Pawty on the Harmony Brewing Patio! Helping Keep Your Dog Calm During Fireworks & Storms

Name: Pawty on the Harmony Brewing Patio! Helping Keep Your Dog Calm During Fireworks & Storms
Start: 2024-06-29T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Harmony Brewing Company

Schedule

Sat Jun 29 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Harmony Brewing Company | Grand Rapids, MI

Harmony Brewing Company and Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance have teamed up to host a canine behavior, training and enrichment seminar on June 8th on their dog friendly patio!
Topics covered will be, how to keep your dog calm during fireworks and storms, preventive measures, setting the environment up, how to properly use calming items such as Thundershirts, music, and more!
A open topic Q&A session to follow, if you would like to submit questions ahead of time to have covered please email them to [email protected]

If you plan to participate with your dog, please be sure to bring really good and tasty soft treats! We prefer foods like Hot Dogs, Chicken, String cheese cut into pea size pieces. In a new exciting and distracting environment something like a crunchy treat just won't cut it and dry treats can get stuck. Remember the 3 S's when it comes to treats and training Soft, Small, and Stinky!
Fun Enrichment Stations will be set up for the dogs to enjoy as well. Even a station where the GRPBA team will show you how to use everyday items from home for enrichment! 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕
🐾 This is a Dog Friendly event for dogs who are non people reactive and non dog reactive. If your dog is reactive to people or other dogs please leave them at home, we will be discussing Dog Reactivity and can always schedule a time to meet you and your pup in a safe quiet environment.
GRPBA believes that behavior and training should be judgement free, accessible and affordable to all families with pets. GRPBA is working to build up more areas of assistance for those on fixed incomes. Often in the animal shelter system we see families surrender a pet due to a behavior/training related issues. If they had proper accessible and affordable behavior/training assistance available to them earlier on in many cases they could have been able to keep their pet.
Tanelle McFadyen will be presenting, a certified dog trainer with the following certifications; Certified Professional Dog Trainer Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA), Fear Free, IAABC Shelter Division (SBA). Tanelle only uses and advocates positive, reward, humane and science based training methods. Tanelle has spent most of her time working with dogs in our local shelter system and now works with families facing financial hardships providing free one on one sessions as a volunteer canine trainer with Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance. She is currently pursuing her Certified Behavior Consultant Canine-Knowledge Assessed (CBCC-KA) certification and is a firm believer in continued education in canine training and behavior to better serve families and their pets.
"My passion and interest is helping people where they are at and keeping pets in their homes, I have no desire to make an income as a canine trainer it's about keeping pets with their families and saving lives".
We will be collecting donations for our Pet Outreach program which provides assistance to those experiencing hardship. GRPBA provides pet food, supplies, training and resources so pets can stay in their home with their families.
Items we are in great need of for our Pet Outreach program and Pet Food & supply Bank:
*Dry cat food
*Dog treats
*Cat treats
*Potty pads
*Cat collars
*Flea & Tick Prevention for cats
*Hard dog chewing toys (Nylabones)
Please join us!
Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance mission is ending breed discrimination through education, advocacy, outreach and enrichment while helping keep pets with their families and advocating for the adoption of shelter pets.