal to give you the keys to unlock your dogs potential and become your dogs best teacher as you learn how to instill confidence and calm in everyday ways. While your away:
We offer a small number of canine to come and stay while you're away. It's not like other places as we have your dog become one of the family, complete with integrating and learning household expectations as well as how to dog in socialization settings. You can click the link to sent up your 1/2 hour free training consultation or You can learn more about us or create a booking request or set up a meet and greet for a stay by going to our website www.smartypawscc.com. Have a Fab day!

04/08/2024

04/05/2024

Making Reactivity a walk in the Park

03/29/2024

03/28/2024

It's All About Relationship.

This video ask the question and then shows is it relationship that dogs are wanting to build or just fill their stomachs?

Positive Reinforcement
Cookie pusher. A person who bribes a dog.

All the stories I have heard over the past 20 plus years working with dogs regarding positive reinforcement education.

So let me talk to you about being a mammal for a moment.

What is one way we connect?. Create relationships and communicate...

Why we break bread.... or cookies

Food is a bridge to the common destination.
We learn what are the expectations.
We build safety and trust. There is joy and it often MARKS events that forever stay in our mind. Think back to birthday's, holidays.

From it is built something far more long lasting.
Love. Commitment. A bond that transcends obedience and following directives.
It is relationship.

Let me ask you.. why do you like dogs?
Why did you want a dog?
Why do we call them man's best friend?

And then going deeper what does a healthy relationship/ freindship look like to you?

Is it when one friend does exactly what you want them to do all the time, to speak when spoken to?
Is someone you bring everywhere for your purposes, and to make you feel better?

OR

Someone that you see as intelligent and kind that you see their greatness and they see it in you.
That when you are around them you are challenged to be the best version of yourself.

That they ask you questions that make you uncomfortable and times make you doubt yourself.
Not because they want to break you down, but because no one else would ever dare to ask you that question., and they want you to break free.

Let me talk to you of Love.
Dogs are my life and my greatest teachers. What started out many years ago on a mission to rescue those lives in need has transformed.
All that I do transcends a business or a way to show my prowess to control another living being.

I am living what I love, and we both then learn lessons being taught from love.

Everyday I fo my best to empower the people and pets to live free full lives with open clear communication.

Let me talk to you about Dogs.....oh wait
See above...

If you have questions, and are looking to create the best version of relationship between you and your dog reach out today. Lets chat. Www.smartypawscc.com

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03/27/2024

: Yes! We will be OPEN on Easter from 12-6 pm!
So make your reservation NOW on our website. (Link in comments.)

Bodie and Arimo are available for adoption from Homeless Animals Rescue Team (HART)! Come meet them and our 28 cats and 18 kittens.

02/26/2024

Cara J. Donato-Parker

"When you feel overwhelmed . . . Breathe, connect, reset." - Cara Donato-Parker

Portrait of Cara J. Donato-Parker
Photographed for the AVP Over 40 Movement

01/09/2024

Sugar sprinkled sweetness.. love it

Please take a moment to enjoy this trio of sugar-sprinkled sweetness, who came from Columbia SC to see me for photos before I left for my break. As if being precious wasn’t enough, each has their own incredible backstory of luck too. Left to right …

Bird (12 years old now) was saved from a high-kill shelter the very day she was scheduled to be euthanized due to lack of space. At that time, Bird was only one year old. Sweet Bird loves fostering puppies and holds dual roles as Grand Dame of her home and as her momma’s ride or die.

01/08/2024

🚜 This Saturday, January 13th!
11am - 2pm. 🚜
•Stafford Va•
🎉 Tractor Supply New Location Grand Opening!
Come and see us (as well as other rescue groups) and some of our adoptables in the Garden Center at Tractor Supply for their ribbon cutting ceremony! 🎉

01/06/2024

Aine and I welcome you to Smarty Paws Canine College! She is one of my right-hand dogs that helps to mentor canine learners. It is about having fun and rediscover the dog and the vision you when it all started. It's all right there. We are here just to start you along the way.
photo credit Anne Valerie Portrait

12/08/2023

It can't be cat rescue unless there are some problems!!!

We have lost 2 fosters and need to find 2 new ones asap!

Anyone? Anyone? HELP!
If you are able to foster 2 cats for 14 days, please call us at 703-259-0174 right now... They are fully vaccinated, spayed or neutered, and litterbox trained.

