June 19, 2025 • 27 mins
Kicking off the first episode of a must-listen 3-part series, I sat down with Morgan (Mo) Thompson to learn about her inspiring journey founding Mo Mountain Mutts in Skagway, Alaska. Mo shares how her story began when she moved from Michigan with her husband, who wanted to escape the restaurant industry and teach in AK, while she boldly proclaimed she needed a puppy and the rest is history.
What started as a small, no-vehicle operation just caring for friends’ dogs on her bike quickly grew into a community staple. Mo describes her early days balancing multiple jobs in the service industry before COVID-19 turned her life upside down. Through all the uncertainty, she and her dogs found new creative outlets, especially with their fun TikTok account, showcasing their goofy relationship and the animal-centered lifestyle they’ve built in the Last Frontier.
This episode gives a heartfelt introduction to Mo’s passion for dogs and her adventures in AK. It’s a genuine look at how taking a leap of faith and following your calling can lead to a fulfilling and inspiring life. Stay tuned for part 2 as Mo shares even more of her story!
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Website: https://www.momountainmutts.com/
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Good morning, dog lovers.
Welcome to Dog Friendly, thepodcast where we celebrate the
joy of dogs and the adventureswe share with them.
I'm your host, Brandon Bennettfrom Alpine Hollow.
Each week, I take you todog-friendly locations to chat
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with passionate dog owners abouttheir furry companions and the
unforgettable experiencesthey've had together.
We'll also hear from experts whoshare valuable insights on
training, health, and making themost out of our time with our
canine pals, all while enjoyingthe great outdoors.
So whether you're a seasoned pupparent or just a dog lover, grab
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your leash, maybe a libation,and join us as we enjoy the
world of dogs and incredibleadventures that await.
Let's dive into today's episode.
Welcome, welcome everybody.
It's a happy Thursday in June.
Hope everybody's staying cool inthe parts of the country that
are getting warm and staying drywhere there's storms going on.
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But it's going to be warm herein Colorado, so I'm getting this
edited and edited.
I think that's what you say.
Edit this episode.
An episode of the first of athree-part series.
My dogs are looking at me readyfor a walk.
We're going to get them out injust a minute, but...
Got to sit down and talk withMorgan Thompson of Mo Mountain
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Mutts.
She goes by Mo.
She has got a business.
She started in Segway, Alaska.
She's a dog walker, pet sitter,family dog trainer.
She transformed a bus into hercarrier.
You can check her out online onInstagram, TikTok, YouTube.
It's so cool.
Such an amazing story.
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We kick it off with...
Her introduction to who she isand why she moved into Alaska
with her husband and what she'sdoing.
But first, a three-part seriesbecause it was a great
conversation.
We talked for a while,originally Midwestern.
But I hope you enjoy.
It's a cool story.
So stick around for three parts.
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And here's the opening with Mo.
Take her away.
So we're going live here.
That's a loud one.
SPEAKER_01 (02:25):
Mo,
SPEAKER_00 (02:26):
this is Brandon Bennett with Dog Friendly.
You there?
SPEAKER_02 (02:33):
Yep, I'm going to turn my volume all the way up on
speaker.
There we go.
SPEAKER_00 (02:37):
Sound good?
SPEAKER_02 (02:40):
Can
SPEAKER_00 (02:40):
you
SPEAKER_02 (02:40):
hear me?
SPEAKER_00 (02:41):
I can hear you just fine.
Can you hear me?
Sure can.
Okay, great.
That's fantastic.
Thanks for taking the time tosit down and talk with me.
My internet at the dog-friendlylocation I'm at, they just
opened this back patio area.
So it's a little far away fromthe internet.
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So it's not quite good.
So I can't get on the Zoom.
And sometimes the Zoom helpswith, you know, mannerisms and
talking to each other.
And because my podcast is...
I don't have any video.
It's just good for people totalk back and forth on.
But unfortunately, this is thefirst time at this location.
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That's what I do.
I go around the country, and Igo to dog-friendly locations and
talk to people about their dogs.
Oh, cool.
And I even do what we're doingtoday.
I'm recording this.
We sit down.
Someone calls in.
I've had an author call in fromL.A.
a couple weeks ago, and it'spretty cool.
And we just get the...
It's just about dogs.
It's nothing more than just,what are we doing?
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What do we love?
I talk to regular people, peoplelike yourself, professionals,
and there's no political,religious, anything like that.
It's just, we love dogs.
Love it.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (03:54):
I'm in the same situation with the internet,
too.
I'm in the process of moving, soI didn't have my office set up,
so I'm kind of glad it wasn't avideo.
I am currently sitting on my dogbus with Echo, and I've got my
Starlink set up.
So that I can Wi-Fi.
My service is also a littlespotty where I'm at.
SPEAKER_00 (04:14):
That is so cool.
And can you introduce yourselfand tell us about Mo Mountain
Mutts?
How it came to life?
First and last name, and thenhow did it come to fruition?
SPEAKER_02 (04:27):
Yeah, so I'm Mo, and my husband helped me come up
with the name Mountain Mutts.
We're in Alaska.
A big old tour bus just droveby.
We live in a tourist town.
And that's kind of how itstarted.
So my full name is MorganNelson, or Thompson.
Forget him.
My husband is Lee Thompson, andwe run Mo Mountain Mutt here in
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Southeast Alaska.
So how it kind of started waspeople around, people like, we
just drove that bus by, and theydo these long work days and they
have their dogs.
And it's a long day for a dog tobe at home.
So my business started out withspecifically seasonal workers
only.
So it was only a summer gig fora while.
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And so I worked at a salon.
I worked at a restaurant.
And I would walk my co-workers'dogs in between my two jobs.
So I only had one pack to startwith.
And it was just my dog and myfriend's dog.
We adopted two other dogs.
It was both four, plus anotherfriend's dog.
And then somebody was like, hey,I heard you're grabbing...
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We all lived in communityhousing.
So we were all...
neighbors, like it's kind oflike a hotel and we're all in
hotel rooms.
So walk across the street towork, run over, grab the dogs,
get on my bike, take them for abiking hike.
Sometimes I go play fetch.
It was kind of like whatever Ihad time for is what they got.
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If I had a little bit of time, Iwould run them hard.
And if I had a lot of time, thenwe would go on like a nice
leisure hike.
So that's how that started.
