About The Ontario Dog Trainer
Karen Laws, The Ontario Dog Trainer is devoted to helping you Take the Lead™ for results to improve your dog's behaviour. Whether you need obedience training, behaviour improvement or education and socialization for your dog or new puppy, Karen can fill your needs.
Karen understands that you have your own unique learning style. She also understands how dogs think. Karen brings these two skill sets together in a fun, firm and fair way to help you Take the Lead™ to give you a well behaved, well adjusted pet that will fit perfectly with your lifestyle. Karen's Laws produce reliable results on and off leash! ... Guaranteed!
Contact Karen today for an evaluation in the comfort of your home.
About Karen Laws
Karen has over 30 years experience educating owners and their dogs. She improves dog behaviour and solves problems that to others, seem impossible to fix.
Karen's first memory of her fascination with dogs and their instinctive abilities began when she accompanied her father and his beagles on Saturday afternoon rabbit hunting trips. For her eleventh birthday Karen received a dog of her own – a Labrador retriever (Blythe's Duff) ... and so began her life long devotion to dogs and dog training.
Karen began training retrievers for competitive retriever field trials in the mid-1980's. She has successfully trained numerous Labrador retrievers to the esteemed title of field trial champion. Karen's dogs have always been trained to be good citizens.
Karen is skilled at reading dog behaviour and solving dog problems through the use and application of a variety of dog training tools and training methods. She is a professional wildlife biologist and certified elementary school teacher – a perfect combination for success in helping people improve their dog's behaviour for a wonderful lifestyle together.
Karen is Ontario's best remote collar trainer. She has effectively used a remote training collar in a fun and fair way for nearly three decades to improve dog behaviour and to enhance dog performance.
Her commitment to bring the joy of dog companionship to senior citizens in long term care facilities is demonstrated in her volunteer work with the East Central Therapy Dog program.
Karen practices her belief in continuing education by studying with other accomplished canine professionals as well as attending workshops, seminars and other professional dog training academies.
Her passion for the profession of dog training is demonstrated in numerous ways:
- Professional Member (P-2589) International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP)
- Department of Education Committee member, IACP
- Professional member, Canadian Association of Professional Pet Dog Trainers (CAPPDT)
- Volunteer handler, East Central Therapy Dogs
- Past director, National Retriever Association of Canada
- Graduate studies, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
- B. Science Biology, Trent University, Peterborough Ontario
- B. Education, Hons, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Ontario
