Dodger's Paws LLC

08/21/2025

🎨 Paint Your Pet Night – Fundraiser for Valley Humane Society! 🐾

Join us at Pinot’s Palette in Livermore for a night of creativity, community, and compassion! Send in your favorite photo and then create a custom portrait while supporting a great cause!

📅 Saturday, October 4, 2025
⏰ Doors open at 5:30 PM | Painting begins at 6:00 PM
📍 Pinot's Palette - Livermore, 153 S L Street, Livermore, CA 94550
💲 $75 per guest – $10 from every seat donated to Valley Humane Society (with a 25-guest minimum)

👉 Pet photos must be submitted by Friday, September 26!

✨ Reserve your seat now and help us support local animals in need:
🔗 https://www.pinotspalette.com/livermore/event/857810

There will be food and wine available for purchase!

Raffle Prizes - Bring Cash for raffle tickets!

Let’s fill the studio with love for pets and paws! 🐶🐱💜

08/18/2025

✨ New Class! Control Unleashed – Intro ✨

Does your dog nail their skills at home but lose focus out in the real world? 🐾
Our 6-week Intro to Control Unleashed class helps bridge that gap by teaching:

✅ Attention in distracting environments
✅ Better arousal regulation
✅ Handler strategies to prevent reactivity
✅ How dogs can make good choices and communicate them to you

Perfect for young, impulsive, or easily distracted dogs—and a great stepping stone for future dog sports like agility, rally, or scent work. Training is fun, reward-based, and full of food, toys, and tail wags! 🎉

📅 6 weeks | 1 hour per week
💲 $245 | Prereq: Foundation Skills – Level 1 or higher
⚠️ Not appropriate for reactive dogs (please reach out for referrals).

👉 Spots are limited! Register today at www.dodgerspaws.com

08/14/2025

Ready to take your dog’s training to the next level while having FUN?

Rally Obedience is the perfect mix of teamwork, communication, and new challenges! You and your dog will learn to navigate a course of signs, each with a unique skill or maneuver, all while building confidence and connection.

✅ Great for all skill levels – no competition experience needed
✅ Strengthen your teamwork and communication
✅ A supportive, positive learning environment

📅 Starts 5pm Wednesday 8/27/2025
📍 Dodger’s Paws, Pleasanton, CA

Spots are limited – let’s rally together! 🎉

08/12/2025

🚦🐾 Rally Obedience Starts Tomorrow! 🐾🚦

Ready to take your teamwork with your dog to the next level? Join us tomorrow at 5 PM for our Rally Obedience class!

Rally is a fun and engaging way to build focus, improve manners, and strengthen the bond between you and your dog — all while navigating a course of obedience signs together. Perfect for those looking to add a little extra fun to their training routine!

📅 Date: Tomorrow
🕔 Time: 5:00 PM

Spots are limited! come have some fun with us!

https://dodgerspaws.dogbizpro.com/public/registration/index.aspx?schedule=2863

08/09/2025

Big congratulations to Benny and Ellie for completing their Level 2 Basic Manners class!

These two dedicated pups built on their foundations with focus, consistency, and enthusiasm. Throughout the class, they strengthened their leash skills, polished their polite greetings, and learned to work through distractions like pros!

We’re so proud of the teamwork and progress shown—Benny and Ellie, you rocked it!

08/07/2025

Join us in giving a big round of applause to Ace, Quinn, JoJo, Luciano, and Aura for graduating from Level 1 manners class!

This was a truly special group—each pup came in a little unsure and left with confidence, focus, and wagging tails. From shy beginnings in Week 1 to walking calmly by their handlers’ sides and showing off their new obedience skills by Week 6, these pups made amazing progress.

We’re so proud of how far you’ve come. Happy Graduation!

08/01/2025

We just had 2 spots become available!

🚨🐾 Pet CPR & First Aid Training - Save a Life When Every Second Counts! 🐾🚨

Would you know what to do if your dog stopped breathing? What if your cat was choking or injured?

Join us for a Pet CPR & First Aid Certification Class and gain the skills and confidence to act quickly in an emergency. This hands-on training covers:
✔️ CPR techniques
✔️ Rescue breathing
✔️ Bleeding protocols
✔️ Heatstroke, seizures & more
✔️ How to build a pet first aid kit

📅 Date: 8/2/2025
📍 Location: Dodger’s Paws Large Classroom #305
🕘 Time: 8-1:30pm
💻 Register now: https://www.protrainings.com/classrooms/316746/signup

This is a must for pet parents, dog trainers, pet sitters, and animal lovers of all kinds. 🐶🐱 Don’t miss the chance to be your pet’s hero!

