Running Dogs - Training & Behaviour

Running Dogs - Training & Behaviour Running Dogs - Training & Behaviour is a Toronto-based dog training service focused on the use of fo Buks changed the course of my life!

It wasn't until I adopted a young fearful dog up in the Yukon that I remembered how important living with animals was to me when I was young. If it weren't for him I wouldn't have ended up guiding dog sledding tours; spending long cold days with hundreds of dogs watching them closely, taking good care of them. If it wasn't for that scrappy mutt I wouldn't have ended up adopting out hundreds of dog

s at a large shelter in Toronto. If it wasn't for Bu, I wouldn't have sought to study animal behaviour, I wouldn't have become a compassionate trainer, and I wouldn't be helping dogs and their people get along better every day. Forever grateful for that pup

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. Today we recognize our genocide committed against the Indi...
09/30/2025

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. Today we recognize our genocide committed against the Indigenous people of this land we live on today, and the centuries of intergenerational harm, and the continued harm that has taken many shapes that has been inflicted upon the same people by white settlers. 🧡

Meet my new gf Lucy🥰She's the biggest sweetest pup ever!! She loves to snuggle, she loves to leeeean, and she looooves t...
03/19/2025

Meet my new gf Lucy🥰

She's the biggest sweetest pup ever!! She loves to snuggle, she loves to leeeean, and she looooves to play🤸 but intros are a bit tough for her, especially (and paradoxically) with dogs - who she loves to bounce around with once she's gotten familiar.

Why is that!? Maybe she's a bit nervous? Maybe she's actually just SO stoked to meet that she makes a scene? Or maybe she's expressing some deep down genetically driven behaviour traits typical of a Livestock Guarding Dog!?

LGDs are often considered to be *primitive breeds* which means they've been around, doing what they do, since long before the majority of dog breeds you know even existed. That also means that their breed-typical behaviour traits are deeply rooted in their genetics 🧬

What does that mean for Lucy? It means that while she is absolutely adorable and sweet, she's genetically hardwired to be sensitive to novelty and changes in her environment, and responds in big, loud ways - great traits if your job is to spend your days chilling with sheep and scaring away coyotes and wolves🐺 Tough in a city environment though.

Fortunately, she's got a loving, patient, and dedicated family and has made some great improvements since landing there late last year ❤️

We're going to get there Lucy xo

Hey, hi, how are ya? Loving dogs, hating capitalism!?Nice, me too🙌🏼Sweater weather though, amirite?❤️Shout to Airen for ...
09/14/2023

Hey, hi, how are ya?
Loving dogs, hating capitalism!?
Nice, me too🙌🏼

Sweater weather though, amirite?❤️

Shout to Airen for this fav sweatshirt 🙏🏼🙏🏼

HEYA! GUESS WHAT!?👇👇👀👀  Hoddies are back!! Just in time for sweater weather, just in time for the holidays 👌Proceeds fro...
11/23/2022

HEYA! GUESS WHAT!?👇👇👀👀

Hoddies are back!! Just in time for sweater weather, just in time for the holidays 👌

Proceeds from the latest 'green design' are donated to the wonderful Toronto-based dog rescue 🙌🙌🙌

You may notice some differences in the design other than the colour. for our second run we've honoured the memory of a dog beloved by one of the founders of the rescue💜

It's a bit different from my established role as   but I'm feeling it✨
10/06/2022

It's a bit different from my established role as but I'm feeling it✨

That's my Bebe!! As perfect as can be🥰
10/04/2022

That's my Bebe!! As perfect as can be🥰

Please consider chipping in🙏 click the link and donate any amount you can afford, every donation counts!!This is Espie, ...
09/07/2022

Please consider chipping in🙏 click the link and donate any amount you can afford, every donation counts!!

This is Espie, she's a special needs dog who was literally stolen from an ER clinic while she was waiting to receive emergency medical attention. It sounds so horrible, enough that I even wondered how that could be true, unfortunately for Espie and her family it is true.

Her emergency care was delayed. She was brought to another vet, and then another vet before she received treatment. Thankfully she was treated and is reportedly in good health, of course this is info from the org that stole her.

Yes, she was stolen by people working for an organization. This was not an impulsive sn**ch and run, this was premeditated, planned... And disgraceful!

There are a lot of details that I can't cover here, but you can learn more from Espie's guardian - the person who took care of her for the past year, paid for her care, her wheelchair, her food, her dog walker... the person who signed the adoption contract! The person put in this horrible place having to pursue legal route to bring her beloved dog back home, not to mention the emotional torment!

Why would this ever happen?? The only thing ever did "wrong" was speak up about how had stopped picking up the phone when her then foster dog was due for more food. The same org with a long deplorable history of a wide range of harmful behaviour!

HELP BRING ESPIE HOME, AND STAND UP AGAINST THIS DISGRACEFUL EXCUSE FOR A DOG "WELFARE" ORG - CHIP IN A FEW DOLLAR🙏

For more info on history check out and the articles published earlier this year about some of their most egregious behaviour! Links are in my bio!

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