Integral Dog Training was created to help you integrate your dog integrate into your life, and to help your dog integrate you into their life. We want your family members, be they two or four legged, to understand one another.
We provide training in private sessions where we can customize training to fit your needs. We are based in Massachusetts, but we sometimes find ourselves in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Vermont helping people.
Sheila Kamath
Sheila@integraldogtraining.com
Growing up in Iowa, she had several Rough Collies. After moving to Massachusetts, she continued her training with German Shepherds. She's been lucky enough to live with and love several German Shepherds and German Shepherd mixes. She's been training for over 15 years and is a longtime member of the APDT and IACP. She's also an AKC CGC Evaluator. She's continued working on her education by attending seminars and workshops from Ian Dunbar, Nicholas Dodman, Sue Sternberg, Patricia McConnell, and many others. Sheila lives with Gunnar, who has become an Instagram sensation at @GunnarGooGoo.
Amy Christmas
Amy grew up in Marlborough, MA with a variety of critters, but didn’t get her first dog until 2008. It was her introduction to her rescue dog Nayali Sun that sealed her fate as a dog trainer. Naya came with a strong personality and a terrier’s tenacity and independence. Naya is endlessly teaching Amy about building strong partnerships and successful relationships with dogs. Amy also lives with a yellow lab-mix, Otis Love, who is the exact opposite of high-energy Naya. Otis is always ready for adventure, but his favorite sport is “extreme couching” and cuddling. Amy recently added Malcolm to her pack. He’s a lab-hound mix, who is teaching everyone new things!
“Dogs have distinct personalities, likes, and dislikes. Showing people how ANY dog can fit into their lifestyle is really important to me. My favorite part of training is watching the partnership and bond between dog and handler grow over the course of training sessions.”
Otis, Naya and now Malcolm continually teach Amy there are two sides to everything - and most of them you can roll in!
Jen Pruskin
Jenifer@integraldogtraining.com
Jen grew up here in Massachusetts and never dreamed that she would become a dog trainer. Her real introduction to dog training came from her two British Staffordshire Terries, Miley and Dante. Miley was the perfect dog, and Dante - well, Dante taught Jen A LOT! (Ed - Dante was the bestest dog!) It also gave her an incredible love for the bully breeds, and now she lives with two Blue Nose Pits, Moon and Cash. Oh, and her daughter, Alexis. Jen works closely with Bullied Breeds, and you might see her, bombing around in her Prius as she rushes to help dogs (and their people) in need.
“Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.”