Shelly Haines is a graduate of the prestigious Victoria Stilwell Academy for Dog Training & Behavior as an online student and has been granted official status as a VSA-Certified Dog Trainer Online (VSA-CDT-Online).
Shelly’s Recent Training Conference
In October of 2021 she spent 7 days in Atlanta, GA with Victoria, the VSA faculty, and other graduates for a multi-day intensive learning experience that included lectures, field trips, guided group discussions, and performance-based training. They trained with shelter dogs at the Atlanta humane Society, and with clients, dogs boarding from one of the top three boarding and training facilities in Atlanta.
While at the intensive, she met with one of Atlanta’s leading behavior experts and successful business founders of Peach on a Leash. Alex Sessa, co-producer of Guardians of the Night and founded and leads an award-winning private training service that’s successfully built such a glowing reputation, it’s expanded to 11 certified trainers and behavior experts in five years!
Why Choose a VSA Certified Trainer?
Fetch Worthy Dog Training is proud to have chosen The Victoria Stilwell Academy. It’s the world’s premier institution for professional dog trainer education founded by renowned dog behavior expert Victoria Stilwell, and graduates of VSA have been individually taught in-person by Stilwell and other VSA faculty.
All VSA graduates have been rigorously assessed at the highest level for both skills and knowledge in the areas of:
- Dog training
- Behavior modification
- Canine ethology
- Creative problem-solving
- and more…
Additionally, great emphasis is placed within VSA’s industry-leading curriculum upon effective and empathetic human communication skills.
This unique focus results in professional dog trainers who are prepared not just to train dogs successfully using powerful force-free, positive reinforcement-based tools, and techniques, but also to help dog owner clients to learn how to truly transform canine behavior and set their dogs up for success using the latest in modern behavioral science methods.