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02/18/2025

📢 Exciting Announcement! 📢

We’re thrilled to be back at Kino Sports Complex for the UKI C Spot Win Tequila Festival Disc Dog Challenge on March 1st & 2nd! 🐾🎉

Get ready for a weekend packed with high-flying disc dog action, thrilling competitions, and incredible canine talent! Whether you're competing or cheering from the sidelines, this is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the amazing bond between dogs and their handlers.

🔥 Event Highlights:
✅ Three exciting games – Toss & Fetch, Speed Run, and Steeplechase Disc (played both days, so you won’t miss out!)
✅ FREE training seminars & open field practice – Friday, February 28th, from Noon to 3:30 PM
✅ On-site training & coaching before every game throughout the weekend

Pick your play time! Signup has a link to google sheet to pick what time you play. The sooner you sign up the more options you will have!

Come join the fun, connect with fellow dog enthusiasts, and witness some jaw-dropping performances! 🐶💨 Don’t miss out—mark your calendars and get ready for an unforgettable weekend!

📅 March 1st & 2nd
📍 Kino Sports Complex

See you there! 🎯🐕✨
https://form.jotform.com/anthemk9sports/uki-c-spot-win-tequila-festival-dis

02/18/2025

02/14/2025

Come join me for some fun & maybe a tricks title:) Tuesday February 18!!

AKC Trick Testing at Journey Agility on Tuesday, February 19 at 6:16 pm. Cost is $10.

https://portal.busypaws.app/customers/journey-agility?booking_id=1062017

02/08/2025

Be mindful of how you speak about yourself AND your dog.

Bruce! 🙏

02/04/2025

Love is in the air this February! 💞 From February 1–28, when you spend $14 at our Pet Supply Store, you can adopt a shelter pet (6 months or older) for FREE!
Give a shelter pet the chance they’ve been waiting for and find your perfect match. ❤
See our adoptable pets here 👉 https://www.adoptapet.com/shelter/76010/available-pets

02/02/2025

Meet Trunks! This handsome 4-year-old giant cannot wait to make himself at home with his forever family. He’s a big goofball who is ready to play, play, play his heart away. He’d love to go on daily walks together and be your perfect little shadow. Maybe even join your for runs and bike rides too! He’d love to meet any dog siblings first before going home to ensure the best fit.

If Trunks sounds like your type of guy, come meet him at our Main Shelter (25 N 40th St)

02/02/2025

Rare Webinar with Turid Rugaas – Tomorrow!
🚀 RARE OPPORTUNITY! 🚀

Tomorrow, you have the chance to learn directly from Turid Rugaas, the world’s leading expert on Calming Signals! 🐶💛

📅 Date: Sunday, February 2, 2025
⏰ Time: 5 PM CET | 11 AM EST | 8 AM PST | 4 PM UK
📍 Live on Zoom – FREE Registration!
🎥 Recording available for 24 hours

🐾 In this special webinar, "The Polite Dog," Turid will teach you:
✅ How dogs use Calming Signals to communicate and avoid conflict
✅ How this knowledge can help with reactivity, leash pulling, and other challenges
✅ Your chance to ask Turid Rugaas questions LIVE!

📌 This is a unique opportunity to learn from the expert who introduced Calming Signals to the world!

🔗 FREE Sign up in the link in the comments!

🐶 Don’t miss out – see you tomorrow! 🎉

02/02/2025

This little guy, who we've named Humble, was found running in the street at S Park and E Drexel yesterday, without a collar, tag, or microchip.

Unfortunately, this happens all too often. In 2024, PACC took in a whopping 10,034 strays —61% of the pets that came into the shelter —most of which had no ID.

Please let Humble’s story remind you how vital it is to ID your pet. 1 in 3 pets will get lost, and as their guardian, it's your job to ensure they'll make it home.

If you need a tag, for your pet, we offer FREE custom pet tags at PACC anytime we’re open thanks to Friends of PACC and Central Pet. Please take this simple, literal life-saving step! 🆔🐾

If this is your pet or you think your pet may be at PACC, come reclaim them ASAP. Reclaim fees are waived in most cases.

