25/03/2026
Hi, I’m Madison Eliza 👋 If you're new here you may not know me, so let me tell ya a little about myself 🎉🎉
I didn’t grow up dreaming of being a dog trainer. I grew up convinced I was going to work in movies.
When I was young, I trained as a Hollywood special-effects artist and fully expected my life to look like something straight out of a Quentin Tarantino movie— dramatic lighting, chaos, long hours, and a lot of creative problem-solving. Boy how times change....
And in a weird way… I got chaos & creative problem solving, just not the way i expected 😂
Somewhere along the way, I realized that the thing that actually made me feel calm, grounded, and genuinely happy wasn’t film sets.
It was dogs.
I started training when I was 21, and what began as something small quickly turned into something I knew I couldn’t walk away from.
I worked in the behaviour department at the Toronto Humane Society, trained for years at multiple PetSmart locations, and learned everything I could get my hands on. Not just basic obedience, but grooming skills, basic vet care, medical rehab, behaviour cases, working with anxious dogs, high-energy dogs, dogs that needed patience more than anything else.
The kind of experience that really shapes you.
After that came working with daycares, board-and-train programs, and learning under other trainers before eventually starting my own company, WolfWild Dog Training. That later became There N Bark Again, which honestly says a lot about me in one name: storytelling, creativity, and dogs all mixed together.
And yes, the name is absolutely inspired by The Lord of the Rings because I’ve never been very good at separating the things I love.
Dogs have been my whole world for as long as I can remember. Since I was 2 years old, they’ve been the thing that made me feel safe, excited, motivated, and understood.
That hasn’t changed.
Right now I am dealing with some medical issues, which is why I’m only working here and there for the moment. But this isn’t the end of anything...
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