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Hi! I’m Ryan! I’ve had a love for dogs as pets and in some form of training/behaviour modification as long as I can remember. Dogs have always played a major role in my life. As a child, my family had a wonderful chocolate lab named Max and I can remember having no idea what to do regarding training him, but will always remember how rewarding it was to encourage an animal to work with me and for me in a task driven, or obedience sense. When I decided to start this business, I decided to name the business after Max. Fast forwarding a number of years, I found myself in a position to learn the basics in the dog training world from one of the best in a shadowing capacity in Dartmouth, NS. It was around this time that I became more involved in dog rescue and fostering as well and really needed to hone my skills with behaviour modification. I had recently adopted one of my fosters, Zeus.
Zeus was an 8 month old pit bull(American Staffordshire Terrier)/mastiff mix pup that was born in a high kill shelter and had zero direction, obedience, socialization or sense in how to manage himself around new people without trying to ‘dominate’ or claim them. He especially despised new dogs, treating them as threats. Within one year, Zeus became certified as a therapy dog through St. John Ambulance and another year after that he was given the designation ‘Specific Needs’ therapy dog and works with children, vulnerable adults or just anyone that wants some good old puppy love. Zeus does his therapy at the Halifax Airport every Friday. He also has many dog friends these days and will get along with any dog after a proper, controlled introduction. Today, I have three dogs... Zeus (January 2014), Nova (American Staffordshire Terrier, July 2015) and Crash (Chihuahua mix, December 2014). All are rescues and all have come with their own challenges that I have been able to work around. Nova is also a therapy dog with St. John Ambulance and makes her rounds at long term care facilities. I also have a cat named Bruce! He was the first pet I had as an adult. He will sit and shake paw for anyone :)
I do have a ‘normal’ 9-5 job but dog training is where my heart lies and is truly what I love doing most. I am still involved in dog rescue, fostering, working with rescue groups to provide training at no cost when necessary and am an approved trainer with the SPCA Provincial Animal Shelter in Dartmouth, NS.
Many of my clients will tell you that I can speak dog. Unfortunately, as awesome as this would be, I am not able to communicate with these wonderful animals in a verbal capacity. What I am able to do is read body language, energy and intent to communicate to you why your dog is doing/not doing something so that you can understand a little bit of dog psychology and use this to your advantage to shape the behaviours you want, and to reduce/remove the ones you do not want. I am a big believer that practice makes progress and with dogs, everything you do creates progress; nothing is ever perfect in the dog training world, there is always room for learning, growth, development and education.