12/07/2023

👀 We are looking for adult dog foster families! 🐕🐶🐾

A temporary home 🏡 , before their forever home is all the dogs in our care need. 🥰
WE SUPPLY EVERYTHING! 😀

Zeus would love a foster or forever home!!
It's getting a bit crowded at our directors.

10/08/2023

A few months ago, I got a text from one of my neighbors. Her husband was traveling and their senior dog had collapsed and wouldn’t eat or move around. I was home when it happened and decided to walk down the street to see what was going on. When I got to her house, you can imagine what I found. C

08/19/2023

08/18/2023

For all the teams in Maui right now. Thinking of you.

This Photograph is Too Beautiful 📸 🥰

04/30/2023

Got a great opportunity to support Return 2 Home Lost Pet Resources for their first ever Rabies Vaccine and Microchip free clinic.
Look them up in how this non profit is educating the community.

-How to prevent your pet from getting lost (ie with recent adoption,foster, shy dog handling etc.)

-What are the best and quickest ways to get reconnected with your after they get lost.
-Services in supporting you to finding your pet that is lost.

This was an all volunteers run event with many animal rescue people from all around the community as well as vet teams Confederate Ridge Animal Hospital Grooming who allowed us the use of their building and Eagle's Nest Animal Hospital and a team from Heartwood Animal Hospital

Truly team work made the dream work.

It was great working with everyone and meeting so many animal lovers in the community.

04/08/2023

Raise your hand if you struggled with your emotional reactions toward your dogs?

If you want a beautiful and connected relationship with your dog it’s crucial to be willing to look at yourself.

I want to introduce you to my friend, Miranda.

Miranda Wimbush is a transformational leader in the dog world. In her work with hundreds of dog guardians desperate for someone to “fix” their dogs, she has discovered the magic that is created in relationships when those people tune inwards and heal their end of the leash.

Now she is on a mission to spread the word and raise the consciousness level of dog guardians through self-awareness.

You’re invited to The Canine Connection- a 14-day free online event

You will learn:

To bring joy, creativity, and play back into your life through a deep connection with your dog
The magic that is created when you use those tough moments of struggle with your dog as a catalyst to fully grow to understand and accept yourself
How to let that deep love your dog has for you heal your heart

The Canine Connection starts on April 17th. Register at https://event.mindfulcanine.ca/caradonato for your pass!

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Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA
22551

Telephone

+15406930323

Website

http://www.smartypawscc.com/

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Videos

Making Reactivity a walk in the Park

Rescue Mal cross puppies that will be available in the next week after spayed and neutered. We did a photo session for their bio this am, just a few minutes each using positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement is when we see a behavior we prefer and we mark it with word and food reward so for them it becomes a preferred behavior. The result was this. Dog excited to engage with a human because the potential experience is fun, safe and joy filled. The behaviors of jumping up go into extinction because there is no value gained from it. Play and pauses are built naturally and calm confidence is the result.. yes even for a mal cross dog.. actually especially for a high drive doggo. You can never out energy a high drive dog.. but you can help them get in alignment with what your expectations.. and that .. is magic..

Tails and Trials with Foster Max from Squishy Face Crew Rescue

Today Tails and Trails was The capital Canine walk. What is Tails and Trails you ask? It is a program I offer to local clients and fosters with the rescues I work with. Going to new locations so that dogs get to have positive experiences in new locations all the while getting to tell more people about the rescues I work with. It is a win all the way around. Going up to the Lincoln Memorial was a big deal for me with a foster dog Max was having a meet and greet later in the day and I wanted to see where he was at in his social grace's. Max had a lot of stranger danger when he first came and a significant amount of ,"Oh yeah... why should I..?" He did amazing. Sadly the potential family was not a fit but that's O.K. it gave me more information and the opportunity to find the perfect forever home for this amazing boy! We went to a Starbucks on the 1 1/2 drive back home and he met even more people. I can't even put into words how amazing these new experiences are for the fosters. When to stretch you and your dog you create amazing connections. #dogsofinstagram #lovethelifeyoulive #rescuedogsofinstagram #smartypawsdog #canineconceptcoach #positivedogtrainer

Mirabel the Parkour Pup

Mirabel went on her second adventure today as we start gearing her up for potential future families. She is a brilliant athletic girl who is keen to please. Who is up for adoption through squish Face Crew Www.sfcva.org Sometimes she gets so excited that she tries to do everything all at once so we are helping her to take everything one fun moment at a time. So this evening she went on an adventure downtown. -To the small park and parkour around -Then walking downtown -And then to Lowe's getting some glamour shots. It was not a huge amount of time or asking big questions but as always with these super brilliant pups teaching the zen out stuff is powerful shifting magic.

