Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance Vinny IPA Release Pawty by City Built Brewing

Vinny West Coast IPA Beer Release in support of the Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance!

Humans and doggos are welcome!

July 13th • 3:00 - 9:00pm

🍺 Cans & Draft Beer Release!

🌭 Pronto Pup GR Food Truck!

🎤 Monday Night Live with Nathan Walton! Great music throughout the evening!

🦮 Adoptable dogs visiting from the Kent County Animal Shelter from 3:00 - 5:30 and adoptable dogs from Hearts of Hope Dog Rescue visiting throughout the evening. Come meet them and learn more about both the Kent County Animal Shelter and Hearts of Hope Dog Rescue, maybe you'll find your new best friend or learn more how you can get involved with both organizations.

🛍️ Doggy goody bags filled with goodies from Fido and Stitch, Chow Hound Pet Supplies, Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance and more!

🧸 Enrichment stations set up for dogs to interact with, from snuffling to bobbing for treats and learn more about ways to incorporate more enrichment into your pups daily life.

Ask the Trainer hour where folks can ask training and behavior questions. 

🎓 ASK A TRAINER HOUR — 6:00 - 7:00 PM 🐾

Have questions about your dog? Then pull up a chair on the patio and chat with GRPBA's own dog nerd, Tanelle McFadyen 🤓

Tanelle has the following training and behavior credentials and experience CPDT-KA | Fear Free Certified | SBA | Enrichment Specialist | (Shelter) Animal Care Specialist 

🏠 13 years working and volunteering in animal shelters

📚 Continued education in canine training and behavior (science based, fear free humane training and behavior modification)

🎓 Graduate of the Humane Network Shelter Behavior Program

🐾 Apprenticeship Pima Animal Care Center (Tuscon Arizona) 

📖 Currently working towards Certified Shelter Behavior Certification - Dog (CSB-D) with the IAABC

• Specialties include canine reactivity, enrichment, hyperarousal, muzzle training, scent work, and shelter dogs

Tanelle has foster failed not once, not twice, but three times with shelter dogs who all had various behavioral needs which include canine reactivity, anxiety, fear based reactivity, and hyperarousal. Dogs who were struggling and declining in the shelter environment but who absolutely thrive at home. 🥹 Real life experience 

🏠 Adopting a dog? Let's talk about that too! 

The shelter environment is incredibly stressful on dogs despite everything the shelter does to reduce stress. The noise, the stress, the unpredictability, the loss of everything familiar it can take a toll. Many dogs who appear shut down, anxious, or reactive in the shelter are completely different dogs once they get into a home. But that transformation doesn't happen overnight, and that is okay.

When a dog leaves the shelter they are experiencing yet another massive transition new place, new smells, new people, new routines all at once. They need time to settle, their trust needs time to build, and their true personality needs time and safety to emerge. Time and patience isn't just helpful it is everything!

Bring ALL of your questions. No judgment here, just genuine help from someone who cares and wants to see you and your pup succeed! 🙌🐾

Come celebrate with us on the dog friendly patio! (Well behaved, dog social and people social dogs on leash please)

Let's raise a glass to the one who help inspire a organization and lets help raise some funds to keep pets with their families and prevent economic surrender to the shelter!