Refined K Nine

09/12/2024

Hey hey Refined K Nines!

We are taking a social media break for the next couple weeks as many of our clients are away enjoying family time, we thought we would do the same and use our extra time at home to get creative & rebrand our social media!

We’ll be back after the holidays with new content and branding to share, until then we wish you all Happy Happy Howliday!

Peace, Love & Woof Woof with Gratitude

28/10/2024

Will forever be the best costume I ever made

22/10/2024

Welcoming & introducing some of our new coaching clients with wide open arms!!!!!

So many personalities, so many wins, so many amazing pawrents!

Grateful to all of you & can’t wait to see what we accomplish together with love, Compawssion, games, enrichment, praise, patience, pivoting, data tracking, resilience & healthy habit building!

BOOK your training & behaviour consultation today !

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22/09/2024

A great behaviour coach will actively listen to both pet and pawrent, gathering information on both human and canines wants and needs.

With active listening in play and empathy for what the companions are feeling and going through, we can gather information, track data and come up with a creative, effective, beneficial enrichment framework that won’t just leave the doggies in our care feeling satisfied & thrilled, but the pawrents too!

Relaxed & content dogs = Relaxed & content Pawrents !

09/09/2024

My responsibility & commitment as a behaviour professional is to help my human clients feel more confident with understanding stress.

The function

The cause

How stress plays a role in behaviour

How to identify stress in our dogs and its emotional, physiological and psychological impact.

Once we can answer some of these questions we can appropriately & responsibly work together with kindness and compassion and strategize how to -

🖤 remove the pet from a stressor by teaching flight and providing opt out options.

🐾 address whatever unmet needs they we have yet to meet

🖤teach the skills necessary for our pet to more successfully navigate various environments & cope with and process tolerable stress .

07/09/2024

Foster & Furver home still needed for this handsome boy lucky !

Lucky was living in a van in the woods and had been used for breeding for a long time. His “owner” did not want him anymore because he isn’t “cool enough” to breed the next litter.

Rather than being tossed away in the Bush, his former person gave permission to find Lucky a new home and surrendered him.

Lucky is a lax x about 4.5 years old, he is still intact. He will need some time to adjust in a new environment and does better settling on his own having a zen zone if in a bigger home, since he was use to living in a smaller space .

He has yet to show any destructive behaviours when left alone but while howl for a bit if left alone.

Lucky is currently living with a female dog and finds comfort and joy in playing, snuggling and being close to another dog. He walks amazing on leash so far , can safely and comfortably pass people, other dogs and has seen bunnies and other wildlife and has yet to present predatory behaviours while on lead.

The verbiage used by his past human told us that lucky unfortunately had a heavy hand, dominance was a way his past human “got results”, we are looking for pawsitive minded homes only and someone that will understand how to go slow with asking for cues and behaviours so lucky can feel safe with someone new asking for cues, since his association with some of these behaviours has previously been negative and driven by fear.

Lucky will growl to communicate his boundaries, so it is important we find someone who is willing to understand growling as healthy communication, and work with me to create enrichment, in home management strategies & a training plan once he is ready for that.

We are here to help you & lucky be set up for success, confidence and resiliency!

Please DM if you’re interested in meeting lucky

21/08/2024

21/08/2024

It’s not just about a hike, a walk, a sleepover, or a coaching session here at Refined K NiNe ~

It’s about deep connection, mutual understanding & Compawssion + Love .

YOUR pets hold as much space in our heart & home as our very own pets do.

We are open and transparent if we feel a certain service will not meet your dogs needs and wants, if they are not ready we reevaluate and adjust.

We are always ready to pivot and help guide you on the right path to improving your dogs welfare and wellbeing whether that ends up being a service we provide, or referring out to another R+ business 🖤🫶✌️

19/08/2024

Aggression in dogs is almost always misunderstood ~

This is why we’re here to hear you and better help you understand the dog in front of you & what theyre vocalizing or saying with silent yet, tell “tail”signs and cues that something deep rooted is going on.

Lead with Compawssion
Shift the Mindset
Guide with kindness
Be Openminded

17/08/2024

Welcome CHARME ~ To our daytrain & click to confidence . We’re going slow with this sweetie to help build her confidence out in the big wide world and hopefully work up to her feeling safe enough with us to come board in the woods !!!!

09/08/2024

is this Saturday in Victoria from 10-4 !

Refined K NIne has participated since the beginning and will be there with brand new classes to share, cards, services and a couple prizes to WIN ~

One of our clients will be representing our booth this year & will share a bit about their experience since their dog became a RK crew member over a a year ago!

