About me and my dogs

I am owned by 4 Huskies a Labrador and a horse so I decided to complete a Dog Behaviour Course from the Ethology Academy recommended by the South African Board for Companion Animal Professionals (SABCAP)and the Animal Behaviour Consultants of South Africa. I am a professional member of SABCAP. I completed practical work with Gill Painter a well known Animal Behaviour consultant and trainer of the industry. And learned a lot from my mentor Kirsten Frisch a Certified Professional Dog Trainer from America. I have done practical training with Kirsten at Buddy's Chance LLC in Texas as well as attended a nose work class and a workshop in reactive dogs at the training centre in Austin, Texas.

I am also a professional member of Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT) which is an international organization. I specialize in Husky behaviour training by making use of positive reinforcement including clicker training, I do however also help owners with different breeds of dog better understand their dogs too. I recently completed (June 2011) a clicker training horse course in England with International Horse clicker trainer Alexandra Kurland and a TTeam clinic in May 2011 with Catherine Williams.

I am currently busy with the full Professional Dog Trainers course of Raising Canine LLC of the USA.Raising Canine provides content-rich, remote education opportunities for animal behavior consultants. I am also the liaison for Raising Canine LLC here in South Africa for professional dog trainers and behaviour consultants.

I am a published author of Winter Dogs; Living with Huskies as Pet dogs. My publisher is Strategic Publishing Group. I am also currently busy with my second book about dog behaviuor and force free training. I am a Free lance writer for Animal Talk Magazine.

My husband and I along with our baby boy Logan share our home with our dogs and mush on all the roads the Cape has to offer as far as Knysna.

I am also involved with Husky Rescue S.A. with, rescuing, rehabilitating and re homing of the breed as well as fund-raising. Although I used to foster Huskies for a couple of years I now focus on fund-raising, educating husky owners and doing home checks.

I used to work as a qualified beauty therapist (ITEC) and it still comes in handy when I need to cut little Logan's nails or the dogs toe nails...LOL.

I am also a associate member with MUSH with P.R.I.D.E.

I learn each day, but would like to share with you what I have learned through, training, experience, books, mentors and my dogs. I make use of force free positive reinforcement including clicker training.