Several years ago, I had the good fortune to come across Shake-A-Paw Dog training. I owned a very dominant, spayed female Alaskan Malamute -- that happened to be about 31" at the shoulder and 130 pounds.
Tala had broken most of my fingers, on several occasions, left gashes and bruises on me and blacked out my eyes on several occasions, from snout punching. A favorite game was to rip the sleep off of my shirt on a walk at the midway point. She was a problem-dog...read more...
Shake-A-Paw is the best thing that could have ever happened for us, and Kain! As a pup, Kain was shy of strangers, and barked and growled at Paola when he first met her…With owning a german shepherd, we wanted to make sure that Kain became a pleasure for others to be around, and a confident dog whom others would be safe around; as well, to get over his fears of being friendly with other dogs... read more...
Paola - we owe you a great big thank you for the immediate response to our cry for help when we adopted a rescue dog with a lot of "issues"! Pete came to us January 31, 2007. He was fearful, aggressive, had a very painful injury to his knee and we just didn't know how to gain his trust...read more...
Amber just loves going to agility class! She likes to play in the snow, and watch the snowmobile races. Sleeping in the sun and hanging our with her sister, Brita are two of her favourite ways to spend the day....read more...
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell everyone about my precious special skye terrier, Skye. We bought Skye from what we later found out was a puppy mill out of Quebec. She came to us very sick, in fact almost dying in the first week. She was so sick, and I loved her so much I carried her around her first 48 hours not knowing if she was going to make it or not. Well, she did, but we soon found that she was a damaged dog due to abuse and I was the only person she truly trusted. How I loved that little girl! She was so afraid, and bit, hating anyone coming near me. Eventually she let in my husband, and my sister but that was it.
We wanted Skye to be all she could be so we enrolled her in your obedience class when she was 6 months old ....read more...
Do you remember our puggle Nellie? We're the family that was hard hit for a while by my husband's broken leg. Remember that little puppy that was always on the run, biting like crazy, and overexcited by our attempts to touch her? Well, truthfully, we hardly remember because today she is a completely different dog! ...read more...
From the moment we brought Cooper home he's been a joy! You just can't help but smile when you see this little guy wagging his whole body - so happy all of the time. That is until he was attached to a leash. The adorable, 20 pound ball of fluff turned into a raging maniac! ...read more...
Mowgli dog is the best behaved 11 month old puppy that my husband and I have ever seen. I take him to work at a park visitors center where he knows when to be friendly and when to lay down quietly ...read more...
Tarja was born August 27/04. She is a pure breed Yorkshire Terrier. Tarja weighs about 2.7kg. We took the obedience training with Shake-a-Paw in March of 2006, Tarja was 1 and 1/2 years old. If you do what is taught in class and practice it really pays off ...read more...
Soon after we brought our puppy Thomas home, we found him to be a nervous dog. This nervous behaviour created problems; at times he was displaying an aggressive manner ...read more...
My friend and I went to Paola to help us with puppy obedience training for Buster -- an exuberant and friendly Black Labrador Retriever, and Dawson -- a sensitive and cautious Golden Retriever mix. The two dogs are very different, and the issues we had with them were also very different. ...read more...
Our Oreo is a Sheltie, and was out of control before we started with Paola. Leash walking was a disaster, everything under the sun went into his mouth, and there was no way he'd listen to us ...read more...
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Paola, owner of Shake-a-Paw. Paola was recommended to me by a neighbour as well as one of the pet stores in Kemptville...read more...
