Good Dog Rising

08/07/2025

Rudy, an 8 month old Golden-Doodle, picked this adorable chicken toy for his parting gift from Basic Manners class. Rudy is a small but mighty little fella who grew each week in confidence. Live it up Rudy!

Does your dog still have their graduation gift? Share a photo so we can coo over them!

08/02/2025

Happy Saturday! How are you going to spend today with your dog? 🤷🏼‍♀️

07/29/2025

If your dog was human, what’s their ideal career? Continue in the comments!

07/01/2025

🥰 At our best, we help each other to be better beings.

When we are choosing to teach our dogs gently, we are choosing to teach ourselves patience. And that’s a wonderful thing to learn and practice.

06/14/2025

There are many things that we do FOR our dogs and then there are things that we do WITH our dogs. And on this rainy day, we got up a bit earlier than should be allowed on a Saturday, to drive to Stroudsburg for an Odor Recognition Test (ORT). In short, an ORT is necessary to compete in higher levels of dog detection competition and I view it as a great opportunity for low pressure introduction into competing with our dogs. The dog is tasked with finding the target odor (birch,anise, clove), hidden by a judge out of twelve boxes and the handler, based on the dog’s response, will say “alert” indicating that the dog found the correct box.

If you’ve ever competed or performed you may feel anxious and even nervously excited, the same is true when competing with dogs. I would challenge to say the experience is magnified because your canine training partner is feeling the same about entering new environments and distractions.

We had many ups (canopies & cool weather) and some downs (will it ever stop raining?) today but chalking it up to a learning and personal growth is still making amazing and unforgettable memories with our beloved dogs and friends!

04/14/2025

These nicknames are so creative! Let's keep it going by sharing more nicknames in the comments!

02/09/2025

Happy Sunday! Class is on for today (2/9/25)

01/19/2025

😭We'll be closed for class on Sunday(1/19)in anticipation of the snow storm.

☃️Though we won't be able to see you, we'd love to see photos of your dogs 🐕enjoying their snow ❄️day in the comments. Bonus points if you have a short-legged 🍟companion enjoying the snow.

🏂Let's hope we're spared from the depth we got in 2016. That was a rough year for 💩 'ing.😆

12/24/2024

Merry Christmas!

12/23/2024