FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
Training: $30 per training session Boarding: $25/night (3 dog limit, owner provides food) Pet sitting: $25/per day
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I completed Animal Behavior College's Basic Dog Obedience Trainer course in September 2015, and have been both a shelter volunteer and a volunteer mentor at the San Diego Humane society, dedicating 90 volunteer hours toward helping dogs in need become more adoptable. I have also been fostering dogs for various rescues since early 2012. Fostering has allowed me to care for and train a variety of dogs from a deaf bully mix to a few reactive dogs, and even a very shy dog. All of them blossomed under my care and inspired me to learn as much as possible so I can help them and be even more supportive towards the next dog I dedicate myself to helping.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
Animals have always intrigued me. From a young age, I was absolutely fascinated with the Iditarod. The main question I couldn't figure out was "How do the racers choose their lead dogs?" After seeing the movie "Balto" when I was 5 years old I understood the importance of that role. I couldn't, however, connect how someone in Alaska could have a dog that was so incredibly dependable, but our golden retriever puppy was having trouble learning "sit". About 8 years later my parents had gotten a Rottweiler puppy and had begun working with a trainer for him. It was at this point that I was able to see dog training for the first time, and I've been practicing and learning as much as I can about it ever since.