And The dogs that my friend andI rescued were just total
messes, just like aggro atpeople, other dogs, super
spooky.
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And so I was doing a lot oftraining with them and I was
going through a lot of treatsand other dogs.
So at this point, it wasn't abusiness.
It was just like my friendswould grab my dogs and I would
grab their dogs.
And it became this thing where Istarted just scheduling it in.
And I was going through a lot oftreats, working these two dogs.
I was like, hey, can you guysthrow me some treat money
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occasionally?
And so they would either likebuy me lunch or leave a 20
randomly.
And that was to go towards likepoop bags because one of their
dogs would poop like five timeson a walk.
Wow.
So it was kind of like, allright, I'm not trying to like,
you know, spend a bunch of moneyon poop bags and treats, you
know.
So it became this like reallynice trade where we just, we all
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took care of each other's dogskind of thing.
And then once I startedscheduling time, I started to
make it more of a thing.
My husband at the time worked atthe school and he worked in the
special ed department and itjust kind of got around at the
school that I was really goodwith dogs.
And a teacher reached out to meand was like, I got a puppy.
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I got a problem.
I heard you're really good withdogs.
Do you think you could help me?
I was like, yeah, sure.
So that was my first like realclient that wasn't just like a
friend.
And then another teacher askedfor help.
And so that's when I talked toLee and we ended up coming up
with a business name.
And I got a business license andstarted making time on my
schedule for it.
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So that's kind of how it allstarted.
The very early stages.
I didn't have a vehicle oranything.
It was just all on foot or on mybike.
SPEAKER_00 (07:49):
Sure.
And are you from Alaska?
What brought you to Alaska?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (07:54):
My husband and I are both from Michigan.
SPEAKER_00 (07:57):
Midwestern.
We
SPEAKER_02 (07:58):
went to high school together.
SPEAKER_00 (07:59):
Yeah, yeah.
I'm from Wisconsin, so I canrelate.
Oh, cool.
Neighbor.
Yep, for
SPEAKER_02 (08:05):
sure.
Yeah, we grew up in Michigan.
We went to high school togetherand we went to college at like
community college there.
And I was finishing up mypsychology degree and Lee came
up here first.
He had a cousin that lived herefirst.
And so he came up with anothercousin.
They had a little cousinseasonal work shenanigans.
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And Lee came back and was like,this was so much fun.
You would love it here.
I want to take you on thesehikes.
So that next season and summerseason is here.
So in the winter, there's notvery many people that live here.
And there's a lot of people herein the summer.
All the seasonal workers come upand then they leave.
It's a very seasonaltransitional thing here.
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So he brought me up the nextseason and then he wanted to
apply at the job at the school,which was what he went to school
for.
He wanted to use his collegedegree, get out of the
restaurant stuff, you know, getinto the school.
And I was like, that soundsgreat.
I don't want to stay the winterthough.
I think I'll be really bored.
There's not a lot here.
(09:10):
So we made an agreement that Iwould stay the winter if I could
get a puppy.
SPEAKER_00 (09:14):
And
SPEAKER_02 (09:16):
so that's how that whole dog, My friend got a puppy
the same, or he adopted a littlebit older dog, but he was still
pretty young, probably like ayear and a half.
So my friend and I, we got ourpuppies, we were hiking
together, had another girlfriendwho had two dogs, and then we
all had our two dogs.
It was like us three girls andour six dogs going for hikes
every morning.
So that was just kind of likehow the pack started.
(09:38):
Okay.
And so it was really easy totake those six dogs out by
myself because us three girlshad been walking for a very long
time.
And I have a big tour bus parkedright next to me.
SPEAKER_00 (09:53):
Interesting.
SPEAKER_02 (09:54):
There's some tour that is going on down here.
All
SPEAKER_00 (09:58):
right.
All right.
Where in Alaska?
I'm going to interrupt you realquick.
What specifically?
SPEAKER_02 (10:02):
Gagway.
Okay.
Gagway, Alaska.
Cool.
So it's at the end of the fjord.
And all the cruise ships come uphere.
They park.
And then a million people comeinto town in this teeny, tiny
little town from like 1st to 8thStreet.
Okay.
And so it's really busy downthere.
And so I would take the dogs anddo distraction training.
So I'd walk them up and downtown.
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And if they could ignore thetourists and all the people and
all the dogs and all that chaosdown there, then they had really
good impulse control and it madethem a lot easier to take on the
trail.
But they can ignore all thatchaos and they can definitely
ignore that one squirrel on thetrail.
SPEAKER_00 (10:41):
Yeah, that
SPEAKER_02 (10:41):
makes sense.
So I would do this like, towntraining stuff I call it
distraction training I get thedogs up on these boxes they have
to sit stay pay attention to meignore everybody ignore all the
strangers and that helps themnot run up on people on the
trail like when I'm outoff-leash hiking on trails and
there's another person oranother dog it's now like hey
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we've done significantly harderdistractions ignoring that one
person is a lot easier so mytown training translated to
off-leash training trailtraining.
So that was, I still do that.
I still, every new dog goesthrough my distracting training
in town and then they get towork their way to being off
leash on the trail.
SPEAKER_00 (11:24):
So are, and are you now there full time in Alaska?
SPEAKER_02 (11:29):
I am.
I came up here and never left.
SPEAKER_00 (11:31):
Oh, okay.
So there wasn't that break.
Oh, you said the puppy, you gotthe puppy.
What kind of dog?
SPEAKER_02 (11:36):
Yeah.
That's Carl.
He's the rat carrier.
SPEAKER_00 (11:39):
That's awesome.
SPEAKER_02 (11:41):
And then we adopted Louie.
He's our Chihuahua Dachshundmix.
And it was those two dogs for along time.
And then Carl is what I call amentor dog.
I use him to train otherpeople's dogs a lot.
And so aside from my pack walks,I do private one-on-one
training.
So I might go to an owner's homeand work with them something on
there.
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I might meet them in town andwork on like car chasing or we
might you know, go whereverthey're having a problem.
And if another dog, like ifthey're really reactive to other
dogs, then I bring my dog and wework through it.
And so Carl is now 10.
And when he was eight, I waslike, all right, he's going to
need to, you know, retire.
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He's going to need areplacement.
And so Echo is my, my newestdog.
She's five now, but she's takenover Carl's job.
And now when I go train withother people, I have her.
And so I've actually, it's,specifically for that.
