#doggotrainer!bitty

An AU where Bitty is a dog trainer at Samwell Pet Shop. Jack still plays hockey. This headcanon has been bouncing around in my head for a while, so here are some bullets. I am hoping to actually write it one day, just need to sit down and force the focus out of me. 

Ransom and Holster are the owners of the place.

Lardo is the pet groomer. Primarily grooms dogs, but is trained to groom cats too. She’s the main pet groomer. Dex helps out in the grooming salon on days it is open. 

Bitty is the dog trainer he also runs the store’s social media.

Dex, Nursey, and Chowder have been at the shop awhile. They know how to work in every part of the store. Chowder tends to be on the floor, running around and being top notch at customer service. Nursey is usually on the register. Dex works in the grooming salon on days it is open. He has replaced Johnson who used to work with Lardo.

Tango, Whiskey, Ford, and Bully are new part timers from the local college. Lardo is trying to entice Bully into grooming with her.

Shitty and Jack went to college together and are best friends.

Lardo and Shitty meet at a bar. They hit it off and Shitty starts coming around the shop.

He buys a Beta fish, Dex ensuring he buys the proper sized tank and all the fixings that goes with it. Shitty is bent on having the happiest little Beta in the world.

Bitty has a relatively young border collie, only a couple of years old at this point. He ran a contest in the store to name the dog. Ransom and Holster ran a campaign to name the dog ‘Tater’. The dog’s name is Tater.

Bitty makes his own dog treats, and when he has the time between work and training dog!Tater on agility or going to competitions, he makes dog!Tater’s food too. Though, mostly, he prefers baking the dog treats.

Jack gets a dog and realizes he is in a little over his head. Shitty suggests to take training at Samwell, and totally talks Bitty up, the little ray of absolute fucking sunshine that he is.  Jack signs up for a private session.

Jack plays for the Falconers and immediately tenses up when he realizes what Bitty’s dog’s name is. He has a hard time relaxing into the private class.

Dog!Tater and Jack’s dog (still need to think of a name) hit it off immediately. Bitty has never seen his dog warm up to another quite like this. Normally, Tater is resigned to hang out with whatever dogs and owners Bitty is training but he seems to genuinely like Jack’s dog.

There is tension in those first few training sessions. Differences of opinions and head butting.

Jack gets dragged to an agility competition that Bitty and Tater are in. Lardo is going to support her best friend Bitty, and Shitty, he wants to support that fucking beaut too. He drags Jack along, and Jack with his competence kink, realizes just how talented Bitty is.

As Jack gets softer and kinder with Bitty, well, Bitty gets bigger and bigger heart eyes.

Once Jack gets to know everyone in the shop, once everyone gets over the fact he is Jack Zimmermann, there are of course tickets to Falconers games.

Bitty and Jack get roped into doing some videos with their dogs from Falconers’ PR in order to make Jack seem more human and less hockey robot. EVERYONE can see the heart-eyes those two idiots have for each other in those videos. The chirping that is thinly veiled flirting.

Shitty and Lardo begin mission Get Jack and Bits to Kiss.

The rest of the Samwell Pet Shop and the Falconers join in too.