O4K9

11/22/2025

IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP❗️
The Force-Free Lobby Is Moving Fast.

Dog training is under attack, not by science, not by welfare concerns, but by ideology disguised as ethics!

A new “Joint Standards of Practice” was just released by APDT, IAABC, KPA and others.
If this becomes the accepted “standard of care,” here’s what follows:
Tool bans
Licensing controlled only by force-free organizations
Elimination of R- and P+ from professional training
Criminalization or disqualification of balanced trainers
Courts and legislators using THEIR paperwork as the only definition of “humane”

This is not accidental.
It is a coordinated move to take over the entire profession and silence everyone who isn’t “science based”!
And once this framework is adopted, reversing it will be impossible.

We need to step up now.
Not next year.
Not when a ban hits your city. Now❗️

If you haven’t joined IACP you need to do it.

I also believe there has to be a Balanced Training Coalition!!!
A unified front of trainers, working-dog professionals, behaviorists, and organizations who refuse to let ideology rewrite the laws of learning or erase the methods that keep people and dogs safe.

11/18/2025

This is unwise.

Don’t mess with the dog’s food, and don’t mess with the dog, but also don’t allow the growl.

Just one generation ago, if a dog growled while eating, people said,

“Hey! Don’t bother him while he’s eating.”

And that was it.

We respected the warning.

We understood the dog was simply communicating.

Today?

That same dog gets corrected, labeled, or, even worse…

euthanized.

Somewhere along the way, we stopped allowing dogs to say

“No.” We stopped giving them the space to express fear,

discomfort, or uncertainty.

We expect them to be perfectly happy, perfectly calm, and

perfectly tolerant 100% of the time.

But here’s the truth:

Dogs deserve the right to feel. They deserve the right to

communicate. And a growl is not an act of aggression, it’s a sentence. It’s information.

It’s a dog saying, “I’m not okay right now.”

We’ve lost all nuance. If a dog is anything other than silly, social, and sunshine-on four legs, we slap the label “AGGRESSIVE” on them.

People…please…listen to your dogs.

They are communicating with you in the only way they know how.

Honor that.

Learn from it.

And give them back the right to speak.

11/17/2025

Dog Boarding in Moscow, ID

We’re still boarding year round!

We’ve got large kennels & an outdoor area.

The building is temperature controlled.

Dogs are out 5x daily, go for walks, and are fed 2x.

Schedule your dog’s stay before we run out of space!

11/05/2025

Dog Boarding

Website is back up and running. You can once again schedule and pay for reservations.

11/04/2025

Our website is not letting more than 1 person book a stay for their dog.

If you’d like to board your dog, just let us know and we can manually make that work.

11/03/2025

Dog Food

Still have plenty of dog food left.

*If you’re local, don’t select shipping.*

Local pickup you can just come over.

Inukshuk 26/16 provides outstanding maintenance nutrition, while also offering key building blocks for puppies and pregnant, lactating dogs. We include the same high-quality ingredients from our Inukshuk 32/32 formula, offering superior digestibility and palatability, plus vitamins and chelated mine...

10/31/2025

Finally got this new piece installed.

No more manually controlling the temp.

We’re now automatic.

10/18/2025

Don’t be foolish.
Don’t gamble your children.
Don’t create self-inflicted heartache.

10/16/2025

We want the interaction with our dogs to be mostly joy, grace and extension of mercy. My rule is 80/20. 20% or less is the dog being held accountable for crossing boundaries.

However, if your discipline is lacking, you’ll have no room for the others in a proper fashion. Joy won’t have proper context. Grace will be taken advantage of. Mercy will be oxymoronic.

Make room in your dog’s heart for all the good things. Give them a garden of Eden experience.

10/14/2025

I deal with this on a weekly, sometimes daily basis.

10/14/2025

If an animal needs rest from training, pushing them further will only exacerbate and exasperate them. Then you’ll have another problem on hand.

Give them rest from their labors.

10/11/2025

Anytime you disrupt the internal turmoil masked by fake peace in the dog, you’ll get a storm. In order to bring about internal peace in the animal, you must calmly rebuke the wind and the waves.

Self-control is like a superpower.