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Jack Leash Your FitnessLeash Your fitness is all about being active with your pet. We have daily fitness classes and monthly activities like yoga, kayaking, hiking, camping, etc.  Anything to spice up your daily dog walks so that you can bond with your best furry friend and get a great workout.   Jack is our Cairn Terrier mascot who will keep you updated on all of the fun events that he has coming up and show you photos of the ones that we already had.  We plan on doing a lot of communication through this blog so please visit often and feel free to leave your comments.

MIM: Bicycle

MIM: Bicycle

Weather got you holed up in your house?  Can’t walk the dog?  No worries.  We have a great core exercise for you to do.  The Bicycle will hit all of the core muscles and may even get your heart rate up a little. Lay supine on floor (facing up) Bring your hands behind your head but don’t yank on your neck Raise your shoulders up off of the ground, try to keep your shoulder blades up, not just your neck Raise your feet and bend your knees Bring your left shoulder/ elbow to your right knee and then alternate. If

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Pet First Aid

Pet First Aid

Have you ever wondered what to do if your dog was in the middle of a dog fight?  How about if you were on a hike and he broke his leg?  Did you know that your dog sweats through his paws? Mommy and her friends were educated on all of these things in our Mutt-gyver class taught by Arden Moore of Four Legged Life and Pet First Aid 4 U.     Leash Your Fitness is all about being active with your dog but we want to be safe and smart about it too so we asked Arden to come

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True Tails from the Dog Park

True Tails from the Dog Park

True Tails from the Dog Park I and II, by Max and Luther (and their guardians Kari Sherman and Carey Laubenberg), are adorable illustrated books full of stories from the perspectives of Max, a Puggle, and Luther, an Olde English Bulldog, and their dog friends.  Max and Luther are best friends and play together often at the dog park.  Their owners became fast friends after seeing each other regularly at the same dog park and trading stories about their encounters.  The personalities of the dogs really come out as they inform the reader about dog park etiquette and rules.  

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MIM: Extra Steps

MIM: Extra Steps

We’ve all heard that walking is important to our health.  We sit down far more than we should, especially if you work at a desk most of the day.  So how do you get those extra steps in?  We have a few ideas and some are great for your pup, too…   -Park as FAR AWAY as possible from where you are going!  Whether it’s to the store, to work, or a friend’s house, parking a little ways away is an easy way to get lots of walking in!  This works great with Fido, too: by parking further away from

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Dog Fitness in the News

Dog Fitness in the News

Have you noticed how many news articles are about dogs and fitness these days?  We have because we have contributed to many of them. Leash Your Fitness is one of the first dog fitness companies.  When we started our company in 2009, there was only one other company in the country doing dog fitness, Thank Dog Bootcamp.  We didn’t really know what we were doing when we started but I took what I knew about fitness and what I knew about dogs and combined the two!   It has been a long journey of trial and error but after 7

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