What Does it Mean to Be a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner?

What It Means to Be a KPA CTP Michelle Mullins is the owner of and Director of Training at Honest To Dog, LLC. She provides private, in-home training, focusing on vet/grooming tasks as well as on reactive and aggressive dogs. Michelle is also an animal handler on photo and video sets! Her emphasis is always on the dog's emotional experience.  Since completing the KPA Dog Trainer Professional program in 2013, Michelle has worked even more steadily at her mission to show that "education is the best way to promote change." In this interview, we ask Michelle what it means to her to be a Karen Pryor Academy (KPA) Certified Training Partner (CTP). Read More Last Chance to Apply for These Dog Trainer Professional Locations! Teach Your Dog Left and Right Teaching your dog to tell the difference between left and right on cue is a fun exercise that is handier than it seems! It's a terrific skill for many competition venues, including agility, herding, mushing, water dog, and retrieving. This behavior can also be handy walking on trails. Service dog owners could think of a dozen or more applications for "left" and "right." Watch Now Upcoming Dog Trainer Professional Course Application Deadlines: See All Locations & Dates Congratulations to Our Scholarship Winners! Karen Pryor Academy and Lisa White, DVM, founder of Veterinary Behavior Management Solutions in Cincinnati, Ohio, are pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the 2019 Zoe Shelter Scholarships to KPA's Shelter Training & Enrichment course! The program is designed to assist shelters as they implement training and enrichment programs that both enrich the lives of the animals in their care and help the animals find their forever homes.  Read More November 2019 KPA CTP of the Month Laura Heyer, KPA CTP, an experienced educator of children with behavioral and developmental disabilities, has utilized—and extended—that special skill set in her pet-training career. A trainer at C&C PALS, she offers basic training and puppy classes as well as private, in-home training. Karen Pryor Academy (KPA) was first on Laura's radar when she ran across references to it on social media. While she had been teaching group dog-training classes for eight years, Laura was concerned with what she saw as "gaps in my training knowledge and mechanical skills." However, the timing was not right to pursue the KPA Dog Trainer Professional (DTP) course. Her dog, perhaps the perfect training partner temperamentally, was suffering from kidney disease. After that dog died and a new puppy joined the family, Laura researched the DTP again. Read More Let's Talk Turkey (and Training!) Enjoy 20% savings storewide!  Enter promo code TURKEY at checkout.  Some exclusions apply. Shop Now! Happy Clicking from all of us at KPCT! Karen Pryor Clicker Training | 49 River St., Suite 3 | Waltham, MA 02453 | 1-800-47-CLICK

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