Last Journey K9

03/03/2025

We are running out of time and desperately need a foster/adopter who can take Rosie girl. 💔🙏

19/02/2025

In a bit of a Hail Mary, I am looking for a foster or adopter for this beautiful 2.5 year old Dogo Argentino, Rosie. She is available through Michele's Rescue and would do a 3 week Board & Train with me for added obedience which her potential foster/adopter would be 100% involved in and reap the benefits of. We have 2 weeks to find Rosie a home (so she would go to her new home in 5 weeks). Please reach out to Michele’s Rescue ASAP if interested!!

From Rosie’s current owner:

Rosie is a true bundle of happiness. Her playful nature is contagious, and she has an uncanny ability to bring a smile to everyone she meets.

Her infectious enthusiasm is bound to brighten even the cloudiest of days. She is always ready for a cuddle or a belly rub.

Rosie would do best with getting all the attention at home! However she wouldn’t mind a docile dog companion that can keep up with her competitive nature, energy, and her need for cuddles!

As far as we are aware, she is not friendly with cats.

Rosie must go to a home with no children.

16/02/2025

Some dogs really do need and benefit from meds, but I will never believe it’s as many dogs as are currently medicated. 🙏

For years, fluoxetine (Prozac) has been pushed as the answer to behavioral problems in dogs. Veterinary behaviorists and force-free advocates love to cite “science-backed” studies to justify long-term medication use. But here’s a big problem, most of these studies are flawed, biased, and rely almost entirely on owner-reported data.
Take, for example, the 2009 study on fluoxetine for compulsive disorders in dogs (Irimajiri et al., J Am Vet Med Assoc). It claimed fluoxetine helped, yet the only improvement came from owners’ OPINIONS, not actual behavioral measurements. When researchers looked at objective data the dogs’ actual behavior logs they found NO SIGNIFICANT difference between the medicated and placebo groups. But guess which result gets cited?🤫
How about the 2007 study on fluoxetine for separation anxiety (Simpson et al., Veterinary Therapeutics). The conclusion? Fluoxetine was effective … but only when paired with a structured behavior modification plan. And yet, thousands of dogs are medicated without any meaningful training, as if a pill can replace actual learning.
Sad reality is that Dogs are being drugged, not rehabilitated.
Ask any serious trainer what happens when they get a dog that’s been on fluoxetine for years. They take the dog off the meds, implement a sound training plan, and SHOCKINGLY the dog improves.
Not because fluoxetine “worked,” but because the dog finally got what it needed: clarity and proper training.
Yet, the AVSAB keeps pushing these medications while dismissing legitimate training as “aversive” or “outdated.” They’d rather chemically suppress behavior than actually address it.
The real question isn’t whether fluoxetine has some effect but why so many dogs improve when you REMOVE the drug and train them properly?!!!
Behavioral change comes from learning, not sedation. It’s time to stop pretending otherwise.
I know I am not the only one noticing that dogs on fluoxetine don’t get better - they just get dull.
The dog isn’t learning or adapting, just becoming more passive.
This can actuallY DELAY proper rehabilitation, because the dog’s emotions and responses are chemically suppressed rather than modified through learning.
Thinking about making a solo podcast to talk about the dog I have in training right now, one of the many that end up euthanized after YEARS of being on SSRI’s and the pandemic of prescribing psychotropics like flea medication

13/02/2025

Going through the Likes on this, 4 people from my personal friends list have Liked the video. This is not cute nor funny in the slightest. This does not deserve widespread attention nor adoration. This dog is resource guarding a literal child from its own mother. Hell to the no. This is how dogs get euthanized or end up in shelters, and/or people get hurt. Learn better and do better! 😩

05/02/2025

Pretty Opal has been with me for 9 days of a 4 week Board & Train. Today we worked on some ecollar intro work and “place” intro to keep the session light and fun for her. She’s a very nervous and fearful dog and has shown some aggressive tendencies at home so we are going to be focusing on the 3 R’s with her, plus some other things: Recall, Relax, Respect. The 3 most important things to help manage and rehabilitate a dog with any aggression issues, in my opinion. This girl has an extremely sweet side and is going to go far. 🙏❤️

31/01/2025

Would you rather your dog cower and hide and be reactive when life gets a little tough, or observe and investigate and move on? We HAVE to teach our dogs to be resilient and shielding them from any stress ever is not the way. 🙏

28/01/2025

Decided to set up a TV in the training room (it also happens to be in front of my treadmill so win-win 😆) and didn’t have a TV stand. But bet your buns I had a kennel with a faulty door that I refused to get rid of and now I’m glad. 🤣🙌

27/01/2025

This beautiful lady is Myla. Myla is a 4 year old GSD and she’s here with me for a 3 Week Board & Train (we were initially going to do 2 weeks but those 4 days of horrific temps and weather set us back so I extended at no extra charge). Myla is a super stable and sweet dog but is an extreme busy body so her biggest focuses while here are door manners, firming up recall, and PLACE! Today we used her food as a distraction on place… food is Myla’s drug of choice. 😆 She rocked it and was able to lay down and relax even with the food bowl a couple feet from her. Go Myla! ❤️🙏

14/01/2025

I can not stress this enough. By 6 months old, Killian knew her name, yes, no, and kennel, and came when I called. Your puppy doesn’t need to have a massive vocabulary early on, and it’s sometimes extremely detrimental to do so. Work on relationship, exposure, and living together. The rest can come later!

09/01/2025

So simple it seems stupid, but believe me… it’s a game changer! Use the leash to communicate, not just restrain! 🙏

09/12/2024

How we do football Sundays around here (go Chiefs!) Killian, Sebastian, and board & train pup Sterling all hanging out on place. ❤️

07/12/2024

Amen!!

06/12/2024

If your dog is “stubborn”, that means YOU aren’t stubborn enough! Persistence and consistency are your friends. You persist through the issue and follow through until the dog obeys, and be consistent in doing so, and I promise your dog’s “stubbornness” will subside. Patience is not many people’s virtue, believe me I get it. But it’s necessary and vital in training any dog! 🙏

Picture of Sebastian the Collie who needed to be reset 5 times before he finally stayed, and my 3 dogs who know “stay” very well and weren’t fond of him breaking it so many times. 😂

05/12/2024

CUT 👏🏽 YOUR 👏🏽 DOG’S 👏🏽 NAILS 👏🏽