Mission Impossible K9

Mission Impossible K9 Intensive behavior modification, sport/working foundations, and obedience. Currently working towards MR2!

Home of Midna the mondioring husky (Brevet OBJ2 MR1), first and only Siberian husky in the world to close out a full title in any protection sport.

Bunch of new CGCs tonight (sans Midna, who is an old CGC 😂 and is in the picture just 'cause/for being our neutral demo ...
12/12/2025

Bunch of new CGCs tonight (sans Midna, who is an old CGC 😂 and is in the picture just 'cause/for being our neutral demo dog). Proud of this crew 🥹❤️

And yes, pity poor Magenta for being the one lab in a sea of huskies 🤣😇

12/10/2025

I get up at dark o'clock and step on antlers in the floor and freeze half to death and spill my coffee on myself for this 😂😭

12/05/2025

Miss Maggie went home this week 🥹 Her owners are having a blast playing ball with her and letting her romp in the field next to their house (where she perfectly recalled off some deer *literally immediately* after arriving home! 😅 Panicked slightly when I got that phone call but whew false alarm 🤣), and now also being able to safely walk her and take her in public, and ask her to settle when needed. Mags is one who struggled to find her Zen before training, but she has a great off switch now. Being able to actually get some real exercise is a huge part of that—off leash freedom is so important for these high-energy northern beauties! Maggie is super playful and fun and will hopefully be back for some sport training later 😏😇

I want to note that one of Maggie's owners had heard a lot about how board & train either doesn't work or turns dogs into robots who come home compliant but with their personalities blunted, less happy, less playful, etc., and was very nervous about sending her off. They picked me because of both my experience with the breed and my emphasis on using energy and play in training to maintain healthy arousal and teach dogs to function while in high arousal, not just shut the arousal down and insist on always keeping the dog "calm" so the "bad" high-arousal behaviors never get a chance to present. I strongly prioritize a happy, confident, open, free, expressive dog in my work, and Maggie's owners told me they were so glad and relieved to see how that reflects in their girl.

The hesitant owner said "I was nervous at first, but no, I'm really, REALLY happy with this" at one of her last check-ins, as she lounged at our feet after zooming around and playing ball and wrestling some with the other dogs 😂, and it was a very "this is why I do this" moment for me in a career that can admittedly sometimes be tiring and frustrating. There ARE a lot of "professionals" out there who don't know what to do with a dog that is "a lot of dog" besides sand it down and make it less, vs. teaching it to be more flexible and malleable and use all that energy and those brains for good. Of course being able to relax is extremely important both physically and mentally, but dogs also NEED to be allowed to just *be dogs*, and GOOD training enables them to do just that while also keeping them safe.

Maggie is a really fun, spunky girl and I look forward to working with her more in the future! 🥰

Happy belated Thanksgiving, everyone! 🤪 We had a husky party featuring Vinr and his brother Ranger (middle back) who DID...
12/01/2025

Happy belated Thanksgiving, everyone! 🤪 We had a husky party featuring Vinr and his brother Ranger (middle back) who DID have a great time playing with the rest of the pack despite his face in these pictures 🤣 Everyone else is used to my camera shenanigans, he was just like "Who is this lady making all these freak noises at me" 🤣🤣. I will post more of THE HERD and their antics later - we'll be busy for a bit because Maggie's go-home lessons start today! 🥹 We will miss this spunky girl (but not too much, because she'll be back for sport basics later 😜 Tons of potential, excited to see where she can go with it!)

11/23/2025

Some Midna bitework since I haven't posted any in a while. We are adding upper body bites to her repertoire for the level 2 stick/face attack and it is going well 💖 She's only forgotten she's doing arms and tried to bite a leg with no pants on it one time 🤪

I did get some footage of the client dogs this time and will post it in a bit :)

Time to get out and about, Balto and Maggie 👏☺️🥰 They have of course had sessions in different locations before now, but...
11/20/2025

Time to get out and about, Balto and Maggie 👏☺️🥰 They have of course had sessions in different locations before now, but towards the end of the dogs' stay with me is when we are really ramping up proofing and testing in public. Maggie was a recent unsocialized stray with some "stranger danger," so I was extra proud of her heeling around a group of big tall men in our local feed/hardware store today, and even getting some pets, also!

I know online shipping is convenient, y'all, but there's no replacement for in-person socialization with members of the community where you live—we need it as much as the dogs do, economics aside, so don't forget to shop local as much as you can this holiday season! Thanks so much to Mt Pleasant Hardware Co for always being so patient and welcoming, and letting Maggie have some extra time to get used to everything/one. We really really appreciate it. ❤️

For NC locals 🖤
11/20/2025

For NC locals 🖤

meeting adjourned 💯 More later this month!
11/17/2025

meeting adjourned 💯 More later this month!

11/16/2025

Good dogs wait while we feed horses 💖

Midna was like "I know I'M allowed in the pasture 😎" 😅🤣

(I do not let client dogs interact with the horses except over a fence or on leash at heel, for the dogs' safety. Midna was raised with them and is extremely careful/savvy so we don't have to worry so much about her 😜. I do bring the dogs into the pasture for off leash practice and exercise, but only when the horses are shut out of whichever half we are working on.)

11/14/2025

I'm drowning in huskies, send help 😂

Most of them are lame right now 🙃 which is why I'm being a meanie-pants not letting them zoom and play. Also Scout and Maggie both have social hierarchy–motivated same-sex aggression so since they are still getting to know each other, best to keep things chill for the moment 💖

If you read that and think "What? They don't look aggressive to me"—yep! That's because we've had some Big Talks about my #1 rule for existence under my watch: Murder Is Banned. 🙂 One of the most basic lessons of living or working in any sort of group/society is that you are entitled to your feelings but you are not always entitled to act on them. I resist murder like 10 times a day, and if I can do it, so can they 🤗

Please note, none of these dogs is scared or defensive about other dogs. Scout is just a natural-born Regina George to Maggie's Cady Heron, Midna's Janis Ian, and Ruby's Gretchen Weiners/Karen Smith 😅. The Internet would have you believe that all aggression is fear based and that's simply not true. Dogs have personalities just like people, and some are catty and snarky, some are bullies and ladder-climbers who want to shove down anyone they perceive as close to catching up to them or getting in their way. But we don't play those games here, and we get pack harmony as a result 💖👌

Club days are best days 💖 I hate that I didn't think to ask anyone to film Balto and Maggie but they were both very good...
11/09/2025

Club days are best days 💖 I hate that I didn't think to ask anyone to film Balto and Maggie but they were both very good students in the new loud place around all the new people ❤️ (I whipped my phone out during Midna's search/escort—love the exercises that let me film and "handle" at the same time 🤪🤪)

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