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Taliyah | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Advanced Dogs, Calgary, Pupdates

After careful consideration, Taliyah has been released from advanced training. Taliyah is a lovely, sweet, goofy girl who always makes you smile and will always bring you a toy. However, she is often unable to maintain engagement consistently in unfamiliar...

Lulu | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Advanced Dogs, Calgary, Pupdates

After careful consideration, Lulu has been released from Advanced Training. Lulu is a lovely, sweet and sensitive girl. However, Lulu is often a bit worried about things such as loud noises, other dogs, and unfamiliar environments. She has shown that she loves people...

Roku | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates

Roku has enjoyed a delightful autumn so far. He is a happy boy to be sitting in leaves when he gets some sniff time. This month, he enjoyed some time at the Aquarium and although a bit overwhelmed and very active with all the distractions, he still maintained his...

Dolce | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates

Dolce had a busy month at sitters. During his time with sitters, he visited the Vancouver Public Library, a casino, restaurants and a mall. At another sitter, he was treated like royalty by having a pillow supporting his head. Dolce loves to relax with his...

DK | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Okanagan, Pupdates

October was full of travel! We went on an 11-day road trip to Vancouver Island, visiting friends, and we even stayed in a hotel for a few nights. I was on my best behaviour and mostly listened to my raisers. The ferry trip was smooth sailing, but we did not see any...

Duke II | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Calgary, Pupdates

I had a fun month hanging out with my puppy raiser’s pet dog Shea and their new pet dog, released PADS dog Oliver! I absolutely love playing with Oliver! The three of us have been having a grand time! This month, I also went to work A LOT. It’s a bit...

Korra | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates

Korra continues to grow into a loving and brave little girl. She has spent quite a bit of time with sitters the last little while due to a family situation. She fits in very nicely wherever she goes so far. I am hoping in her current sit, that she will have some more...

Rosa | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Okanagan, Pupdates

Rosa had another great month. We’ve been having some sewer work done in our area and she loves watching the big machines out the window. She went as a kibble monster for Halloween. We are working on her side cue. Submitted by: Alanna...

Crumpet | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Advanced Dogs, Lower Mainland, Pupdates

Crumpet is currently working on the duration of the commands “sit,” “down,” and “stand.” She focuses on proofing these commands, managing dog distractions during meet and greets, and discouraging her from sniffing the ground....

Ripto | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates

October had many new things. I met my puppy-raiser, and we’ve done a bunch of cool things. I have been to work where there are many hoomans coming in and out. I have learned to be quiet and settle most of the time. I find this hard because they make me feel like...

Link II | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Advanced Dogs, Calgary, Pupdates

Link II has spent the last month keeping up his obedience and prepping for skills that will be on his Pre-Placement test! Link is looking really good, and we think he will be ready for testing soon! Skills Being Learned: Turn around, Deployment skills, Greetings in...

Muffin | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Advanced Dogs, Lower Mainland, Pupdates

Muffin continues to go on field trips and perfect her obedience with the help of her advanced dog sitters. She had struggled with recall in high distraction area or was simply not ready to go where she was told to go. She would always be thinking ahead and not sure...

Huckle | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates

It’s definitely the Fall semester – we’ve been doing lots of learning! Aside from regular classes, we also went on a field trip to see noisy ambulances – I wasn’t worried in the least – in fact, seeing all those new people had me even more excited than usual! Then I...

Spyro | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates

Spyro joined us on Oct 5 as a wriggly, little 8-week-old bundle of joy and pee puddles. Over the weeks, the wriggles & the joy have increased and the pee puddles have thankfully decreased. Spyro immediately took on PADS Dior (10 months), in all forms of puppy...

Tay | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Advanced Dogs, Lower Mainland, Pupdates

We are excited to welcome Tay to Advanced Training. Her journey into this next stage is starting, and we are delighted to have her on board. We have begun working on the foundations of movement, skills, and productive play. We look forward to training with her! ...

Goji | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates

I spent the first half of this month with a sitter and her family. It’s very different living with kids, but I had a great time! When my human got back, she took me on a road trip to somewhere that seemed to already be in winter. Apparently, my brother, Melon, lives...

Dior | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates

Dior began October, with the addition of 8-week-old PADS Spyro to the family. Life as she had known it, came to an abrupt and screeching halt. The need to be on constant call for puppy BG training and not being able to leave the puppy kenneled for more than a very...

Alma | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Advanced Dogs, Lower Mainland, Pupdates

Alma has finished her pre-placement test and is ready for her new client. Trainer Lisa and the training crew have had a busy few months and we hope to have her on her way soon to her client. Good job to all who have been involved in Alma’s training! We...

Rooty | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Okanagan, Pupdates

In October, we had a visit from Trever & Jane, and Rooty brought smiles to all those who came in contact with him during their visit. Submitted by:...

Blazer II | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Calgary, Pupdates

The hot days of summer gave way to cooler temperatures, fall colours and a first minor snowfall, and Blazer was intrigued by all of it. He spent some time out of town at my parents’ place – one of his favourite places to go. I’m pretty sure he knows we’re headed there...

Wowza | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Calgary, Pupdates

Wowza is now 72 pounds and 9 months old. He is very active and has endless energy. He continues to pick up new skills very quickly.We had a bit of snow the other day, and he certainly enjoyed that. Playing in the snow will be a good trade-off since the backyard pool...

Bentley II | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates

I got Bentley in October, so we have been getting to know each other. During the month, he has been to UBC twice with another raiser, we have been to choir practice, we have been to an all-day meeting off-site, and we started puppy classes. Submitted by: Gail...

Scarlet | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Advanced Dogs, Lower Mainland, Pupdates

Scarlet has passed her pre-placement tests and is enjoying her time this month at a secondary school to try her paws at being a very im”paw”tant member of the school team. She would like to complain about there being to many stairs in the school but the...

Mario | October 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates

Mario has been working hard, spreading joy and making people smile every day at school this October. He got to spend some time with sitters who had him back when he was 4 months old, and he showed them what a real sweetheart he still is. He enjoyed the walks and hikes...