ABOUT

MEET THE BEHAVIOR CONSULTANT

Emily Dombrowski, CDBC, CPDT-KA

Emily Dombrowski, the trainer behind Spotted Success, LLC, is a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant (CDBC) through the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC) and a Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA) through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers (CCPDT). With over 14 years of professional training experience, she began training her own dogs in 2003 and started coaching people to train their dogs in 2006.

Emily routinely works with clients to help train dogs and puppies of all ages, breeds, and levels, as well as those exhibiting aggressive behavior, anxiety, and other unique, potentially dangerous behavior problems. She is committed to using science-based, effective, and humane training to help solve behavior problems and bring back the joy of living with your dog. She also works as a behavior consultant for a number of rescue organizations to help evaluate the behavioral needs of dogs within rescue and foster home networks, and to provide continuing education seminar opportunities for foster homes and rescue workers.

In addition to certification as a professional dog trainer and behavior consultant, Emily also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Biology with an emphasis on animal behavior, conditioning, and learning from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Some of her extensive experience with animal behavior includes a role as the Animal Behavior Director at a large intake, open-admission animal shelter in Daytona Beach, Florida, serving as the Training Director for a prison dog training program, working as a certified Service Dog Trainer through Southeastern Guide Dogs in Palmetto, FL, and working for seven years in zoo and aquarium settings with California sea lions and Atlantic and Pacific harbor seals as a marine mammal trainer and educator at Ocean Connections within the Milwaukee County Zoo in Milwaukee, WI and at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, LA.

Emily has personally owned, trained, lived with, and loved dogs of all sizes, from Doberman Pinschers to Yorkshire Terriers. She currently lives with and trains two fantastic dogs - Widget, a Bull terrier mix and Beneteau ("Ben"), a Doberman pinscher - along with a steady rotation of foster dogs. Emily actively trains and competes in American Kennel Club (AKC) Obedience, Agility, and the sport of K9 Nosework with her own dogs, has dabbled in many other canine sports, and has participated in therapy dog visits through Therapy Dogs International (TDI). She and her dogs have also made appearances in national print ads, local news stations, and various performance venues, and she has been featured as a dog behavior consultant on The Pet Vet radio show on 620 WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Emily is an AKC Canine Good Citizen evaluator and is an active member of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC) and the International Marine Animal Trainer’s Association (IMATA). She regularly pursues continuing education seminars and other learning opportunities in the field of animal training and behavior to stay current with the most up-to-date knowledge and science-based resources available.

Emily has a real passion for effective, pragmatic, and ethical animal training, and she enjoys sharing that passion with others and helping them bring out the very best in their companion animals!