And finally, please remember - if you lose or find a pet, upload their photo to lost.petcolove.org to help reunite them without them ever having to come to PACC. 💙🐶

02/02/2025

I am posting this so incredibly late at night and Saturday will be an extremely long day and late night. So thank you for your patience, I appreciate it!

Saturday we will have 7 amazing dogs with us, including Wilson, who just loves Steve, one of our long-time TRN volunteers who also drives the Big Red Bus a couple of days a week! Another wonderful volunteer, Carol is looking on--smiles are pretty common at TRN! Come on by between 11am and 3pm to see him and his buddies (Wilson, not Steve)!

01/28/2025

Xylitol is REALLY TOXIC to dogs!!
Keep your eye on sugar free items (peanut butter too!)

Labeled as “xylitol” within an ingredients list, the same plant-derived substance can also be identified as “birch sugar” in others.

01/24/2025

Come join us ❣️

Do you have a puppy or new dog? You need our Puppy & Beginner Superstar Skills class! Perfect for starting out your journey on the right paw!

Tuesdays 5 pm starts 1/28
Saturdays 4 pm starts 2/1
6 weeks $210
Superstar Skills is suitable for dogs 4 months & up. This class helps you with all the basics!

https://portal.busypaws.app/customers/journey-agility?series_id=3360

01/24/2025

Do you have a puppy or new dog? You need our Puppy & Beginner Superstar Skills class! Perfect for starting out your journey on the right paw!

Tuesdays 5 pm starts 1/28
Saturdays 4 pm starts 2/1
6 weeks $210
Superstar Skills is suitable for dogs 4 months & up. This class helps you with all the basics!

https://portal.busypaws.app/customers/journey-agility?series_id=3360

01/23/2025

Yes, Yes, Yes!!

PUPPY SOCIALIZATION - IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!!

I don't know how to say this more clearly and emphatically: Please DO NOT wait until your puppy has had all his or her vaccinations before beginning socialization. The socialization period is finite, limited, of short duration, ending at 14 weeks for the average puppy. This is a non-negotiable fact of nature and cannot be changed! 80% of the problems we deal with in adult dogs could have been avoided with timely socialization. You have a few weeks to get this right - your puppy will not wait until the holidays are over, you finish your overseas trip or your kids finish their exams. They will not wait until the weather is cooler (or hotter ) or you are less busy and they will NOT wait until all the vaccinations are done. They will continue to grow and develop emotionally, regardless of whether you are prepared or not. Those first 6 weeks when you have your puppy within that impressionable period will be gone in a flash, DO NOT waste them!

An absolutely miniscule TINY proportion of healthy, well cared for pups contract diseases and die - on the other hand, a huge proportion of dogs are euthanized or end up living severely limited lives due to serious social problems.

Yes, there are horror stories of puppies dying of parvo, but in some of those cases the pups had all their vaccinations and still contracted the disease, because there was a failure to immunize due to an inherent problem in the dog - so waiting for all the vaccinations before socialization made zero difference!

PLEASE also DO NOT wait for us to socialise your puppy for you. We also need a holiday! We worked right up until Christmas this year to accommodate new pups as far as possible, but for our own mental health we also need just a couple of weeks off. There are PLENTY of excellent articles on socialization DO's and DON'T 's. Start googling! Get proactive! I have shared numerous of these articles on this page previously and here is one I have written myself: https://www.tarynblyth.co.za/what-is-the-socialisation-period

Please note that what has been done cannot be undone! We are not running Hogwart's School of Magic - we cannot undo the damage caused by lack of early socialization, we can only help you manage it and try to do some form of damage control - there will always be scars. So, choose wisely how to spend those first few weeks with your puppy!

01/21/2025

Rosie was a loving, beautiful dog with doting owners, but in the end, her predatory instinct made her too dangerous for human society. Her attack on another dog was the last straw for her owners, who vowed never to adopt from a shelter again.