Happy Paws K-9

02/11/2024

Happy Halloween from the Happy Paws Family! 🐾👻🎃

2024 Leesburg Halloween Parade.

25/10/2024

Because I’m happy 🐾🎼❤️

20/10/2024

20/10/2024

Yep all this....

•Pet your dog, all the time
•Talk to your dog, all the time
•Allow your dog to follow you, all the time
•Allow your dog to be on your lap or laying on your feet, all the time
•Pet, soothe, comfort your dog when it whines or barks for attention...or is simply anxious
•Allow your dog to demand affection/interactions
•Be emotionally dependent on your dog to the point that unhealthy dependency and interactions are no longer noticed
•Allow your dog to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants—aka, provide no structure, rules, or accountability
•Foster an environment of chaos, stress, and anxiety
•Refuse to train and pattern calmness
•Refuse to crate train your dog
•Refuse to correct your dog when inappropriate behavior occurs
•Refuse to train your dog how to be independent/alone by using a “Place” command, “Downstay, and/or “away” time in the crate
•Let your dog out of the crate when it whines or barks
•Avoid training or anything that makes your dog temporarily uncomfortable or unhappy—in other words, cater to your dog’s every desire/need, designing your life around your dog, rather than having your dog fit into yours
•And many, many more...

Basically, baby, soothe, allow, enable, disable, lean on, omit teaching necessary life skills, prioritize what feels good for you rather than what does good for your dog, and through this master plan of leadership-free chaos, and systematic cultivation of creating a toxic dependency between dog and human...you’ll ensure that when you leave, your dog will be a true emotional mess, because you haven’t prepared them to be calm, obedient, strong, resilient, robust, independent, and alone.

19/09/2024

We are beyond proud and very grateful for being nominated by the readers of the Northern Virginia Magazine as the "2024 Best Pet Care" in the category of Dog Daycare & Boarding.

Thanks to our clients and friends for all your support and trust in us to take care of your precious Puppies 🐶🐾❤️

Happy Paws K-9, where dogs are treated like Family!

29/08/2024

Now that kids are back to school it is daycare time for your puppies!
At Happy Paws K-9 dogs have plenty of exercise and socialization through physical and mental games in a fun and safe environment. 3 acre fenced property, trails and natural obstacle courses, indoor play area, round the clock caretakers and lots of Love! ❤️🐶🐾

22/08/2024

Old Drum the Foxhound
Old Drum was a foxhound owned by Charles Burden, a keen hunter who owned property along Big Creek in Johnson County, Missouri. On October 18, 1869, Burden found Old Drum dead from a gunshot wound. The killer was none other than Burden’s brother-in-law, Leonidas Hornsby, who lived nearby. After losing a number of sheep to predators, Hornsby had publicly vowed to kill any dog on his land and the first dog to cross the property line was Old Drum. Burden was furious and demanded justice.��Within a year, a jury in Warrensburg, Missouri, awarded Burden 25 dollars (approximately $600 today). Hornsby appealed the decision, and the verdict was overturned. Undeterred, Old Drum’s owner petitioned for a new trial and hired new lawyers, including George Graham Vest, from nearby Boonville, Missouri. During this second trial, instead of going over the details of the case, vest focused on the relationship between Hornsby and his dog, and the relationship between mankind and all dogs. Reports from the time describe jurors openly weeping in court as Vest spoke. In the end, Old Drum’s owner was awarded a hefty sum of money for the loss of his dog. After the trial, the speech, to use a modern term, went viral. It was reprinted in newspapers across the US and internationally. Eventually, it became so famous that in 1958, the town of Warrensburg erected a statue to honor George G. Vest and Old Drum.

Vest’s speech, “The Eulegy of the Dog,” was recorded in the Congressional Record on April 23, 1990, 120 years after it was delivered:

Gentlemen of the jury—�The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter whom he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with out happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has he may lose. It flies from him perhaps when he needs it most. A man’s reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is the dog.
Gentlemen of the jury, a man’s dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground when the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he can be near his master’s side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince.

When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. If fortune drives the master forth an outcast into the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws and his eyes sad but open, in alert watchfulness, faithful and true, even unto death.
Project Upland

Credit to History of Guardian and Working Breeds

20/08/2024

We do not board dogs, we give them a vacation with extra love.
They are all MINE when they are with us…don’t be jealous we are co-parenting ❤️🐾

24/07/2024

My life with dogs started with Rudi, my loyal companion and beloved dog.
I am dressed in all pink, with Rudi and Juli, my cousin and sister by heart🐾❤️🐾

11/07/2024

The heat never bothered us anyway!!! 🎶
The safety and well being of the dogs are our top priority. We keep rotating the puppies between our indoors and outdoors play areas and spending more time inside to make sure the puppies are happy and comfortable in these very hot days 🐾❤️

26/06/2024

Everyone had a blast celebrating Mavis' Birthday at Happy Paws K-9.

Happy Birthday Mavis! We love you! 🎂 🎉 🐶 ♥ 🐾

Bring your pup for a playdate or an overnight boarding at one of the Best Doggie Resorts in NOVA.

Happy Paws K-9, where dogs are Family!

20/06/2024

Thank you to all our clients and friends who voted for Happy Paws K-9 as the Best Pet Boarding & Daycare in Loudoun County!
Last year we made it to the Top 5 and this year we got 2nd Place. We are very proud and grateful for such an amazing achievement!
Bring your pup to enjoy a daycare or an overnight boarding at Happy Paws K-9. It does not get any better than that!
Thank you 🐾 🐶 ♥ 🎉

29/05/2024

Today, Ziggy turned 1 year old!!
I’m very grateful to have him in our lives; he fills our hearts with so much love and joy ❤️🐾🎂🐾❤️