Diane Garrod is a PCT-A (professional canine trainer – accredited),
with a degree in Communication and Journalism from University of Wisconsin. Garrod is a Founding Member of the Pet
Professionals Guild: the association of force free pet professionals (PPG). She
is Owner of Canine Transformations Learning, Langley, Washington (celebrating
17 years, January 2022), awarded 2016 and 2017 Best Business category Dog Trainer
by Langley, WA Awards Committee.
Early in her career, Garrod spent
eight years in hospital and public health, public relations. She then worked in
broadcast media as reporter, promotions director, news anchor and community
relations at ABC, NBC, FOX in medium market television and promotions
director, events coordinator in radio. Garrod then worked in the Silicon
Valley, as Senior Producer for Talk City a Liveworld Productions entity
creating online celebrity events and interviews, and chatrooms, three years
before starting her dog training and behavior business working fulltime with
problem dogs.
Garrod has skills certifications in
resource guarding, animal behavior, theriogenology, writing for the sciences,
fear in dogs and cognition and emotion, sleep Most recent certifications are in
predation and aggression, 2017; and Aggression
in Dogs: Safety, Defensive Handling, and Training 2017, as well as Fear Free Certification, through VetFolio by Marty Becker,
DVM (fear free veterinarian practices) 2017. She is also a Guild Certified
Tellington Touch Practitioner since 2011.
Garrod’s main areas of research
include stress in dogs and is the author of Stress Release; For Dogs, the Canine
Emotional Detox. She is an international speaker on this topic and on solving
the aggression and behavior puzzle, force free.
Garrod is a regular contributor to
PPG’s Barks from the Guild Magazine having cover articles in: Garrod instructed
a class, five sessions in length on Dogs
Who Guard Resources, from guarding to sharing, March 17 to May 12, 2021 at
Grisha Stewart’s School online.
Dodging Euthanasia with Force Free
techniques, a story about her own rehomed adoptee, Skye http://www.petprofessionalguild.com/event-2326495
Sept 2016, and 2017 Cover Article Multi-Dog Households Fighting protocol, a
how-to in working through issues in a multi-dog household fighting situation. 2021
Dogs Who Guard Resources article; from guarding to sharing in 60 days.
Garrod has a DVD feature, 2015
www.tawzerdog.com on The Canine Emotional Detox: Systematic Stress Release
Protocol for Challenging Canines.
Currently she has two dogs, a Belgian Tervuren, Valor and mini-Australian Shepherd, Skye. She has trained a variety of animals, alpaca, llama, cats, monkeys, parrots, cats, bunnies to name a few.
email to: garrod@whidbey.com or info@caninetlc.com
Website: www.caninetlc.com FB biz site: www.facebook.com/cTLC3