Where Carl was like two-ish,three-ish before I got into like
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using him more as like a mentordog.
Because he was just, you know,hanging out with his buds for a
while.
SPEAKER_00 (12:47):
Yeah, and...
SPEAKER_02 (12:49):
So that's kind of...
Yeah, that's just my dogs Ihave.
SPEAKER_00 (12:54):
Okay, well, no, that's awesome.
So the new dog, what type of dogis it?
Remind me the name
SPEAKER_02 (13:00):
again?
She is a Carillion Bear dog.
And so...
I, my friends and I, we call itBear Noia when we're hiking
really early in the morning andwe're super scared of bears.
So one of the girls that I walkwith every morning, we got
matching puppies during COVID.
We have sisters.
So she has Guinness and I haveEcho and our other friend has
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Sophie.
And so we have three of the dogsthat are litter mates and they
all are friends.
It's
SPEAKER_00 (13:26):
really cute.
That's awesome.
And what...
What sort of training did you gothrough?
Did you go to school for dogtraining or what, what was, uh,
what was your life back inMichigan?
SPEAKER_02 (13:37):
My degree in psychology is the sciences of
psychology.
So it's a lot of animal stuff.
It's not like people counseling.
It's not like therapy or, um,like the drug side.
That's definitely a differentbranch in psychology.
Sure.
Um, I did the sciences of, so alot of animal studies, a lot of
conditioning behaviors, but it'slike the person studying, um,
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the tests that were done.
That's kind of what I went toschool for.
Like, you're taking the data,you're seeing how it works, and
you're cross-checking, like, youknow, you can't do a test once
and be like, I've come to aconclusion.
You have to check it many, many,many times, right?
And so that's kind of, that'swhat I was going to school for.
And my intentions were to get amaster's, but I ended up not
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continuing.
I got into the dog thing, and Ijust quit.
Cool on hold because this isworking well for me.
When I was in high school andcollege in Michigan, I was doing
dog sitting like for family orjust close friends or friends of
friends, like referrals likethat.
I love to go stay at otherpeople's cool houses and watch
their dogs.
That was like one of my favoritethings to do.
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And then the dog training, Ihave a lot of dog handling
skills because my parents weredog breeders and they had me...
basically have my own child tolearn on for doing like AKC dog
shows.
And so my parents got this puppyand they helped me learn how to
potty train and how to do leashhandling.
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So I had a lot of early skillswith leash work.
And that's really the foundationof dog handling is being really
good with leash work.
If you're good at leash work,you're good at off leash work.
Everything kind of translates.
Anytime somebody is strugglingwith a behavior, I'm like, how
is your leash work?
That's really like, you have tomaster that first before you can
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progress to any other advancedtraining, especially if it's
anything with impulse control.
Because if a dog won't walk niceand calm with you on the leash,
they're not going to respect youoff leash, you know?
Yeah.
So that's kind of like the mainthing was handling Siberian
Huskies.
I was in a newspaper when I waslike nine with my Siberian Husky
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Cinnamon.
SPEAKER_00 (15:49):
Cinnamon, that's a great name.
That's a
SPEAKER_02 (15:51):
big dog.
UNKNOWN (15:52):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (15:52):
for a nine year old?
She
SPEAKER_02 (15:54):
was a really small, tiny, so there's different kinds
of pussies.
There's working dogs and thenthere's show dogs.
SPEAKER_01 (16:00):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (16:01):
And a lot of the show dogs, they're smaller,
lighter bones.
They're bred for being pretty.
You know what I mean?
They're not a working dog.
And so we had working dogs andwe had show dogs.
And so I had a really good, youknow, balance of knowing, you
know, how sled dogs roll and howthe show dogs are and just being
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exposed to dogs and animalhandling at a young age is
really, it just feels natural.
You know what I mean?
I've never not handled dogs.
I've never not been around awhole pack of dogs.
SPEAKER_00 (16:32):
Yeah.
I know what you mean.
SPEAKER_02 (16:35):
Yeah.
I just, when I'm being up here,I was like, I can't be up here
without a dog.
SPEAKER_00 (16:39):
That's so special.
I mean, to be out there, howmany people are in the town?
Like on a peak time and then...
My
SPEAKER_02 (16:45):
husband's good at that answer.
I'm really bad with numbers.
I think it's like something likea thousand people in the winter.
SPEAKER_00 (16:52):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (16:53):
Wow.
I could be wrong.
Don't hold me on that.
SPEAKER_00 (16:55):
No, and that's fine.
I mean, as far as thatinformation...
I
SPEAKER_02 (17:01):
think if you Google Skagway, you know, whatever,
that might come up.
Yeah.
You'd think I would know thatbecause you're asked that all
the time.
And I'm like, I don't know.
I don't remember.
SPEAKER_00 (17:11):
It's okay.
You know, now, you know, whenyou get asked it in a different
way, maybe now it'll stick.
Who knows?
It's just a question for me.
I grew up in a town of 1,600people.
So, I mean, it was a tiny townin Wisconsin.
SPEAKER_02 (17:25):
Yeah, it's got to be very similar to something like
that.
Yeah.
Very, very similar.
Small town.
The community here is awesome.
That's really what made me stayhere.
It's just that small town feel.
I'm sure if you grew up in asmall town, you know.
It feels like the best place toraise a kid.
So we have a three-year-old andwe want to raise him here.
We don't want to go anywherebecause our childhood here is
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just so cool.
Oh, I meant to tell you this.
So you were asking something andI think I rambled.
It's okay.
So when COVID happened, mybusiness flipped.
because the salon kept closingdown and I had already let my
restaurant job go.
So I was working full time inthe salon and working two pack
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walks.
I had like a morning one and anafternoon one.
So I'd go out, walk a pack, runinto the salon for maybe like a
color cut wax and then zip backout, go run the dogs and then
come back and do an eveningshift kind of thing.
And then I got enough sociallyselective kind of like just
asshole dogs that just couldn'tvibe with the crew.
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They're just too risky.
And so I made their own group.
And so I had this likeparticular group of dogs that
are only good with certain dogsand their pack is just way more
restricted.
They're not allowed to, youknow, pick up sticks or it's
just kind of dogs who wouldmaybe fight over a stick kind of
thing, you know, resourceguarding or have behavioral
problems.
And I would use like, it waslike four or five dogs.
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It's a really small pack.
Sometimes it's only two.
