Your Dog's Nanny

We played more “guess that dog” this week and it was so much fun! The hardest part of this game is that the dogs can be kind of scared of the bandana face look and how we act differently because we can’t see, so it can be hard to get a good feel of their whole body. But we all enjoy playing this one and challenging ourselves on how well we know our dogs!

Have you ever wondered what it’s like for a puppy on their first day of daycare? If so then you’ll enjoy following Stanley on his first day! Puppies are a LOT of work, both for their parents and for us. Every interaction can set them up for success or for issues and we try our absolute best to come alongside our pup parents and help their babies grow into well balanced dogs. Every interaction and situation is new for a puppy, we can’t expect them to innately know what we want and what we don’t want. It’s a dance of sorts to build up what you want and discourage what you don’t, and it can feel like you’re constantly managing because you basically are. But it’s worth it in the end, if the puppy can grow and mature in healthy ways and become a well adjusted dog who can enjoy all life has to offer. Stanley did amazing on his first day and had a LOT of fun, he’s going to be a regular around here and I hope all of you enjoy watching this little guy grow up 💙

Today was the last day of Stuffie-Paw-Looza! We had such a fun week surprising the pups with new stuffies every day, and they loved it so much. Thank you to everyone who donated stuffed toys for the pups, we appreciate all of you! Some stuffies did survive the week, so the pups will be glad to have some stuffies to play with in the weeks to come.

Are we enjoying Stuffie-Paw-Looza week? We will let you be the judge of that after watching this video 🧸 🐙 🌭 🐸 🦆 🐿️ 🎾 🐷

We are having so much fun with these stuffed toys! They’re dying at a quick rate but that’s ok because we have LOTS!

Stuffie-Paw-Looza day 2! The stuffed toy fun continues today, we all enjoyed diving into the piles of stuffies to find the best ones for squeaking and destroying.

We kicked off our Stuffie-Paw-Looza week and the pups LOVED it!!! Every afternoon it’ll be stuffie playtime here and the dogs are beside themselves with excitement. Enjoy 4 1/2 minutes of dogs playing with stuffies 💗

Frank and Primrose getting in a last play session of the day, these two really enjoy playing together!

We played a game today, guess the dog while blindfolded and it was tons of fun! Definitely doing this again!!

This is why I love starting dogs off young with very regular nail trims, if I can convince them early on that the nail grinder won’t hurt them AND that they get lots of treats for standing still it becomes no big deal. Frank has nail trims every other week and now on his 6th trim he’s standing still and mostly comfortable with it. You can tell he’s still a bit hesitant (pinned ears, that big yawn he did towards the end, and checking in with me a lot) but every time we do it and nothing bad happens he gets closer to being completely comfortable. I only did half his feet for the video, but what you don’t see is at the very end I give him a handful of treats. We call that a “jackpot” and my dogs know they get a jackpot reward after every nail trim. Every good deed deserves a reward, and nail trims deserve a BIG reward ❤️

When you’ve played hard all day, the nap is good! Bernie crashed out and started snoring during movie time haha!

🎅 More toys!!!! More treats!!! 🎅 Koda and Cooper spoiled their friends with a bag of gifts, the pups couldn’t contain themselves when they saw stuffies and squeaky toys!!! Stuffed Santa is now missing his hat and half his stuffing but fun has been had 😆

Bernie coming in hot with TikTok #2 🤣 @abostonnamedbernie

🎁 More gift opening for these lucky pups 🎁 Cash brought a gift for his friends today, and you get to see the pov of the gifts 😆. The pups immediately put the toys to good use 🐶. They gave the treats all paws up 😋. The lick mat will be a fun enrichment activity for later 😀. Thank you Cash and Cash’s parents for spoiling us today, the pups say woof woof which roughly translates to “thank you and Merry Christmas!”