Noble County 4-H Dog Club

27/06/2024

15/06/2024

PUPPIES they are pure breed Yorkie mixed with love!! We can’t keep 8 sadly!! So they are in need of good home only rehoming fee please do. Please do Rehoming fee. Please help me to share this post 🙏❤️🐶⚡️🥹

07/06/2024

If you are having trouble getting your dog entered into the fair entry please contact Shelia 260-242-9958 or Jessica 260-242-1665 and we will help you .

Send a message to learn more

09/04/2024

Courtesy Post

31/08/2023

Hello everyone, Just to let all of you know that we will be having the Dog Club end of the year Dinner/Auction on Sept16 at 2pm . The place is the Dekko room at the old extension office outside of Albion, We will supply the main dish , drinks and table service. We are planning on having Taco fixings and hot dogs for those that prefer them instead. We will also have some chili sauce for the hotdogs. Everyone please bring a dish to share with everyone. We have lots of great things for the auction . We will have a great time watching the kids bidding with the mutt money that they have gotten. Hope to see you all there. If anyone has things that they would like to bring for the auction we would greatly appreciate it. Shelia

27/07/2023

22/07/2023

UPDATE: SAFE WITH A GREAT RESCUE!

Courtesy Post - STILL NEEDS PLACEMENT

UPDATE: We asked a trainer to go meet Duke and he did that. He says he is a great dog who is in need of learning basic manners. He does not know how to walk on a leash, for instance. He absolutely craves attention - but as a new person meeting him, the trainer was able to keep his excitement within reasonable bounds by ignoring it - and then reinforcing a calmer state with pets and attention. He said that Duke absolutely has no mean in him whatever - his enthusiasm is just sometimes over the top and he needs to learn to listen, even when he's excited. He knows the "sit" command, which is good. He's a large, strong dog, and needs a person who can handle a dog his size with his energy level.

RESCUES: If you have an appropriate foster for Duke, please private message our page. FFFR is not taking new dogs currently, but we told Duke's dad we'd try to find a new home or rescue for him.
Duke is one handsome dude!

Duke is an Olde English Bulldogge, 4-1/2 years old, and he's lived with his family since he was a puppy.

According to Duke's dad, he doesn't have a mean bone in him. He loves people and other dogs - so much so that he can be a bit "over the top" with excitement when first meeting them.
Duke lives with children - he seems to instinctively know that he needs to be gentler with them than necessarily with larger humans. He is just FINE with children.

Duke needs a family who will work with him on training, give him plenty of exercise and firm, kind guidance as well as lots of love, and preferably has experience with the breed or at least bully breeds in general.

He's a great dog. True to his breed, he needs leadership and continuity in order to shine and be the very best dogge he can be 🙂

We will be screening applications for Duke. If you can foster or would like to adopt him, and live in Connecticut, please fill out an application at our website - https://www.furryfriendsct.org/foster-application
or https://www.furryfriendsct.org/adoption-application

20/06/2023

The noble county 4h dog club is looking for donations for our dinner/auction our kids don't get to auction their animals because they are our family members so they earn fake money for every meeting they attend and at the end of the year we get donations of things that they can buy with their mutt money (fake money) if you or your business could or would like to donate please let me know and I will make arrangements for it to be picked up it doesn't have to be items it can be cash and then we will go get the things or gift certificates that the kids can buy and then go shopping with anything helps thank you

16/05/2023

We are selling Amish Fried Pies. They are $5 each. If you would like to order get ahold of one of our Dog Club members. Money due at time of order.

12/04/2023

Don't forget the workshop on Saturday at the Kendallville library at 11 am to 1 pm. Due to possible thunderstorms we might cancel training after the workshop.

22/03/2023

🐶 “Owning a reactive dog is hard. Owning a dog with an anxiety disorder is hard. It can be really emotionally draining and extremely stressful. For those who haven’t experienced it, the struggle can be hard to grasp.

I have put *so much work* into Kody, his training, and our relationship. Unfortunately, a lot of his behavioral issues are simply genetic, and there is only so much improvement that can be made on certain things.

He experienced the first visitors to our house today, and it did not go well. He has done well with people in general when he meets them outside of our home, although he does show fear sometimes and prefers to be ignored until he is comfortable with a new person. However, this experience of having people enter his home was entirely new for him and he struggled. A lot.

As his owner, advocate, trainer, and “mom”, I made sure to have him on leash, have high value treats on hand, and to try to remain calm (which was hard). I also utilized his place cot which helped some. It still ended up to be so overwhelming for him that he needed some of his Rx anti-anxiety medication. It helped a lot, but didn’t fix the issue — it will take time and training, not just medication.

He was curious about our guests, but very conflicted. He was fearful and territorial, anxious and alert. He barked everytime someone would come back after having left the room, and he growled quite a few times. His body language was stiff and I didn’t trust him to let him off leash. Eventually, he did allow some petting and seemed to enjoy it. Then, he fell asleep on me. Still, he would growl if people moved quickly.

Since the visitors are my family, this is quite upsetting, but looking at Kody objectively and not as “my dog” — it isn’t surprising. He doesn’t do well with novelty, and he is fearful of people in general. It’s always there, it’s just how much fear he is feeling at the time. And this was a lot, because he didn’t understand that it was okay for “strangers” to be in our home.

I will continue to work through this. In the meantime I just needed to vent. Thanks for reading, and my heart goes out to all of those who struggle with similar issues. 💗”

22/03/2023

19/03/2023

19/03/2023

Call out meeting information

09/02/2023

Noble County 4H Dog Club call out meeting is set for March 7th at 6pm. This is being held at the Dekko room of the Old Noble county extension office. The location is 2090 N State Road 9 Suite D Albion, IN 46701 You will receive all the information that will be needed for this year. Some things have changed and we would like to have all of you at the call out. If you are not able to come to the meeting then the first workshop ( if you don't want to have to do all the paperwork ) is on March 28 at the Noble County public library in Kendallville. It will be in Room C. When you go in they will have information on how to get to our room, This workshop will be from 11am to 1 pm. If you have any questions please feel free to contact , Shelia Laymon -260-242-9958 Or send us a message here. We also have a gmail account :[email protected] Hope to see as many of you that are able to come to the call out.

25/01/2023

We will be ready to start training soon. Those of you that have trained please continue.

11/01/2023

28/07/2022

27/06/2022

Just a reminder tomarrow night is the Dog Club Dinner/ Auction . We are having it at the Kendallville Library rooms C&D downstairs. Main dish is tacos, taco salad, or hot dogs. Table service and drinks will also be provided. Come and bring the family for a fun night full of laughs. Please bring a dish to share.

26/06/2022

The best trained dogs will happily "forget" all
they know, the minute you forget to hold them to it.

The sheer nunber of highly trained dogs running around like they don’t know anything is one of the great comedies of the world.

And trust me, pleasing you is nowhere on the canine menu.