Leanne James

Verified
 Evolution Dog Training LV
89144
10524 American Falls Lane Las Vegas Nevada 89144 US
 Technician, Trainer

As a Certified Dog Trainer and Licensed Veterinary Technician for over 15 years I have been fortunate to have accumulated a variety of hands-on professional experience with a wide range of dogs, behavior and training services.

My Dog Training Specialties: Puppy & Companion Success Plans, Aggression, Behavior Management, Dog Life Enrichment Plans, AKC STAR Puppy and CGC, Dogs in Veterinary Settings, Therapy Dog Pre-Certification Training, Obedience, Customized Training Plans and packages

Experience: I have worked with dogs of ALL varieties in dog training and veterinary clinical settings, as well as helping shelter and rescue dogs. I am also experienced in animal emergency and am Pet CPR certified. I am able to provide hands-on training instruction and coaching in the areas of obedience, behavior modification, aggression, agility, therapy dog prep, AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy, AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluations. As well as clicker training and fear free handling (pending certification- to be completed by 2020).

Continuing Education: I seek regular continuing education yearly to keep my professional training methods relevant and in alignment with the most current studies. This ensures you and your dogs are afforded the highest and most beneficial professional standards. While some trainers rely upon outdated information that we now know is detrimental to our dogs quality of life, I strive to offer the best experience for your dog, and most effective methods of helping you achieve your dog training goals!

I find the psychology of canines to be fascinating! I enjoy the challenges that come along with figuring out what’s going on in their doggie minds and shaping their behaviors to a more favorable outcome.

Bringing all of my experience to each new dog I get to work with is something I enjoy! This also means that there are many ways to resolve behavioral issues and it’s my job to help you solve them.

I will encourage you and keep your pup motivated, learning along the way! Tackling difficult behaviors and having fun. I want to make it as simple as possible, and will support you along the way to your training goals!

Education and Achievements

Licensed Veterinary Technician since 2007

ABC (Animal Behavior College) Graduate of 2007 and Certified Dog Trainer

IAABC (International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants) Accredited Trainer

Fear Free Certified Professional Trainer

AKC (American Kennel Club) CGC (Canine Good Citizen), Community Canine and Temperament Test Evaluator

APDT (Association of Professional Dog Trainers) Professional Member

SVBT (Society of Veterinary Behavior Technicians) Professional Member

NAVTA (National Assoc. of Veterinary Technicians) Member

PetsMart Trainer for 3 years

PIMA Medical Institute Grad for Veterinary Technician in 2007 and Student Mentor

Training shelter dogs since I was a teenager

Offering group and private training since 2005

Offering virtual consultations, training, and coaching

US Army Veteran and military spouse

My training methods and theory

HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND

The most important aspect is to help strengthen the human-animal bond. I am here to help establish better communication and foster more positive interactions. My goals is to help you guys work together and create a positive-feedback loop of desirable behaviors.

Our pups enjoy our company and like to make us happy! (Most of the time). Once we find what motivates them, you can begin to work together to overcome any behavioral obstacles, learn new skills or refine bad habits. I will help you keep your pup engaged and motivated to learn!

POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT

Using positive reinforcement LIMA principles as the basis for my methods, this helps to build trust and encourages our dogs to cooperate with us willingly. This means we motivate them to stick with us as we teach them what we’d like them to do, then they will begin to offer the behaviors automatically! Treats, toys, praise, play-time, freedom to run around the house, going out the door, going on a walk, earning meals are ALL some examples of the many reinforcements we can use to make training fun and part of your normal daily routine.

COMMUNICATION: TRANSLATING BETWEEN HUMAN AND DOG LANGUAGE

Communicating with our dogs can seem confusing and impossible sometimes. That’s what I’m here for! Non-verbal (or body language) communication is a large part of the foundations of communicating with our pups. I will teach you verbal cues (“commands”, but sounds too harsh) that we will practice, and your dog will eventually learn to quickly perform the cues you ask of them.

Training is not just for puppies! All dogs can benefit from training. One important factor to consider is that training is about fun, and basic obedience is a great start, but training also about safety. Busy streets, other dogs or animals, young or old people, yucky things on the side of the road on walks, toxic foods we drop on the floor, new baby coming home soon and so on. I believe in implementing some simple “house rules” to follow with all dogs and you’ll quickly see a noticeable improvement of their behaviors and healthy boundaries help everyone be safer and feel more at peace. Then, those new behaviors become the new norm (habit). Who among us couldn’t benefit from a refresher on manners!

With a variety of breeds, ages, sizes, personalities and behavioral habits- I can tailor each area of training to your needs. In a group class setting this can be a bit of a challenge, but there are multiple ways of going about teaching our dogs new things so finding that success is what I love to do!

SOCIALIZATION

Socialization is so important! We often think of this as dogs meeting dogs and people etc. But, socialization is so much more than that and the sooner/younger we start doing it right, the better! We have to remember that dogs are DOGS trying to live in a complex, over-whelming and dangerous human world. I will help you learn to introduce new people, places, things in the best way possible to avoid reactivity or fear associated with these things. If they have already developed some reactivity, I will help you get to the root of the issue and walk you both through the path to over-coming this over-reaction.