And so I would do that in themiddle.
And then those dogs got reallygood.
And they got comfortable withthe routine of adding in a new
dog, as long as it's the rightvibe.
And so that one ended upbecoming its whole own pack.
So then I had three packs.
I stopped going into the salonin the morning.
And so I was just running dogsduring the day and salon in the
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evening.
And then...
During COVID, my husband didn'thave his...
He was working the athleticdirector position and they just
eliminated that job during COVIDbecause nobody was traveling
anywhere for sports and stuff.
And so he was in this mode oflike, I don't know what to do.
And I'm like, you should justcome on a walk with me.
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Just come out.
So he started coming on one walkand then he was coming on a
couple of the walks.
And then I was like, what if...
Because I had this dream acouple times.
I would be frustrated that Ineeded another hand.
Or I would be like, man, if Ijust had somebody to do this
with this dog, then I could dothis.
Sometimes I'd have to tether adog down and then work one dog
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and tether that one down andswitch.
If I just had another handler,then I could do so much more.
And so then I started trainingmy husband to come with me.
And I was like, you should justcome with me all week in all the
packs and do what you think.
So that started happening duringCOVID.
The salon was constantlyshutting down.
And all these people had gottenpuppies.
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And nobody could socialize.
So there was this dilemma.
It's still kind of going on.
There's these highlyunder-socialized dogs that were
young.
And they're high energy.
They need to be around otherdogs.
They need to be socialized byother dogs.
But there's all this socializingrestriction.
So during COVID...
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I started doing like puppygroups.
My, my group before were likebehavioral issue dogs in one
group, dogs who just need to getout in the middle of the day,
just high, high energy, highdrive dogs.
Um, but somebody who's likeworking like a 12 hour shift and
their dog would be destructive,you know, if they weren't
getting out.
SPEAKER_01 (21:01):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (21:01):
So those were like my, my base, my main client
during COVID I started doingthis puppy group, puppy
socialization, um, which isreally, um, what i'm good at
that's kind of like what myparents did we did a lot of like
early dog socialization that'skind of my jam and so that
worked out really well i startedgetting year-round clients and i
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didn't have to supplement thedog like or like salon income as
much it started becoming moredog business um and i eventually
let the salon go Besides likeone or two days a week, I would
just come in kind of like for acouple of regulars.
I just couldn't let them go.
My five friends, you know.
SPEAKER_00 (21:39):
I know how it is.
It's a Midwest nice thing, bythe way.
Yeah,
SPEAKER_02 (21:44):
it kept getting less and less and more and more dogs.
And then so I started doing somemedia.
And so when my husband joinedme, we made a TikTok account and
he started filming me.
And us two were just like supergoofy together.
So we just started making likethe silly videos.
And that's where we startedgoing viral.
And progression of vehicles,right?
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So I was on foot.
I had a minivan that I got apuppy and you cannot run puppies
on a bike like that.
So I just started using my vanthat I drove around all over my
personal van.
That became a crash fromthrowing wet dogs in it all the
time.
So it became a permanent dogvan.
(22:24):
And then I started getting dogsthat...
they wanted their own space.
Like they didn't want to sitwith the licky puppies.
So they would sit shotgun.
So then there was like this dog.
She didn't want to sit in theback, but she loved going on the
walk.
So dogs are like, they'retotally cool outside off leash
when they can get away from eachother.
And there's like all this spaceto run around.
But when you shove them in asmall vehicle, then you have
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more behavioral problems withcertain dogs.
So I was like, Ooh, I need likesomething to separate them.
I bought a bigger van and, And Iput a cage up in the back and
then the separator.
So I had three sections in myvan.
And that was my favorite setup.
It was really easy.
I could get in all the drivewaysand stuff like that.
And so my husband drove the oldvan and I drove the big dog van.
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So then we would put the pickup,meet, do the walk together.
My husband was still beingtrained.
And then we created this likeold and little group because my
husband, he loves tiny dogs.
And he's like, he's a slowerwalker.
And so we created this likebeing your dog social and he
does it so now he has he tookthese three mini Aussies and
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those were his first clientsthey all live in one house they
have three Aussies and thosewere his first clients I was
like you just need to like takethem out on your own and do your
own thing and find your own vibeand see if this is something you
like and because it's like youdon't want somebody just
watching you because I wastraining him and it kind of
feels like you know you want togo out and do your own thing
like you don't want somebodybreathing down your neck while
you're training all the time youknow yeah definitely you know,
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have your own client.
So he, he took the Aussies and,um, they're in like his old and
littles and I love him.
It's so cute.
They're like,
SPEAKER_00 (24:00):
when I, when I'm around, it sounds adorable.
SPEAKER_02 (24:03):
It
SPEAKER_00 (24:03):
sounds just the
SPEAKER_02 (24:05):
one time I had to walk his group.
They were looking for him.
I'm like, guys, like you were myclient first.
Um, so
SPEAKER_00 (24:12):
cute.
Wow.
What a great interview.
Great way to kick off the firstof three parts.
Uh, check out Moe, Mo MountainMutts, MoMountainMutts.com, on
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube.
Such a great person doingfantastic things up there in
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Alaska.
Quite frankly, I didn't knowexisted that particular city,
but thanks so much, Mo.
We got part two and part threecoming out in the following
weeks.
Very excited for everybody tohear her story and what she's
doing.
So cool.
Check him out on Instagram andYouTube, TikTok, whatever you
have.
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And show some praise.
If you're up there and you gotyour dog and need some help,
some training and looking afteryour pup, mows who you call.
And on to this week's review, wehave a local company.
I was at a show selling AlpineHowell goods, alpinehowell.com
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Hats and bandanas.
It was a hot one.
But I got to meet some peoplebehind Wild Nosh, a fantastic,
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They make them out of grass-fedbison, humanely raised poultry,
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Doing great things.
I mean, this is my dog's mouththrough it.
I got the bag here.
I got a variety pack becausethat's what they were selling at
the show.
Bison marrow bone, split bisontrachea.
I'm going through these greatdehydrated bison scapula.
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Kind of an interesting justmouthful there, but...
They're, you know, just like anytreat, you got to make sure
you're watching your dogs.
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Fantastic.
My dogs are underneath me rightnow in the studio just wanting
more.
But we're also going to go onthat walk that I promised them
because it's cool out.
And thanks, everybody.
