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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)

Look for proof of education and experience — like these letters I had to work hard to earn — before you entrust your dog with anybody.

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Licensed Family Dog Mediator (LFDM-T)

Thanks to 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 intense, top-notch course combining her lectures with hands-on work with shelter dogs.

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200+ Rescue Dogs!

All of this study has been complement to the hands-on experience of 235-and-counting rescue pups coming through our house over the past decade. 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 for the past few years. 40+ 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. (Piper and I visited nursing homes, Eli and I read with elementary school kids, and Mojo and I worked with a 2nd grade classroom.)

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Puppy Culture 

I took a deep dive into Jane Lindquists's amazing courses: Puppy Culture & From Newborn To Home. 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 girls grew up surrounded by big dogs. That's our firstborn below, and that shot sums up the decades that have followed. Different dogs, taller girls, but always dogs and people, connected. I've 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.