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10/24/2026

It's A LOT of energy!

10/24/2026

CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR PUPPY TRAINING SPECIAL!

12 SPOTS TOTAL — ONLY 6 PER SESSION!

Every year around Christmas, we see the same posts telling people not to give puppies as Christmas gifts.

And I understand the concern! Puppies are a HUGE responsibility, and when families aren't prepared, that excitement can quickly turn into frustration.

But I have a different perspective.

A puppy can be a wonderful Christmas gift when the entire family is on board and prepared for the commitment!

At Shelby Cove Dog Training, my mission has always been to help keep dogs in their homes and out of shelters.

So this year, I'm offering TWO special puppy training sessions to help families start off on the right paw!

🎁 OPTION 1: HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!

📅 December 10–23, 2026

Only 6 puppies accepted!

Perfect for families who already have their Christmas puppy and want to bring them home with a foundation of training just in time for the holidays!

🎉 OPTION 2: NEW YEAR, NEW PUPPY, NEW BEGINNINGS!

📅 January 1–14, 2027

Only 6 puppies accepted!

Is your Christmas puppy still too young to leave its mama? Or maybe you're bringing your new family member home on Christmas Day?

No problem!

Let's start the new year off right with a foundation of good habits before those puppy behaviors become bigger problems!

🐾 WHAT'S INCLUDED?

Both 14-day board-and-train programs focus on:

- Potty training foundations
- Crate training
- Basic obedience commands
- Name recognition
- Recall (coming when called)
- Household manners and boundaries
- Building confidence and healthy routines
- Guidance for families to continue training at home

Remember, puppies are BABIES! They're not going to be perfectly trained in two weeks. But those first few weeks of learning can make a tremendous difference!

SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRICING!

Regular price: $980

Holiday Special: $880 — SAVE $100!

A $300 nonrefundable deposit reserves your puppy's spot, with the remaining $580 divided into two payments of $290, due the night before drop-off and the night before pickup.

PUPPY REQUIREMENTS

- Must be at least 8 weeks old at drop-off and under 5 months old.
- Puppies who have not completed their vaccinations may be considered with additional safety precautions and separation protocols.
- Age-appropriate veterinary records are required.

WHY AM I DOING THIS?

Because I don't want to see your Christmas puppy become a springtime shelter surrender.

I want to see families succeed. I want puppies to grow into well-mannered family members. And I want people to understand that training isn't just about teaching a dog to sit.

It's about building a relationship, creating expectations, and giving that puppy the tools to succeed in your home.

The best gift you can give your puppy isn't what's under the Christmas tree. It's the commitment to love, train, and keep them for their entire life.

6 Christmas spots. 6 New Year spots. 12 families starting off on the right paw!

Shelby Cove Dog Training

📍 La Porte, Texas — Fairmont Park East

📲 Text 281-838-2065 to reserve your puppy's spot!

Let's make Christmas puppies FOREVER puppies!

09/28/2026

281-838-2065

After several days of my phone not working properly and having issues sending and receiving text messages, I think we finally have it resolved! New phone, new number, and hopefully no more texting problems. 🤞

281-838-2065

This is my new phone number, so please save it and-or send me a quick text just so I can confirm it's working. Texting has been the biggest issue, so I want to make sure everything is working correctly now.

Also, a little holiday reminder! If you’re planning to travel for Thanksgiving or Christmas and will need boarding, now is a great time to get on my calendar. Holiday dates are already filling quickly, and I only have a few Thanksgiving spots left.

I hope you and your pup are doing amazing! ❤️

09/24/2026

🚨 IMPORTANT CLIENT NOTICE 🚨

IF I CURRENTLY HAVE YOUR DOG IN MY CARE, YOU HAVE A SCHEDULED APPOINTMENT WITH ME OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS, OR YOU ARE PLANNING TO DROP YOUR DOG OFF SOON, PLEASE READ!

I CURRENTLY DO NOT HAVE WORKING PHONE SERVICE AND AM UNABLE TO RECEIVE TEXT MESSAGES. I HAVE BEEN AT XFINITY FOR THE LAST THREE HOURS TRYING TO GET THE ISSUE RESOLVED, BUT UNFORTUNATELY MY SERVICE IS STILL NOT WORKING.

