Happy Feet Pet Services

04/02/2026

What is one of the biggest barriers to adoption? Being closed on a day of the week when most people are off work. 🗓️

So, when the Mohave County Animal Shelter analyzed the fact that they were closed on Sundays, they didn’t accept it as a fixed limitation. Instead, through partnership with Friends of Mohave County Animal Shelter and support from the Best Friends’ Bring Love Home Challenge, they created a solution.

To remove that adoption barrier, they added Sunday adoption events at a local PetSmart. The result? A 178% increase (yes, you read that correctly) in adoptions year over year! But that wasn’t all. The community was beyond excited, showing up an hour before the events started, just to adopt a pet.

And as if that is not exciting enough, long-stay pets like Jack were finally getting noticed. Jack had been at the shelter for seven months and was continuously overlooked. But all it took was attending a Sunday adoption event for his family to be able to meet him. An event that was not possible until Mohave County Animal Shelter looked internally on how to reach more of their community and increase adoptions.

This is what happens when you open access to adoption and meet the community where they are. The community feels supported and lives are saved. Sometimes lifesaving doesn’t require new buildings or large-scale expansion. Sometimes it requires removing friction and being responsive to the community’s needs. 👏

04/02/2026

This is one of the best posts I've seen.! She provides pet services in England and loves her work! Great pet service.

02/22/2026

"Gold Medal for compassion" goes to "RIO DE JANIERO"

Drinking fountains for animals will become mandatory in public spaces and it's a huge win for compassion.

In a heartwarming move, Rio de Janeiro is ensuring that dogs, cats, and stray animals will always have access to clean water across parks, sidewalks, and busy areas of the city.

This change comes as temperatures rise and concerns grow about animals suffering from dehydration in urban spaces.

What may seem like a small step will make a life saving difference every single day.

Because no animal should struggle just to find a sip of water.

01/07/2026

Love how dogs react!!!

01/05/2026

10/30/2025

Very interesting how people who are in the business of training actually don't know what they're talking about when they criticize female trainers!

I’m posting this photo again because the comments we got when I posted it last time were really interesting. So, the folded arms and power stance copies the classic ‘It’s Me or the Dog’ pose - we’re having fun, but also celebrating our inner strength, which we don’t ever feel we need to project to the world like this because we are, each of us, very strong and successful women and business owners, and our work speaks for itself. It was a bit of a laugh.

Most positive male and female trainers got that this was a bit of fun. But the comments from some female but mostly male balanced trainers show how provoked they were into making (yet again) derogatory comments and repeating the same tired old rhetoric that they would love to see us work with dogs in the ‘real world’ or implying we don’t train ‘big dogs’ with serious problems - like that’s some kind of badge of honor. One went so far as to assert that ‘there are plenty of female K9 handlers and trainers but, they, uh, work with the kinds of dogs Victoria gets bitten by (refering to, I presume, when I wasn’t training and was behind the camera filming a police K9 training exercise that went wrong) and they’re balanced trainers not positive-only.’

You see, we’re all used to ignorant comments like this and they make us roll our eyes because it’s a pathetic attempt to throw out a barb and patronize, as these kind of male balanced trainers often do.

But this person and people like him have no idea what they’re talking about when they write ‘positive-only.’ If you ask any of them to define what positive training is, they can’t or have no idea what we do. They just think it’s giving treats. The bigger and badder the dog, the less likely we ‘positive female trainers’ can deal with them, they comment. It’s something I’ve heard balanced trainers say for years in an attempt to discredit what positive training is and what we male and female positive trainers do.

Not a surprise at all, and of course, couldn’t be further from the truth. All of us specialize in aggression cases, all of us deal with dogs that have fears, phobias and anxiety, whether those dogs are big or small, and all of us work with puppies, helping our clients guide them into navigating the ‘real’ world successfully. All of us have trained working dogs including German Shepherds and Malinois (some of these trainers live or have lived with these kinds of dogs too) and all of us work with small dogs!

Regardless of this debate, a photo of unsmiling women in a power stance, provoked a response. If the photo was of a group of men standing like this, I’m sure most of the comments from other males, especially those in the balanced training world, would celebrate how powerful and strong they were!

10/15/2025

This is 'moving backwards into the past'...not moving forward where society has begun to be more tolerant and accepting of all the differences between humans including the ethnic groups they come from!

The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

07/16/2025

Picked up 'empanadas from El Patio Argentina'...beef and chicken and baked not fried. Was a good hearty dinner!

02/20/2025

"It turns out that pets also have last wills before they die, but only known to vets who put old and sick animals to sleep." Twitter user Jesse Dietrich asked a vet what the hardest part of his job was.
The specialist replied without hesitation that the hardest thing for him was seeing how old or sick animals look for their owners before they fall asleep. The fact is 90% of owners don't want to be in a room with a dying animal. People leave so they don't see their animals leave. But they don't realize it's in these last moments of life that their animal needs them the most.
Vets are asking owners to stay close to animals until the end. "It is inevitable that they die before you. Remember that you were the center of their lives. Maybe they were just a part of you. But they are also your family. Even if it's hard, don't give up on them.
Don't let them die in a room with a stranger in a place they don't like. It's very painful for vets to see how pets can't find their owner in the last minutes of their lives. They don't understand why their master left them. After all, they needed the consolation of their master.
Veterinarians do their best to make animals not so scared, but they are totally strangers to them. Don't be a coward because it's too painful for you. Think about the animal. Endure that pain for them. Be with them until the end.💞🙏

11/15/2024

The results of giving love, food, attention to animals in need....the rewards are immeasurable

11/15/2024

Good start for Friday!