About Us
Unleashed Dog Training and Behavior Center offers professional dog training for dogs and their families. Our services provide training from basic obedience to advanced levels and includes a specialty in dealing with behavior issues like aggression, separation anxiety and fear... all with a positive approach.
Our Methods
Unleashed Dog Training & Behavior Center employs a positive approach to training your dog. Although Unleashed is familiar and well-versed in the compulsive (old school) style of training, we choose to educate and train owners using positive reinforcement training. This style of training allows you to build the relationship you strive for with your dog using tools that your dog loves. It's not only more fun for you and your dog, but it's more effective as well.
About the Owner...Mandy Kennedy
Mandy Kennedy is a Bay Area Native who has recently relocated to the El Dorado Hills/Folsom Area. She is a graduate of the University of California, Davis. Mandy has been teaching classes, conducting private lessons and consulting dog owners since 1992. She has helped clients, local shelters and other up & coming trainers to develop and execute effective training methods. As owner of Unleashed! Dog Training & Behavior Center, Mandy is an established Bay Area dog behavior consultant and training professional having held the positions of Manager of the Behavior & Training Department for the Marin Humane Society as well as head trainer for a well-known Board & Train Facility. During her 16 years in the industry, she taught every level of obedience class, conducted canine evaluations and counseled thousands of owners and their dogs with specific behavior problems.
Mandy has also been a keynote speaker at several Dog Behavior Educational Conferences. The topics she's been asked to speak on range from breed characteristics, dog park protocol, reading dog body language, dog to dog aggression, dog to people aggression, off leash recall and evaluating shelter dogs. In addition, Mandy has done contract work for local shelters all over the Bay Area in need of help in setting up better training & behavior guidelines for their shelters.
After 5 successful years since the opening of Unleashed in Petaluma, Mandy has relocated to El Dorado Hills with her family where she will continue with her passion of training dogs and owners.