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09/12/2026

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09/12/2026

Hey pet parents!🍁👻
I'm putting together a FREE Howl-O-Ween pet social - adorable pet costumes, goodie bags, meeting fellow pet lovers, and a whole lot of cuteness. No dates yet!!!
🫶And here's the sweet part: there'll be a totally optional startup tip jar / seed fund - zero pressure at all! Every little bit helps grow my local pet care business to support more pets, support local pet owners and pets with the BEST care , and the dream of opening our very own eco-friendly welcoming pet social lounge right here in town some day✨🐾
But honestly, just showing up in costume with your furry friend is more than enough!!💕☺️

👻No official dates or location locked down yet, just feeling out interest! Which local pet-friendly spot would you love to see this at?👀
(P.S. If you're a local maker, baker, or small business who'd like to jump in or collaborate, drop a comment or shoot me a DM!🐾)

09/12/2026

THE DOGS WHO WALKED INTO HISTORY 🐾🥀

On 11 September 2001, the world changed.

Among the firefighters, police officers, medics and rescue teams who walked towards unimaginable devastation were dogs.

Some were already there.

PAPD K-9 Sirius, Badge 17 was an explosives-detection Labrador assigned to the World Trade Center with his handler, Officer David Lim.

When the North Tower was struck, Lim secured Sirius in his kennel beneath the South Tower before going to help those desperately trying to escape.

He told his partner:

“I'll be back for you.”

He couldn't be.

Lim survived the collapse.

Sirius did not.

His remains were recovered from Ground Zero months later and carried from the ruins with the honours afforded to a fallen member of the Port Authority Police Department.

He is remembered as the only documented working dog killed in the attacks.

One had already been standing guard.

Then hundreds more answered the call.

Around 300 search and rescue dogs would work across the sites of 9/11.

They climbed twisted steel and unstable mountains of rubble.

They worked through smoke, dust, broken glass, fire and debris.

Their paws were cut. Their bodies exhausted.

And still they searched.

They searched for life.

And as the days passed and finding survivors became increasingly unlikely, some dogs began losing their drive. Handlers sometimes staged “mock finds”, hiding amongst the rubble so their dogs could find someone alive, receive their reward and believe once again that the next search might bring somebody home.

Some names became known.

Trakr, the retired police German Shepherd credited with helping locate the final survivor recovered from the rubble.

Apollo, the first NYPD K-9 to respond at Ground Zero.

Bretagne, just two years old and on her first FEMA deployment, who would become the last known surviving 9/11 search dog.

Riley. Thea. Sage. Jake. Hoke. Orion.

And so many others whose names history has already forgotten — or perhaps never recorded at all.

Inside the World Trade Center itself were Salty and Roselle, two guide dogs who calmly helped their blind partners make the extraordinary journey down and out of the North Tower.

Then came another army of dogs.

The therapy dogs.

Around 100 therapy-dog teams travelled to New York, sitting beside exhausted firefighters, police officers, recovery workers and families waiting for news that increasingly wasn't going to come.

They couldn't change what had happened.

But sometimes they could provide five minutes of comfort when there simply weren't words left.

And yet the story of the dogs of 9/11 doesn't end at Ground Zero.

Because that day opened another chapter.

Afghanistan.

For the next two decades, another generation of working dogs would walk ahead of soldiers into places humans could not safely search alone.

Arms & Explosive Search Dogs.

High Assurance Search Dogs.

IED Detection Dogs.

Patrol dogs.

Tracker dogs.

Specialist capabilities developed and expanded as the threat changed — with dogs and expertise coming through programmes stretching from Britain and America to specialist detection programmes in Bosnia.

They searched roads.

Compounds.

Vehicles.

Buildings.

Open ground.

And the earth beneath our feet.

They searched for weapons and explosives deliberately hidden to kill the people walking behind them.

Some became legends.

Sadie. Treo. Sasha. Theo. Mali.

Some received medals.

Many did not.

Some returned home quietly and grew old on someone's sofa.

Some never returned at all.

And thousands of soldiers will never know the name of the dog whose nose found something beneath the earth before their boot did.

Perhaps that is the extraordinary thing about the working dog.

They didn't understand politics.

They didn't choose a war.

They didn't know why the world had changed on 11 September 2001.

They simply trusted the human beside them and did the job they had been trained to do.

