Michelle's Bio
Michelle Blount has been a professional
dog trainer for over 15 years; however,
her love and interest in dog behavior
can be tracked back much further. She
was always involved with animals but her
serious behavior interest started at age
13 when she volunteered at an animal
shelter. That experience taught her that
most dogs are turned into animal
shelters, and ultimately
euthanized, due
to behavior problems. So Michelle
decided to dedicate her life to dog
behavior in order to give these
wonderful dogs a second chance. She
continues to support rescue efforts on a
consistent basis. Over the last 15 years there have been
great advances in our understanding of
canine behavior and training; Michelle
had kept up with such advances through
seminars, video, dog training literature,
and discussions with other trainers. She
is heavily influenced by Patricia
McConnell, Gary Wilkes, Sheila Booth,
William Campbell, and a variety of
excellent trainers she has met over the
years. She is also influenced by her
more recent work with horses and
natural horsemanship. Her application of
the same basics of leadership combined
with motivational teaching works as well
for horses as it does for dogs. She now
considers her program a sort of natural
dogmanship method. She believes the
key to a good trainer is not focused on
how they correct but in how they teach. Leadership, motivation, firmness,
fairness, kindness and consistency
produce a happy, well adjusted animal
that is eager to work. Michelle owns Belgian Tervuren and her
husband, Randy, has a German
Shepherd rescue. They also have 3
horses. She has successfully shown in
conformation and obedience trials as
well as having a cert working SAR
dog(currently retired). She also trains
in schutzhund, agility and herding and
has trained many service dogs. To see
her dogs and their accomplishments visit
CedarCrest Belgian Tervuren
She traveled the country from 2007 to
2010 due to her husbands job, working
on her book, occasionally setting up
seminars, training her horses and dogs,
doing a lot of horse camping trips to trail
ride and also showing her dogs when
she gets a chance. After several years of
searching for a farm in TN they found the
right place in Jellico, TN. Now settled in and serving the northern
TN and southeastern Ky area.
The Pawsitive program is the combination of teaching the human dog behavior while training the dog with motivation and the necessary structure dogs need
