Nancy Meara

Nancy MTrainer & Day School ManagerNancy's training career started with her pet rats and cat. Unable to have a dog as a child, Nancy set out on a journey to explore positive reinforcement and clicker training with the pets she could have. Her hard work and dedication paid off, strengthening the bond between Nancy and her unusual pack, while proving to her mother that the time was right to test the waters with fostering dogs as a family. What started as a fun test and family activity turned into a passion, and within 3 years Nancy and her family had fostered over 37 dogs.Nancy's fostering experience cultivated a love for helping dogs to grow, thrive, and become their best selves. She became driven to find a career that would allow her to continue this work, leading her to a job as a dog trainer at the local big-box pet store. During this period, Nancy developed a great foundation in positive reinforcement training and had decent success with her fosters, until she started receiving dogs with behavioral issues. Finding herself limited by the knowledge and methods at her disposal, Nancy leaned into the world of balanced training. Mentoring under Blake Rodriguez and Otto Monchez, she developed the skillset to successfully work with a wide variety of dogs and behaviors.On her days off, Nancy is almost always doing something involving animals. She now has her own dog (Yeti, a foster-fail) and spends her off-time training her, as well as her pet cat (Petunia), prepping raw meals for her pets, and continuing to advance her knowledge of animal nutrition.