Until next week, pet them dogs.
Today's episode was written andproduced by me, Brandon Bennett,
the owner of Alpine Howl.
To get the latest gear,handcrafted scarves for your
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Remember everybody, pet themdogs.
Good morning, dog lovers.
Welcome to Dog Friendly, thepodcast where we celebrate the
joy of dogs and the adventureswe share with them.
I'm your host, Brandon Bennettfrom Alpine Hollow.
Each week, I take you todog-friendly locations to chat
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with passionate dog owners abouttheir furry companions and the
unforgettable experiencesthey've had together.
We'll also hear from experts whoshare valuable insights on
training, health, and making themost out of our time with our
canine pals, all while enjoyingthe great outdoors.
So whether you're a seasoned pupparent or just a dog lover, grab
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your leash, maybe a libation,and join us as we enjoy the
world of dogs and incredibleadventures that await.
Let's dive into today's episode.
Welcome, welcome everybody.
It's a happy Thursday in June.
Hope everybody's staying cool inthe parts of the country that
are getting warm and staying drywhere there's storms going on.
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But it's going to be warm herein Colorado, so I'm getting this
edited and edited.
I think that's what you say.
Edit this episode.
An episode of the first of athree-part series.
My dogs are looking at me readyfor a walk.
We're going to get them out injust a minute, but...
Got to sit down and talk withMorgan Thompson of Mo Mountain
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Mutts.
She goes by Mo.
She has got a business.
She started in Segway, Alaska.
She's a dog walker, pet sitter,family dog trainer.
She transformed a bus into hercarrier.
You can check her out online onInstagram, TikTok, YouTube.
It's so cool.
Such an amazing story.
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We kick it off with...
Her introduction to who she isand why she moved into Alaska
with her husband and what she'sdoing.
But first, a three-part seriesbecause it was a great
conversation.
We talked for a while,originally Midwestern.
But I hope you enjoy.
It's a cool story.
So stick around for three parts.
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And here's the opening with Mo.
Take her away.
So we're going live here.
That's a loud one.
SPEAKER_01 (02:25):
Mo,
SPEAKER_00 (02:26):
this is Brandon Bennett with Dog Friendly.
You there?
SPEAKER_02 (02:33):
Yep, I'm going to turn my volume all the way up on
speaker.
There we go.
SPEAKER_00 (02:37):
Sound good?
SPEAKER_02 (02:40):
Can
SPEAKER_00 (02:40):
you
SPEAKER_02 (02:40):
hear me?
SPEAKER_00 (02:41):
I can hear you just fine.
Can you hear me?
Sure can.
Okay, great.
That's fantastic.
Thanks for taking the time tosit down and talk with me.
My internet at the dog-friendlylocation I'm at, they just
opened this back patio area.
So it's a little far away fromthe internet.
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So it's not quite good.
So I can't get on the Zoom.
And sometimes the Zoom helpswith, you know, mannerisms and
talking to each other.
And because my podcast is...
I don't have any video.
It's just good for people totalk back and forth on.
But unfortunately, this is thefirst time at this location.
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That's what I do.
I go around the country, and Igo to dog-friendly locations and
talk to people about their dogs.
Oh, cool.
And I even do what we're doingtoday.
I'm recording this.
We sit down.
Someone calls in.
I've had an author call in fromL.A.
a couple weeks ago, and it'spretty cool.
And we just get the...
It's just about dogs.
It's nothing more than just,what are we doing?
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What do we love?
I talk to regular people, peoplelike yourself, professionals,
and there's no political,religious, anything like that.
It's just, we love dogs.
Love it.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (03:54):
I'm in the same situation with the internet,
too.
I'm in the process of moving, soI didn't have my office set up,
so I'm kind of glad it wasn't avideo.
I am currently sitting on my dogbus with Echo, and I've got my
Starlink set up.
So that I can Wi-Fi.
My service is also a littlespotty where I'm at.
SPEAKER_00 (04:14):
That is so cool.
And can you introduce yourselfand tell us about Mo Mountain
Mutts?
How it came to life?
First and last name, and thenhow did it come to fruition?
SPEAKER_02 (04:27):
Yeah, so I'm Mo, and my husband helped me come up
with the name Mountain Mutts.
We're in Alaska.
A big old tour bus just droveby.
We live in a tourist town.
And that's kind of how itstarted.
So my full name is MorganNelson, or Thompson.
Forget him.
My husband is Lee Thompson, andwe run Mo Mountain Mutt here in
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Southeast Alaska.
So how it kind of started waspeople around, people like, we
just drove that bus by, and theydo these long work days and they
have their dogs.
And it's a long day for a dog tobe at home.
So my business started out withspecifically seasonal workers
only.
So it was only a summer gig fora while.
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And so I worked at a salon.
I worked at a restaurant.
And I would walk my co-workers'dogs in between my two jobs.
So I only had one pack to startwith.
And it was just my dog and myfriend's dog.
We adopted two other dogs.
It was both four, plus anotherfriend's dog.
And then somebody was like, hey,I heard you're grabbing...
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We all lived in communityhousing.
So we were all...
neighbors, like it's kind oflike a hotel and we're all in
hotel rooms.
So walk across the street towork, run over, grab the dogs,
get on my bike, take them for abiking hike.
Sometimes I go play fetch.
It was kind of like whatever Ihad time for is what they got.
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If I had a little bit of time, Iwould run them hard.
And if I had a lot of time, thenwe would go on like a nice
leisure hike.
So that's how that started.
And The dogs that my friend andI rescued were just total
messes, just like aggro atpeople, other dogs, super
spooky.
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And so I was doing a lot oftraining with them and I was
going through a lot of treatsand other dogs.
So at this point, it wasn't abusiness.
It was just like my friendswould grab my dogs and I would
grab their dogs.
And it became this thing where Istarted just scheduling it in.
And I was going through a lot oftreats, working these two dogs.
I was like, hey, can you guysthrow me some treat money
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occasionally?
And so they would either likebuy me lunch or leave a 20
randomly.
And that was to go towards likepoop bags because one of their
dogs would poop like five timeson a walk.
Wow.
So it was kind of like, allright, I'm not trying to like,
you know, spend a bunch of moneyon poop bags and treats, you
know.
So it became this like reallynice trade where we just, we all
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took care of each other's dogskind of thing.
And then once I startedscheduling time, I started to
make it more of a thing.
