Services Offered
In-Home Training Sessions
Kathi’s specialty is helping people and their dogs in their own home environment. This is especially beneficial where families with children are involved. Everyone in the family can be involved with training while being coached individually on the spot. This insures that the information is understood and put into practice with Kathi ready to assist as needed.
Addressing specific needs where problem behaviors happen gives the owner the skills to immediately apply them successfully and work out the ‘kinks’ with supportive guidance. The dogs quickly learn their people now control all the games. Utilizing the scientifically proven successful training methods of operant, classical and counter-conditioning and by learning some basic dog body language, people are able to achieve better behavior from their dogs by clearly communicating what is the reinforce-able behavior at the same time building a solid relationship of trust and mutual respect.
Private Lessons
Working one-on-one with people and their dogs the emphasis is on individual concerns and priorities. Training is focused on teaching people tools that can be immediately implemented to help achieve relief from problem behavior concerns.
Canine Good Citizen Certification
Kathi is an approved AKC Canine Good Citizen evaluator. She offers testing services for the AKC Canine Good Citizen certification to individuals and groups. Kathi also teaches CGC prep classes.
Classes
Basics to advanced, puppy primer to refreshers for older dogs, fun and games or goals for competition, manners to aggression concerns; classes cover many levels of training and interests.
TTouch
Kathi is a certified TTouch™ practitioner, a graduate of the first class of the TTouch™ companion animal certification program developed by Linda Tellington-Jones. Kathi incorporates TTouch™ with clicker training to help dogs with the learning process.