11/07/2025
I have been onboarding a few dogs recently and it’s so fun getting to know them!
One of them is Ollie. Ollie was adopted about a month ago, and a week into his new life, his humans reached out to me for some dog-dog socialization opportunities as well as training. He has been to daycare 4 times now and I’m also giving his humans training support, and I can’t even put into words how excited I am to work with them.
Turns out Ollie is a spicy little man!
He is a ‘bark first, ask questions later,’ kind of guy and lives in an apartment with all kinds of noises to bark at and neighbors to p**s off.
He has big feelings about things he values, which can manifest as resource guarding.
While his foster mom said he was fully crate trained pre adoption, Ollie said, “Naw Uhhhhhhhhh!” And made it clear he hates the crate.
All of these issues, barking, resource guarding, and crate aversion, are super common but often difficult to understand and treat effectively.
What I love is that Ollie’s humans want to learn why Ollie exhibits these behaviors. They want to understand him, not juat ‘fix’ him. It makes me so excited for their future together.
Here’s a video example of training support I’m giving them around resource guarding, a particular passion of mine as Ruby was an epic resource guarder and taught me everything I know.
Would people be interested in videos/podcasts/blog posts to hear me/see me talk about specific case studies like Ollie’s?
