Rescued K9

29/01/2025

Harley practicing confidence building in Home Depot to help her in new environments, simulating how riding in a gurney or hospital bed will feel, balance, and simply building trust between her and the handler. Service dogs need to be able to trust their handler and what they’re being asked to do. They need to trust you will not let them get hurt, or put them in harms way. You need a strong relationship with your service dog before you can go into hectic and crazy environments. Those environments can be a lot on the dogs their first times and they need to be able to feel comfortable looking to you for guidance in those new situations.

Harley has began task training. She is currently working on item retrievals, deep pressure therapy, medical response and began foundations of scent training for medical alerts.

Harley was adopted from the Pet Resource Center on November 2nd and she has come such a long way in a short amount of time!

17/01/2025

Hi, my name is Birch! I am 6 years old and have been at the “Pet Resource Canter” in Tampa FL for over 3 months. My foster mom had Bri come out and assess me, get some videos and get to know my behaviors and how I learn best!

My favorite reward is praise, I really love the pets, attention, and “good girls” I still can act like a puppy even though I am 6. I pull on the leash, but respond well to frequent directional changes, figure 8s, etc. after a few minutes of this I will walk nicer. Sometimes I get nervous and stop walking, I just need some extra encouragement along the way!
I am potty trained and crate trained. I get along with other dogs, but do best with respectful dogs. I do like to have my own space as well. I can be in a home with or without dogs. I am a gentle girl and may be able to do well with children, but I haven’t been around any while in the shelter.

All I want for Valentine’s Day is a home! My foster mom even offered to pay for the first training session with Bri with Rescued K9!

02/01/2025

25/12/2024

Some Christmas pups!

25/12/2024

Bri feeding a bearded dragon (Rex) this morning and the worms not wanting to cooperate.

25/12/2024

(Bri) feeding a bearded dragon on Christmas! 🫶🏼💕

The worms were not wanting to cooperate today!

25/12/2024

Some Christmas Day pups with drop ins! .lees.journey

23/12/2024

Some recent babies we’ve gotten to love and take care of since about Thanksgiving time! 💕💕 I love each and every one of these babies and I am so grateful to be able to come and give them love! They’re all so special 💕💕💕🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

21/11/2024

Harley is the newest member of the Rescued K9 Pack. Harley was adopted nearly 3 weeks ago and was dog reactive due to over excitement, she often pulled on the leash, and didn't have much handler focus. After daily walks with boundaries and learning how to heel and other important commands she has improved drastically and we are beyond proud of this babygirl!

About halfway through the video Harley see's another dog along her walk, looks away and continues, then looks back at the dog and is told to 'leave it', she leaves it, then continues on her walk. This is a major improvement from when she first came home!

21/11/2024

Service Dog Diesel on trainer Bri's college campus being a good boy!
Diesel performs many tasks to assist Bri to be more independent. He performs item retrievals, counter balance, deep pressure therapy, behavior interruptions (during leg tapping), he is learning medical alerts to Bri's high heart rate so she can decide whether or not she needs to take emergency medications, and he is learning much more.
If you need any assistance with task training, don't hesitate to reach out. We can also help with coming up with tasks to help with improving independence!

31/10/2024

Trainer Bri’s Service Dog Diesel on HCC Campus dressed up and being an amazing boy for classes. One photo is featuring his doggy girlfriend Atari who is another service dog on campus. They both dressed up for Halloween. Diesel is a football player and Atari is Stitch from Lilo and Stitch.

13/08/2024

Trainers dogs can struggle with things too!

Trainers dogs can have imperfections, quirks, behavioral struggles and more.

Diesel struggles with his tucking under things and getting overly excited around other dogs.

Knowing this, what do I do with the information? Well, I work on those things he struggles with. We do small sessions for them. A 10 minute session can be more beneficial than an hour session. It is the quality of the session that matters, not the length of the session.

Do these things affect Diesels working life as a service dog and could it cause him to be washed?

As for the tucking, it isn’t an automatic wash, it’s definitely dependent on what specific tucks he struggles with and if it directly impacts my lifestyle. Right now it doesn’t affect us as a team, he is able to stay out of the way and be in a safe location. It’s something we will continue to work on.

As for difficulty around other dogs, this IS something that COULD wash him from being a service dog. Though, we aren’t in a spot with his behavior in public where it’s an issue, he doesn’t bark, lunge, or cause any problems where I would pull him from public access, but it is something we are watching very closely and something we are focusing on in training sessions. I can’t say whether he will wash or not, but we will work on this and see how everything works out.

When Diesel was growing up I socialized him through 5months old with dogs, people, sounds, textures, etc. from 6-9 months old I simply let him mature and grow up, he was in the home most of the time working on heel, some tasks, recall, etc. I didn’t take him out a whole lot because I didn’t want him to get burned out, I let him be a dog and have fun. I don’t regret any of it. This is may have set us back in some areas, but I wouldn’t change it at all.

03/08/2024

Just a couple of pups we’ve seen recently! ❤️🥰🥰 We absolutely love seeing all of your babies! We are so grateful you all trust us with your babies. We love making their time while you are away the best time and stress free for both you and your pets!

20/06/2024

I absolutely adore these babies! 💕😍😍🥰💕

19/06/2024

These babies had an amazing walk and feeding today!

18/06/2024

Peek A Boo! Miss Bauer See’s you! She had a great walk with us today!

17/06/2024

These two babies are getting their exercise in today!