My personal and professional life are dedicated to pet care, Canine behavior and behavior modification. I specialize in individualized behavioral solutions, basic & advanced obedience, and service dog training. My training methods are based on modern positive-reinforcement techniques.
I have been training dogs for over 20 years, professionally for the past 9 years. I take pride in my due-diligence, thorough instruction, and modern techniques. I always try to make training fun for the dogs and the instruction engaging for their human counterparts.
I graduated Yavapai College with a degree in Animal Care and Management with an emphasis on Aquaculture. After my graduation I was accepted into the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s internship program and spent my internship at Bubbling Ponds Hatchery. There I gained a great deal of experience with wildlife management, habitat management, and animal diseases.
Once I finished my internship with Arizona Game and Fish I was afforded an opportunity to work with Dr. Ann Ferens, the Visiting Vet. I have worked with her for many years now in the capacity of a technician and Canine behaviorist and am privileged to keep doing so. During my time handling animals for veterinary procedures I have gained an enormous amount of insight into Canine behavior I never could have received outside a medical setting.
I personally belong to one dog, Jackson, and one cat, Flip. Jackson was adopted from United Animal Friends, he is now a little over 2.5 years old and is just about to become a fully fledged medical alert service dog.
Halle is the dog pictured above, she was my medical alert service dog for 15 years! I just haven't had the heart to change her picture yet.
Flip is about 9 years old and is an inside/outside cat who likes to think of himself as a mighty mousing feline but still demands much service from his man-slave.