Instructors: Kim Moeller and Veronica Boutelle or Gina Phairas
Grow your work with private Growly clients. Learn or fine-tune diagnostics and treatment plans for both on- and off-leash aggression, and explore strategies for working with clients on interviewing, mechanical skills, compliance, and normalizing dog behavior. We take you through a series of case studies and video footage to map out treatment protocols. And then we show you how to maximize your business success working with dog-dog aggression.
Kim Moeller is the San Francisco SPCA’s dog-dog socialization and rehabilitation expert. She co-designed, and currently teaches, the SPCA’s famous Growly Dog program. Kim has spoken internationally on the subject of dog-dog aggression and has earned renown within the industry for her content-rich, hands-on, entertaining seminars. Her long-standing private practice focuses on aggression issues. Kim also co-teaches dogTEC’s Dog Walking Academy.
Veronica Boutelle, founder of dogTEC and author of How To Run A Dog Business: Putting Your Career Where Your Heart Is, is the industry’s leading business consultant. She teaches sold-out seminars and consults one-on-one with dog professionals. Veronica writes the column ‘The Business End of the Leash’ for the APDT Chronicle of the Dog, and is a sought-after speaker at conferences and dog training schools across the country. She is the former Director of Behavior & Training for the San Francisco SPCA.
Gina Phairas, BSc Comms, CTC, is a former San Francisco SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers instructor and a top trainer with extensive experience in the dog service industry. Before joining dogTEC Gina ran a successful dog training business of her own and consulted for shelters and rescue groups across the country.
Instructors: Veronica Boutelle and Kim Moeller (West Coast) and Denise Mazzola (East Coast)
20 CPDT CEUs
This four day professional program for dog walkers covers everything from aggression, body language, pack management, fight protocols, and safety issues to client and dog screening, liability protection, and successful business practices. The program includes lecture, discussion, video analysis, hands-on work, and fieldtrips with a pack. All participants receive dog first aid certification as part of the curriculum. Dog Walking Certification exams are optional. This course is appropriate for both new and established dog walkers, as well as daycare employees and owners, and dog trainers wishing to add walking to their services. Class size limited.
Instructors Veronica Boutelle and Kim Moeller (West Coast) and Denise Mazzola (East Coast) offer a professional program for a growing profession.
You love working with dogs but worry about the rent. You can’t imagine doing anything else but wonder whether you can really do this for a living. You’re doing alright, but would like to be living larger and saving money for the future. You’re not alone.
It really is possible to make an excellent living working with dogs. dogTEC’s consultants share their years of experience helping dog businesses across the country thrive. You don’t have to be a natural business person to understand and use the simple advice and strategies Veronica and Gina have developed with their clients. Learn effective, non-stressful approaches to marketing and sales, and how to identify and side-step the common business and sales mistakes that keep dog pros from succeeding. Veronica and Gina make the subject of business accessible and fun.
MARIN, CALIFORNIA January 24, 9am-4:30pm with Veronica
This session hosted by Positively Trained and held at Marin Humane Society as part of a two day event also featuring Trish King.
$100 per day or $185 for the weekend.
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Cost: See description
Member Cost: See description
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DACULA, GEORGIA March 1, 10am-4:30pm with Gina
This session hosted by KPA Faculty Member Laurie Luck and Canine Country Academy. The session will be held at Canine Country Academy at 3194 Bailey Road, Dacula, GA, 30019.
Cost: 85.00
Member Cost: 85.00
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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON August 29th, 10am-4:30pm with Veronica
This session hosted by Terry Ryan and Legacy Canine.
Location TBA.
You can have truly effective and exciting training classes—classes that bring clients back again and again and create unstoppable word of mouth. Classes that prepare people and dogs for real life—no more hearing “He only listens in class.” No more starting with 10 students and finishing with 6. You will design a class of your choice while learning the theories and strategies behind powerful curriculum development so that you can repeat your success again and again. We will also create a “tool box” of tips and strategies for smooth classroom management and effective instruction.
Teaching group classes can be daunting - how do you choose what material to teach, when to teach it, and what methods to use? How do you approach students who are in the same class but are at different skill levels? Or keep the attention of ten dogs and even more owners? Why don't all the students follow your directions? To teach well you need a good curriculum. And a good curriculum is more than a list of behaviors to teach and games to play. In this six-day workshop we guide you step by step through the backwards planning necessary to produce a complete, cohesive, solid curriculum for the class of your choice - and you'll have fun doing it, too. No more staring at blank pages in search of inspiration, no more glueing together bits and pieces from other trainers' classes and trying to make it work. Class size very limited.
Veronica Boutelle taught curriculum development, classroom management, and learning theory to graduate students and classroom teachers before becoming a dog trainer. In this workshop, she applies her extensive teaching background to Public Class training.
Gina Phairas taught curriculum development and instruction to dog trainers as an Instructor in the San Francisco Academy for Dog Trainers, and through the Academy Internship Program, which she designed and ran. She now provides one-on-one curriculum consulting to dogTEC clients.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA April 5-10, 10am-4:30pm with Veronica
Held at Pawsitive Tails, located at 1255 22nd St. SF, CA 94107
Cost: $750
Cost: 750.00
Member Cost: 750.00
Class Cancellation Policy
We are a small venue and do not provide refunds, so please plan carefully. Cancellations two weeks prior to an event are credited towards future events. Cancellations within two weeks of an event are not credited. Should an event be cancelled for any reason all registrants will receive full refunds.
Dog Attendance Policy
For the safety of the animals and comfort of the humans, we ask that you do not bring dogs to events unless the event description specifically requires your dog’s attendance as part of the program. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
