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Hi! I’m Shannon and I’ve been running K9 Satsifaction for over 11 years. I have a passion for dogs and love to bring them to their best potential. Puppy raising, training and play is a passionate hobby that has become my source of income. Exercise and activity trips are a healthy way to keep any dog in a more balanced state of mind.
I also work with many “issue” dogs helping their owners understand their particular dog, problem solve their approach and create solid replacement behaviors for the dog to resort to. I balance my approach with healthy exercise/activities, continued training, text support for the owners and visits. I love to help people find a better balance with their particular dog!
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Skipper and Daisy spent the week here for their vacation boarding! They were fantastic exercise partners and couch potatoes!! 🥰
Izzy learning boundaries, calmer greeting/regulating her energy, how to stop play, and less jumping around the adults. ❤️ Plus my regulars Rae, Sully and Penny helping teach puppy 🥰 good doggies!!!
Izzy has been such a sweetheart and avid learner. I have been doing a lot to build her confidence on all fours, praise for standing up, affection in the stand. She still will flip flop some from overly submissive to crazy on occasion. At home this has caused torn clothes from the jumping and biting and quite frankly was getting out of control! Being able to stop that with both humans and doggies is definitely needed.
Subtle communication from the other dogs causes a verbal warning from me and she listens really well!! I run a family friendly dog business so I don’t allow hard physical corrections dog-to-dog. It’s not really healthy for dogs to have to defend themselves regularly anyway. So Izzy has already learned a hard stop and I can use that during social time if needed.
Rae the darker adult golden after greeting nice gave some subtle off signals and Izzy went more at her (therefore the verbal correction).
Penny the lighter adult golden wants to dish it back and play (jump back to mirror Izzy’s behavior) so I let her do some of that after I make sure Izzy can stop. Penny really is just getting Izzy to back off just in a lighthearted, fun way.
Sully the lab steps in when he sees Izzy continuing to eacelate the play with Penny, his calm but serious demeanor with a little communicative growl gets the point across. Good puppies!!!
After Izzy settles she gets some nice, calm pets to slow her down and she goes back to sniffing nice, more confident and playing a little better. It’s so great to have adult dogs to help teach the youngsters good social code!! After a few hours and some one-on-one lessons with just Izzy she is just sleeping with everyone 🥰
This is why my board and trains go home so chill socially 😂 You get to see part of the process!! Good doggies!!
Some pictures from our social today!! 🥰 I was talking to my lawn mower guy and turned around to see all these cute faces!!
Izzy and Daisy have been best friends!
Izzy is also responding really well to some ecollar work as I add in some recalls, "no bite" and leave it for taking a break from play to keep things mutual between them. Izzy likes to play rough and Daisy is more of a gentle player. But they both enjoy a good run together!!