Twenty-five years later, we remember the dogs whose paws searched the ruins.

The dogs who guided people towards daylight.

The dogs who comforted those surrounded by unimaginable grief.

The one dog who was already standing guard and never came home.

And the generation of military working dogs who followed into the conflicts that came afterwards.

Some have statues.

Some have medals.

Some have names history remembers.

Most do not.

So today, this is for every one of them.

For Sirius.

For the approximately 300 dogs who searched.

For the therapy dogs who comforted.

For Salty and Roselle, who guided.

And for every military working dog who would later walk ahead into the dust of Afghanistan.

No choice.
No hesitation.
Just trust, courage and duty.

For the famous.

For the forgotten.

And for those whose names were never written down.

We remember them all.

11 September 2001 — 25 years. 🥀🐾

09/12/2026

On September 11, 2001, dogs served in different ways across the World Trade Center disaster — searching rubble, detecting danger, and guiding people through smoke-filled stairwells to safety.
Apollo, an NYPD German Shepherd, searched the ruins of Ground Zero alongside rescue crews.
Bretagne, a young Golden Retriever with Texas Task Force 1, worked through dust, twisted steel, and devastation. Years later, she became widely remembered as the last known surviving 9/11 search-and-rescue dog.
Jake, a black Labrador who had once been abandoned and badly injured, grew up to become a certified search-and-rescue dog. After 9/11, he spent days working through the wreckage at Ground Zero.
Sirius, a Port Authority Police yellow Labrador trained to detect explosives, was inside the World Trade Center that morning. His handler, Officer David Lim, secured him before rushing to help others evacuate.
Lim survived.
Sirius did not.
He became known as the only police dog killed in the 9/11 attacks.
And then there were Roselle and Salty.
They weren’t searching the rubble.
They were guide dogs.
Roselle helped her blind handler, Michael Hingson, escape from the 78th floor of the North Tower.
Salty helped his blind handler, Omar Rivera, descend from the 71st floor.
Through darkness, noise, fear, crowded stairwells, and chaos, they kept moving.
Six dogs.
Six very different stories.
Search dogs. Police dogs. Guide dogs.
None of them knew the meaning of terrorism.
None understood why that morning had changed America forever.
They simply did what they had been trained to do — and stayed beside the people who depended on them.
More than two decades later, their names still deserve to be remembered.
Apollo. Bretagne. Jake. Sirius. Roselle. Salty.
They searched.
They guided.
They served.
Never forget September 11, 2001. 🇺🇸🐾
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09/12/2026

Never forget 🇺🇸

“This post contains affiliate links, and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.” When the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, nearly 10,000 emergency rescue workers joined in the efforts to help. More than 300 of those heroes were dogs. We rememb...

09/10/2026

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09/10/2026

🐾 I’m looking to grow — and want YOUR input!

You already know i've got pet sitting, cat sitting, and dog walking covered. But what else would make life easier (and more fun) for you and your furry best friend?

I’m currently playing around with a few ideas:

🛁 Baths & Brush days — because nobody enjoys a muddy dog in the car on the way home
📸 Pet photo shoots — capture that perfect portrait for the fridge (or the holiday card!)
🖨️ 3D printed pet supplies & trinkets — custom tags, bowls, toys, keychains or a mini statue of your pup
👚 Pet parent merch 🧢
And more ..👀..but I’d love to hear what YOU local pet parents want & would actually use from a pet business!
Drop your ideas or your own in the comments below! 👇

08/27/2026

Furry guests, past & present — a pawsitively adorable photo dump ✨🐾

08/04/2026

🐶 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗣𝘂𝗽𝗽𝘆

Every single day I see posts like…

❌ “My 10-week-old puppy won’t stop biting.”
❌ “My 12-week-old puppy still isn’t toilet trained.”
❌ “My puppy barks all the time.”
❌ “My puppy keeps digging holes.”
❌ “My puppy won’t settle.”
❌ “My puppy follows me everywhere.”
❌ “My puppy chews everything.”
❌ “My puppy won’t listen.”

And I often find myself wondering…

🤔 𝙳𝚘 𝚠𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚙𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚢𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎?

Somehow, we’ve started expecting babies to behave like fully trained adult dogs.

The reality?

A puppy 𝑖𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒．

⚠️ 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝.

🍼 8-10 weeks

Your puppy has just left everything they’ve ever known.

