Carin Ford is co-founder and President of DogsHome rescue. She has been training dogs for several  years, with an emphasis on working with shelter dogs. A former journalist, Carin has written more than 30 books for young adults and contributes to dog-related publications. She is co-creator of the webinar “So You Want to Start a Rescue!”

Carin co-teaches the CPDT-KA Exam Study course for E-Training for Dogs with Christina Dejuan.

Instructor:  Dr. Ava Frick, DVM, CAC, FAIS; Certified in Animal Chiropractic; Fellow of the American Institute of Stress  also has a proficiency in herbal phytotherapy, is considered the world’s leading authority in veterinary microcurrent therapy, and is owner of Pet Rehab & Pain Clinic, a rehabilitation specialty practice in Chesterfield, Missouri. Dr. Frick has lectured nationally at AVMA, AHVMA, IVAS, AVCA, Wild West and Western States, and other state veterinary conferences as well as internationally via webinars and online courses.  Her topics include animal chiropractic, nutrition, microcurrent therapy, rehabilitation, stretching exercises, pain management, and the autonomic nervous system. She was honored as a runner-up in the Hartz 2006 Veterinarian of the Year award and in 2012 inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Stress. She is a regular consultant for topics within her field by many journal and magazine editors and is a published author: 2005 and 2010 in the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science and her book, Fitness in Motion, was published in 2007 by The Lyons Press. She has created CAN a Clinical Animal Nutrition survey for clients to complete on their dogs and cats that focuses on using symptoms and body systems to help identify areas of malfunction and combines that with tissue mineral analysis to determine the proper nutritional program for each patient. Learn more about Dr Frick and telemedicine at www.AnimalPainVet.com , her practice at www.animalrehabstlouis.com , or her on-line courses at www.e-trainingfordogs.com Her courses at E-Training include: Nutrition: CANINE NUTRITION-PART I ; Nutrition: CANINE NUTRITION-PART II and Fitness in Motion – Stretching and Exercises for Dogs

Dee’s philosophy in the training and behavioural work she does with the public and shelter community is about how to achieve two goals: Getting behaviour we want and getting rid of behaviour we don’t want, humanely and while having fun! She teaches positive reinforcement, and places a very strong emphasis on managing a dog’s environment for safety. For 30+ years Dee has taught training classes and advised individuals on how to create positive partnership with their dogs. In the mid-1990′s she began sharing positive reinforcement training with the deeply committed people working in the shelter world with the goal to create a shelter and training program that teaches humans to evaluate dogs humanely and fairly and to set up a training plan to help teach the dogs self-control skills. She is now back in private practice, which includes travelling to many wonderful places helping shelters, rescues, or just folks who want to learn practical, humane techniques to change dogs and ourselves into friends and partners for life.

Catherine Harvey, ACDBC, CPDT-KA, grew up in France and traveled extensively with her family throughout Europe. She lived in Africa as a child then moved to Paris, France and later on Aberdeen, Scotland, where she perfected her English. After graduating with a French Baccalaureate, majoring in languages, (English and Spanish), Catherine moved to Orlando. After raising her family, she decided to pursue her life passion : Animal behavior: She founded “Pawsitive Canine”, a force free dog training company, based on bond building and strong relationship with  pet dogs. At the same time she graduated from Valencia College in Orlando majoring in Psychology. Through the years she graduated from the International College of Canine Studies as a CPDT-KA Certified Professional Dog Trainer, knowledge assessed, and then obtained her certification as an Associate Certified Dog Behavior Consultant, with the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants.

Her strong and positive minded training experience with force free methods and behavior modification techniques lead her to write and teach the class (“Instinct leading to balance and obedience”) for the International College of Canine Studies. This class showcased the innovative way and the power of human non-intervention in dog to dog moderate conflicts. She illustrated to students that through body language dogs communicated and resolved their own conflicts without the need of human intervention. After a few years of training and consulting, and still very passionate about how humans could understand dog better, Catherine realized that many dogs were being euthanized due to behavioral problems. Most of these acquired behaviors stemmed from a lack of socialization or early aversive training, such as the use of punitive collar jerking or electric shocks. Teaching puppies through positive based training methods, and low stress handling seemed to be a valid avenue to eliminate most of the unwanted and dangerous behaviors found in older dogs. Catherine’s innovative view on the canine world is not so much to train, but to teach our furry friends and their human parents in a different gentle and  kind way, producing wonderful relationships, based on trust and respect. She is the owner of  www.pawcanine.com

Catherine teaches the course: FROM THE DOG’S POINT OF VIEW