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4 Tips for Entertaining Your Dog During Frigid Winter Temperatures
Sometimes we can only bundle up so much to head outside. There are plenty of days where it might be unsafe to go outdoors for more than potty breaks, but our dogs' need for mental and physical stimulation doesn't disappear. The good news is there are many fun and...
3 Holiday Safety Tips for Dogs: Keep Your Dog Safe and Happy This Season
Holiday Safety Tips for Dogs: Keep Your Dog Safe and Happy This Season The holiday season is a magical time filled with celebrations, but it can also bring unexpected challenges for dog parents. Between dazzling decorations, festive foods, and extra visitors, your...
4 Tips to Help Your Dog Stay Calm and Well-Behaved Over the Holidays
4 Tips to Help Your Dog Stay Calm and Well-Behaved Over the Holidays The holiday season is often filled with hustle and bustle, and for dog parents, it can be challenging to manage busy schedules while ensuring our pets are comfortable and well-behaved. Here are four...
Five Tips to Keep Your Dog Exercised and Enriched When It’s Freezing Outside
As a dog guardian, you know how important exercise and mental stimulation are for your furry friend. But what do you do when the weather outside is frightful? Keeping your dog active and engaged during the cold months can be challenging, but it's not impossible. Here...
Scary or Supportive? Puppy Socialization Done Right
Am I doing it right? Everybody that gets a new puppy has one thing at the top of their mind: socialization. But what IS it? HOW do you do it? WHEN should you start? What is socialization? From Oxford Languages: the activity of mixing socially with others.the process...
10 Ways to Challenge Your Dog’s Mind at Home
Have a pup that hits the witching hour every evening? Too much energy to burn it off adequately before work? A combination of physical exercise and mental enrichment (think: brain games!) is the ideal recipe. Do you find your dog getting bored of the same 3...
4 Tips for Entertaining Your Dog During Frigid Winter Temperatures
Sometimes we can only bundle up so much to head outside. There are plenty of days where it might be unsafe to go outdoors for more than potty breaks, but our dogs' need for mental and physical stimulation doesn't disappear. The good news is there are many fun and...
3 Holiday Safety Tips for Dogs: Keep Your Dog Safe and Happy This Season
Holiday Safety Tips for Dogs: Keep Your Dog Safe and Happy This Season The holiday season is a magical time filled with celebrations, but it can also bring unexpected challenges for dog parents. Between dazzling decorations, festive foods, and extra visitors, your...
4 Tips to Help Your Dog Stay Calm and Well-Behaved Over the Holidays
4 Tips to Help Your Dog Stay Calm and Well-Behaved Over the Holidays The holiday season is often filled with hustle and bustle, and for dog parents, it can be challenging to manage busy schedules while ensuring our pets are comfortable and well-behaved. Here are four...
Tips to Pass the Canine Good Neighbour Test
Tips to Pass the Canine Good Neighbour Test Ensuring your dog is a good neighbour not only fosters a harmonious community but also enhances your pet's quality of life. The Canine Good Neighbour (CGN) Test is a comprehensive assessment designed to evaluate your dog's...
Why We Refuse to Board and Train
Just this month I was asked by two people (a fellow Karen Pryor Academy trainer, and a Toronto veterinarian) whether I do board and train or whether I had referrals for trainers that did. My response to them was this: "Most board and train facilities are terrible and...
If Not You, Then Who?
Dear Dog Training Professional: If I know you're good, you've gotten referrals from me. I don't travel far to see clients, and neither do the other trainers here. My general rule of thumb is, if I can't bike there in 20 minutes from one of our locations, then it's too...
My Dog Barks at Dogs and People Out The Window
Perhaps you know the house on your street where as soon as you walk by, you are greeted by a frantic and not-so-friendly sounding bark and bump on a glass window? Oh look, there's that dog - he always barks at us when we walk by this house. Many owners think that...
Well Socialized? No, Well Traumatized
Saturday Afternoon, 3:00PM, Trinity Bellwoods Dog Bowl This weekend I caught up with a couple that had taken group classes in the summer. Their roughly two year old rescue lab mix had been doing great. Right after adoption, leash pulling was their major problem, and...
Good Behaviour Depends on Good Health
If you've hired one of us from When Hounds Fly to discuss behaviour problems (fear, anxiety, reactivity, aggression), you'll remember that before we even talk about the behaviour problems, we spend time talking about the overall lifestyle of the dog. The House of Good...
Understanding Your Dog’s World: Preparing for a New Baby
Welcoming a new baby into your home is a life-changing event, not just for you but for your dog as well. As your family grows, your dog will face adjustments to new sounds, sights, and routines. Understanding these changes from your dog's perspective is crucial for...
Five Tips to Keep Your Dog Exercised and Enriched When It’s Freezing Outside
As a dog guardian, you know how important exercise and mental stimulation are for your furry friend. But what do you do when the weather outside is frightful? Keeping your dog active and engaged during the cold months can be challenging, but it's not impossible. Here...
New Year’s Training Resolutions for Your Dog
Every year at this time, people worldwide make New Year's resolutions: returning to the gym, beginning a meditation practice, saving money, eating healthier, and many others. Unfortunately, 80% of these resolutions fail by mid-February. So, why not make a resolution...
Moving to Riverdale (836 Danforth Ave)
East End folks! We are moving our classes effective January 1st, 2024. We're looking forward to seeing you at 836 Danforth, Unit B, inside the new Pack of Paws Riverdale dog daycare. Conveniently located on the Bloor/Danforth subway line for transit users (check the...
Sarah Shapiro-Ward on BC Today with Michelle Eliot
Our head trainer in Vancouver, the spectacular Sarah Shapiro-Ward, wowed us all with her expert advice on BC Today’s new pet segment!
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Training You’ll Feel Good About – A Commitment to Positive Reinforcement
Positive Reinforcement methods are the most effective way to change behaviour, and make the learner (both human and dog!) feel supported and have a fun and enjoyable time learning.
An Experience Both You and Your Dog Will Enjoy
Every time you train this way with your dog, they’ll light up and come to you with this look of eagerness, joy, and anticipation. Working with us means that training changes from something you do to your dog – into an activity that you and your dog can’t wait for. The connection you build with your dog through our training methods is something that you have to experience.
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We believe every dog (and their owners) should benefit from socialization and training as part of their health and wellness. We’re in convenient locations, with classes nearly every day of the week, at convenient times. To keep you from waiting too long, our core classes are “Start Anytime”, so enrollment is on-going. For private lessons, we continue to grow our team (currently over 12 instructors) so you can see us as quickly as possible.
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