🫤Their mother.
🫤Their littermates.
🫤Their familiar environment.

They’re now living with complete strangers.

What is normal?

✽ Crying at night
✽ Following you everywhere
✽ Mouthing and biting
✽ Toileting indoors
✽ Sleeping 18-20 hours a day
✽ Exploring everything with their mouth
✽ Short attention span
✽ Easily becoming overtired
✽ Feeling overwhelmed by new experiences

〽️ What they need now :

• Predictable routine
• Plenty of sleep
• Gentle socialisation
• Toilet trips every 30-60 minutes when awake
• Safe chew toys
• Patience

Not punishment.

🦷 10-16 weeks

This is where many owners think something has gone wrong…

It hasn’t. 😜

Your puppy is simply becoming 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕.

You may see

❂ Harder biting during play
❂ Zoomies
❂ Barking
❂ Jumping up
❂ Digging
❂ Chewing furniture
❂ Picking everything up outside
❂ Stealing socks
❂ Short bursts of “forgetting” everything they’ve learned

✅ Their brain is developing rapidly.

Impulse control?

➡️ Almost non-existent.

Focus on teaching :

✅ Bite inhibition
✅ Appropriate chewing
✅ Recall games
✅ Calmness
✅ Sleep
✅ Positive exposure to the world

Not expecting perfection.

🦷 Around 4-6 months

Teething begins. 🦈

Imagine having sore gums for weeks…

🫤 Now imagine people telling you to stop chewing. Chewing helps with dental pain in puppies.

Normal behaviours

✔ Increased chewing
✔ Mouthing
✔ Frustration
✔ Difficulty settling
✔ Reduced concentration
✔ More interest in the environment than you

Offer lots of appropriate chews ❣️

Manage the environment ❣️

Don’t expect perfect obedience from a puppy whose mouth is uncomfortable ❣️

🌍 5-6 months

Your puppy starts becoming more independent.

This is healthy.🤗

It doesn’t mean they “don’t respect you.”

You may notice ⤵️

✔ Selective hearing
✔ More interest in smells
✔ Pulling on lead
✔ Testing boundaries
✔ Increased confidence
✔ Excitement around people and dogs

✅ This is the perfect time to continue rewarding behaviours you want.

⛔️ Not adding punishment because they’re becoming adolescents.

🎢 Around 6-8 months

Welcome to adolescence. 🫣

Many owners say…

“My puppy was perfect… then suddenly everything changed!”

Yes.

⚠️Because their brain is changing.⚠️

➿Hormones begin influencing behaviour.

➿Learning becomes less consistent.

➿Emotions become bigger.

You might see ⤵️

✔ Reduced recall
✔ More barking
✔ More excitement
✔ Frustration
✔ Fear of things they previously ignored
✔ Increased independence
✔ More energy
✔ Bigger emotional reactions

This is incredibly common.

🔺It doesn’t mean training has failed.

🔺It means training needs to continue.🔺

So… 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙥𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙮𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙙?

✅ Manage the environment instead of expecting perfect choices.

✅ Reward the behaviours you want to see.

✅ Prevent rehearsal of unwanted behaviours where possible.

✅ Ensure plenty of quality sleep.

✅ Meet their physical, emotional and mental needs.

✅ Keep training sessions short and enjoyable.

✅ Be consistent.

✅ Remember that development isn’t linear.

Some days they’ll amaze you.

The next day they’ll appear to have forgotten everything.

That’s completely normal.

The biggest mistake?

🤔 Expecting maturity before the brain is mature enough to deliver it.

🔻A puppy doesn’t know your house rules.

🔻They don’t understand furniture, shoes, gardens, electrical cables or expensive rugs.

🔻They have to be taught.

🧡Kindly.

🧡Patiently.

🧡Consistently.

❤️ Before bringing home a puppy, don’t ask…

“How quickly can I train them?”

Ask instead…

“Am I prepared to guide a baby through months of learning, mistakes, development and change?”

Because puppyhood isn’t about creating the perfect dog overnight.

It’s about building the foundations for the dog you’ll live with for the next 10-15 years.

And remember…

⚠️ The behaviours that frustrate us most during puppyhood are completely normal developmental behaviours.

The goal isn’t to stop a puppy from being a puppy.

💖 The goal is to help them grow into a resilient, confident, emotionally healthy adult dog.