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Two black and white dogs working on the same thing: making good choices when real life happens.Ocra has all the skills. ...
06/16/2026

Two black and white dogs working on the same thing: making good choices when real life happens.

Ocra has all the skills. She knows how to ignore dogs, bikes, and joggers when she’s calm. It’s easy to train in low-arousal environments but the real test is whether your dog can perform those skills when they’re excited, energized or emotionally invested in what’s happening around them. That’s why we’re intentionally bringing her energy up and then asking her to work around her triggers.

Walter has been working on his loose leash skills and today we got a perfect real-life training opportunity when a doe and her fawn crossed right in front of us, instead of getting stuck on them, he was able to disengage, come back to me and continue on his walk. Later, he was also able to walk neutrally alongside another dog (Thank you team Atticus)!

Training isn’t about what your dog can do in perfect conditions. It’s about what they can do when life throws something unexpected at them. 🖤🤍

This cute lil man is Clyde! Clyde has some big feelings about new people and dogs so our focus is on building confidence...
06/16/2026

This cute lil man is Clyde! Clyde has some big feelings about new people and dogs so our focus is on building confidence, not just reducing reactions.

We’ll be using new food and personal play games to help him feel safer, more optimistic and more comfortable in the world around him. Every dog deserves the chance to live a full life and confidence is built one successful experience at a time. 🤍

Almost 6 months in, and Pesto and Brooke Davis, our fluffy feline addition, are now able to coexist with minor managemen...
06/14/2026

Almost 6 months in, and Pesto and Brooke Davis, our fluffy feline addition, are now able to coexist with minor management.

We knew bringing a new cat into the house was going to be a challenge. Pesto’s prey drive is, for lack of a better term, crazy town but we wanted to give Simba a friend and were committed to putting in the work. Initially, Pesto wanted to eat her. He saw her as prey, it was as simple as that.

That work looked like a lot of management, a lot of caution and a lot of intentionally setting up training opportunities. (And several panicked texts to Camille’s Companion Animal Training | BSc (ABIO) | IAABC-ADT who talked me off many-a-ledge. 💕) There wasn’t a magic exercise that fixed everything. More than anything, I think time helped. Pesto habituated to having this little creature living in his house. B. Davis slowly became B. Brave. The novelty wore off, and with it, a lot of the intensity.

“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast” became the motto. Instead of rushing interactions, we focused on creating calm, predictable experiences and letting both animals move at their own pace. He still wants to chase her at times and I’m not naive enough to think these are animals I’ll be leaving unsupervised together anytime soon. This isn’t always something that is possible when you are living with a prey driven dog and a cat, I am grateful for the progress we’ve made but will remain diligent with their interactions. Progress doesn’t have to mean perfection. 💚💜

Ellie the black lab has made huge strides in her reactivity training but walking close to dogs on her road is still toug...
06/12/2026

Ellie the black lab has made huge strides in her reactivity training but walking close to dogs on her road is still tough for her so we employed Waylon to be our demo dog and these girlies were walking together in no time!
Ellie did initially react to Waylon but instead of calling it quits, we gave her space, time and support to work through those feelings. As she settled, she was able to process what was happening and make different choices.
If a dog’s only experience is reacting and leaving, the reaction itself can become the pattern. Growth happens when we create enough safety for them to move through that initial response and discover that nothing bad is going to happen on the other side of it. 💖

Happy 8th birthday to the best bad girl. Punk came into my life and showed me just how much I care about reactive dogs. ...
06/10/2026

Happy 8th birthday to the best bad girl.
Punk came into my life and showed me just how much I care about reactive dogs. She taught me that helping them isn’t about keeping them away from the world, it’s about helping them find the dogs, people and experiences they actually enjoy while supporting them through the hard stuff. She’s pushed me to learn, grow and become a better trainer. She also taught me that a dog can be a bitch one minute and still be the sweetest girl in the world the next. Two things can be true at once.
Most of all, she introduced me to dog sports and set me on a path I’ll be on forever. My first novice dog, my biggest teacher and one of the most important dogs I’ll ever know.
Happy 8th birthday, P***y. 💕

This morning’s first Life Skills and Obedience class started with some engagement games and appropriate greetings with n...
06/07/2026

This morning’s first Life Skills and Obedience class started with some engagement games and appropriate greetings with new humans, for the shy friends we worked on greetings where the dogs had choice and agency in how the interactions went while the more… ✨enthusiastic✨ greeters practiced calmer greetings! I’m so excited to see these dogs grow and build their engagement with their humans around distractions!

This adorable scruffy face belongs to Eddie! We are helping him feel better about guests at his house and firing him fro...
06/05/2026

This adorable scruffy face belongs to Eddie! We are helping him feel better about guests at his house and firing him from his guard dog duties! He’s a super fun dude who warms up quickly and is super eager to play all his new training games! ❤️❤️

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