Golden Paw Rules, LLC - Dog Training Service

Healing Paws and Golden Paws, next door, saved my Service Dog’s Life!!! I literally was less than a week away from putting my retired Service Dog down due to pain from injuries she received in an elevator accident a few years ago— an accident that put me in a wheelchair — and a long-time friend reccomended Dr. Levitsky and scheduled our first appointment with her. Dr. Levitsky, Dr. Key, and all the other wonderful staff there completely changed my Service Dog’s life. My Service Dog needed to be taken in and out of the house by kid’s snow sled to use the bathroom, and her strong, twice a day pain medication wasn’t helping all that much. After treatments and supplements that specially help her injuries, she’s still lame, but is running and patrolling her yard, and doesn’t have to be picked up and placed in my minivan anymore— she can get in on her own (though she’s obviously finds it challenging, but she’s happy to get in and out). She knows the names, ‘Healing Paws’, and ‘Golden Paws’, and runs to the door when I tell her it’s time to go!!! She loves going both places and cries and whines terribly if I deviate from the long drive by stopping at a fast food drive in or gas station, or reroute for traffic. She remembers all the staff that pet her and she showers them with kisses. She’s even able to roll on her side and lift both her front and back legs to get belly rubs — she hadn’t been able to do that for a year! Their vets and techs will get right down on the floor on their big fluffy fleece blanket covered doggie beds to treat Onyx and give her love and attention. The best part is that she stays much more limber for nearly a week!!! She did best on twice a week underwater treadmill therapy while the Government was shut down, but we are once again week while I’m working, and I still see a significant difference in Onyx’s movements and physical abilities. I credit Dr. Levitsky and her personnel with saving my Service Dog’s life — she’s so much more comfortable than she was, and can sleep through the night without waking up whining in pain. She even snores deeply at night again — she hadn’t dine that in the months before we went to Dr. Levitsky. I can get emergency appointments both places, too — something that was incredibly difficult at my regular vet that misdiagnosed my dog’s issue as a genetic, degenerative nerve condition — despite my dog’s history of spinal injury. My regular vet would just say to go to a dog emergency hospital for her lameness when it got worse, even though my regular vet’s name had, ‘Veterinary Hospital’ in it. I loved how Onyx was helped, so I moved my other Service Dog, and a family member’s Service Dog, to Healing Paws for their routine vet care. My Great Pyranese, Sirius, loves everyone there just as much as Onyx does, and received his annual physical, vaccinations, and heartworm and flea prevention medicine with Healing Paws. Their staff even keeps him occupied if he comes with me for Onyx’s visits — because she’s not working at their vet office and is, ‘Free Dog!!’, there — she gets territorial about her, Healing Paws ‘people’, that she appropriated as hers. Their staff even accompanies me to my van if I’m having a bad day with my spinal injuries, to make sure I get in safely, because I have to load my Service Dogs in first, and some days have trouble. They are worth every single moment of my hour-and-a-half drive each way!! I can’t say enough nice things about Dr. Levitsky, and Healing Paws and Golden Paws!!!