About Us
Love & Puppiness provides a safe and enjoyable playgroup environment for your dogs to socialize, exercise, and have fun while you're away.
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. We also focus on each dog's individual personality and how they interact, as part of a playgroup.
Dogs form relationships with other dog members that last years, or even a lifetime. We have a core group, some with us a decade.
How our Playgroups happen
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Monday-Friday: We caravan lucky dogs to play.
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7000 square feet indoor/outdoor
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Palisades, Mandeville, Santa Monica & parts of Malibu as well as North Brentwood
Dogs on a Joy
Mission
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10-year tradition continues.
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Super social happy go lucky Dog Play Group.
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Fifteen dogs head out to a 7000 square-foot play space by the beach
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Constant supervision.
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Indoors & outside.
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Calm camaraderie with gusto.
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Monthly commitment enables fair trade /mutual support.
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starting at twice weekly two full days of play $160
Daily Playdays
Rambunctuous schmoozing for all!
Cavorting and gallivanting the norm.
Companionship
Dogs never alone.
We dote on our crew and
4ever friendships are formed.
Joy Mission
Exercise inevitable,
as play constant.
Cuddling occurs as well. Naptime often 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!
We have two groups, limited to fifteen dogs each.
Must limit group size to avoid overpopulating our finite space.
This is our secret sauce.
Our members, both human and canine know this.
LISTEN AND SEE testimonials
Understanding the unique, individual personality
of every one of our loved dogs, makes for a joyous serenity that our fraternity of four legends bask in.
Testimonials
Reflections on a Decade of Dog Walking
Necessity led me to walking dogs for ten years. A decade of observing behavior closely led to an academic approach to harmony. Best advice I ever got from a trainer: "Dogs are about one thing or another. Escalation, or no escalation." With a needed entrepreneurial spirit, of fair exchange. With trust and commitment from my original longstanding clients before the fires, together, we form a circle around our cherished dogs.
Commitment and Connection
With faith in us, our four-legged clients join a consistent group of friends, providing a more gentle and social environment than most and we keep our group size to fifteen. . Our core dogs, set the standard in a domino effect of kindness. Dogs easier to manage when they know each other so well.
FAIR TRADE: In turn, we seek to offer fair trade for our clients' commitment to have their dogs with us, monthly. At our doggie oasis, our private space resonates harmony as we believe commerce and amity intertwine. Also add one tested gentle rescue/foster dog for every three regular clients' dogs supporting adoption. Monthly commitment of 2x or more, weekly, means dogs more relaxed and an evolved predictable clubhouse vibe experienced
Past Dog Park Experiences: No safety, loose dogs in public spaces, no way..
A decade ago, visiting local dog parks, with proper assistants overseeing my canine crew, realized even within the rules always an unpredictability element— daily had to factor in danger of non-social dogs entering shared public space. Needed to control the situation, personally. Needed interaction limited only to dogs deemed gentle and non-aggressive, by ME. So my search began for a perfect place to be.
Certain Dogs/Certain Breeds
GROUP DYNAMIC: Not every dog's able to participate in our group. Certain breeds are not naturally social. Most dogs in the hunting group are not up for being part of our focus on camaraderie. Aggression and dominance not happening in our dog universe! UNACCEPTABLE.
Throughout time, purebred dogs created with a standard in appearance and behavioral traits that have been biologically cultivated. SO HAVING A PLAY GROUP, ONE MUST KNOW WHAT IS LITERALLY IN DOGS' GENES. Our focus, understanding hereditary traits to maintain a cohesive, happy pack. No coincidence what breeds and mixes flock to what we have created. (There are exceptions to every rule.)
Not until the eighteenth century that dogs became pets. Dog breeding first began as people sought working dogs. There was a time dogs were not pets and all dogs had jobs- a fact that influences all dog behavior to this day.
Overview of group dynamic comes from vast experience. Not a disciplinarian, in a Western sense. Believe the best discipline comes from dogs complying, seeking, aspiring to making good choices. Not dogs submitting to obedience. Instead rising to the occasion happily -hence the term: Loyal Dog. Not a trainer. Never force obedience unless dealing with danger. Our speciality: We segue. We lead, as keepers of the peace, always right there but trying to blend into the background, only rule never allowing aggression or fear. Conflict does not happen. Constant watchful eyes, negativity turns into pawsitivity, easily giving our dogs lots of freedom, as long as not being aggressive. This includes those subtle dog signals... If another dog is annoyed, the first dog doing the annoying knows it--The key element here is to watch how ALL dogs relate. Never to be angry --S E G U E ---No dog allowed to dominate. No dogs intimidated.
Ours, an egalitarian-Fort Knox- type fenced world. All four-legged clients learn lots in their day with us.
As a happy pack, inevitable, optimistic camaraderie ensues. Dogs follow domino effect happiness. Dogs join in on good cheer, following suit. Even the shyest and most reluctant dog opens up to the rhythm. EVERYONE DANCES AT THIS PARTY!
We keep an even-keeled content environment while enjoying the thrill of rambunctious silliness.
All feel respected, regardless of size, or age, or energy level.
Assistants are taught how to diffuse every negative moment, segueing our canine crew into a cloud of dog bliss, backing out, not coddling. Anticipating potential friction, before conflict arises. Supportive, special friendships happen amongst our dogs. Percy, the Poodle seeks out Maeve the Doodle—both with us for years-Rocco, the English Creme seeks out Zoey, the herder, for cuddle comfort. Rockstar & Zozo also have been with us for years. Ben, the Cockapoo must find his paramour, the new gal Bella, the Maltipoo. Bentley, the Bichon, elated every time sees his best friend, Ben. Artemis, the rescued street dog, now adopted in a 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.
