About Us
Love & Puppiness provides a safe and enjoyable playgroup environment for your dogs to socialize, exercise, and have fun and experience serene confidence belonging to a peaceful pack.
Passionate about dogs, we have a great team of local people, with over a decade of experience.
What sets us apart from standard pet sitting or daycare is our dynamic playgroup setting, focusing upon a sense of freedom to roam always supervised. Focusing on each dog's individual personality, how your dog interacts, as part of the group as a whole. We keep the rhythm constant and easy.
Dogs form relationships with other dogs that last years, or even a lifetime. Core group, some with us a decade.
How We Do This
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Monday-Friday: Fifteen lucky dogs caravan *door to door pickup & drop-off
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7000 square feet indoor/outdoor
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Palisades, Mandeville (upto 2700 blk,). Santa Monica, Brentwood, & Malibu within 8 min of PCH. **Recent expansion: Rancho Park, Mar Vista , Palms & Venice
Dogs on a Joy
Mission
10-year tradition continues!
Super social, happy-go-lucky playgroup. Calm camaraderie, with gusto
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Small, cultivated group, capped at 15 dogs
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Constant supervision w/ trained, compassionate staff
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Inside & outside - 7000 sq. ft play space by the beach
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Service starts @ $130-$160/weekly - 2 full days of play, door-to-door pick up & drop off
(Monthly commitment enables fair trade /mutual support.)
Daily Playdays
Rambunctuous schmoozing for all!
Cavorting and gallivanting the norm.
Companionship
Our dogs never alone.
Dote on our crew!
"Fur-ever friendships" formed.
Joy Mission
Exercise inevitable,
as play constant.
Abundant cuddling. Nap time often a group experience.
Now Accepting New Fraternity Members
"I didn't think someone like Lisa G. needs a recommendation to promote her business, but after the Palisades fire she lost a great number of her clients.
Lisa, originally a Palisades resident, is the founder of Love & Puppiness,
a dog playgroup in Malibu.
She and her team provide a door-to-door full day of play."
- Alanna Gibbons, neighbor
Accepting new playgroup members according to location, and observation of congeniality!
Two groups - each capped at 15 dogs
Our enthusiasm infinite, our space not.
Our secret sauce.
Our members, both human and canine, know this. We never over do it.
Best advice ever given by a well known Malibu dog trainer to me: "Dogs are about one thing / or another, ESCALATION! or no escalation. We leave them but always lead them. We are there but let them have as much guided freedom as possible.
LISTEN AND SEE: testimonials!
Understanding each unique personality
of every one of our loved dogs, makes for a serenity our fraternity of four-legged friends bask in.
Testimonials
"Reflections on a Decade of Dog Walking" - From Owner/Founder, Lisa Glantz -
Necessity led me to walk dogs for ten years. A decade of observing dog behavior closely led me to an academic approach to harmony. With a needed entrepreneurial spirit, fair exchange. with trust and commitment from my original, longstanding clients before the fires, together, we form a circle around our cherished dogs. LOVEANDPUPPINESS LA was born.
Commitment and Connection
Faith in knowing our four-legged clients join a small & consistent group of friends, providing a more gentle and more social environment. Our core dogs set the standard of a domino effect of kindness. Committed playgroups are easier to manage when dogs all know each other so well.
FAIR TRADE: Your monthly commitment of 2x or more, weekly, gives us a sustainability to maintain a pack more relaxed and familiar with one another and in turn for your commitment we embrace a fair trade rate of $65 -$80 for a full day door to door. At our doggie oasis, our private space resonates harmony, as we believe commerce and amity intertwine. Monthly commitment enables our dogs to enjoy a more relaxed, evolved, and predictable "clubhouse vibe."
Past Dog Park Experiences: NO WAY is there total safety with possibly unvetted, possibly unfriendly loose dogs in public spaces.
Our dogs enjoy a minimally controlled private environment. rained, experienced, compassionate staff constantly supervising. Our private seaside space eliminates unpredictable or dangerous elements. Only vetted, socialized/non-aggressive members.
Certain Dogs/Certain Breeds
For safety, we screen dogs for aggression and dominance. Simply, not every dog is able to participate in our group. Certain breeds are not naturally social. Most dogs in the hunting group are not compatible with our focus on camaraderie. (There are exceptions to every rule, though, so please inquire if you think your dog might fit!)
Throughout time, purebred dogs have been biologically selected for a standard in appearance and cultivated behavioral traits. Not until the eighteenth century did dogs become pets. Dog breeding first began as people sought working dogs, a fact that influences all dog behavior to this day. SO HAVING A PLAY GROUP, ONE MUST KNOW WHAT IS LITERALLY IN A DOG'S GENES. We understand hereditary traits in order to maintain a cohesive, happy pack.
Our Group Dynamic Philosophy
Ten years our group together. Our experienced decision is we focus on shaping a dynamic
we cult-ti -vate &. accent-u-ate: peaceful rambunctious joy. (aggression is never even considered)
Our trained supervisory staff are not trainers, nor disciplinarians - We believe the best “discipline” comes from our dogs willingly complying, not submitting to obedience or human dominance. Dogs seek to please us and to have harmony within their pack. We never force obedience unless dealing with danger.
Canine supervisors participate in our unique in-house training program, to catch subtle cues, observe group dynamics and reactions, anticipate potential friction, before conflict arises. Knowing how to diffuse and de-escalate is key...AND NEVER responding with anger.
Our speciality: We lead, as keepers of the peace, always there with watchful eyes, yet blending into the background. Our one rule: never aggression or fear allowed; no dominance, no intimidation. Conflict simply does not happen.
Negativity turns into pawsitivity. Our dogs never need second guessing and have lots of (fenced) freedom, which prompts relaxed engagement, and this support allows dogs the opportunity to learn and grow, every day. As a happy pack, inevitably, optimistic camaraderie ensues. Dogs follow a domino effect of happiness. each member of the pack follows suit joining in the good cheer. Even the shyest and most reluctant dog opens up to the rhythm. EVERYONE DANCES AT THIS PARTY!
Even-keeled, content, controlled gentle predictable environment, makes for rambunctious silliness in our fenced canine Fort Knox by the sea.
All feel respected, regardless of size, age, or energy level.
Supportive, special friendships are the norm here.
Percy, the Poodle, seeks out Maeve, the Doodle—both with us for years!
Rockstar & Zozo Zoey nod in agreement.
Rocco, the English Creme, seeks out Zoey, the herder, for cuddle comfort.
Ben, the shy Cockapoo, has a secret crush as follows Heidi our Empress Eskimo as
Bentley, the Bichon, is elated every time he sees his best friend, Ben.
Artemis, the rescued 85lb Shepherd street dog, now adopted in my loving home for years, oversees all, as our mother hen of this den of contentment.
WE ARE THEIR SECRET OTHER LIFE, THEIR HOME AWAY FROM HOME.
