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Penny’s Pals

✨Structure, softness & second chances
🧠Ethical, balanced training
📍Victoria, BC

09/17/2025

✨ Did you know K9 Fitness is more than just standing on wobbly surfaces?

K9 Conditioning is about:
💪 Strengthening core, hind end & front end and more!
🧘 Dynamic & static stretching
🐾 Building balance, coordination & body awareness

When done correctly, it prevents uneven muscle use, reduces strain, and sets your dog up for success. 🙌

The best part? Conditioning is for every dog, from bouncy puppies to golden seniors. It builds confidence, muscle mass, and helps prevent injury.

Where structure meets softness 🐶✨

09/09/2025

✨🐾 Canine Academy Update 🐾✨
Our Structured Daycare (aka Canine Academy) is now FULL and we are officially moving to a waitlist.

We are beyond grateful for the support and trust in our structured program, designed for dogs who need more than just playtime, confidence building, nervous system regulation, social skills, and balanced enrichment. 💙

If you’d like to be added to the waitlist, please send us an email at 📧 [email protected] and we’ll keep you updated as spots open.

Thank you for helping us create a calm, safe, and fulfilling environment for all the pups in our care. 🐕✨

09/03/2025

✨ A gentle reminder about communication & boundaries ✨

To keep things running smoothly (and to protect a little bit of my home-life balance 💛), here are some updated guidelines:

📩 Preferred communication → Email is always best. DMs are fine for quick inquiries, but I’ll redirect you to email for anything important.

🕘 Admin hours → Tuesday–Friday, 8:00am–4:30pm. I strive for at least an hour a day to catch up, but sometimes things slip through, don’t hesitate to send a polite follow-up if you haven’t heard back.

🙏 Patience helps → Please give me some time to respond. I often see emails followed by Time to Pet bumps or immediate booking changes, unless it’s urgent, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

📵 Texting → Please only text if it’s urgent or if your dog is currently in my care.

These boundaries are not only for me, but also for the dogs, so I can be fully present with them without my phone in hand. Thank you for understanding and supporting this little step toward balance 💙

08/17/2025

✨ From a basement suite to our very own facility ✨

I can’t even begin to put into words how grateful I am for this new beginning. What started in my father-in-law’s basement suite has grown into something I could only dream of—a space where dogs and their people can thrive.

Along the way, I’ve been lucky enough to meet incredible people, help so many dogs, and make lifelong friends. None of this would be possible without those who trust me with their pups every single day. 🐾

We are now officially the only structured daycare in Victoria—offering proper passive socialization, small play groups, and unique enrichment activities that go beyond the basics. This is more than just daycare—it’s a place for growth, balance, and joy.

Here’s to new chapters, wagging tails, and endless gratitude. 💛

08/14/2025

🚨 BIG update! 🚨
Structured stays are now limited to 2–3 guests at a time 🐾 (down from 6) — more one-on-one time, fewer spots!

📅 Winter holiday bookings are now open — I’ll be taking my usual 6 over the holidays, but 3 spots are already taken!
💌 Book ASAP to secure your stay.

— Taylor & the Penny’s Pals team 💛

08/07/2025

✨ Meet Harley! ✨

This sweet and sensitive girl joined our Stay & Train program about 10 days ago, and while we may be a little late on her intro post, Harley has already made huge strides in her training 💪🐾

From building confidence, to staying engaged in new environments, to absolutely rocking her off-leash work and problem solving — Harley is soaking it all in and settling beautifully into our structured routine. 🧠💫

We’re so excited to keep watching her grow into the calm, focused, and connected pup her humans dream of 💙

🚨 Our next Stay & Train spot opens up in October 2025 — if you’ve been considering enrolling your dog, now’s the time to reach out! These spots go fast.

Let’s go, Harley! 🐶🔥

Thank you for the referral 🩵

02/17/2025

>>> Finally introducing the man of the hour! Manu! 🎉

Many originally signed up for our 4 week stay and train program and has now completed 2/4 weeks, since working with Manu, I knew immediately that his nervous system was shot, and also in a state of repetition where his nervous system didn’t know how to be anything but tense. Since working with him I have also suspected some blindness & lower back pain. This with his other behaviour struggles we extended him to 6 weeks of stay and train.

What we have and we’ll be continuing to work on:
> Resource Guarding
> Reactivity
> Calming the nervous system
> Follow through on commands
> Confidence building
> Respecting boundaries & more!

Stay tuned for all things Manu, I post clips but if you want all the behind scenes that I send to their mom, check out their account

02/15/2025

>>> Welcoming Mady, to the Penny’s Pals Team!

A message from Mady
“ I am so excited to be joining the Pennys Pals team!

Dogs have always been a huge part of my life. I grew up always having family dogs around and when I moved out I got a job in a grooming salon as a dog bather so I could still get my dog “fix”, until I adopted my own pup Ronnie!

Ronnie challenged everything I thought I knew about owning a dog. He was a perfect angel in the house but his reactivity made taking him anywhere a huge challenge. After meeting Taylor at a community pack walk, I signed Ronnie up for a 3 week board and train that completely changed our lives and made me want to learn everything I possibly could about dog training!

From there I signed Ronnie and I up for every class I possibly could, from basic obedience to dog sports and I changed my career from hotel management to working full time with dogs as a pack hike leader.

Last summer my partner and I adopted Honey into our family. She is the polar opposite of Ronnie and has already taught me so much about sensitive dogs.

I am looking forward to getting to know everyone’s pups, continuing to learn from Taylor and help other dogs and owners on their training journey! “

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https://www.pennyspals.ca/

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