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Beautiful Meadow. She’s nine years old, but don’t worry she acts like a puppy 😂🤪🙄⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ...
10/10/2025

Beautiful Meadow. She’s nine years old, but don’t worry she acts like a puppy 😂🤪🙄
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09/10/2025

Gus got a clean bill of health today and a couple of vaccines updated. He was a superstar with the vet ❤️❤️
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Gus and his new friends ♥️♥️🥹🥹⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
09/10/2025

Gus and his new friends ♥️♥️🥹🥹
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08/10/2025

Not to be I guess 😂😂
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08/10/2025

We take extra caution in group play. Ideally, we want the first experience to be positive. We do that by being patient and introducing a dog like Gus slowly and incrementally. We are constantly evaluating their behavior and demeanor when they do have access to the other dogs through a fence and when walking together on leash to determine when it is time to give them more freedom. Gus has some limited experience with other dogs, I believe in a one on one setting. I do not believe he has had any experience in a large group of dogs, but for the last day or so he has become really comfortable in an adjacent enclosure and we felt it was time to give him more freedom.
The things we’re looking for when we start to introduce them is loose body language, and a happy and comfortable demeanor. We do keep a long line on any new dog we are introducing to a group to make sure that we have control if things go wrong. You cannot guarantee that dogs are going to get along. All you can do is have as many safety procedures in place to keep everyone as safe as possible. Gus has shown no aggression however he can be a bit resource guardy with bones and toys, so we made sure to remove all of these items from our outdoor play yard prior to this play session.
Overall it went, as well as we could have hoped. With border collies and other high strung herding dogs, high energy play can be very triggering and illicit unacceptable behaviors like grabbing and tackling during chase games. Gus did remarkably well at this and was super sweet coming over for reassurance periodically. The next most dangerous part of introducing dogs is the second or third time… Because one have a tendency to be less vigilant. The dogs also get more comfortable and sometimes unacceptable behaviors can occur. But we will keep a close eye on Gus over the next several days and make sure that his integration into group play continues to go in the right direction. I was super proud of him today ☺️☺️

07/10/2025

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07/10/2025

Gus is doing very well. He’s quite toy obsessed so we are using this to work that big brain 🧠
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Lovin’ the new play structure!⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
04/10/2025

Lovin’ the new play structure!
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03/10/2025

We had some new climb-on equipment installed for the training dogs so of course Twiggy had to test it first 😝
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