Double Down Dog Training

04/09/2026

Spring has Sprung! Get those Pups out in Sunshine and Fresh air!!

03/11/2026

Fun w my foster Kelly. I started messing up at the end and she did a great job taking it all in stride but manages to get a gut punch in real quick, get your s**t together lady! 😂

02/20/2026

Kelly is still looking for her forever home 🩷
Kelly would make an amazing sport dog prospect, she’s sweet, smart and has training to boot! Would love to be your ride or die.

02/19/2026

BEACH day for Cleo and Franny, both dogs are here for board and train and what better way to test all those skills we have been building then the BEACH! Bear is their guide dog on this adventure. Can you guess which dog is the pro?
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02/11/2026

Kellz Bellz 🩷💕🫶🏻

02/07/2026

Teaching dogs to do hard things is the path towards freedom folks but having your friends around to lift you up when things get scary is the real deal!! 🩷🙌
Do you have a nervous/fearful/uncertain dog?
Let’s help them gain the confidence needed to crush it out there! No one likes seeing a dog get crushed over the simplest things, it takes a real toll on the mind, body and spirit of the animal.

12/31/2025

Rarely is it love at first sight, usually it boils down to tolerance.
One is pushy *I will let you guess who that is
One requires a bit more space during greetings when the body language of the other dog is not showing safety (loose and low).
Part of the problem here is the boxer has no tail, and is not loose or low, she’s stiff and tall and does not move away, she stays, if she were to move away, he would follow, saying I ‘might’ want to be friends but I need to figure you out and he starts to have a lot more rules in the play than he typically does.
Her energy both overwhelms him and entices him, he wants to control it and he learned he could.
You can see in most of the pictures that he is stiff, wide eyed and usually above her.
Every time he starts to loosen she goes to 100.
The boxers is really trying, but it isn’t what she is used to, this is new.
Eventually, he lit into her, no blood but an important conversation for them.
The Boxer is young (and a Boxer) she is not fixed, which also adds a variable.
It is really important that if your dog needs to escalate to tell another dog to settle down, they can do so without chewing them up, as soon as I said ENOUGH it was over, I gave the white dog and the Boxer a break.
Social stuff amongst dogs is quite nuanced and it takes a long time to learn each dog, what they can handle, and how much freedom to interact you can safely allow them to have. One mistake and someone gets hurt.
Slow is fast.
Just because dogs have shown they are historically friendly, does not mean fights won’t happen, every dog they come in contact with is different, with a different set of rules and boundaries in play and in regards to their space. Dogs change too as the mature they typically became less tolerant but imo this is not always a natural process, it happens because they are often overwhelmed or underwhelmed when it comes to dog/dog interaction. My own dogs, have become more tolerant not less, they get lots of short, managed interactions each day and I listen to what they tell me they need, they get pressured systematically.
Neither dog was ‘wrong’ during this greeting, even tho it ended with some fireworks. 🎆

12/24/2025

Was your pup naughty in 2025? Book that Board and Train and help them get back on track! Letting behaviors go on, only ensures they will get bigger not better.
Here at Double Down we have an open door policy once your pup has graduated so cheers to peace with your pup in 2026!

11/20/2025

‘Quiet’ does it exist in the GSD language system.

11/06/2025

Coco and I are enjoying the fall colors and the rain.
Getting your puppy out in all seasons will help them become resilient adult dogs that don’t shrink because the weather has changed or something in the environment looks or feels different.
If you keep your puppy or adult dogs holed up inside the majority of their days, they won’t learn what’s normal and the older they get, the louder they get about what’s considered abnormal in their environment.
Don’t delay, take the rainy windy walk!

10/27/2025

My sister makes an amazing supplement for total wellness in your pet. Hit me up if you are Interested in purchasing one. 49.99$ for the 12oz. The big one is mine ;)

10/14/2025