It’s not the DOG we’re TRAINING is a captivating and straight to the point dog book full of stories and feels. These guys teach by sharing real life experiences, both wonderful and tragic, funny and sad. Their highly successful work with dogs is based on the power of love and accentuating the positive.

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After a tragic event in her childhood Katie has dedicated her life to dogs. Along with her partner, Dean, she has grabbed every opportunity to better the lives of the dogs around them both by creating things like their empathy-based cat and dog boarding facility, basic dog obedience classes, working with aggressive dogs and community dog walks.

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They are also involved in fostering and rehoming orphan dogs (where their owners have died) and assessing therapy dogs (Waldo, their dog, received a civic award for his ten-year therapy service in the community). 

 

Katie and Dean incorporated dogs in their work as alternative education tutors where they worked with teenagers who had been kicked out of school, they responded to the Pike River tragedy by standing outside the Post Office in Greymouth with a litter of mastiff pups offering free cuddles. 

 

Katie and Dean are grass roots Kiwi folk who wrote this book to share what they know and answer every question they have ever been asked about having a dog in your life.

 

This is the book you will struggle to lend because you will miss its company.

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Read more about our story in the recent Press article!