My husband at the time worked atthe school and he worked in the
special ed department and itjust kind of got around at the
school that I was really goodwith dogs.
And a teacher reached out to meand was like, I got a puppy.
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I got a problem.
I heard you're really good withdogs.
Do you think you could help me?
I was like, yeah, sure.
So that was my first like realclient that wasn't just like a
friend.
And then another teacher askedfor help.
And so that's when I talked toLee and we ended up coming up
with a business name.
And I got a business license andstarted making time on my
schedule for it.
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So that's kind of how it allstarted.
The very early stages.
I didn't have a vehicle oranything.
It was just all on foot or on mybike.
SPEAKER_00 (07:49):
Sure.
And are you from Alaska?
What brought you to Alaska?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (07:54):
My husband and I are both from Michigan.
SPEAKER_00 (07:57):
Midwestern.
We
SPEAKER_02 (07:58):
went to high school together.
SPEAKER_00 (07:59):
Yeah, yeah.
I'm from Wisconsin, so I canrelate.
Oh, cool.
Neighbor.
Yep, for
SPEAKER_02 (08:05):
sure.
Yeah, we grew up in Michigan.
We went to high school togetherand we went to college at like
community college there.
And I was finishing up mypsychology degree and Lee came
up here first.
He had a cousin that lived herefirst.
And so he came up with anothercousin.
They had a little cousinseasonal work shenanigans.
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And Lee came back and was like,this was so much fun.
You would love it here.
I want to take you on thesehikes.
So that next season and summerseason is here.
So in the winter, there's notvery many people that live here.
And there's a lot of people herein the summer.
All the seasonal workers come upand then they leave.
It's a very seasonaltransitional thing here.
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So he brought me up the nextseason and then he wanted to
apply at the job at the school,which was what he went to school
for.
He wanted to use his collegedegree, get out of the
restaurant stuff, you know, getinto the school.
And I was like, that soundsgreat.
I don't want to stay the winterthough.
I think I'll be really bored.
There's not a lot here.
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So we made an agreement that Iwould stay the winter if I could
get a puppy.
SPEAKER_00 (09:14):
And
SPEAKER_02 (09:16):
so that's how that whole dog, My friend got a puppy
the same, or he adopted a littlebit older dog, but he was still
pretty young, probably like ayear and a half.
So my friend and I, we got ourpuppies, we were hiking
together, had another girlfriendwho had two dogs, and then we
all had our two dogs.
It was like us three girls andour six dogs going for hikes
every morning.
So that was just kind of likehow the pack started.
(09:38):
Okay.
And so it was really easy totake those six dogs out by
myself because us three girlshad been walking for a very long
time.
And I have a big tour bus parkedright next to me.
SPEAKER_00 (09:53):
Interesting.
SPEAKER_02 (09:54):
There's some tour that is going on down here.
All
SPEAKER_00 (09:58):
right.
All right.
Where in Alaska?
I'm going to interrupt you realquick.
What specifically?
SPEAKER_02 (10:02):
Gagway.
Okay.
Gagway, Alaska.
Cool.
So it's at the end of the fjord.
And all the cruise ships come uphere.
They park.
And then a million people comeinto town in this teeny, tiny
little town from like 1st to 8thStreet.
Okay.
And so it's really busy downthere.
And so I would take the dogs anddo distraction training.
So I'd walk them up and downtown.
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And if they could ignore thetourists and all the people and
all the dogs and all that chaosdown there, then they had really
good impulse control and it madethem a lot easier to take on the
trail.
But they can ignore all thatchaos and they can definitely
ignore that one squirrel on thetrail.
SPEAKER_00 (10:41):
Yeah, that
SPEAKER_02 (10:41):
makes sense.
So I would do this like, towntraining stuff I call it
distraction training I get thedogs up on these boxes they have
to sit stay pay attention to meignore everybody ignore all the
strangers and that helps themnot run up on people on the
trail like when I'm outoff-leash hiking on trails and
there's another person oranother dog it's now like hey
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we've done significantly harderdistractions ignoring that one
person is a lot easier so mytown training translated to
off-leash training trailtraining.
So that was, I still do that.
I still, every new dog goesthrough my distracting training
in town and then they get towork their way to being off
leash on the trail.
SPEAKER_00 (11:24):
So are, and are you now there full time in Alaska?
SPEAKER_02 (11:29):
I am.
I came up here and never left.
SPEAKER_00 (11:31):
Oh, okay.
So there wasn't that break.
Oh, you said the puppy, you gotthe puppy.
What kind of dog?
SPEAKER_02 (11:36):
Yeah.
That's Carl.
He's the rat carrier.
SPEAKER_00 (11:39):
That's awesome.
SPEAKER_02 (11:41):
And then we adopted Louie.
He's our Chihuahua Dachshundmix.
And it was those two dogs for along time.
And then Carl is what I call amentor dog.
I use him to train otherpeople's dogs a lot.
And so aside from my pack walks,I do private one-on-one
training.
So I might go to an owner's homeand work with them something on
there.
(12:01):
I might meet them in town andwork on like car chasing or we
might you know, go whereverthey're having a problem.
And if another dog, like ifthey're really reactive to other
dogs, then I bring my dog and wework through it.
And so Carl is now 10.
And when he was eight, I waslike, all right, he's going to
need to, you know, retire.
(12:22):
He's going to need areplacement.
And so Echo is my, my newestdog.
She's five now, but she's takenover Carl's job.
And now when I go train withother people, I have her.
And so I've actually, it's,specifically for that.
Where Carl was like two-ish,three-ish before I got into like
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using him more as like a mentordog.
Because he was just, you know,hanging out with his buds for a
while.
SPEAKER_00 (12:47):
Yeah, and...
SPEAKER_02 (12:49):
So that's kind of...
Yeah, that's just my dogs Ihave.
SPEAKER_00 (12:54):
Okay, well, no, that's awesome.
So the new dog, what type of dogis it?
Remind me the name
SPEAKER_02 (13:00):
again?
She is a Carillion Bear dog.
And so...
I, my friends and I, we call itBear Noia when we're hiking
really early in the morning andwe're super scared of bears.
So one of the girls that I walkwith every morning, we got
matching puppies during COVID.
We have sisters.
So she has Guinness and I haveEcho and our other friend has
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Sophie.
And so we have three of the dogsthat are litter mates and they
all are friends.
