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Heidi Hurdy

Dog trainer in Sacramento

#540 in United States, #48 in California, #9 in Sacramento

United States

Sacramento

https://canefida.com/

Service areas:

Sacramento, West Sacramento, Elk Grove, Citrus Heights

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Heidi is the owner of Canefida, and is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA) and Certified Behavior Consultant Canine (CBCC-KA) through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers. Heidi is also a supporting member of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants. She has been training dogs and their people professionally for over 14 years.Heidi's specialty is fostering the dog-human relationship. Through Canefida, she offers creative behavior solutions helping humans listen to their dogs by observing and interpreting canine body language, and then talking with them through effective and humane positive reinforcement-based methods so that they can live harmoniously together. She compassionately helps dog guardians to get desired behavior change without using pain, fear or intimidation. Heidi started her career with the privilege of mentoring under Dr. Ian Dunbar in Berkeley CA in the late 80's, then started teaching puppy classes for him through Sirius Dog Training and then started her own business Canefida Canine in 2022.

Certifications:

CCPDT-KA, CBCC-KA

Dog training services include

  • Aggressive dog training
  • Reactive dog training
  • In home training
  • Off leash training
  • Puppy training

More info about Heidi Hurdy's dog training:

Offering puppy classes, adult dog basic manners classes and private consulting for behavior issues in-person and over Zoom.

Behavioral issue focus:

Human-directed aggression, dog to dog aggression, resource guarding, fear, phobias.

Dog training methods:

Gentle methods that do not use fear, pain or intimidation. Focusing on training desired behaviors that are incompatible with undesired ones, enrichment, and desensitization and classical conditioning, building trust though relationship building and play. We deep dive into reading body language accurately.

Why I became a dog trainer:

To help people understand their dogs and to help them live peacefully with them.

My favorite part of being a dog trainer:

Seeing people laugh and play with their dogs and enjoy every moment with them.

My #1 dog training tip:

Don't interrupt the sniff. Meaning: let your dogs slow down and explore the world. Let them sniff those bushes. Interrupting them creates frustration for the dog and eventually for the human. Don't rush their walks. Give them time to process their environment. and try to imagine what they are experiencing.

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