River’s Jumpin Jacks

16/08/2025

08/08/2025

Luca came to visit for the weekend 🥰 everyone always gets a bath and nail teim before the go home

03/08/2025

Happy birthday to our little spitfire Ruby!
Everyone was a little to excited today so not everyone got a hat. Thats okay they stayed long enough for a picture!

24/07/2025

They have a hard life.

13/07/2025

Big shout out to my sister Rachel. Today is her birthday! She’s my ride or die and always shows up no matter what. Shes one of the hearts of Rivers Jumpin Jacks and I couldn’t be more thankful to have her apart of this. Happy Birthday Rachel!!!

03/07/2025

Got 6 dogs nails trimmed and bathed, trimmed my horse’s feet, cleaned the house, did the laundry, cleaned the inside and out side of the car and truck. Its always a nice when the day is done and you feel you have actually accomplished something.

15/06/2025

Ever seen a yorkie run along side a horse? Well now you have

02/06/2025

ATTENTION TO ALL DOG OWNERS!

Hiking with the Jacks/dogs is always fun. What is not fun however is the people that dont know how to control their dogs especially their very large dogs. We work hard to socialize our dogs and train them to be polite on trails/in public. We train in collars and they learn to walk polite on collars. We passed so many people on the trail with big dogs wearing harness and the dog losing their absolute mine with the handler being dragged unable to control their dog. One case was when we were passing another dog on stairs. The jacks were all being polite and moving along passing this dog without a second look. Rachel was behind me and had to shove the dogs head away with her foot when it got to close to one of our dogs and that was the fastest move she could make to asure our dogs were safe. The owner of that dog didnt even apologize or seem to realize how rude their dog was being.
Another instance. We were going up another set of stairs, this guy and his girlfriend had a large dog again on a harness with no collar. The dog almost slipped his harness trying to get away from his owner to get to my dogs. We kept our distance and I instructed the guy how to properly restrain his dog enough so we could pass saftly.

If you ever take your dog for a walk big or small, please do not have a harness on it, if we do make sure you have a collar so that you can properly restrain your animal. It is not only dangerous for that dog and the dogs hiking as well but it is also dangerous for all humans involved. I have many people that like to walk up to me with their dog telling me their dog is dog friendly. That may be true but I have a dog that can be dog aggressive at times especially when they get in her face.

as youu can see in the photo Momo and Pabu both have harnesses on, but for our walk Noah put his training collars on them.

Morally of the story, please train your dogs or have a way to properly restrain them and never approach another person when they have a dog as well. Be safe out there!

02/06/2025

We took the Jacks glamping for the first time this weekend. Saturday we did a 2 hour hike at Starved Rock state park, went back to the camper and had lunch, let the jacks and Adam take a power nap, then went for another 2 hour hike at Matthiessen state park. River was so happy to swim! The second hike was definitely her favorite.

28/05/2025

26/05/2025

We went to my moms yesterday and Pabu decided to be brave/dumb and jump over the porch banister without fully committing to the jump and plopped right into the bushes. He was a little embarrassed because he stayed still in the bushes while we went to save him 🤦‍♀️ He is so attached Noah he was determined to get to him one way or another. It could have gone very bad, but luckily hes okay not even a scratch just a bruised pride.

21/05/2025

Harley and Teddy went on their first big road trip to Tennessee. They did so well the entire time!