The Canine Connection, Chico CA

The Canine Connection, Chico CA The Canine Connection, LLC in Chico, California is a full service canine care and education center.

10 Seville Court, Chico, CA 95928
By appointment or reservation

Lookalikes Milo and Olive send out a “Happy Wednesday!” to all!
12/11/2025

Lookalikes Milo and Olive send out a “Happy Wednesday!” to all!

Today, a client shared that she was disappointed that she didn’t get to see me (Sarah) demonstrating in class with my Au...
12/10/2025

Today, a client shared that she was disappointed that she didn’t get to see me (Sarah) demonstrating in class with my Aussies (they do demonstrate our training approach during our parent orientation but in subsequent sessions they stay at home). This prompted me to want to provide some information about how we conduct our classes and why we do what we do.

The truth is, it would be really easy to use our own dogs as "demo dogs," but the reason we involve our clients’ dogs with demonstrating how behaviors are taught and learned is twofold. First, we want our clients to see their own dogs in action, learning, performing, getting it, or struggling with it - not polished dogs, not dogs who already know how to do things, but dogs who are actually learning as we are teaching, in real time. We find this is so helpful for dog parents to see - and it often makes them feel so darn proud of their dogs’ abilities (as they should be).

The second reason we regularly demonstrate with our clients’ dogs instead of our own is this….. we just LOVE training, and handling many different dogs keeps our training skills sharp. We have so much fun taking the leash and working (playing) with dogs of different sizes, breeds, abilities, and temperaments… so much fun that sometimes it’s hard to give the demo dog back (of course we always do)! 😀 Also, every dog is different and sometimes we need to adjust the way we are approaching a training goal. Seeing ways we make those adjustments is super helpful is to the dogs' parents because it shows them the decisions we make behind training a given task.

That said, while we want to show off every dog in class, we would never ask a nervous dog to leave their human’s side. Comfort and confidence are critical for learning success. But since our positive, force- free approach builds comfort and confidence, along with desired behaviors, even dogs who start out shy are usually, after several sessions, prancing into the middle of our classroom, ready to show off like a show dog. Crowley, pictured here, is one such dog!

So there you have it, why we are committed to demonstrating how we teach and how dogs learn with your dogs instead of ours! To all the dogs who help us teach and classmates learn - our clients’ dogs - thank you for being our star demo dogs and students! We truly love that you and your parents are part of our positive training community! ⭐️❤️🐾

Our foster boy, Reggie, is shouting out a “Happy Tuesday” to all our social media friends! Hope your day is as fun as Re...
12/09/2025

Our foster boy, Reggie, is shouting out a “Happy Tuesday” to all our social media friends! Hope your day is as fun as Reggie and his friends’! Wooooof!

Woohoooo! We have a workaversary to celebrate! Max Maraschiello joined The Canine Connection’s resort team a year ago, c...
12/09/2025

Woohoooo! We have a workaversary to celebrate! Max Maraschiello joined The Canine Connection’s resort team a year ago, coming to us after working for a local pet sitting business that we respect immensely. It wasn’t long before our dog guests and Max’s human teammates decided he was on the “favorite human” list - and for good reasons! Max is kind, patient, and generous (with treats for the dogs and, with humans, always lending a helping hand). He is also funny and lightens even rainy days with his sunny sense of humor. Besides being an accomplished canine coach at our resort, Max is also an innovator. He helped us develop and test drive our summer “train-and-play” program that allowed some of our resort guests to benefit from a weekly, half-day summer training intensive. We could not have explored this cool program without Max’s energy and initiative! As you can see from this photo, one of Max’s super powers is that he can quickly calm a group of energetic dogs with his own calm demeanor, can easily elicit a rapid group sit (and in a perfect line) for the promise of a single treat, and will have our canine guests eating out of his hand, literally and figuratively, because they have learned that a day with Max is a good day indeed. We all agree! Thank you, Max, for being part of The Canine Connection. We hope this workaversary with The Canine Connection is the first of many more!

12/08/2025

This. From one of the nation’s top veterinary behaviorists. If you are using pain to train your dog, studies show it is no more effective than reward-based training.

Our HOWLIDAY OPEN HOUSE is in full swing. Come on down and enjoy some cheer! We loved hosting Rowdy and Roscoe, pictured...
12/07/2025

Our HOWLIDAY OPEN HOUSE is in full swing. Come on down and enjoy some cheer! We loved hosting Rowdy and Roscoe, pictured here. It’s great to see old friends and meet ones too!

Puppy Social was a blast today! We welcomed Ranger, Rocket, and Tucker to the puppy pack!
12/07/2025

Puppy Social was a blast today! We welcomed Ranger, Rocket, and Tucker to the puppy pack!

We have some very special elves helping us get ready for Sunday’s HOWLIDAY Open House, Sarah’s special senior friends, C...
12/05/2025

We have some very special elves helping us get ready for Sunday’s HOWLIDAY Open House, Sarah’s special senior friends, Coach and Rudy. They are both a little bit of naughty and a whole lot of nice!

Your daily dose of cuteness! Happy Friday, everyone from our VIPs to yours!
12/05/2025

Your daily dose of cuteness! Happy Friday, everyone from our VIPs to yours!

Santa is coming! Are you? Our annual HOWLIDAY OPEN HOUSE is this weekend!🎄Sunday, December 7 from 1 to 5 pm.⭐️ The Canin...
12/04/2025

Santa is coming! Are you? Our annual HOWLIDAY OPEN HOUSE is this weekend!

🎄Sunday, December 7 from 1 to 5 pm.

⭐️ The Canine Connection RESORT at 10 Seville Court, Chico CA

🎅🏻Photos with Santa by Greenfield Pet Photography (reservations required, $25 with proceeds to Chico Animal Shelter. Follow this URL to reserve your spot: https://portal.busypaws.app/customers/the-canine-connection-llc?location_id=137&service_id=16828

🎶 Live Music with SOUNDS OF SOUL.

🎁 20% off all retail items (do your holiday shopping for all your dog loving friends and their dogs!)

🍪Treats for people and dogs

🎾Raffle for toy basket

🐾 Resort tours

WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU!

WOOF! ARF! AROOOOO!!

Address

10 Seville Court (resort) And 1188 East Lassen Dr (academy)
Chico, CA
95928AND95973

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 10pm
Tuesday 7am - 10pm
Wednesday 7am - 10pm
Thursday 7am - 10pm
Friday 7am - 10pm

Telephone

+15303451912

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