Manatee Magic in the Making-Foster Fabulous

Manatee Magic in the Making Reboot Camp for Foster Manatee from Squishy Face Crew Rescue I wanted to come in here to celebrate with you and share that with shy and feral adult dogs the method to the madness is progress not pressure. Over the years what I have discovered we animal lover have so much love to give we want dogs to know they are loved especially dogs that come from difficult situations. But what we forget before we can move to a loving home.. they must 1st feel safe. Now there are many definitions of what would make a dogs feel safe.. and the realization that each dog is an individual. Some basics of Safety in a Canine/Human Home -The dog get to understand that people will be present and it can be either neutral or good. - Clear expectations in a simple none emotional way. -Marking when things go right. With a simple single symbol word. Manatee Magic Growing an opportunity was as simple as working in my office. When I took a few breaks here and there I would do the hand touch stretch..it might have been only 4 or 5 times over a few hours, but it was the breaks in between that took the pressure off her and gave her time to understand the expectation. Then she got to decompress last night all by herself in the kitchen( no crying). This morning as I was reading her body languge I gave her the next stretch. If she would choose to take food from me. In the 5 day she has been with me I have not asked the question if she would take food from me, and I only did in for maybe 2 minute total. but if you see her face I left her at.. wait.. what.. why did you stop". "How you begin and how you end the stretch is how they remember the experience."

Shy Hording Dog Learning the world is for her not against her

Shy foster Manatee from Squishy Face Crew is here for a rebootcamp at the farm. Foster person extraordinaire Sabrina Lynn Houser Remaly has laid a fantastic foundation for growth and we are going to dedicate a stretch for this wee girl to dare to trust that the world is not against her.. but for her. We have kept pressure low on her in the first few days...as I never try to make "friends" or win over the new foster.. she gets a chance settle in and decompress before we ask questions that will stretch her. If she do a behavior that is preferred.. I mark it with a yes, nice, or good so it is very clear for her what the expectations are. I keep her in the spaces where she is in proximity to the activity so she can see the flow. We are a gated community so everywhere she gets to see.. but not hide away. A dragline is placed so that she can move around, but if I need to be able to redirect her I can easily engage with her without a lot of pressure (looming over her, or grabbing toward her). In this video we are working on her doing a hand touch as when she feels overwhelmed she feels the need to nip at people to send them away. This handtouch is allowing her to chose to approach and connect in a different way. We have been working her being near and being far away from other dogs as she prefers to getting lost in the crowd, creating flexibility and resilience. Over the next week or so we will be adding Leash walking to stretch her so that when she comes back home she gets to say... it really isn't that bad at all here and neither is the big wide world.. but we will watch and see what she needs and grow her from strength to strength. Exciting times. This rescue is very near and dear to my heart. I donate my services as often as I can because together everyday we get to transform lives. Please consider donating today as the needs and expenses are constant and every little counts. Www.sfcva.org .

FORVER home for SSR Pika

This Amazing Boy is Pika from Shannondoah Shepherd Rescue. https://www.shenandoahrescue.org/ He has been a foster with us for a minute as we were busy unwrapping some challenges and getting underneath why this sweet boy would over respond to his environment. Always ruling out medical is a huge part of any of our behavioral programs. We discovered a reoccuring sub clinical UTI we have since resolved! and we have now been able get the amazing results of socialization we were looking to create! Please share and comment and like. This boy get to find his forever family for the holidays.

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Is Your Dog a Smarty Paws Dog?

Does your dog seem to have selective hearing loss? Do your arms feel like an over used bungee cord from “attempted” dog walks? Do you know that your dog LOVES other dogs but every time he/she get around potential new friends they just about loses their fool mind??

Well then. . . your dog IS a smarty paws dog!

What we have is a failure to communicate

With all those things that seem so wrong, when it gets down to it, it is not because your dog is not smart, it is because we humans are not fluent in dog and dogs are not fluent in human.