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📍Dog Trainer servicing the Ottawa area
⚖️Reward based balanced training
🐾Private Lessons, Board and Train Programs, and Overnight Boarding
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Ok, sometimes this job is playing with puppies This is our new protection dog private client, Suki! She’s a Dutch shephe...
10/22/2026

Ok, sometimes this job is playing with puppies

This is our new protection dog private client, Suki! She’s a Dutch shepherd being raised to compete in PSA.

10/18/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who supported our Charity Pack Walk! Together, we raised $705 for 𝙍𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙮 𝙍𝙤𝙖𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙚 and got active with our dogs. We couldn’t be more pleased with the turn out.

Congratulations to Alex with Grizzly and Bean for winning our raffle that everyone who donated was entered in, enjoy your goodies!

We hope to do another one next year to support more dogs in need so keep your eye out for the announcement.

With love,
Carolina, Carly, Marisa, and Zoe

10/07/2026

Micco is a naturally anxious dog, so routine is something he finds comfort in and a disturbance in routine is something that throws him a little.
Today I had an early lesson and then had to help my grandma with errands and it threw our routine up in the air. Now later in the day he has more energy than he would and things are a little more stressful for him.
Because of that, I altered our training plan. I was planning on taking him into a new suburb, hunting for dogs to work around, but instead we’re decompressing on a long structured walk on the country road, followed by some sniffing and grazing, and then a long walk back.
While it’s important later on in training for Micco to learn how to notice his stress and deal with it, the halfway point of our training isn’t that. You can notice he’s already scanning quite a bit, and the only thing around are a few cars. To push him further this early in training wouldn’t be productive so we have to switch things up to make sure we’re successful, especially on a day that’s already so different from the norm.
I’d much rather give him a healthy picture of regulation to replicate later on again, then force him to do something too difficult for him today.

Our latest graduate: Maple 🍁 This girl completed our recall private lesson package and did a loose leash walking lesson ...
10/06/2026

Our latest graduate: Maple 🍁

This girl completed our recall private lesson package and did a loose leash walking lesson to boot to tighten some things up.
So proud of her and her owners for the effort they put in to training!

10/05/2026

How to sign up for our charity walk that will be held in 2 weeks!
Check my link in bio for a quick jump to the donation page. Donate minimum $10, screenshot the receipt, and then hop back over to click on our jotform.
That’s it! It’s just that easy.
We’ll see you there!

09/25/2026

I love to show tiny looks behind the scenes when I can.
Here’s a look at what an evening drop off for a new board and train looks like. Even though the late evenings are mostly me-time (or else I’d go crazy), I still dedicate a good chunk of time to the area being clean and prepped for the smoothest transition, as well as allowing the dog to decompress before I put them to bed. There’s one more potty break later in the night, and when he gets more accustomed and settled in he can be out with the family in the evening, but for the first night the best remedy is to let them do a lap, sniff and p*e, and then go quietly ponder on their new surroundings in the crate for a little while.
I’ll do a proper introduction on Micco shortly, but I wanted to share this little behind the scenes first 🤍

09/19/2026

Sunset walks and playtime with Koda (and his new best friend Yara)🌅

09/08/2026

I’ll start this off by saying: exercise is important.
Dogs need opportunities to move, sniff, play, and explore to fulfill the needs that come with being a dog.
If the only way your dog can settle in the house is after you’ve run them into the ground, then they haven’t really learned how to settle.
If your dog has to walk 10K before they stop pulling on leash, then they don’t really know how to walk on leash with manners.
If they stop getting into trouble because they’re too tired to do anything, the behaviour hasn’t actually changed and new skills haven’t been built.
A tired dog might be a good dog, but an exhausted dog is not necessarily a trained dog.
There’s another problem too: dogs get more fit.
If your solution to excess energy is always more exercise, you can end up creating an athlete with more stamina and more of a need to fulfill their energy levels. They then need more exercise to reach the same level of exhaustion.
So it’s important to meet your dogs exercise needs through appropriate outlets, let them run, sniff, play, and walk.
It’s also important to teach them the other half of the equation: how to do nothing.
Our goal is to create a dog who is fit, fulfilled, and has their fill of enjoying life, while also knowing how to settle.

Couldn’t resist putting these two handsome mugs on the feed this weekend! Grizzly & Bean
09/05/2026

Couldn’t resist putting these two handsome mugs on the feed this weekend!

Grizzly & Bean

08/30/2026

Socialization is not the act of flooding your dog with experiences. You’ll be helping your dog, regardless of their temperament, by learning to be neutral around anyone.

Indulge me for a moment: How would you feel if for one month, every time you walked into a new place, the grocery store, got on the bus, wherever: you had to say hi to EVERY. PERSON. Give them a hug, even. Some of them might be friendly and react well to it, some of them might be mean and tell you to go away, you never really know what you’re going to get. If you’re a people person, you may not mind the variety of reactions, but that may not be what others consider polite or enjoyable. On the inverse, you may be an introvert like me, and the idea of saying hi to people with the potential of upsetting others or getting a negative reaction, even if few, may create an anxiety around meeting people at all. Regardless, the outing would drain your social battery, never mind any physical exertion.
After that month was up, how would you feel when you went into social situations? Perhaps the anxiety would linger from the negative experiences you’d had? Perhaps you dread the exhaustion that comes with inevitable social interactions without end? Maybe the habit is so engrained that you’re that overly talkative person on the bus annoying everyone now? Maybe it’s water off a ducks back, and you’re just relieved to not have to interact with anyone anymore.
Now imagine you got a puppy. For the first few months of their life you flood them with meeting every person and dog, no exceptions, “it’s good for them” you’ve been told! What you risk in exposing them to unstructured social flooding is similar to the outcome of our hypothetical in the beginning. A more nervous puppy may come to dread meeting new people or dogs due to one bad experience that you didn’t expect. A more excited puppy may lose what little ability to regulate that they had and can no longer be neutral or calm around new people or dogs. You may even build a dog that is stressed at the idea of potentially having to meet the person oncoming and will do anything to avoid it and relieved when they scare them away with a l

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