Team Member One
Natalie Perzylo is pictured with her first dog Holmes. She is a trained teacher and understands about behaviour modification. She studied dog behaviour at Massey University, and CPIT.(now Ara)
Team Member Two
Dogs have been part of Blair Anderson's life for more than fifty years. He has trained hundreds of dogs and have a passion for how policy plays its part in enabling 'the naked dog' to become our ultimate companion.
Team Member Three
Max, the Springer Spaniel/Poodle lives with the team and welcomes every dog with his distinct wag. He teaches the rules of the house to those coming to live with him in the short term.
Other Teamsters
Our mentors have played a big part in guiding us to become better trainers and behaviouralist. Some are: John Rogerson, Ian Dunbar, Patricia McConnell, Victoria Stillwell, Stanley Coren....
Our continuing education
Both trainers attend many canine conferences with the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT) NZ and other seminars online.
Some of the seminars include
- (2019) Ken Raminez guest speaker for the Aoociation Pet Dog Trainer Conference
When we learned it was "Obama's" Dog Trainer Ken Ramirez who was to guest the New Zealand Association of Pet Dog Trainers tenth anniversary conference we had no idea it was going to be so damn interesting.! Ken literally clicked with everyone there. It is not like there is nothing to learn when you have trained several thousand dogs, but, reminding us that, be it Rhino's or Parrots, Dolphins or Lemurs, base line is training for well-being.
Ken's impact on captive and natural wildlife and enabling behaviour is legendary, both for its rich foundation in method and for his sheer creativity, having saved hundreds of Elephants from poachers, tens of thousands of Sea Turtles from oil spills and mentored Zoo handlers all around the world... but, for his scientific exploration of how Dogs Count, how accurate, how fast and how many (it turns out, to fourteen, BTW)
Four days wasn't quite enough..... - Hosted John Rogerson, April 2016. See webpage for 'advert"
John and his training partner Miya (from China) stayed a month in Christchurch, and gave New Zealand the 1st CSI Survivor Camp, Ultimate Recall, Clean Boot Tracking, Seminars on Aggression, and how to 'create' a great dog!
See Facebook - John Rogerson NZ Tourand read the
After the Event Article
- (Members of) Attended The Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT New Zealand ) in 2011, 2012, 2
014, 2015
San Diego in 201, Atlanta, Georgia 2010-- these conferences in the USA are 5 days!
- Attended a wekend seminar of K9Nose Work (2014) with Jill-Marie O'Brien in Wellington, NZ
- Attended Terry
Ryan
Seminar in 2013 in Wellington which was part of the NZKC educational opportunities.
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Current Members of Animal Companion Council of New Zealand and hosted Dr Lisa Woods at the NZ Animal Companion Animal Conference in October 2012 in Wellington.
- Trained with John Rogerson, UK world reknown dog trainer. Author of The Dog Vinci Code. in India January/Feb 2012
John provided us with even a better understanding on how we can harness our dog's natural abilities to get our canine friends to be our natural companion animals.
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Former members of the Doggone Bite Prevention International Organisation
- Attended a TTouch Workshop in Quebec, October 2010 and organised a TTouch workshop in Christchurch
- Attended a two day workshop on TTouch in Dunedin (2009)
- Attended 5 days of Dr Ian Dunbar's Seminar both in Auckland and Christchurch
- Volunteered at Dogwatch, Christchurch and created their first website.
- Volunteered at Humane Society
in Ottawa, Canada.
- Volunteer as Red Puppy Appeal and Blind Week Collectors (Blind Foundation)
- Attend workshop with Jan Fennell- The Dog Listener
- Member of CCATS (Chch Canine Agility Training Society) in Christchurch 2002.
- Natalie received her National Certificate in Dog Training from CPIT (now ARA) 2001
- Certificate from Massey Principle of Canine Behaviour 2001
- Teaching Degree, Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada
