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August 2005North Coast Dogs News |
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New faces, New places
There have been many changes at North Coast Dogs over the last six months. We have added new class instructors, some new classes and even a new location.
New Faces
The new faces include Heather Holt, Robi Kublin and Mary Edwards. Heather's background includes a wide variety of dog related fields. She has done grooming, training, and has competed in agility, rally obedience, competition obedience as well as conformation. Heather is a graduate of Animal Behavior College and spent some time with North Coast Dogs completeing her internship.
Robi started as a North Coast Dogs student who already had an extensive knowledge of training before taking classes. Her enjoyment of the classes with us parlayed to an internship/class assistant. Robi has worked hard to advance her learning by reading countless books, attending seminars with well known training professionals and working with her personal dog, Shadow.
Mary comes to North Coast Dogs also with an extensive background of working with animals. She started out at Sea World in a variety of capacities as well as owning and working with her own dogs. Her current two include Katie and Ellie. She has experimented with herding with Katie and Ellie, just a youngster, is on her way to competing in many canine sports. It is a pleasure to have these three with us and they have already been invaluable assets to the North Coast Dogs team.
New Places
North Coast Dogs is proud to announce a new location in the Chagrin Falls area. We have teamed up with All About Dogs of Northeast Ohio. All About Dogs is a brand new facility located at 17078 Munn Road in Auburn Township. They offer a variety of services including a daycare facility, pet supply store, photography studio and self serve dog wash stations. We will be offering all of our current classes as well as some new classes that have yet to make a North Coast Dogs debut. Stay tuned for the exciting information.
Special Seminars
North Coast Dogs will be hosting weekend seminars with two best selling authors and highly respected individuals in the training and behavior industry.
Dr. Patricia McConnell
August 13th and 14th, we welcome Dr. Patricia McConnell to the Cleveland
area. Dr. McConnell has authored a wide 
variety
of videos and booklets on specific behavioral issues. She is also the author
of the best selling and highly respected book "The Other End of the
Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs". The weekends topics will
be "Both Ends of the Leash" on Saturday August 13th. This discussion
will be all about her best selling book with dog demonstrations included.
Sunday August 14th will be dedicated to dog to dog aggression issues. The
first half of the day will be about leash aggressive behavior. Dogs that
show aggressive tendencies while on leash. The second half of the day will
be about dogs showing aggression towards each other within the home. Registration
includes the two day seminar and lunch both days.
Dr. McConnell is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist with a Ph.D in Zoology. She has been seen on Animal Planet, is co-host of "Calling All Pets", a radio show on Wisconsin public radio that is carried by over 100 stations across the country and a contributer to BARk magazine. She is also owner of Dog's Best Friend Ltd.
Pat Miller
October 8th and 9th, we are pleased to have Pat Miller coming to Cleveland. Pat's career in dog training has taken her from California across the country to Tennessee and now Maryland. She worked in a variety of capacities at the Marin Humane Society in Marin County, California as well as the Santa Cruz SPCA. She has formed her own training business (and moved it several times) named Peacable Paws, LLC. Pat conducts group training classes as well as conducting training schools for trainers and one on one behavior modification with clients. She has authored two books. The first called "The Power of Positive Dog Training' and the most recent being " Positive Perspectives:Love Your Dog, Train Your Dog".
Pat's two days in Cleveland will be spent talking about clicker training specifically. Saturday October 8th will be a lesson in Operant conditioning and clicker training tricks. Sunday October 9th will be a practical demonstration on clicker training classes. There will be live demonstrations both days and plenty of learning as well! Registration includes the two day seminar and lunch both days.
We're Moving
After three solid years at our current location in Lakewood, North Coast
Dogs will be moving. The folks at Walgreen's have decided that the corner
of Warren and Madison in Lakewood would be a great spot for a new drug store.
As a result,
we are having to move our home office and Lakewood training center. The
great news is we have secured a location right next store to Inn
The Doghouse. Inn The Doghouse is a multi service facility that is currently
offering dog daycare, boarding capabilities for dogs and cats and full service
grooming. With the addition of North Coast Dogs, we will be able to offer
training classes and a retail store in addition. Both North Coast Dogs and
Inn The Doghouse are plenty excited about the opportunity to work together
to create an all in one "Pet Mall" if you will.
The new address will be 10237 Berea Rd Unit J.
Details about a coming together party will be announced in the near future.