Birthday Girl has one wish: Come wave a paw at Orono Vet Hospital 12-4pm today!!
30 Cobbledick Rd. Orono
Training for a high degree of control, means your dog can enjoy a high degree of freedom. Nothing like a good grass roll and a sploot at the park!
We’re a Furry Friends Pet Resort 10am - 5pm. Come on out and say “Woof!”
Nail trimming, am I right?! 😅
Your dogs and summer weather!
With the recent hot and humid weather we’ve been having lately, we want to take a minute to share some helpful tips and tricks. Meeting your dog’s exercise needs can be tough this time of year!
⭐️ Make use of the water! Head to the water front, pick up a small kiddie pool or even grab the hose. Even if your dog isn’t a swimmer, getting your dog’s paws and chest wet can go a long way in helping them stay cool. If you’re heading to the lake, check your cities website for updates on Blue Green Algae.
⭐️ Walk your dogs in the early morning, or in the late evening. Avoid the middle of the day as this is when the sun is at its peak. Tip! If the pavement is too hot for you to hold your hand on, it’s too hot to walk your dogs on. Find some grass to exercise them on instead or wait for a different time.
⭐️ Keep an eye out for the beginning signs of heat stress. Panting is normal, but excessive panting and drooling is alarming. Watch out for a bright red tongue. It may also start curling at the end or hanging off to the side. Please note, signs that your dog is experiencing a heat stress emergency include: Vomiting, lethargic, disoriented, muscle tremors, and more.
⭐️ Help your dog acclimatize! Just like us, dogs can become more accustomed to warm weather over time. You can help your dog with this by slowly increasing the time you spend outdoors in warm weather, while always watching out for signs that your dogs has had enough. Many things will depend on this, such as your dogs age, size, and breed.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns with your dog and the hot weather, send us a message.
Heeling… with some personal flare✨
Heeling, with some personal flare✨
Hazel wants to make sure you don't forget to pick up some motivators for your training!
Thanks to Ren's Pets for helping us train and socialize. It takes a village to raise a dog!
Building your dog's natural drives using play can go a long way towards creating solid reward systems for your training as well as satisfying their biological needs.
Our Biologically Appropriate Play Program will help you identify and develop your dog's natural drives whether that's chasing, pulling, fetching, jumping, hunting, defending, or just being goofy AND show you how to give those drives an APPROPRIATE outlet.
Our Group Class last weekend took on the dog park! Well… the outside of it. It was a fun and relatively easy class with everyone working on attention through distraction, and applying it wherever they saw fit in the environment.
Busy locations like this can be scary, especially if you have a reactive dog. But they are also really helpful when teaching your dog how to be an appropriate companion in all aspects of life. Whether it’s the lakefront, hiking trails, downtown, or even just your neighborhood subdivision, we’re here to help set you and your dog up for success.
We had an excellent group class today! A good handful of these dogs came to us struggling with reactivity and different forms of aggression, you’d never even know it.
We want to take a minute to thank our wonderful clients for continuing to put in the work. Your hard work shows. Well done everyone!
Gunner is one of our trainers dogs. He’s come a long way from reactivity, dog, and handler aggression.
Here he is putting some fetching skills to good use - post training clean up!
We have been so proud of everyone who’s been able to attend group class lately. It really is the best place to polish up your skills and work on distractions.
Last Saturday we created an obstacle course, and we had everyone walk through it with plastic eggs on spoons. Despite plenty of toys and treats on the ground as distractions, all of our clients and their pups did fantastic!
Sara and Ukee have come a super long way in a short amount of time and we couldn’t be more proud of them! From being reactive to people, dogs, and cars, to being able to pay attention to command through different distractions.
Can’t wait to see you guys in group class!
There will be no group class this Saturday. Happy Holiday’s from our pack to yours!
Last week's group class became an impromptu "Feisty Fido" session with some of the most intense dogs we've had the privilege of working with in a while. We started with some attention work and got to end with a Place To Place Race!
Angie and Piper during their 4th lesson. Piper gets waaaay too excited about visitors.
Here you see Piper recalling from a highly exciting greeting (Jamie is hyping her up), to Angie. Piper also holds a Sit, ignoring Jamie, even while Angie herself is distracted talking to me.
A happy dog, enjoying her training, no treats necessary!
Off-leash obedience around distractions at 5 months? You betcha!
Birdie is a 5 month old Wild Child who's been with us for a few days learning self control and off leash skills around distractions.
This lil lady really has it all, lots of drive, eager to please, confidence (aka sass) but she really needed the right communication strategy to bring it out (and save her families fingers).
4 days ago, her family said bye bye to their Baby Shark. In 6 days we think they'll be saying hello to the next Top Dog!
Congrats to Derrick and Baxter on learning a head up heel around distractions in your 3rd lesson!
Derrick called us because Baxter has an intense amount of energy and can be a bit dog reactive, especially on a leash. This is quite the change from the rotator cuff threat he was on day one!
