Follow the Leader K9

A rest in the cool shade at Oak Park! We are having the best summer with our pack 💞 ☀️

Nothing as serene as duck watching with friends 🥰🦆

Some old members of the pack we got to spend time with this week 😍

Some new members joined the pack this week 🥰

Recent additions to the pack 🥰 We just keep growing bigger and bigger!

Arthur and Jiggs joined our pack this week and are working very hard in Day Camp! 🥰

George and Lily make a cloudy day at the beach bright and sunny 😎

Some newer members of our pack! 😍 We love our giant family 🥰

New members of the pack this week! 😍 Learning so much in our Day and Sleep Away Camps!

Some of the gang in Day Camp this week! These young pups are learning so much!

These young pups are having so much success practicing their on leash walks out on the town! Lacie, Kooper, and Gus are getting the most out of our day camp ☀️

Roll call! Who doesn’t like a lunchtime nap 😴 Too many dogs today to fit into one post 😍

Yes, we are allowed to have favorite dogs!! Lily and George can’t help being stars! ✨ 💖✨

Gus has been working hard on his reactivity! He has walked all over town as part of our Day Camp training program and impressed us with zero barks! Go Gus 🤩

Some of our favorite shots from the last couple of weeks! We love our pack 🥰

We were so happy to have Rosie back at Day Camp, she will soar so far! 🤩

Is your puppy sleeping enough? Times puppies are coming in here with behavior, such as chewing on things, barking, whining, crying, and biting people. Although we always want to train the dog and we want to work on teaching them the right behaviors and stopping unwanted behaviors. We also wanna make sure we’re not simply dealing with a cranky pup that’s not getting enough sleep. Often times this lack of downtime early on in the dogs. Life actually translates to a dog that struggles with settling for the rest of their life. When we condition our dog properly to be resting and sleeping the amount of time that is appropriate, they are going to be much more likely to be restful calm dog as they mature into adulthood. In addition, having them in the crate simply prevents them from doing unwanted behaviors when they are cranky or they are needing a nap. I would say even my three-year-old dog pretty much rests 22 hours a day unless we have something exciting going on.

We love our Gus Gus! 😍 He is doing so well practicing his leashed walks in Day Camp 💕

Sometimes we try to do what we can
But we cannot try so hard
That we break that we fold that we give in
We need someone to help
Sometimes we don’t know it
But we are afraid to ask for help
We are afraid to accept that we don’t know
Or maybe even that we simply don’t care
As much as we think we do
Whatever the reason
We need help we need support we need another being to guide us
The longer the live the quicker I am
To notice the one who knows what I do not
To ask for help from the one who has the answer
To the question that I seek

It’s hard sometimes when as children we don’t have the resources we don’t have the tools or the access to help
It’s hard to remind that child that they are an adult now
And there are people we can seek out that can truly help us now
We don’t have to be afraid anymore we can find a way out
And when I’m the one who knows what they don’t know
Who has the solution already
I’ll always be there when they are ready
And I’ll always be happy to see them soar
Even if that means I have to push them off a cliff
Sometimes
If only for them to see
That it wasn’t a physical cliff at all
It was the cliff that represents the end of failure
And the beginning of real success

True friends help their friends practice “Down” 💖 So lucky to have our mentor dogs keep visiting us and lending a paw!

Roll call! The gang’s all here 🥰✨

Biscuit had a big first day in our day camp! He made so many friends 💕

Kooper hopes you are enjoying the weather as much as we are! ☀️

They call him big paws ‘cause he’s got big paws 🐾

Gus might be the cutest puppy that ever existed?…
What do you all think!?

Frida is doing another board and train with us and making our lives better 🥰✨

We love a pair of siblings!! Remi & (Larry) Parker 💕Elizabeth & Eleanor

Mr. Muggles and Kooper hope you are having as good of a week as they are! 😍

To think at one time this was a young dog who was super scary with other dogs….his mom put in a lot of work and we did also…together he is a role model to other dogs and even when in a very high stress situation he makes great choices on his own! Keep up Louie!’