It's
SPEAKER_00 (13:26):
really cute.
That's awesome.
And what...
What sort of training did you gothrough?
Did you go to school for dogtraining or what, what was, uh,
what was your life back inMichigan?
SPEAKER_02 (13:37):
My degree in psychology is the sciences of
psychology.
So it's a lot of animal stuff.
It's not like people counseling.
It's not like therapy or, um,like the drug side.
That's definitely a differentbranch in psychology.
Sure.
Um, I did the sciences of, so alot of animal studies, a lot of
conditioning behaviors, but it'slike the person studying, um,
(13:59):
the tests that were done.
That's kind of what I went toschool for.
Like, you're taking the data,you're seeing how it works, and
you're cross-checking, like, youknow, you can't do a test once
and be like, I've come to aconclusion.
You have to check it many, many,many times, right?
And so that's kind of, that'swhat I was going to school for.
And my intentions were to get amaster's, but I ended up not
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continuing.
I got into the dog thing, and Ijust quit.
Cool on hold because this isworking well for me.
When I was in high school andcollege in Michigan, I was doing
dog sitting like for family orjust close friends or friends of
friends, like referrals likethat.
I love to go stay at otherpeople's cool houses and watch
their dogs.
That was like one of my favoritethings to do.
(14:44):
And then the dog training, Ihave a lot of dog handling
skills because my parents weredog breeders and they had me...
basically have my own child tolearn on for doing like AKC dog
shows.
And so my parents got this puppyand they helped me learn how to
potty train and how to do leashhandling.
(15:06):
So I had a lot of early skillswith leash work.
And that's really the foundationof dog handling is being really
good with leash work.
If you're good at leash work,you're good at off leash work.
Everything kind of translates.
Anytime somebody is strugglingwith a behavior, I'm like, how
is your leash work?
That's really like, you have tomaster that first before you can
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progress to any other advancedtraining, especially if it's
anything with impulse control.
Because if a dog won't walk niceand calm with you on the leash,
they're not going to respect youoff leash, you know?
Yeah.
So that's kind of like the mainthing was handling Siberian
Huskies.
I was in a newspaper when I waslike nine with my Siberian Husky
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Cinnamon.
SPEAKER_00 (15:49):
Cinnamon, that's a great name.
That's a
SPEAKER_02 (15:51):
big dog.
UNKNOWN (15:52):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (15:52):
for a nine year old?
She
SPEAKER_02 (15:54):
was a really small, tiny, so there's different kinds
of pussies.
There's working dogs and thenthere's show dogs.
SPEAKER_01 (16:00):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (16:01):
And a lot of the show dogs, they're smaller,
lighter bones.
They're bred for being pretty.
You know what I mean?
They're not a working dog.
And so we had working dogs andwe had show dogs.
And so I had a really good, youknow, balance of knowing, you
know, how sled dogs roll and howthe show dogs are and just being
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exposed to dogs and animalhandling at a young age is
really, it just feels natural.
You know what I mean?
I've never not handled dogs.
I've never not been around awhole pack of dogs.
SPEAKER_00 (16:32):
Yeah.
I know what you mean.
SPEAKER_02 (16:35):
Yeah.
I just, when I'm being up here,I was like, I can't be up here
without a dog.
SPEAKER_00 (16:39):
That's so special.
I mean, to be out there, howmany people are in the town?
Like on a peak time and then...
My
SPEAKER_02 (16:45):
husband's good at that answer.
I'm really bad with numbers.
I think it's like something likea thousand people in the winter.
SPEAKER_00 (16:52):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (16:53):
Wow.
I could be wrong.
Don't hold me on that.
SPEAKER_00 (16:55):
No, and that's fine.
I mean, as far as thatinformation...
I
SPEAKER_02 (17:01):
think if you Google Skagway, you know, whatever,
that might come up.
Yeah.
You'd think I would know thatbecause you're asked that all
the time.
And I'm like, I don't know.
I don't remember.
SPEAKER_00 (17:11):
It's okay.
You know, now, you know, whenyou get asked it in a different
way, maybe now it'll stick.
Who knows?
It's just a question for me.
I grew up in a town of 1,600people.
So, I mean, it was a tiny townin Wisconsin.
SPEAKER_02 (17:25):
Yeah, it's got to be very similar to something like
that.
Yeah.
Very, very similar.
Small town.
The community here is awesome.
That's really what made me stayhere.
It's just that small town feel.
I'm sure if you grew up in asmall town, you know.
It feels like the best place toraise a kid.
So we have a three-year-old andwe want to raise him here.
We don't want to go anywherebecause our childhood here is
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just so cool.
Oh, I meant to tell you this.
So you were asking something andI think I rambled.
It's okay.
So when COVID happened, mybusiness flipped.
because the salon kept closingdown and I had already let my
restaurant job go.
So I was working full time inthe salon and working two pack
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walks.
I had like a morning one and anafternoon one.
So I'd go out, walk a pack, runinto the salon for maybe like a
color cut wax and then zip backout, go run the dogs and then
come back and do an eveningshift kind of thing.
And then I got enough sociallyselective kind of like just
asshole dogs that just couldn'tvibe with the crew.
(18:31):
They're just too risky.
And so I made their own group.
And so I had this likeparticular group of dogs that
are only good with certain dogsand their pack is just way more
restricted.
They're not allowed to, youknow, pick up sticks or it's
just kind of dogs who wouldmaybe fight over a stick kind of
thing, you know, resourceguarding or have behavioral
problems.
And I would use like, it waslike four or five dogs.
(18:53):
It's a really small pack.
Sometimes it's only two.
And so I would do that in themiddle.
And then those dogs got reallygood.
And they got comfortable withthe routine of adding in a new
dog, as long as it's the rightvibe.
And so that one ended upbecoming its whole own pack.
So then I had three packs.
I stopped going into the salonin the morning.
And so I was just running dogsduring the day and salon in the
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evening.
And then...
During COVID, my husband didn'thave his...
He was working the athleticdirector position and they just
eliminated that job during COVIDbecause nobody was traveling
anywhere for sports and stuff.
And so he was in this mode oflike, I don't know what to do.
And I'm like, you should justcome on a walk with me.
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Just come out.
So he started coming on one walkand then he was coming on a
couple of the walks.
And then I was like, what if...
Because I had this dream acouple times.
I would be frustrated that Ineeded another hand.
