01/31/2025
Congrats to our first Student Highlight of 2025, Sunshine ☀️!
Here’s what his humans have to say about his story:
“After many months of begging, we told the kids we would do a weekend “sleepover” with a local rescue organization to see whether they were really ready for a dog. If they were, we would look for a small, adult dog to adopt. Of course, everyone fell in love with the not-small, not-adult dog who came for a sleepover, and we adopted Sunshine, who is now a very energetic 1.5-year-old, 70 pound American foxhound/pitbull/husky mix.
He has been a sweet, curious, and playful dog since we adopted him, but we struggled a lot with regulating his arousal levels — he had no off switch, serious FOMO, and no impulse control.
If he wasn’t swallowing stuffed animals and socks, he was trying to play with our five year old and knocking him over in the process.
We got him into classes at All Dogs Allowed within a few weeks of adopting him and worked to use what we were learning with him at home. It has been a slow process, but after a little more than a year of work, he can lay down and sleep next to the kids on the couch, go on a walk that is calm and pleasant for all parties, return items he shouldn’t have without guarding them, and even focus enough to run an agility course.
None of these were skills he would have had without ongoing work with All Dogs Allowed trainers, and we are so thankful for all of the help in teaching him how to relax and be comfortable in his new home, and in his own body!”
We couldn’t be more thrilled at the HUGE progress this family has made ❤️
