Happy Halloween! May the tricks be full of fun and the treats fill the dog bowls. Therapy dog Zoey is dressing as a ghost this year. We want to see your costumes so drop a picture in the comments!🎃
READ Along with our Therapy Dogs!
Join some of our Therapy Dogs (with some new guests) for your biweekly read along!
Happy Sunday Everyone! How’s your weekend? The two week old puppies are waking up for Sunday dinner.
READ June 14
Join us for another reading session with our dogs, including a new reading buddy, Sam!
READ with Clover, Zoey, and Zeus
Join us every other Sunday at 2pm where some of our Therapy Dogs will share some of their favorite books with you!
Read with Dayo, Zeus, and Zoey!
Therapy Dogs Dayo, Zeus and Zoey are excited to have you join them for their Sunday reading session!
PAWS to Read
Check out Therapy Dogs Minnie, Zoey, and Pika as they share some of their favorite stories with you!
Reading Time with Willow and Zeus!
Join us every other Sunday at 2pm EST for reading time with some of your favorite Therapy Dogs!
Hi From Eddie and Boomer
We hope that you are all doing well, and are safe and healthy. We miss seeing everyone, and the therapy dogs certainly miss all of their hugs and extra petting! Hopefully we will be able to resume our visits soon, but in the meantime, we do want to keep connected with everyone, and will be providing some new options to keep in touch with the pups. Every Tuesday evening at 6:45pm, we will be coming to you on Facebook Live to bring the therapy dogs to you. So, tune in on Tuesday, March 31st at 6:45pm for our first session. For now, here are some words of wisdom from therapy dog Eddie and his little brother, Boomer.
Therapy dog Dayo shows off his swinging skills while working with his friend in an OT session!
Our therapy dogs work in various therapy centers throughout the Northern Virginia area. If this is something you’ve been considering to make your child’s therapy sessions more fun and engaging, give us a call today to find out how our dogs can help!
Therapy dog Bear had a blast at Discovery Elementary School today! Today the students learned and celebrated what makes them each so special and unique. Bear showed off his unique talents of the numerous tricks he knows and then ended the morning with some pets and brushing.
Therapy dog Pika and (in training) therapy dog Dayo are rolling into the weekend. TGIF! We hope everyone enjoys it.
We’ve been dizzy busy with the start of summer! Today at Junior Trainer Camp we are learning all about agility and different tricks. What do you think Margie’s new skill?
Dayo is shivering with excitement for our upcoming Fundraiser! He wants to remind everyone to get their raffle tickets for some of our awesome online prizes before it's too late (he's got his eye on that Macbook Air)!
Just a reminder that you don't have to be present to win, and all proceeds will go towards building a Service Dog Training and Enrichment Center for our Service Dogs.
You can buy tickets on our website at www.heelinghouse.org and check out all of our cool online prizes on our page under the Album "'Spring into Action' Fundraiser 2019 Online Raffle Items"!
This nice weather’s got Pika thinking about getting her pool out for the summer and she’s got something she wants to tell you!
Our 2019 summer camp dates are now open for registration on our website! Visit us at www.heelinghouse.org to get signed up before space runs out!
The benefits of rewarding in ways other than treats, can help your puppy know they’re doing the right thing even when they can’t take a treat from your hand.
Dayo’s handler was rewarding him with praises like: smiling, nodding “yes” and saying good boy. (He did get a treat after).
With 2018 close to being over, we’re ready to run into the New Year like...👟 (btw meet the newest addition to our HH family, Margie!)
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#newyear #herewecome #futuretherapydog #labradorretriever #changingtheworld #dog
Our junior trainer camp was a ton of fun this week! Our service dogs in training got to have fun practicing all their commands. Here they’re practicing their ”Heel” while playing red light, green light with their campers.
Puppy's first toy box
It's hard to believe just four short weeks ago the puppies were born. We celebrated last night with their very first toy box! Everyone had a blast exploring, which is now one of their favorite things on their to-do list every day.
Puppy cam! Their to-do list today includes eating, sleeping and learning how to run! What a cute surprise this was to see.
As you can see, the puppies can’t get enough love and attention from their humans! Eat, sleep, play and repeat.
Sometimes taking the first step can be scary but not for Jolene’s babies. The puppies started taking their first steps last night!! As you can see from one of our biggest boys here, they really enjoy this change so they can get to mom faster for milk and snuggle time.
Hershey has no worry, especially when there’s treats involved! This little puppy loved learning agility today at junior trainer camp. Hershey and his siblings all need homes. So if you’re family is looking for a cute addition, let us know which one has stolen your heart.
Our camp puppies from Last Chance Animal Rescue are building a great foundation for their future. One lesson the campers teach them is desensitization to things that may seem odd to the puppies at first. Oreo seems to really love riding in our wagon!
