Debbie Jacobs CPDT-KA, CAP2, is the author of “A Guide To Living With & Training A Fearful Dog, which was a finalist in the 2008 Dog Writers Association of America’s annual writing competition, and Does My Dog Need Prozac?
She lives in Vermont with her husband and 4 dogs and created the http://fearfuldogs.com website to help owners and trainers learn about fear based behaviors in dogs. She met her fearful dog Sunny, the inspiration for the Fearfuldogs website, at the Humane Society of Louisiana’s Camp Katrina after the hurricanes of 2005.
Debbie speaks internationally on the most effective and humane ways to work with fearful dogs. She is an advocate for the use of modern, positive reinforcement-based training methods for all dogs.
You can follow her on twitter @fearfuldogs and stay up to date on training and rehabilitation information on both the Fearfuldogs.com Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fearfuldogscom/104674109571035) and the Fearful Dogs’ Blog (http://fearfuldogs.wordpress.com/).