Hi all cool dog humans 👋 Happy Holidays & Happy New Year! 🎉 I hope everyone had a great break filled with love, family, friends, and lots of doggo kisses 🐶💋 I’m really excited for 2026. I’ve got lots of fun ideas to keep growing this space, having fun, and doing cool stuff with our doggo best friends. One thing I want to start adding in here is random dog facts — little nuggets that help you understand your dog better. Random Dog Fact: Did you know dogs make eye contact with humans way more than they do with other dogs? 👀 That’s because eye contact with people is largely a learned behavior. Dogs learn that looking at us leads to good things — information, connection, praise, rewards. You can encourage this by marking and rewarding eye contact during training. Every look is a moment worth reinforcing. Question for you: Does your dog naturally check in and make eye contact with you — or is that something you’ve had to work on? 👀🐾

Hi this is Atlas! I took my mom‘s phone and typed this! I’m making my Christmas list and want to know what my friends’ favorite interactive toys are so that I can ask for them from Santa Paws! Have you tried a Kong or a snufflemat? What about a treat despenser? I might want all of those if my mom will get them for me but she said I had to ask my friends first! Thanks, Atlas ❤️🐕‍🦺🎅🏼

Post pics and videos of your holiday potatoes 🥔🐶🎄 Griz and Ollie potatoes 👇

We did a “kids” picture for our cards introducing Saffy. So it seemed like a good tome to work on Saffy’s desense and down/stay while being in the holiday spirit. Pippa briefly joined the photo shoot sporting her Santa Paws Dress. I had to make a tiny compilation video of them together. I was so proud of them for staying together for me to get a photo for Christmas cards! Treats were definitely involved🤣

Long story here . . . We learned from watching @Amanda Taulborg to start early with cone desensitization before spay/neuter surgeries. Saffy is scheduled for late Jan so we pulled out some old cone to start working on it. Well we had to jump right in instead. She was running and playing and some how tore up her wrist (carpal?) pad. We got some vet wrap and vet spray and got it wrapped up. Of course she wouldn’t leave that alone so . . . Cone emersion time.🫣. We did some really quick training with sniffing it first, moving to very loosely wrapping it around with treat reward, wrapping a little tighter and then just having to secure it. She was having a hard with her perception and wanting to move around. So this is where the video starts . . . It was meal time and she didn’t want to try to eat out of her bowl either so we did some spot work to help with space awareness , we did some off camera place work with sniffing. After that she showed interest in her bowl, so she got the rest of her food in her bowl!🙂. A little later she got a drink on her own.🤩🥳. One thing she wasn’t doing was laying down, but while typing this she figured that out. (Picture). Certainly not the ideal way to do cone desensitization but she is doing pretty well. Thank you Amanda for ALL of the training and videos that we were able to apply in this very fast paced ‘emergency’ situation!!!!!!! We were so much better prepared to help her adjust vs in the past just having to throw it on and trying to figure what to do to help them. Past experiences and your training helped us be chill about it, which as we have been discussing in the fear posts, helped her. Thank you again!🙏🏻🙏🏻