Kelly Wilson

Kelly is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer with CCPDT and is a certified Canine Good Citizen and Star Puppy Evaluator for AKC. She started her path to dog training as a volunteer at The Western Pennsylvania Humane Society (now Humane Animal Rescue) 20 years ago cleaning dog kennels and walking dogs. She moved into vet tech training, assistant training, and eventually became a lead trainer for their public classes. Over the last 5 years she has adopted much of Tena's curriculum into her classes at HAR and has assisted Tena to master the SJC curriculum.She will be teaching Puppy K, Elementary Manners, and Middle School Manners group starting summer 2021 and will be offering private and private in-home training for basic manners and typical training challenges starting in early fall 2021. We are very hopeful that she will head up our Therapy Dog program starting in 2022 some time! Outside of dog training, Kelly ran a very successful pet sitting business for 20 years, prior to taking up training more full time and not seeing pet sitting clients most of the time. She loves learning and has decided to go back to vet tech school to finish what she started many years ago.Kelly shares her life with her labrador retriever, Bullet, and her senior dog, Penny. She and Bullet are working towards his CGC, Therapy Dog certfiication, and dog sports! Hey Kelly, what's your favorite skill to teach dogs and their owners? Mu favorite skill to teach is loose leash walking because so many dog owners have dogs that pull on the leash and dogs that pull on the leash are less likely to get walks that they need to be more relaxed and calm in the home. I know that by helping people with this skill, dogs get more freedom, more walks , more exercise, and more bonding time with their owners. Its a win-win for everyone.