December 2012
Meredith earns her Certified Dog Behavior Consultant certificate from the IAABC. Certified Dog Behavior Consultants are uniquely qualified practitioners with expertise in evaluating, managing and modifying a wide range of challenging canine behaviors. Please visit www.iaabc.org for more information.
May 2012
Meredith is spear-heading the Dogs In Jail
program for Fulton County Jail. She will be evaluating and placing dogs
from Fulton County Animal Control into the training program.
April/May 2012
Meredith travels to Ireland to learn more about aggressive dogs.
January 2012 & January 2013
Meredith
Minkin, CPDT goes to India for a month to work with behaviorist, John Rogerson. Course topics ranged from aggression management to tracking, explosive detection, cadaver detection, guide dog learning, hearing dog tasks and more!
October 2011
Meredith
Minkin, CPDT, goes to Wisconsin to work with her dog, Bullet and John Rogerson.
September 2011
Meredith
Minkin, CPDT is invited to Paws in The Park where Bullet performs a Nose Work and Racing Demo.
May/June 2011
Meredith Minkin, CPDT, advises the Fulton County Board Of Commissioners about "bullhook training" for elephants in the circus. As a result, this form of abusive, punishment training is now banned in unincorporated Fulton County. Fulton County is the largest municipality in the US to ban bullhook training.
photo Meredith Minkin, Ingrid Newkirk, President/Founder of PETA, Commissioner Rob Pitts & Commissioner Joan Garner
April 2011
Bullet Minkin, JRT goes to a 5 day K9 Nose Work Camp and proves she is great at one more sport! Another sport to compete in!
April 2011 and April 2012
Bullet Minkin, JRT extraordinaire is invited to race at the Purina One Incredible Dog Challenge at Centennial Olympic Park. No medals. Just Glory!
March 2011
Meredith Minkin, CPDT-KA drives to Glenside, PA with Cindy Carter of Mindful Manners, CPDT-KA to work with Leslie McDevitt, MLA, CDBC, CPDT-KA and author of Controlled Unleashed.
January 2011
Meredith Minkin, CPDT-KA, was recently appointed by Commissioner Joan Garner to the Animal Control Hearing Board of Fulton County. The Board Of Commissioners approved the appointment on January 5, 2011.
Meredith will serve the City of Atlanta and Fulton County as a professional
expert, who will render advisory opinions involving pets that have been
declared dangerous or potentially dangerous by an animal control
officer.
APDT Conference October 2010!!
Canine
PhD was honored to host several off-site workshops for this international conference. Pia Silvani, CPDT-KA and Nancy Williams, CAAB taught wonderful "Fiesty Fido" workshops. And Leslie Neilsen, CPDT-KA who taught "Canine Cross Training" workshops that rocked the house! Here are a couple of photos from the Conference.
Meredith Minkin and Leslie Nelson
Gail Fisher and Temple Grandin
Halloweenie October 2010
Canine
PhD pitched their tent and enjoyed interacting with all of the weenies! This was a great fund-raising opportunity for DREAM Dachshund Rescue
Bark In the Park August 2010
Canine PhD was lucky enough to attend this fun event! We invited dogs to learn tricks, a couple of obedience cues, and introduced them to basic agility equipment like jumps and tunnels.
March 2010
Canine PhD, was featured on CBS Atlanta's
morning show, Better Mornings Atlanta on Tuesday, March 30, 2010.
Meredith was interviewed live in the CBS studios to give expert advice
about the two biggest issues her clients have with their dogs: Jumping and barking. "The key is taking a problem behavior and putting it on cue," Meredith says. "This allows the dog owner to have an 'off' switch for the problem behavior."
January 2010
It's Me Or The Dog Films a second episode at Canine PhD!
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Canine PhD participates in a University of California-Davis Puppy Socialization Study. This study will gather information about how the benefits of puppy socialization outweigh the risk of disease in puppy classes. For more information click here:
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October 2009
New 5,000 sq foot Indoor Training Facility In Inman Park!
Photos of Its Me Or The Dog's October 2009 Photo Shoot
at Canine PhD!
Victoria Stilwell greets some young, excited fans outside of Canine PhD.
Meredith improves her operant conditioning skills by clicker-training chickens to do a targeting exercise in Terry Ryan's Click-A-Chick workshop at the 2009 APDT conference in Oakland, CA
Meredith enjoys some laughs with veterinarian, animal behaviorist and writer,
