06/08/2025
Worried about the lepto-virus outbreak in seals and raccoons rn?!
Struggling to keep your dog away from dead animals, p**p, and other yummy delights?
If you go on off-leash adventures with your dog to beaches or trails, you need my latest mini-guide:
10 Steps to Safety: 10 Ways to Keep Your Dog Away From Dead Things! On Sale! https://stan.store/dogexpertcyd/p/10-steps-to-keep-dogs-from-dead-things
10 Steps, 10 Min Read, 1-3 Days of Training
Come When Called
Drop
Leave-It
and so much more...
My 10 Steps to Safety System provides simplified, streamlined methods use the things you already do and say to train complex behaviors. No need to carve out extra time or expend extra energy training your dog a bunch of mechanics. No one has time for that! Not even some of us trainers!
So, I've developed a process that weaves what you already do and say into your daily routines and schedules. It works. I have done it with my four dogs and all of the guest dogs you'll see in the videos on my social media and in the booklets.
Each booklet in the 10 Steps to Safety Series covers a specific behavior/topic and breaks it all down into:
-10 Steps to Safety: you can usually do most of these in 1-3 days!
-Fact-checking common misconceptions about dogs that create blocks in training
-Advanced exercises to move onto once you've mastered the 10 steps
-Helpful tips to use if you come upon challenges within the 10 steps
-Videos demo'ing the concepts and proving how effective this simple method can be
And all of this is packaged into a short, easy, fun guide that walks you through simple exercises you can start TODAY! You'll see results right away. Everyone does!
The series, as a whole, is simple and easy enough that you can work with each one individually or with the whole system starting TODAY. The foundational concepts are the same throughout, with slight adjustments in the exercises to tend to each specific behavior/skill set.
As a neurodivergent busy professional entrepreneur running my own dog care business, a multi-pet mom, a domestic violence survivor, and a CPTSD thriver, I hit a low a couple of years back and I HAD to create a training methodology that catered to people who might not have the interest, money, time, energy, strength or health to devote to learning new mechanics and teaching them to their dogs. Life with our dogs does not need to be complicated and demanding, with a lot of extra baggage that we might not have foreseen when adding our furry family member to our home. But things like excessive barking, self-harming separation behaviors, pulling on leash, lunging and barking on leash, chewing, shredding, and so on are all behaviors that jeopardize our tenancy, our standing with our neighbors and our community, and can even create legal challenges. These issues also put our dogs' safety adn even their lives, at risk. We can't just ignore our dog's unwanted behaviors, and we don't have enough resources to fully address them, so what do we do?! My own struggles with divorce, poverty, living in a single-person household, mental health issues, and neurodivergence pushed me to learn how to do less to get more out of teaching our dogs how to live in our domesticated worlds, as best they can.
My overall goal is to help dog owners experiencing the real, everyday challenges of life with a dog through easy exercises you can weave into your daily routines using things you are already doing and saying, and that are already teaching your dog (Just maybe not what you WANT to teach them! My systems tweak all of this so you can your dog(s) can learn to get wanted behaviors and get rid of/reduce unwanted behaviors. This might also help keep pups in their homes and reduce the number of dogs overrunning our shelters and rescues. Lots of words to say I have developed methods that make all of this as easy and simple as possible and to get results as quickly as possible. I needed them, and I know you do too!
https://stan.store/dogexpertcyd
10 Steps, 10 Min Read, 1-3 Days of Training!
