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FUN MEDIA 

that'll help you know me
 

The Dodo 3-min video on our fostering work

Bitey End of the Dog interview

Dartmouth Alumni Magazine

Profile in The Zebra 

Psychology Today  

Read the Spirit 

Soul Touched By Dog podcast

Bomb Mom podcast

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QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

 

Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA)

This industry is not regulated — anybody can call himself a dog trainer! — so these letters are particularly important. ​

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Licensed Family Dog Mediator (LFDM-T)

Using Kim Brophy's paradigm-shifting L.E.G.S. (Learning, Environment, Genetics, Self) approach, we FDMs put ethology at the forefront of our work.  

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Peaceable Paws Intern Academy​

Positive training pioneer Pat Miller runs this top-notch,  intense, course combining her lectures with hands-on work with shelter dogs.

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250+ Rescue Dogs!

All of this study has been a complement to the hands-on experience of 250-and-counting rescue pups coming through our house since 2012. We  get them healthy, help them feel safe, and play match-maker with good people. (For more, read my book 101 Rescue Puppies and watch our Dodo video.)

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Writer, Whole Dog Journal

I've been lucky enough to write almost every month for WDJ since 2020. 50+ topics covered. 

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Therapy Dog Work, Delta & R.E.A.D. Qualifications

I've gotten qualified with several of our dogs to be a therapy team — visiting nursing homes, and reading with elementary school kids.

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Puppy Culture 

I took a deep dive into Jane Lindquists's amazing courses: Puppy Culture & From Newborn To Home, using every bit of it when I take in pregnant or nursing moms from shelters. Lindquist deciphers the research for the rest of us, and her best practice puppy protocol is a godsend.

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Life With Dogs!

And finally . . . a lifetime of personal experience. Our daughters grew up surrounded by big dogs. (That's our firstborn below.) I learned a thing or two over the years about how parents and kids (and cats and friends and in-laws) can live happily, peacefully, joyfully with dogs. I've worked with hundreds of adopters and their puppies, and hundreds more clients and their dogs. I feel so lucky to get to do something so interesting, so rewarding, every day.