07/30/2025

Did you know our friends Livermore Family Pet Hospital offer free exams for your new rescue pet?

📢 Hey new pet parents! Have you heard?

🩺🐾Livermore Family Pet Hospital offers free shelter exams for all newly adopted cats and dogs of any age. Bring their adoption paperwork to their first exam to qualify.

What better way to make sure that your new furry family member is ready to settle in to their new home?

Our team sees every pet as an individual, creating specialized care to ensure they are healthy and thriving both at home and in the hospital.

Come and see how we can help you!

07/29/2025

A Personal Update from Martha, Owner/Head Trainer of Dodger's Paws

On June 6, 2025, we said goodbye to Jasper. His spirit was still willing, but his body could no longer keep up with the things that once brought him joy. He did an amazing job at fighting cancer for nearly 18 months. He was the dog that inspired us to bring Barn Hunt & NASDA to Dodger's Paws, creating our club Dogs With Rattitude.

And then last week on July 24, 2025, we helped my soul dog, Lovey, reunite with him.

Lovey was truly one of a kind. She came into the world under traumatic circumstances, she was sensitive, brilliant, and always observing the world around her.

She’s the reason I became a dog trainer. Helping her navigate her fears and sensitivities led me to seek out education and eventually become a student at Dodgers Paws. What started as a search for answers became a life-changing path. Lovey didn’t just shape my personal journey, she helped me find my passion and my purpose.

Over the past 18 months, you may have noticed that I have not been as responsive or present as I should have been. The truth is, I have been deeply immersed in caregiving and savoring what could be final moments, first for Jasper, then for Lovey, while also trying to safeguard my own mental health through a long stretch of anticipatory grief and then heartbreaking losses. I know it impacted my communication, and I appreciate those who were patient and kind more than you know.

Lovey's final year was marked by a wide range of confusing and painful health challenges. We may never know exactly what was behind it all, but we do know this: we believe deeply in giving dogs peace before they "ask for help to cross". It was the most heartbreaking choice, but it was the most loving one we could make for her.

Now, for the first time in 15 years, our home has just one dog. It’s a strange, quiet adjustment and we’re finding our way forward.

If you’ve been wondering why I've seemed off, or if you’ve felt a delay or down right lack of responses, this is the reason why.

Thank you for continuing to support Dodgers Paws, and please know that I’m so grateful for this community. I'm still working through the backlog of work and communications that have come in and you are welcome to send a follow up email if you need to.

We have some big plans and ideas for new offerings that have been on hold until life was more stable so be on the look out for those!

07/25/2025

Quick reminder that this event is coming up on 8/2!

🚨🐾 Pet CPR & First Aid Training - Save a Life When Every Second Counts! 🐾🚨

Would you know what to do if your dog stopped breathing? What if your cat was choking or injured?

Join us for a Pet CPR & First Aid Certification Class and gain the skills and confidence to act quickly in an emergency. This hands-on training covers:
✔️ CPR techniques
✔️ Rescue breathing
✔️ Bleeding protocols
✔️ Heatstroke, seizures & more
✔️ How to build a pet first aid kit

📅 Date: 8/2/2025
📍 Location: Dodger’s Paws Large Classroom #305
🕘 Time: 8-1:30pm
💻 Register now: https://www.protrainings.com/classrooms/316746/signup

This is a must for pet parents, dog trainers, pet sitters, and animal lovers of all kinds. 🐶🐱 Don’t miss the chance to be your pet’s hero!

07/17/2025

🎓👏 Big shoutout to our incredible Level 3 grads! 👏🎓

Raina showed off her hard work and determination, learning to tune out distractions and tackle challenging new skills with confidence.

Daphne, a Dodgers Paws regular, went from “free spirit” to full-on obedience queen—her focus and connection with her handler are next level!

And though she’s missing from the photo, we can’t forget sweet Lily. She started Level 1 curled up in her mom’s lap, and today she graduated Level 3 like a true champ!

We are so proud of all of you—what amazing teams you’ve become!