Dog Trainer Apprentice Programs

In a major effort to make a positive influence in an animals life, I have developed a Dog Trainer Apprentice program for persons who live near enough to Greeneville to be able to travel to our training center once or twice a week for several months.

I am a positive dog trainer, and my methods encompass Classical and Operant Conditioning. Our apprentice programs will take you from a raw recruit if that is where you are now, and expose you to the science behind positive dog training.

I use clickers as event markers for training new behaviors, and the mechanical aspect of using this tool is also taught to our Apprentices.

During the Apprenticeship, you will work with rescue dogs, students dogs, and potential service dogs as you develop your own positive training skills.

Our goal is to train our Apprentices to the point where they too can become Certified Professional Dog Trainers.

There are three levels of the Apprentice program, and you can go through as many or as few of the levels as you choose. There is also a "Pre-Apprentice" program which will help you to decide if dog training is really for you.

Trained dogs seldom find themselves abandoned. Dog training saves lives.

Dog training and working with dog lovers is the best thing I have ever done in my life. The dogs really appreciate you helping train Mom & Dad.

Critters On Cloud Nine Store is Open

After several months of work, we have finally launched our natural foods store.

Currently we are carrying many of following brand names online:


Ark Naturals
Canidae
Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul
Diamond Naturals
Natures Variety
Old Mother Hubbard
Primal
Solid Gold
Taste of the Wild
Timberwolf Organics
Wellness

Those that don't appear at our online store will be coming soon, we hope....

All of the above brands are usually in stock at our All Critters Bed n Biscuit store at 113 Kennel Lane, Greeneville, 37743. To check an availability, please call 423-639-5975.

Taste of the Wild and Natures Variety are both grain-free products and we are having excellent results feeding these products to our allergic dogs. Thus far, we have itchies fairly under control, and we have yeasty ears totally under control with Taste of the Wild products.

We would all appreciate your input on what is working for you that is not causing the immune systems of your dogs to become worse, which are such treatments as steroids and antibiotics.

Chemicals are the cause of our dogs problems and our health problems as well. We live in a toxic world.

Welcome to all

I have been planning to start a blog about our life and livelihood for several years now. Sorry for me that it has taken so long.

A little about us. My husbands family has owned the land our farm is on since 1810. I can't imagine living anywhere else, though I was not born in Tennessee.

In the early 1990's I really wanted out of the corporate world, and wanted to go back into training dogs. So, I started a game plan that included becoming a certified positive dog trainer, and I started researching kennels and kenneling.

I guess the best way to handle this blog is to work forward from the starting point.

A. I hated the corporate world.

B. I still had to eat.

C. I was pretty sure even back then that being one of the "boomers", I was never going to get to
retire and kick back.

D. This brings me to the big hurdle, what was I going to do that would be able to keep us eating and a roof over our heads.

E. I won't go into just how it came about that it would be a boarding kennel, but suffice it to say that was the direction I headed in.

F. Time for research, writing a business plan, planning the facility, building the facility, writing the operations plan, and learning everything I could about dogs and kenneling. I spent over three years in this phase.

G. Breaking ground on the boarding kennel facility, this was June of 1997.