Mastering the Bark Side!

Do you have an adolescent dog between the age of 5 months and 3 years, or an older dog that has developed some unwanted behaviours? Perhaps you adopted a dog that is not acting the way you expected it to. If so, then you won’t want to miss this!

Lynda Kitson from Who’s Walking Who Dog Training Centres will discuss the adolescent stage in dogs, PTSD in adopted dogs and how to work with any dog to improve their behaviour.

She’ll explain how Games-Based Concept training is different from traditional methods and will guide you through a dog’s brain and why they react the way they do. Once you diagnose the cause of their reactivity, you can help your dog change their behaviour through some simple exercises that over time, will help them learn to make better decisions. There’ll be an opportunity at the end of the session to learn some of the exercises they practice in their classes.

Dogs are welcome!

This event is in collaboration with Pickering Animal Services. 

All clients attending the event must complete the form linked here: 

https://forms.office.com/r/wXimRzhDZd

About the presenter:

Lynda has been involved with dogs all her life and has attended various dog training schools. In 2006 Lynda was asked to join Who’s Walking Who Dog Training Centres as a trainer. She later developed their Freestyle Obedience courses.

Her own dogs have been trained in Obedience, Freestyle Obedience, Rally Obedience, Tricks, Agility, Treibball and Scent Detection. Her dogs also performed with the Woofjocks Canine All Stars from 2010 to 2017.

Lynda became a Certified Walks ‘N’ Wags Pet First Aid Instructor and founded K9 Compass in 2011 through which she conducted Pet First Aid courses at Who’s Walking Who as well as various locations outside the GTA. Due to a lack of time, she closed K9 Compass in 2022 but continues to teach Pet First Aid out of Who’s Walking Who.

In 2018, Lynda became the new owner of Who’s Walking Who Dog Training Centres which has been in business since 1989. Their 2 locations provide dog training classes in Durham Region and Toronto. 

Lynda strongly believes in positive reward-based training. Like many things, dog training continues to evolve, and Lynda became interested in games-based concept training in 2020. She was greatly impressed with the changes in her own dogs and became certified as a Pro Dog Trainer through Absolute Dogs in the UK that same year. She is so passionate about this method of training that she has incorporated Games Based Concept Training into the training programs at Who’s Walking Who.

Lynda lives with her husband and three Golden Retrievers – Tula who is 3, Star who is 6 and their newest rescue Violet who is 8.