Course Details
There are many benefits to Control Unleashed skills, but a well kept secret is just how powerful CU can be with teaching or improving your dog’s recall. Gain the benefit of patterns and predictability to build on your dog’s recall skills. Kim will discuss three CU skills that will build on your dog’s recall, as well as how the popular Look At That game may be all you need. She’ll also demonstrate how our dogs can be empowered to create their own recall patterns. And finally, she’ll discuss small changes that you can make in your reinforcement strategies to make your patterns even more powerful. Kim is an avid hiker and builds off-leash skills from the very beginning with each of her dogs and will be bringing her experience of the power of CU to you!
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$19.95 - This pre-recorded presentation including lecture and Q&A will show in your Webinar Library after purchase.
About the Presenter:
Kim Palermo CPDT-KA (she/her) is a Certified Control Unleashed Instructor and ACE (Animal Centred Education) Practitioner. She specializes in teaching Control Unleashed and ACE Free Work with private clients, teaches a high volume of in-person CU classes, and incorporates CU into all of her membership-style group pet dog classes for her dog training business, BlueDog, located north of Boston. In 2008 she began offering dog walking and soon grew and managed a large team of staff and introduced dog training services. She’s been working with dogs professionally for over 20 years and has been an avid dog owner and sports enthusiast her entire life. She has a fondness for helping dogs with big feelings, and uses compassion and kindness with every animal and human that she works with.
Kim’s passion is to help others pursue their dream of training dogs and she continues to expand her business in a way that supports growth, mentorship, and opportunity for her team. She is a mentor for Control Unleashed certification program, the CATCH dog trainers program, and for local trainers. She has spoken in conferences, teaches in-person workshops, and presents for her local community.
Kim is a true dog sport dabbler and dog lover, trying everything she can with her five dogs to learn as much as she can! Currently she’s training her two Collies for herding, obedience, agility, conformation, and scent work. She also competes in Rally and Obedience with her miniature poodle. Kim is the vice president of the Collie Club of NH and a member of the Collie Club of America and is actively working on expanding performance options for Rough and Smooth Collies. During her free time she likes to escape to the woods to hike, is a beekeeper, raises a flock of chickens, ducks, turkeys, and guinea hens, and dreams of the day when she has a farm.
Pronouns: Kim goes by she/her.