If you’d like to hear more about our

💫 Day Train Services
💫 Ethical Boarding and Board + Train
💫 Behaviour Consulting
💫 Enrichment Programs
💫 End of Life In Home Pet Care

Head on down & give our friend Steph a hello 👋 & get a postcard which unlocks discounts to some of our various programs!

Woof Woof with Gratitude

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26/07/2024

Woof woof Welcome to a couple of our new coaching clients ~

Sadie, Frank, Luna, Bella & Kaia!

These kiddos have joined our behaviour coaching & enrichment programs ~ working on building those skills

AKA

Confidence
Healthy Choices
Resilience
Flight
Communication
Bravery
Rest
Tricks
Patience

We have openings for new in person training clients in Victoria & Virtual for our other pals around the world!

Compawssion is a SKILL - BOOK TODAY

18/07/2024

Our PETS will go through pain throughout their lives and some pets will have reoccurring pain several times throughout their lives.

PAIN in pets is very commonly under treated which is very concerning and is another reason why so many dogs end up being Rehoused, or surrendered to rescues and or shelters.

This is because PAIN CHANGES BEHAViOUR ~

Because our pets can’t vocalize and often may not whine and or bark in agony because they are so stoic and many silently and or subtly live through pain daily without us the pet pawrent ever picking up on cues. So one day we might go to take our once happy go lucky Pooch out for a play at by he park, a jog, social date with other pet pals and all of a sudden we’re standing their observing a different dog with an on-set on new possibly very concerning behaviours !

If PAIN is overlooked and we go right to trying to “train these behaviours out” we may feel like we’re spinning our wheels and not ever understanding the dog in front of us and or getting the “training results” we thought we could.

That is likely due to training not being the answer, but instead a consultation with your Behaviour coach to help the pet parent identify signals of pain via the pets body language and then come up with a plan to get the pet into see your veterinary and or holistic animal team, as well as adjust their enrichment framework to ensure that we’re providing our dogs with the appropriate types of mental and physical exercises to prevent escalating injury and or pain.

A standard practice is to always ASSUME there could be pain, and really getting to know our dogs from the way they pant, walk, rest, sleep, play, and interact with the environments around them on a daily basis so it is easier for us to identify changes when they arise.

Pain in pets whether chronic or acute changes behaviour. For some pets we might see increases anxiety, behaviours that might be labelled “aggressive”, sensitivity to noises (new and old noises they never use to react to, more frequent over-reactions, not wanting to interact in the environments they are used to participating in, being unreceptive to training, tricks and or games.

08/07/2024

Throughout my many years of working in rescue and rescue & when I use to work as a fear free surgical vet assistant and having to help with euthanasia, death has been nothing out of the ordinary for me.

However, it never makes it easy on the heart whether that has been compawnion children of my own passing unexpectedly, foster dogs that have come into my life to simply have a safe place to rest until their final days or clients that have become like family, that have invited me with the blessing of spending their pets final moments with them.

My heart experienced a lot of grief if the last several years and my work with animals is a life long commitment, I wanted to be able to give back in more energetic & healing way to all the animals and families that come in to my life.

Especially as my eldest and first soul dog nears the age of 13, I am aware nothing will ease my pain when she is no longer next to my side, but knowing I can ease her pain and manage her comfort and safety by being her mother but also acting as a pet death doula will ease the grief in the long run.

I am now here to offer a pet death doula service to anyone who may want extra home care and energy work, to help bring comfort to you and your pets in their safe space that we call home.

We will work alongside your veterinarians or if you’re someone that has had an awful vet experience and is afraid to go that route; it would be our pleasure to navigate those challenging conversations and help guide you and your loved compawnion during a time that may seem impossible to emotionally overcome.

Please email if you’d like to find out more about our End of Life Pet Care Journey service.

07/07/2024

Do you worry that your senior pet might be bored & not sure how to provide them with a new form of enrichment that is suitable to their aging physical capabilities!?

Our clicker training & enrichment for the senior soul workshops, are perfect to help teach you the pet parent about fun little games to help improve mobility, massage techniques with consent & many other mentally stimulating games for the senior dog soul & body!

We will also cover PAIN in dogs and how to help navigate the emotional toll that comes with worrying about your compawnions well-being, alleviate stress for both you and your pet.

DM or email [email protected]

03/07/2024

Fear is in the eye of the individual experiencing it …

It is an emotion that should be respected, acknowledged, understood … and never mocked.

Let’s work together to better understand our dogs and our own fear, its physical & psychological role, its function, and how to shape & build coping skills to help make the world around us less scary and more comfortable.

DM or email to work with us

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Private coaching & Behaviour Consulting .