Maggie is an experienced dog trainer and former dog daycare owner.Â
She competes in dog agility with her border collie, Egg. When she’s not writing or dog training Maggie can usually be found hiking in the Montana backcountry with her five rescue dogs.
Maggie has been a professional dog trainer for more than a decade. She’s helped dogs and their pet parents with the basics like potty training, walking on a leash, and greeting strangers appropriately. She also ran a successful doggy day care where she was able to support the wide range of canine personalities through the day care experience.Â
In short, Maggie has worked with and supported a wide range of canine behavior both in home setting and at the doggy day care.Â
These days, Maggie is focused on applying her training skills to compete in agility with her dog, Egg.Â
You can check out some of Egg’s training below. Go Egg🥚!Â
Maggie completed the Certified Pet Dog Trainer program.Â
Check out the latest articles written by Maggie:
We’ve all seen teams of professional sled dogs equipped with their harness mushing along the snow. Is adding a harness to your house pup going to turn them into a professional pulling machine? I sat down with one of Not A Bully’s Advising Veterinarians, Athena Gaffud to get an answer and here’s what we came
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The following question came in through our “Ask A Dog Trainer” program: “My dog Foxie loves to cuddle, and it’s great, but she always sleeps facing the opposite direction that I do. That’s okay, but it sometimes means her butt ends up a little too close for comfort or it just gets a little funky
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