Pawsitive Impact

🐾 Help Needed for Tiggy 🐾

We are reaching out for help with our foster dog, Tiggy. Right now, Tiggy needs approximately $600 worth of food for the next 3 months while we work to identify and manage his food and seasonal allergies. His most recent veterinary visit was over $700, and his medical care is far from over. With Medical and food expenses any donation, no matter the size, would mean the world to Tiggy and help us! You can check out our website and click on donations. ❤️🐾

📍 Located in Massachusetts

Jackie & Joe Joe are seeking a foster-to-adopt home together! ❤️🐾

These bonded dachshund boys may have come from a difficult situation as part of the Florence 10, but their sweet personalities shine brighter every day. Joe Joe is a friendly, affectionate guy who loves attention, while Jackie is a gentle sweetheart who feels most comfortable with his best buddy by his side. Together, they're experts at snuggling, relaxing, and melting hearts wherever they go.

After receiving the medical care they needed and making amazing progress in foster care, these boys are ready to take the next step toward forever. They are looking for a foster-to-adopt family that will give them the love, patience, and security they deserve.

Could Jackie & Joe Joe be the missing pieces in your home? 🏡❤️

Learn more and apply:
https://www.coaldr.org/available-dogs/jackie-%26-joe-joe/dachshund

Chase loves to, well, chase! He loves to play fetch as much as he loves snuggles 💕


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Imagine being touched constantly without warning. Picked up, moved, restrained, interrupted. That’s everyday life for a lot of dogs, and then we’re surprised when they growl.

Dogs don’t get the same social rules humans do. People reach over their heads, hug them, grab collars, move them off furniture, all without checking in. When a dog says no, it usually starts quietly. Looking away, moving away, freezing, lip licking. If those signals don’t work, they get louder.

Growling, snapping, biting aren’t coming out of nowhere. They’re what happens when earlier communication is ignored.

Consent-based handling doesn’t mean dogs get to opt out of everything. It means we actually pay attention. We pause, we give space, we notice when they’re uncomfortable, and we create situations where they can participate instead of being forced.

When dogs have a voice, they tend to use it clearly. When we listen early, we don’t get pushed into the later stages.

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Written By: Claire Anderson

It still feels unreal, but i know I'll be balling my eyes out later today, hopefully not on the 2+ hour drive home.

Gremlin was Adopted!!!!!! We had a few applications for Gremlin come in within days of each other but her new family really felt like the best fit.

Congratulations to Gremlin and her new family! 👏 ❣️

We do not condone "alpha theory". The peraon who worked on that theory discredited it himself!

Abuse is not training and pain is not training.

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𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐠 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐊𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐚

Today we talk about huge news for dogs in South Korea, where the Supreme Court has just handed down a landmark ruling against a dog kindergarten operator who pinned a terrified 3.5kg senior poodle between his legs for fourteen minutes.

The trainer, an 80kg adult male, claimed this was ‘dominance’ or ‘hierarchy’ (wonder which YouTube shockbro video he was copying) training after the frightened 10 year old dog bit his hand. And there it is again. The same tired, discredited nonsense that continues to infect dog training culture all over the world.

The owner had already warned him that the dog was elderly, sensitive, fearful of men, and lacked social confidence. So naturally, according to the logic of dominance trainers, the correct response was to crush the tiny dog into the floor until its teeth dislocated, blood poured from its mouth, and it eventually defecated from stress.

And he did not stop when the injuries became obvious (which rings true given that I just watched a video of a very popular shockbro influencer telling someone that their dog should recall perfectly because it fears death – you can’t make this stuff up).

According to the court findings, he continued restraining the dog while wiping blood from its mouth. Imagine being so committed to your pseudoscientific alpha-wolf cosplay that you look at a bleeding elderly poodle and think, ‘Yes, excellent, the learning process is continuing nicely.’
The Supreme Court rejected his defence completely. They ruled that causing pain and injury under the guise of training is animal abuse, especially when other methods exist and when the dog is clearly distressed.

This ruling is important far beyond South Korea because the exact same garbage exists everywhere. The language changes slightly like ‘balanced,’ ‘pack leadership,’ ‘corrections,’ and ‘respect.’ But scratch beneath the branding and far too often it boils down to using fear, pain, intimidation, flooding, physical force, and learned helplessness, then dressing it up as expertise.
And the people doing it continue to hide behind one of the biggest failures in animal welfare regulation in much of the world. Almost anyone can call themselves a dog trainer.
No protected title, mandatory education, meaningful oversight, no accountability, and no universally enforced welfare standards. Not a bloody thing.

You need qualifications to cut hair properly in many countries. But if you want to psychologically and physically influence an animal with the emotional development of a small child, apparently all you need is a TikTok account and the confidence of a man explaining cryptocurrency at a barbecue.

What also continues to baffle me is the silence from so much of the training industry itself. Where are the trainers publicly demanding regulation? Where are the large scale campaigns to protect the profession from these people? Because every time one of these cases hits the news, the reputation of ethical trainers takes another punch to the throat.

If you are genuinely skilled, educated, humane, and evidence based, why would you not want the profession regulated? Why would you not want standards? Why would you not want the dangerous cowboys removed from the field?

Instead, every time regulation is discussed, there is a predictable chorus of outrage from people screaming that their freedoms are under attack. Those ‘freedoms’ always seem to include the freedom to frighten, hurt, pin, shock, choke, hit, flood, or dominate dogs without scrutiny.
South Korea’s Supreme Court has now drawn a legal line. Pain and injury are not magically transformed into training because somebody says the word ‘dominance’ with enough confidence.
The rest of the world needs to catch up.

Oh, and for those who are going to pull the ‘whatabout’ argument, which is what the animal abusers always do when confronted with something they don’t like, the Ministry of Justice in South Korea is proposing to formally change the legal status of animals from mere ‘objects’ under the Civil Act, and a nationwide ban on the dog meat trade is scheduled to take effect in 2027.

Chase is waiting for his family! He takes some time to warm up but once he does he is a playful, snuggly, happy guy! Chase LOVES to play fetch! He will even drop the ball in your lap!

He does warm up faster to females but is bringing the ball to his foster Dad after 6 weeks!

Chase is doing great with an xpen but doesnt do well in a crate yet, and may never. He becomes fearful and if forced into a crate or to interact before ready hewill nip. No broken skin but because of this the best fitting home would have children old enough to allow Chase to progress on his own terms as he becomes comfortable.

The 7yr in his foster home has completed the program and understands . He allowed Chase to come to him when he was ready, but honestly, Chase chose the child to be around before any adult.

Apply for Chase on our website!

-impact

It’s that time of year! Keep you and your furbabies safe out there! 🐾🩷

Just a nice Saturday afternoon lunch break with my weighted blanket... I mean our hospice foster aka a fospice pup, Tiggy 🤭. He is such a big baby, and not just his size! He still won't walk past my husband and he's been here 5 months.

Tiggy is 167 pounds of snuggles, hippity hops and wiggle bums. But just for Mom lol. He also sheds so much the robo vac gets clogged on the daily... He's worth it!

And still rocking my staff shirt from ! Miss you guys! Xo