Adventure Bound Canines

06/05/2025

Izzy got to meet the dinosaurs at Day Camp today 🐓🐾🐶

02/05/2025

Someone please caption this….

13/04/2025

Adventure Bound Canines turns one today! 😳🤯

✨One whole year of making some of the best four-legged friends. ✨One whole year of helping people understand their dogs on a deeper level. ✨One whole year of providing elevated dog training and care options. ✨One whole year of trusting the process, even though the process is scary as hell at times.

I am forever grateful from the bottom of my heart to every single one of my clients (human & dog), to my loving, supporting husband and everyone who has been rooting for me. Without all of you, Adventure Bound Canines wouldn’t be what it is.

I am so excited to see what the next year and beyond has in store for this dream of mine.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

With so much love, gratitude, magic and excitement for the future,

Jess Vellella

20/03/2025

Now for Roshi’s final magic trick: sawing the dog in half…🪄🕴️🪚

19/03/2025

✨Welcome to Day Camp, Griffey!!🎉✨🥳

🐾🐩Griffey is here to get some socialization and play with other dogs while his human is busy at work!

🐾He will also be Adventure Boarding with us in a couple weeks and we wanted to make sure he feels safe and comfortable here before his overnight stays. Having your dog attend couple days of Camp before they stay can really alleviate homesick feelings during a boarding stay.

04/03/2025

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03/03/2025

Luna wondered why her shadow wasn’t smiling….🤔🐶🐾

23/02/2025

Did you go outside with your dog today? 🐾🐶🌞

18/02/2025

🤗 Welcome to Day Camp, Clark!

🐶Clark is here to learn social skills, work on building confidence and to get some exercise!

🐾 Looking for some extracurricular activities for your doggie while you’re busy at work?! Day Camp is offered Monday-Thursdays!

17/02/2025

Our dogs have species and breed specific behaviors that are often labeled as "bad", like shredding if it's our favorite couch pillow they choose to shred...

However, providing our dogs with legal opportunities to participate in normal, canine behaviors is critical for their mental and physical wellbeing.

Have you enriched your dog today?

Send a message to learn more

13/02/2025

🗣️Let’s talk: Reinforcement Value

This is an example of what I pack in my treat pouch when I am preparing to train my dogs in a public space. But first, let me ask you some hypothetical questions…

🤔Imagine you go to your job and your boss begins to pay you candy bars instead of actual money…how long would you continue to work for them? Or imagine every single time you sent a work email you’ve been avoiding, your boss paid you an extra $100 on top of your salary. How long would you put off sending those emails?? Reinforcement drives behaviors!! And behaviors that are reinforced will continue and repeat. This is why we need to PAY OUR DOGS.

🐶🐾I am a Positive Reinforcement (R+) trainer. This means I reward behaviors I want my dogs to continue doing with reinforcement, primarily reinforcement being food. When it is just me and my dogs at home with no added distractions, my dogs will happily work for their kibble (low value reinforcement). However, if I add distractions to their environment or go somewhere new, my dogs get less excited about the kibble and tend to focus on things other than training with me. This tells me that I need to up the value of reinforcement I am using.

🥦Examples of low value reinforcement: kibble, biscuit treats, fruit/veggie based treats.

🧀Examples of mid value reinforcement: jerky treats, cheese, Zukes brand treats.

🥩Examples of high value reinforcement: freeze-dried meat, liver, cooked chicken, hot dogs, meat based pureed baby food.

In my treat pouch, I like to have a variety of treats ranging from low-high value. A treat trail mix, if you will! Because we never know when we might need to up the ante!

Every dog is different with different preferences and likes. It’ll be up to you to figure out what your dog finds high value.

Happy training!