The Dog Trainer's Crucible

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The Dog Trainer's Crucible

Business consulting to the dog behaviour industry by Sue Alexander, CPDT-KSA, CBCC-KA, CDBC.

11/28/2025

Life as a dog trainer is busy! For today's Toucan Do It challenge, take a minute to update your website!

11/27/2025

From mentorship to business planning and case consults, the Dog Trainer's Crucible offers services to help you navigate the challenges of running a dog training business. You can read more about what we offer here: https://www.thedogtrainerscrucible.ca/

11/26/2025

Do you want to learn more about service dogs? What do you need to know to get started as a service dog trainer? Our course, the Service Dog Primer is packed with information to get you started in the exciting and rewarding world of training service dogs. https://thedogtrainerscrucible.thinkific.com/courses/The-Service-Dog-Primer

11/25/2025

🔼 Losing Lulu Summit 2026 🔼

⚠️ Speaker nominations close Wednesday 26th November 2025 at 11pm EST

We have some excellent nominations already and are doing a final callout now. If you know someone you'd like to hear from about Behavioural Euthanasia, any species, any aspect, and of course including the unique grief involved, please nominate them.

We are so excited seeing who you have nominated so far, and who is yet to come! Thank you.

You can nominate anyone, even yourself, here:
https://www.losinglulu.com/losing-lulu-summit-2026

11/23/2025

It's the time of year to renew your CPDT certifications! Do you need CEUs? Many of our courses are approved for CEUs from CCPDT - you can check out our catalogue here: https://thedogtrainerscrucible.thinkific.com/

11/22/2025

We believe we can all learn from each other - which is why we founded the Crucible Community, where dog trainers of all levels from around the world can connect, learn and share their experiences. To learn more about the Crucible Community, visit: https://thedogtrainerscrucible.thinkific.com/courses/the-crucible-community

11/21/2025

Pricing your services can be one of the hardest parts of running a business. Our on-demand webinar Elephants, Antelopes and Squirrels will help give you insight what services you choose to offer as a dog trainer, and how to price them. You can join the webinar here: https://thedogtrainerscrucible.thinkific.com/courses/elephants-antelopes-and-squirrels

11/20/2025

Today's Toucan Do It challenge is to write a newsletter to your mailing list! Newsletters are a great way to reach your clients and let them know about upcoming classes or programs. If you don't have a mailing list, now's the time to start one!

11/19/2025

It's that time of the week! Join Sue and Laura for our weekly live chats, on Wednesdays at 4pm EST! Today Sue and Laura will talking about behaviour matrices - an important tool we use to track training progress. You can join the live chat here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1Q9rNPX-Smyu2Z8SDve6ZQ #/registration

Want to view our previous live chats? You can watch them on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/

11/18/2025

Thank you for the great review, Laurie! We're so glad you enjoyed the course. If you're interested in diving into how dogs learn, we recommend our newest course, How Learning Works in Dogs! https://thedogtrainerscrucible.thinkific.com/courses/How-Learning-Works-In-Dogs

11/14/2025

Our latest course, How Learning Works in Dogs, is a great refresher for established trainers as well as a key foundation course for those just getting started! Join on-demand for just $24.99CAD! https://thedogtrainerscrucible.thinkific.com/courses/How-Learning-Works-In-Dogs

11/13/2025

Make time for your own dog. Teaching dog training requires us to practice, and the best way to do this is to teach your dog something new at least once a week! What is your dog working on today?

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5341Woolwich Guelph Townline
Kitchener, ON
N0B1M0

Website

http://www.thedogtrainerscrucible.ca/

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