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- TRAINING CLASSES
- REACTIVE DOGS
- BEHAVIOR CONSULTS
- Helix Fairweather, KPA CTP has been training with operant conditioning since 1996 and
is truly committed to this way of communicating with dogs. She offers group
classes and private consultations, all with the goal of helping people and
their dogs learn to live together and have fun. Her goal -- force-free
training becoming the social norm.
- Helix’s classes include an innovative clicker training pet manners class,
Control Unleashed® classes, agility classes, and beginning clicker training classes in Salem, Oregon.
She also teaches online agility classes for clicker trainers who wish to homeschool their clicker
trained agility dogs.
- A contributing author for Clean Run magazine and The Clicker Journal, Helix is a member of the
Karen Pryor Academy
faculty and a member of the CLICKER EXPO
faculty. Helix and her co-presenter, Megan Cruz, KP CTP, offer their GO FOR IT! Relaxed and Ready
seminar across the continent. Helix holds a BS in physics from Oregon State University and an
MS in physics and astrophysics from the University of New Mexico. She says, "I went off to grad school
to be an astrophysicist and came back home hooked on dog training."
- SERVICES OFFERED
Classes—Clicker Training Classes, Manners and Life Skills Classes, Clicker Trained Agility Classes,
Clicker Trained Rally Obedience Classes, Reactive Dogs Classes, On-Line Classes, Control Unleashed classes
(based on the book by Leslie McDevitt)
- Seminars—Clicker Trained Agility, Reactive Dogs, GO FOR IT! Relaxed and Ready** seminars with
Megan Cruz, KPA CTP and other topics upon request. BE A TREE: dog bite prevention program for primary school
children.
- **The exercises presented in this seminar are based on the Control Unleashed® program
developed by Leslie McDevitt. Control Unleashed® is a 7-week course developed by Leslie McDevitt
and is presented in her book of the same title. For more information on Control Unleashed® training,
see www.controlunleashed.net
- Private behavior consultations including remedial socialization through dog play sessions.
- MEGAN CRUZ, KPA CTP Megan Cruz has been training animals in some
way or another since she learned to ride horses at age 3. Besides horses, chickens, goats, fish, cats,
numerous small rodents, and of course dogs, she trained and handled animals for the Oregon Zoo's
"Zoo to You" program, which included ferrets, parrots, snakes, box turtles, and rabbits.
- Megan and her husband co-managed a large (100 capacity dogs, 30 capacity cats) boarding kennel/
full-service veterinary hospital/grooming shop in CA for several years, where she was also resident
trainer for board-and-train dogs, as well as a private lesson instructor. She has continued to teach
private lessons or small group classes since returning to Oregon, and has been teaching Beginning and
Advanced CU classes (based on the book "Control Unleashed" by Leslie McDevitt) since 2007.
- In January 2008 Megan completed the Karen Pryor Academy
Dog Trainer Program and is a Karen Pryor Certified Training Partner. Megan and her co-presenter, Helix Fairweather,
KP CTP, offer their
GO
FOR IT! Relaxed and Ready
seminar across the continent.
- SERVICES OFFERED
Pre-puppy/pre-adoption consulting (including home prep/proofing for your new arrival); private instruction
for puppy head start; foundation behaviors; basic obedience; home and family manners. Control Unleashed
classes (see www.dogdaysnw.com)
(based on the book by Leslie McDevitt)
- Megan is available for private training and behavior modification.
Contact Megan Cruz - barksville@msn.com
Created OCTOBER 2009
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