Just a quick heads-up — I’ll be heading out tomorrow for my annual camping trip! ⛺️✨ I’ll officially be back in the office on Tuesday, November 4th. While I’m away, I encourage everyone to keep posting, commenting, and cheering each other on! 💪🐶 This community is seriously amazing, and I love seeing all the progress and positivity you bring to each other!! If you have any questions while I’m gone, feel free to post them — I’ll catch up on everything as soon as I’m back, refreshed and recharged after a week in the woods 🌳☀️ Thank you all so much for being part of Cool Dog School! You guys are the best. 💚

Saffy the cutest Black Lab pup is learning how to walk next to the scooter for the very first time — and she nailed it!!! 🎉 Her favorite person is on the scooter handing out treatios, which makes the learning process fun and rewarding 🍖✨ The most important thing is keeping those little feet and tail safe so they don’t slip under the scooter. That way, Saffy not only becomes desensitized to the movement, but also learns to enjoy walking right alongside it. Safety first ✅, confidence second ✅, snacks always ✅. 💕🐶

You can use it to see who’s nearby and find some new dog-loving friends! 🐾 Click on the map, check out who’s closest to you, and tag them with a little hello in the comments 🙂

@Tawnya Thomas and her amazing service dog Harley officially gave her very first natural alert — no scent cans, no scent samples — just a real-time alert to Tawnya’s high heart rate in public!!!!! 💓🐾 Great job, Tawnya, for taking action with your sweet Harley and putting in the consistent training. It’s so clear that Harley loves playing the game with you, and watching the videos you shared honestly brought tears to my eyes!! 💛 🌟 We are ALL super proud of you and Harley. This is a huge step forward, and such an inspiring moment for the whole community. Everyone drop Tawnya a 👍 and some big congratulations for reaching this point. It’s a truly exciting day for this awesome team! 🙌🐶💪 👉 You can see the video in her posts below!

Today we had a blast with some desensitizing to hats and sunglasses. Pretty sure I had more fun than the dogs 😂 but they were all about the food + marker reward training fun! The educational desensitizing videos are coming soon, but for now I just wanted to show you the end result 😜 This audio is Tanner from Love on the Spectrum — I love that show 🐾 Hope this one makes you smile this weekend ✌️