Alaska Heeler Puppies

21/08/2024

IS POTENTIALLY ADOPTED!!

Oreo is the only puppy left and she’s hoping for her new home this weekend because by then she won’t have anyone else to play with.
🥲🥲
If you are interested, please send us an email to [email protected] and request an adoption application.

19/08/2024

18/08/2024

Exactly THIS!!
Please, if you don’t understand dog body language, then educate yourself quickly.
For their sake and yours. 🙏

So you’re at an outing, standing next to your spouse or friend. Someone approaches you with a tray filled with hors d’oeuvres, and offers one to you. You look at the tray, but then say “no, thank you.” The waiter moves away.

Now, imagine if after saying “no, thank you” the waiter didn’t go away. Imagine if the waiter continued to push you to take one, and even your spouse started saying “come on, take one!” So you uncomfortably took and ate one, even though it wasn’t what you wanted. You’d probably be pretty aggravated with your spouse too. But you think it’s a one off and you carry on with the evening.

A few minutes later another waiter approaches with another tray, and the same thing happens. This time you feel yourself get more upset, especially after saying “no” multiple times. But your spouse insists also, even going so far as to take the snack off the tray and try to put it in your mouth. By the end of the interaction, you’re really on edge.

The third or fourth time you see a waiter approach you, you’re feeling either stressed, angry, or both. The waiter hasn’t even gotten all the way over to you yet and you’re ready to yell “no!” You look around for a place to escape to but your spouse/friend has their arm around you and you can’t back away. You end up physically snatching the tray from the waiter and throwing it on the ground, yelling obscenities and getting as quickly out of the room as possible. The guests look at you while your spouse simply says “I don’t know why she’s being so aggressive! They were just wanted to give her a snack!” I’m guessing you would be pretty angry at your spouse/friend by this point too. They aren’t helping support you at all. You can’t trust them OR the waiter.

You see where I’m going with this don’t you?
Try to imagine if your “no thank yous” were ignored. How many times would it take being ignored for you to get angry, get physical, or try to escape, or worse, just shut down completely. Everyone would handle it differently, but we’d all hate it.

Dogs deal with this EVERY DAY. They say “no, thank you” all the time. And we often times are guilty of ignoring that request and trying to convince them otherwise, sometimes even going so far as to force them through something because WE don’t understand. And then we wonder why dogs reach a point of aggressing or avoiding. Whether we are the waiter; trying to push something onto the dog like an interaction, or the spouse/friend not supporting the dog and backing up their request of “no, thank you” we are doing serious harm to the dogs confidence and even more harm to our relationship with them.

Your dog can only use his body language to tell you what he wants, so pay attention. If your dog says no thank you, listen. If they don’t want a stranger to touch them, support them. If they don’t want to meet a strange dog, let it go. If they want to take their time trying something different, let them take their time. I can tell you the more choice they feel they have the more likely they are to actually decide to try when they are ready. Just like you may finally get hungry enough to want a snack from the tray, but on your terms, and one that you get to pick.

Choice and consent matters in ALL species. Respect your dogs “no, thank you” and you’ll get a lot of respect back.

- Helen St. Pierre, No Monkey Business Dog Training. Please if you share give credit.

18/08/2024

^^We thought he was adopted but circumstances changed for his adopters….^^😔😔

He is the last puppy available…

This is Yeti and he’s still looking for his forever home!
If you are interested, please send us an email to [email protected].

18/08/2024

It’s PDD!!! Puppy Departure Days are here!! Congratulations to all the new families that have collected their new babies so far; Panzer, Lilly, Patches and Tinja are all off on their new adventures now. 😍😍

We also had some extra donations come in as well - both for donations that will go toward Hope and her eye surgery assessment for the cataracts and some dog food!!! A giant THANK YOU to everyone who donated to the cause. We so appreciate you!

Happy travels and great new adventures all!
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12/08/2024

Little man here is quite a couch potato. He’s looking for his forever home. Send us an email to 49thcares .com for more details and to submit an application. 😊😊🐾🐾🐾🐾

10/08/2024

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07/08/2024

07/08/2024

01/08/2024

For those of you who are planning on taking home your new baby in mid August, this is the food that they are currently devouring.

However, their little noses are too keen for their own good. They would prefer to eat their Mum’s hotdogs. Also, they are stealing the Kirkland dry bones as well! Rascals. 🤦‍♀️

31/07/2024

Hope received a new bed last night!!

29/07/2024

This…. 😢😢😢

24/07/2024

😍

24/07/2024

24/07/2024

Lady getting some cuddles.

20/07/2024

Here we go little ones…. Alaska is waiting on you!

20/07/2024

Yay!!!! 🥳 Finally!!! They are on their way. 🙏🙏

20/07/2024

Hey all! Monday was a disaster!!
Say a prayer they arrive safely Sat?

20/07/2024

Okay. Total 💩show on Monday.
🤞the first group flies tomorrow!!

15/07/2024

Puppies are safely in Denver! They fly tomorrow!

12/07/2024

Departed this morning. Here we go!!! 🙏🙏

10/07/2024

Puppies update coming soon!

04/07/2024

Okay…. No lost babies tomorrow please.

03/07/2024

😔😔😔😔

We regrettably will be closing our Night Drop through Monday July 1st, and putting a pause on owner surrender animals.

This morning alone we took in 13 animals through our night drop - and yesterday we took in more than that. This morning, one of our strays from yesterday gave us a wonderful surprise of seven newborn kittens.

We have over 80 cats in our care, and unfortunately have seen a significant decline in adult cat adoptions.

We are over our Capacity for Care at this time.

Per Borough Code, we will continue to take in stray animals found within the Borough.

If you are in an emergent situation, where you are at risk or the animal is at risk, please call us to discuss at 907 746 5500.

If you find a stray after hours, you can call Matcom at 907 352 5401 to be connected to the on call ACRO.

02/07/2024

July 2, 2024 Puppies!!!

Okay all…. If we can rescue this wee girl and her five puppies, we certainly will. Is anyone interested in the puppies? They are only three weeks today.
The momma is probably spoken for.
Anyone?

16/06/2024

Buckey, the stub tail, is still lsearching for his forevfur home after all. Please contact us if you are interested is this lovable guy?!! He loves his Kong and plays well with others!