Or I would be like, man, if Ijust had somebody to do this
with this dog, then I could dothis.
Sometimes I'd have to tether adog down and then work one dog
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and tether that one down andswitch.
If I just had another handler,then I could do so much more.
And so then I started trainingmy husband to come with me.
And I was like, you should justcome with me all week in all the
packs and do what you think.
So that started happening duringCOVID.
The salon was constantlyshutting down.
And all these people had gottenpuppies.
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And nobody could socialize.
So there was this dilemma.
It's still kind of going on.
There's these highlyunder-socialized dogs that were
young.
And they're high energy.
They need to be around otherdogs.
They need to be socialized byother dogs.
But there's all this socializingrestriction.
So during COVID...
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I started doing like puppygroups.
My, my group before were likebehavioral issue dogs in one
group, dogs who just need to getout in the middle of the day,
just high, high energy, highdrive dogs.
Um, but somebody who's likeworking like a 12 hour shift and
their dog would be destructive,you know, if they weren't
getting out.
SPEAKER_01 (21:01):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (21:01):
So those were like my, my base, my main client
during COVID I started doingthis puppy group, puppy
socialization, um, which isreally, um, what i'm good at
that's kind of like what myparents did we did a lot of like
early dog socialization that'skind of my jam and so that
worked out really well i startedgetting year-round clients and i
(21:22):
didn't have to supplement thedog like or like salon income as
much it started becoming moredog business um and i eventually
let the salon go Besides likeone or two days a week, I would
just come in kind of like for acouple of regulars.
I just couldn't let them go.
My five friends, you know.
SPEAKER_00 (21:39):
I know how it is.
It's a Midwest nice thing, bythe way.
Yeah,
SPEAKER_02 (21:44):
it kept getting less and less and more and more dogs.
And then so I started doing somemedia.
And so when my husband joinedme, we made a TikTok account and
he started filming me.
And us two were just like supergoofy together.
So we just started making likethe silly videos.
And that's where we startedgoing viral.
And progression of vehicles,right?
(22:04):
So I was on foot.
I had a minivan that I got apuppy and you cannot run puppies
on a bike like that.
So I just started using my vanthat I drove around all over my
personal van.
That became a crash fromthrowing wet dogs in it all the
time.
So it became a permanent dogvan.
(22:24):
And then I started getting dogsthat...
they wanted their own space.
Like they didn't want to sitwith the licky puppies.
So they would sit shotgun.
So then there was like this dog.
She didn't want to sit in theback, but she loved going on the
walk.
So dogs are like, they'retotally cool outside off leash
when they can get away from eachother.
And there's like all this spaceto run around.
But when you shove them in asmall vehicle, then you have
(22:45):
more behavioral problems withcertain dogs.
So I was like, Ooh, I need likesomething to separate them.
I bought a bigger van and, And Iput a cage up in the back and
then the separator.
So I had three sections in myvan.
And that was my favorite setup.
It was really easy.
I could get in all the drivewaysand stuff like that.
And so my husband drove the oldvan and I drove the big dog van.
(23:09):
So then we would put the pickup,meet, do the walk together.
My husband was still beingtrained.
And then we created this likeold and little group because my
husband, he loves tiny dogs.
And he's like, he's a slowerwalker.
And so we created this likebeing your dog social and he
does it so now he has he tookthese three mini Aussies and
(23:30):
those were his first clientsthey all live in one house they
have three Aussies and thosewere his first clients I was
like you just need to like takethem out on your own and do your
own thing and find your own vibeand see if this is something you
like and because it's like youdon't want somebody just
watching you because I wastraining him and it kind of
feels like you know you want togo out and do your own thing
like you don't want somebodybreathing down your neck while
you're training all the time youknow yeah definitely you know,
(23:53):
have your own client.
So he, he took the Aussies and,um, they're in like his old and
littles and I love him.
It's so cute.
They're like,
SPEAKER_00 (24:00):
when I, when I'm around, it sounds adorable.
SPEAKER_02 (24:03):
It
SPEAKER_00 (24:03):
sounds just the
SPEAKER_02 (24:05):
one time I had to walk his group.
They were looking for him.
I'm like, guys, like you were myclient first.
Um, so
SPEAKER_00 (24:12):
cute.
Wow.
What a great interview.
Great way to kick off the firstof three parts.
Uh, check out Moe, Mo MountainMutts, MoMountainMutts.com, on
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube.
Such a great person doingfantastic things up there in
(24:35):
Alaska.
Quite frankly, I didn't knowexisted that particular city,
but thanks so much, Mo.
We got part two and part threecoming out in the following
weeks.
Very excited for everybody tohear her story and what she's
doing.
So cool.
Check him out on Instagram andYouTube, TikTok, whatever you
have.
(24:56):
And show some praise.
If you're up there and you gotyour dog and need some help,
some training and looking afteryour pup, mows who you call.
And on to this week's review, wehave a local company.
I was at a show selling AlpineHowell goods, alpinehowell.com
(25:17):
goods.
Hats and bandanas.
It was a hot one.
But I got to meet some peoplebehind Wild Nosh, a fantastic,
nutritious, and sustainabletreats for cats and dogs.
They make them out of grass-fedbison, humanely raised poultry,
(25:38):
heritage pork.
Doing great things.
I mean, this is my dog's mouththrough it.
I got the bag here.
I got a variety pack becausethat's what they were selling at
the show.
Bison marrow bone, split bisontrachea.
I'm going through these greatdehydrated bison scapula.
(26:03):
Kind of an interesting justmouthful there, but...
They're, you know, just like anytreat, you got to make sure
you're watching your dogs.
I just threw my dogs for themoment bison lung.
Five out of five.
Love the sustainable.
Go check out their values.
Wildnoshpets.com.
(26:24):
Fantastic.
My dogs are underneath me rightnow in the studio just wanting
more.
But we're also going to go onthat walk that I promised them
because it's cool out.
And thanks, everybody.
Until next week, pet them dogs.
Today's episode was written andproduced by me, Brandon Bennett,
the owner of Alpine Howl.
To get the latest gear,handcrafted scarves for your
(26:46):
dog, and a matching hat fortheir humans, check out
alpinehowl.com.
It's summertime, so dogs lookgreat in their bandanas and a
matching ball cap for you.
Again, check them out atalpinehowl.com.
Remember everybody, pet themdogs.
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