As a personal trainer and past professor, teaching has been a part of my daily life for over 16 years. The transition from training people to training their dogs was a natural progression. Communication with dogs is more subtle than communicating with people. One thing about dogs, is they are honest to a fault. None of their behaviors are a lie or a cover-up. Everything they do has a purpose. When it comes to reading dogs, you have to watch for the subtle behaviors, then understand what it was that caused the behavior; then you have the thing to work on, not the action itself. Dogs, like people, have a personality that ties into a love language and a preferred learning style. Putting the pieces together for each dog is the “art” of dog training.

Creating a great dog is like creating a masterpiece. It starts with the best materials (genetics), then it requires skill, patience, practice/hard work, and a vision bigger than each individual brush stroke. Having trained dogs of many different breeds and for many different disciplines, has allowed me to build a skillset over time. I have trained and taken dogs all the way to the Invitational in NAVHDA, Regional Trials in NSTRA, and countless hunting dogs of all levels. It really is the small details & rewards I get from the dogs that make this such a passion of mine.