Meet your Professional Dog Trainer...
Lisa has helped over 3000 dogs and their owners. Her dynamic teaching style and diverse dog training background make her an effective instructor. As a pet dog owner herself (yes, they do sleep in bed), Lisa understands the stress an untrained dog can add to your household and can help with practical everyday changes. Her experience in a wide variety of dog sports allows her to design programs for both the pet dog and the performance dog.
Late in 1991 Lisa acquired her first German Shepherd Dog from a breeder in Washington. Together she and Keno took High in Trial at multiple AKC obedience trials up to Companion Dog Excellent, took High in Trial at AKC and AHBA sheepherding trials earning his Herding Intermediate and Herding Trial Dog 2 titles and earned his Schutzhund One degree. Her success in a variety of venues got her hooked on dog training.
Dog training changed from her hobby to her profession in 1995 when she was recruited by the owner of East San Diego county based Canine Performance Center. Here Lisa worked as head trainer overseeing the in-board obedience program and teaching group classes and private lessons at the facility and off-site locations (Pet Supply Warehouse and Petco). Working with pet dog owners changed the focus of training from winning blue ribbons to improving relationships between people and their pets.
From 1998 until 2004, Lisa instructed reward-based dog training classes at local PETsMART stores (Aero Dr., Vista, Pt. Loma and El Cajon). Keeping 12 dogs and their owners focused in a distracting environment honed Lisa's skills as a teacher. In the Summer of 2001, Lisa attended a four-week residential Pet Training Instructor program at the Marin Humane Society. This program developed by six of the nation's top behaviorists and trainers covered Learning Theory, Ethology, classroom management and hands-on training with shelter dogs. When she returned to San Diego County she spent the next 2 years training other Pet Training Instructors for local PETsMART stores. Teaching other professionals helped deepen her belief in the importance of science-based knowledge to the dog trainer.
Training dogs is more than a profession for Lisa...it is a passion. Throughout the years she has shared her home with German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, Rottweilers, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier and most recently a Border Terrier. Lisa breeds working Belgian Malinois under the kennel name Loups du Soleil. She and the dogs have competed and trained for AKC Obedience, NAHRA hunting retriever tests, flyball, French Ringsport, Mondioring, Schutzhund, sheepherding trials and more. She races with INXS flyball racing team and is the breeder of many of the team's fastest dogs.
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