Salty Dogs Obedience and Adventure

10/16/2025

New girlie CLEO at Maine Canine Academy 😍😍

10/14/2025

Dr. Brandi will be in Gouldsboro this Thursday for rabies administrations! We hope to see you there!

10/14/2025

Enrichment is not just food puzzles (although those are fun too!) here are Lana and Tessa performing their favorite form of enrichment: Digging Up The World 🎉 what are some non-food related enrichment activities your dog enjoys?

10/13/2025

Tilly’s ready, is your dog?

10/10/2025

Please share this sweet girl! We must know a confident Salty Dog who is looking for a friend at home!

This is Nutter Butter! She's Pet of the Week from SPCA of Hancock County! Here's what Mariah tells us about this special girl.

"Nutter Butter hasn’t had the easiest start to life; she came into our care following a state seizure from a hoarding situation. She is adorable and has very specific needs - she absolutely must be adopted by someone with another confident dog in the home. Her first connection must be with a dog who can guide her, help her feel safe, and show her how to be the best dog she can be. A meet and greet with your dog will come before she meets any people."

Mike will tell you more about Nutter Butter today at 2:15 on Critter Corner! Presented by Bayview Escapes Travel, LLC, a locally owned and operated travel agency based in Ellsworth!

Start your adoption application today at https://www.spcahancockcounty.org/adopt/"

10/10/2025

Halloween isn’t just for humans!

Join us for our upcoming trick training workshop to celebrate fall and get your dog ready to entertain all your guests this holiday season!

The workshop will run for 1.5 hours and tricks taught will depend on the group and what they’d like to learn but could include:

Take a bow
Sit pretty
Wave
Crawl
Hoop jump
Play dead!

You’ll leave with instructions on teaching more tricks and reminders on how to continue the work you’ve started. Costumes optional but encouraged! Send us a message for more info!

10/09/2025

We picked *quite* a day to introduce off leash camp to our MCA dogs. Somehow, I don’t think they minded they rain. More info on this program to come!

Note: the collar on Monkey is GPS tracking only. We never have used ecollars to teach off leash skills, and have no plans to now.

10/07/2025

ZOOM OUT: Zoom way out. At our most recent Woofers Anonymous reactive dog support group this was our focus. When tackling behaviors or scenarios we get hyperfixated on THE THING we don’t like. Understandable as usually this thing causes a lot of distress: to us, to society, to the dog. This applies a lot of pressure on us to immediately stop THE THING.

Howeverer, to have really, effective long term change, we have to zoom out. To think beyond the immediate scenario. We must consider how so many things are contributing to the thing: the level of captivity the dog is living in, the dogs ability to access nature and perform natural dog behavior, their health, the health of others in the family, their relationships, deficiencies in nutrition, social interactions, freedom, and exercise, pain and discomfort, structure and routine, communication …and lots more things. This is why, even when a dog is with us for drop off training, the humans and other animals in the household are our partners. It doesn’t matter how fancy the trainer looks when showing what the dog knows if the dog isn’t going home to an environment they can be successful in.

Photo tax of Salty Dogs Rosie and Jacques enjoying freedom, nature, and lovely social interactions with their people and each other.

10/07/2025

YES this is actually a REAL DOG 😍😍😍

Today we welcomed Phineas, everyone’s new BFF, to Maine Canine Academy! 🎉