PLEASE CONTACT ME THROUGH FACEBOOK MESSENGER UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO RECEIVE TEXTS FOR THE PAST TWO DAYS, SO IF YOU HAVE TEXTED ME AND HAVE NOT RECEIVED A RESPONSE, PLEASE KNOW I AM NOT IGNORING YOU — I SIMPLY HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR MESSAGE.

I AM SO SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE AND APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING! 🐾

09/22/2026

🎓🐾 GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: CHLOE! 🐾🎓

I was probably more excited than usual when I found out I was getting a 5 month old chocolate Lab because, as most of you know, my Shelby was a chocolate Lab. She was my soul dog, my world, and the reason Shelby Cove even has its name. So in my head, I was going to look into Chloe’s little brown eyes and see glimpses of my Shelby.

Boy. Was. I. Wrong. 😂

Meet Chaos Chloe. And yes, that was actually what I started calling her. 😂

Chloe originally came for a 7 day puppy Board & Train. That plan changed rather quickly because I genuinely don’t know if I have ever met a puppy with this much energy. There was no 0 to 100 with Chloe. She STARTED at 100. I’m pretty sure her range was actually somewhere between 100 and 200. 😂

The biggest thing Chloe needed wasn’t more running, more playing or more ways to wear herself out physically. She needed to learn how to settle.

She needed to learn how to be bored.

She needed impulse control.

She needed to learn that every thought that entered that little chocolate Lab brain did not immediately need to become an action. 😂

And before I could teach her much of anything, I first had to get her calm enough to actually focus on me. With a dog this high energy, that can be one of the hardest pieces. Once Chloe finally learned how to slow her body down, engage that brain and look to me for direction, everything else started falling into place.

Her little 7 day stay turned into a MUCH longer stay because I wasn’t interested in sending her home simply because the calendar said it was time. She needed more work, and thankfully her paw-rents trusted me enough to give her that time.

And Chloe made some HUGE progress. She learned leash manners, boundaries, impulse control, how to focus, how to settle and, maybe most importantly for this girl, how to do absolutely nothing sometimes. 😂

Now, graduation doesn’t mean a dog becomes a robot, and Chloe is still very much Chloe. Her paw-rents have reached out because she has tested some of those boundaries again at home, especially with Mom and leash walking. We’ve talked through adding more mental stimulation and jobs for her brain instead of simply trying to physically exhaust her.

And this week, Auntie Rian is going over for a follow-up. 💙

That is one of my favorite parts of what I do. I don’t hand you a certificate, close the door and wish you luck. Follow-up support is part of the relationship. Sometimes I need to see how Mom or Dad is handling the dog, make a few adjustments, and remind the dog that the same rules and boundaries that applied at Auntie Rian’s house apply at home too.

So no, I’m definitely not skipping this girl’s graduation post just because we still have a little work to do. Training is a process, and Chloe worked HARD for this one.

She may not have reminded me much of Shelby after all 😂, but she absolutely carved out her own little place in my heart.

Congratulations, Chaos Chloe! 🎓🐾🤎

09/22/2026

🎓🐾 GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: REMI! 🐾🎓

Let me put this into perspective: Remi is a 130-pound Great Dane. I weigh about 105 pounds on a good day. 😂

And when she first got here, leash walking was basically nonexistent. She walked me. Our first day out, she spotted a duck and took off, and I genuinely do not think my legs have ever moved that fast in my entire life. 😂

Remi also felt like she had to react to everything around her. Dogs, people, movement… she would bark, get worked up and had a hard time simply existing around other dogs without feeling like she needed to do something about it.

What we discovered pretty quickly was that she needed structure, boundaries and confidence in the person handling her. Once she learned that I had things under control, she started settling down and looking to me instead of reacting first.

And the leash progress was HUGE.

She went from dragging me around to, by the end of her two weeks, being able to walk tethered alongside a 70-pound Great Dane with me in complete control of both dogs. That is a massive change for a dog her size, and one I was so proud of.

