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Heather Ralston

Heather Ralston sitting on a raised place cot in the grass beside a small grey and white terrier, both relaxed, a black board fence behind them.
Training since
2019
Around dogs
Since I was five
Certified
Pet first aid

I started this to make a difference in the lives of dogs and their families.

That is the whole reason, and it has not changed. I have worked around dogs and horses since I was five years old, and I have been training for the public since 2019.

This is a family business. My husband and kids help love, play with, and care for every dog that stays here. Your dog is not in a building somewhere. Your dog is at our house.

Family owned, and the kids are part of it.

Dogs who are used to a house are better off in one. Ours get talked to, played with, and sat with. It is not a service line item, it is just what happens here.

A child sitting in the grass, eyes squeezed shut and grinning, as a tan dog licks the side of her face.
A child lying on a plaid blanket with her arms wrapped around a scruffy tan terrier, both of them laughing.

The things people check before they book

  • Licensed and insured
  • Bonded
  • Pet first aid certified
  • 24-hour on-site supervision
  • Climate-controlled
  • Fenced acreage
  • Photo updates while you're away

Emergency vet of record is Hudspeth Animal Hospital in Macon, GA.

The place

Real photographs, all of them dogs who have actually stayed here.

  • Two dogs running flat out across the fenced yard, the front one carrying a blue rope tug, with the barn and pasture fencing behind them.
  • Willow, a grey cane corso in a pink collar, sitting in the sand of the play yard with the barn and pasture fence behind her.
  • A child sitting in the grass, eyes squeezed shut and grinning, as a tan dog licks the side of her face.
  • A black and white dog with one blue eye and one brown eye standing in front of a new wood fence, tongue out.
  • A black and tan scruffy dog lying comfortably on a raised cot in the shade under a tree, tongue out, the pasture beyond.
  • A German Shepherd running toward the camera across an open, fenced grass yard with a ball in its mouth.
  • A merle French bulldog in a black harness standing on a winter pasture, looking off to the side.
  • A German Shepherd walking toward the camera carrying its own steel food bowl in its mouth.
  • A dachshund and a Jack Russell running side by side toward the camera across a mown yard, a tall wood privacy fence behind them.
  • A child lying on a plaid blanket with her arms wrapped around a scruffy tan terrier, both of them laughing.
  • A long-coated shepherd running toward the camera across open grass with the tree line behind.
  • Heather Ralston walking a doberman on a loose leash down the sand lane, the dog at her side and a pasture beyond the fence.

Come meet us before you book.

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