I think I met Karen in 2000 and the only thing I don’t like about
her is that she hates to talk on the phone. She has so much information
in her head from the seminars she’s attended and from the Dogs she’s
worked with that I could listen to her talk about anything Dog related
all day. When I was managing a kennel about 2 hours away from Karen I
tried to get her to move to where I was because there were no trainers
of her caliber near me.Karen has the ability to work, silently, with a Dog based on who
they are and not based on any cookie cutter *idea* of what a Dog is. I
would love to be able to have Karen write up a piece on body language
and I think I’ll have to do an interview with her because she has so
little time for anything outside of teaching her classes and working with her private clients. Karen loves to teach obedience classes and her beginning in Dog world was because she loved to *take* classes with her first Dog.
her is that she hates to talk on the phone. She has so much information
in her head from the seminars she’s attended and from the Dogs she’s
worked with that I could listen to her talk about anything Dog related
all day. When I was managing a kennel about 2 hours away from Karen I
tried to get her to move to where I was because there were no trainers
of her caliber near me.Karen has the ability to work, silently, with a Dog based on who
they are and not based on any cookie cutter *idea* of what a Dog is. I
would love to be able to have Karen write up a piece on body language
and I think I’ll have to do an interview with her because she has so
little time for anything outside of teaching her classes and working with her private clients. Karen loves to teach obedience classes and her beginning in Dog world was because she loved to *take* classes with her first Dog.
The first time I worked seriously with Karen was with a Dog named Maddie who had been left outside for over a year and who because of this was very reactive toward other animals. Maddie had had to defend herself, while tied, against everything that came near her and that is not a behavior that a Dog can walk away from once they are safe. Karen was so patient and respectful with both Maddie and Maddie?s parents that she was able to help them both calm Maddie down while they respected her instinct to react.
Karen was able to enact the ?elegant switch? with Maddie so that the Dog was able to react while her parents were able to counteract so that Maddie stopped the behavior that was giving her mother frozen shoulders. Karen hardly changed anything in this family’s life but when she had completed just 4 sessions with them the family was happy and the Dog was so much better.
This is not the kind of training you can get from a tv show or from a web site. Karen, if you?re reading this I was just contacted by a family with a 6 month old Jack Russel Terrier and they?ve never had a Dog before and they have 5 children??*Help!!*.