Graduation day also gave us another really important piece of information. When Mom and Dad arrived, especially Mom, we saw how much stronger Remi’s need to protect became.

So instead of a normal 30 to 45 minute graduation, theirs turned into close to two hours. After showing them everything she had learned, I brought dogs down individually so we could create those real-life moments with her parents present. They got to see the difference between Remi peacefully coexisting when they weren’t outside and how her behavior changed when she felt like she needed to protect them.

That gave me the chance to show them, in real time, how to respond, redirect and remind Remi that protecting everybody is not her job.

One of their biggest goals was being able to have friends over with their dogs or take Remi to other homes without everything becoming a situation, so this was really important work.

And her training is not ending at graduation. She’ll be coming back for daycare a couple of times a month so she can keep practicing healthy interaction with other dogs, and I’ll also be doing follow-up work at their home with Winston so we can reinforce those same boundaries where she feels the strongest need to guard.

Sometimes graduation shows you exactly what the next step needs to be, and with Remi, that was such a good thing.

This giant girl worked incredibly hard and came such a long way in two weeks.

Congratulations, Remi! 🎓🐾💙

09/22/2026

🎓🐾 GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: HARLEY! 🐾🎓

Harley definitely made sure I knew who he was right away… this bulldog bit me within about 10 minutes of meeting me. 😂 So we started this relationship with a very clear need for boundaries.

Harley is genuinely one of the sweetest babies, but he came in with a LOT of energy and very little impulse control. He was a jumper, territorial, struggled to settle, and initially didn’t know how to peacefully coexist with every dog around him.

And Harley gave me a little bit of everything during his stay. 😂 We had a dog scuffle, an escape from his crate, and even a vet visit after he scraped up his eye trying to get out. This boy was committed to keeping things interesting.

But underneath all of that was a dog who really just needed to learn that he didn’t have to act on every single impulse.

A huge part of Harley’s training was teaching him boundaries and how to simply be still. He had to learn that being bored is okay. He didn’t need constant stimulation, he didn’t need to jump on every person, he didn’t need to control every situation, and he didn’t have to react to every dog around him.

We worked heavily on impulse control, appropriate greetings, settling, respecting boundaries, handler focus and calmly existing around other dogs.

And that last part was BIG. Learning to coexist doesn’t mean every dog has to be your best friend. Sometimes success is simply being able to share space, mind your own business and look to your person for direction.

By the end of his stay, Harley was a completely different version of the dog who walked through my door. Still the same goofy, loving bulldog personality—just with a whole lot more self-control attached to it. 💙

Harley definitely made me work for this graduation certificate 😂, but I am so proud of how far this boy came.

Congratulations, Harley! 🎓🐾

09/22/2026

🎓🐾 DOUBLE GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: HONEY & ASTRO! 🐾🎓

Honey and Astro came to Shelby Cove as 5 and 6 month old Dachshund puppies, and one of the biggest struggles their paw-rents were having was potty training.

They could take them outside, give them plenty of time, bring them back in... and then they would still turn around and use the bathroom in the house. 😂

So with these two, we went back to the basics and made pottying outside a very big deal. I used a strong positive reward system, lots of praise, and most importantly, I stayed outside with them until they actually went potty before they were allowed back inside.

That consistency made a huge difference.

We also worked on all of those important puppy foundations like basic obedience, leash manners, recall, crate training, impulse control, door manners, confidence and socialization.

After they went home, Mom called because they had started having accidents in the house again. That’s where the follow-through becomes so important. Sometimes the dog understands the lesson perfectly here, but once they go home, the routine changes and they test those old habits again. With a little extra guidance and some restructuring of the potty routine, their paw-rents were able to get things back on track.

That’s one of the biggest reasons I stay available for follow-up questions after Board & Train. Training doesn’t stop at graduation. The work continues at home, and sometimes the paw-rents just need a little help translating what worked here into their everyday routine.

And because they’re Dachshunds, there was definitely some “I heard you... I’m just deciding whether I agree” energy mixed in. 😂

So proud of these two little graduates and their family for continuing to put in the work.

Congratulations, Honey & Astro! 🎓🐾💙

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La Porte, TX
77571

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