Teef and Beans - Pet Care Services
Signature Pet Sitting Services
Signature Pet Sitting Services
Signature Pet Sitting Services
Teef and Beans offers concierge in-home pet services that ensure your furbaby feels safe, cherished, and loved. Whether you need a short visit, an overnight stay, or will be away for an extended time, our Signature Pet Care services are thoughtfully designed to provide comfort and connection while you’re away.
From our Silver Continuity Care to our Diamond Enriched Journey packages, we provide a spectrum of premium care options that reflect both excellence and trust. Every detail speaks to our commitment to expertise, compassion, and distinctive service. We are dedicated to delivering family-centered care through vetted, trained, and certified caregivers. And at the heart of it all is our promise: we love your furbabies just like you.
Pet and Pet Parent Training
Signature Pet Sitting Services
Signature Pet Sitting Services
Our training model is built on the belief that learning is a lifelong journey, evolving with your furry companion’s needs. From the moment we begin working with your pets, we focus on ways to enrich their lives and, by extension, your own. Every furbaby is made to feel understood and supported at every stage, while parents gain the security and confidence they need to nurture their beloved companions.
Whether you’re raising a new puppy, working through behavioral challenges, or preparing a rescue or foster for a new home, our training services emphasize consistency and engagement at every step. From comprehensive assessment to ongoing reinforcement, our holistic plans are tailored to instill practical skills, strengthen family bonds, and create lasting progress for both pets and their families.
We Train Our Pets and Prepare Their Parents
Partnering to Create Happy, Confident Furbabies
Training is more than commands—it’s how your furbaby builds confidence, trust, and self-esteem. At Teef and Beans, we guide both pets and parents, helping you approach training with clarity and compassion while supporting your companion’s unique needs.
Our training model embraces learning as a lifelong journey. From assessment to reinforcement, our holistic plans instill skills, strengthen bonds, and create lasting progress.
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Teef and Beans
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According to the American Kennel Club, there are many reasons why your dog may be acting out. These can range from boredom to separation anxiety. One of the most effective ways to manage this before it happens is to begin training them as soon as possible to have alone time. This can start as low as 30 seconds to a few minutes. Never leave them alone for longer than they can handle, or you will have to start the process all over again to help them become secure on their own.
There are a variety of tools you can use to keep your dog from barking when you leave.
1) Exercise: Did you work your dog out properly? For puppies and active breeds, this is very important. Tired dogs will need time to rest. That will help keep them from reacting to your absence. If they aren't ready to be alone for the time you expect to be gone, have a pet walker come in for a 60-minute session to help tire them out again before you come home.
2) Dog toys and puzzles: If your dog is food driven, toys that make them search for or dig for treats will keep their minds and noses busy (e.g., Kong toys). You can also train them to find treats around the home. This way, when you leave home you can give them your "Find Treats" command. Get them to focus on their olfactory sense and they won't be able to focus on anything else.
3) Familiar Sounds: Sometimes your dog just needs to not feel alone. When you play sounds they are familiar with (e.g., music, tv), they may feel comforted and not notice your absence as much.
4) Citronella collars: These collars beep and spritz a spray of what is actually lemon juice in your dog's face, surprising your pup. This will often stop the barking. It is quite humane as it does not hurt the dog in any way. These collars, however, can be prone to a lot of false positives. They can spritz your dog when they aren't barking. Leaving it on your pet at other times besides when you need them to wear it will increase these false positives. If there are too many false positives, your dog simply won't understand the purpose of the collar. It then will no longer do what it is intended to. It is best to use citronella collars only when your dog is at home alone and you are using it to manage the barking. When you are home, remove the collar. Other non-collar anti-barking devices use high pitch sounds only dogs can hear whenever they bark.
5) Separation anxiety: This is a complex problem that involves a number of different stressors. One of the most useful tools is crate training* where you only leave for a short time. Every couple of weeks, once you feel your pet is comfortable with the time period you are leaving then alone, start to slowly increase the time. It will take several months, but it is completely 100% worth it. There are also a variety of other solutions, some of which are used only by some training models. Each pup is unique and you want to make sure you are considering your special fur baby's specific needs.
Desensitization is a useful tool that focuses on the triggers that make your dog anxious when you leave. For example, you put your shoes on, put your coat on, pick up your keys, and open the door. Then you close the door and put everything back. You repeat this over and over again until the dog starts to ignore those triggers. It is often helpful to also have something to distract your dog, such as leaving them with treat toys and puzzle games.
When you leave and come home, don't make your coming and going a big event. If they are barking when you come in, ignore them until they stop. Then you praise them for being quiet. If they bark like crazy and you give them attention as soon as you come in, your dog will associate receiving praise (your affection) with their barking.
In some cases, and often with rescues, some of the typically effective treatments just don't work. It is important that you communicate with your vet to see if there are other options for your dog. They are also able to determine if there is something going on physically or emotionally that requires extra support.
The most important thing to remember is that something is triggering your dog to bark. Whatever that trigger is, your training is meant to reduce or remove that trigger entirely. You have to pay attention to exactly when and why your dog is barking. This will help you find a solution that works for your pup.
*Note: Crate training is not meant to be used as punishment. Your dog should LOVE their crate. Putting a few of their toys in the crate helps. When you properly train them to enjoy their crate, they will begin to go in and sit in there on their own to rest. That is when they are ready for alone time training.
TO BE FURTHER EDITED
If you want to stop your pet from begging, the biggest change has to happen with YOU.
1) NEVER EVER EVER NEVER EVER feed your pet from the table. Yes, there are some pets that sit at the table and don't bother anyone. Nine out of 10 that is NOT going to be YOUR pet. Feed them from the table and they will begin to believe that this is acceptable and normal behavior. If you have already made this mistake, you will need to train them to sit, heel, lie down - whatever commands they know - at a distance to stop the begging. If they keep barking, wait them out. Eventually they will realize being noisy isn't working.
2) Don't give in to tantrums. If you give in and give your pet a treat because they won't stop barking, meowing, or misbehaving, your pet wins. Not just that, but they realize, "If I keep doing this, at some point I will get what I want!" It's not that they want to be bad. It is just that they have learned - from you - what triggers getting what they want. Then they just keep doing that. Stand strong and don't cave. You can say no, uh-uh, or nothing until they do what it is you want them to do and then praise them with a yes and the treat. You can also train them that only certain things get treats (or toys, or whatever drives them). Either way, always remember that you are the parent and you make the rules. And that goes for human members of your extended family and friends. They have to follow the rules of training too. Consistency is what helps your pets know what it is they should and should not do.
Lastly, do yourself and your pet a favor and don't feed them human food. Frankly, the food industry is almost trying to kill us with preservatives, hormones, genetically modified products, salt, fat, artificial flavors, etc. Imagine what that does to your pet. If you want to "accidentally" drop a little piece of unseasoned cooked chicken in the kitchen and they catch it, that's okay as long as they don't expect it to happen every time. Weight is an even bigger issue for our fur babies than it is for us. One or two pounds can have a significant impact on their health, so do your best to not overfeed, feed human food, or give them access to areas where they can steal food. If needed, get child locks for your cabinets. In some cases, even this isn't enough to stop them. All you have to do is be more ingenious than your pet.
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