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Experienced & Certified
Schooled By The Best
Internationally recognized, The Tom Rose School has been teaching and certifying the world’s finest dog trainers for over 35 years. Known for its comprehensive and challenging curriculum The Tom Rose School distinguishes itself by holding its students to the highest standards and only graduating a hand full of those that attend every year. Each member of The Right Paw team has attended and been certified as a Professional and Master Dog Trainer by the Tom Rose School.
Our team
Daniel Kean is a Certified Master Dog Trainer, graduating at the top of his class from the Tom Rose School for Professional Dog Trainers in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as a Certified Canine Training & Behavior Specialist from the Triple Crown Academy (now Starmark Academy) in Hutto, Texas. With over twelve years of professional experience, six years of training as an enthusiast, and a lifetime of being a dog owner, Daniel brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the profession.
Some of Daniel’s earliest memories are of playing with his first dog, Fox, and ever since dogs have been an important part of his life. However, it wasn’t until after joining the Marine Corps and working closely with Military Working Dog Handlers did Daniel really come to understand that dogs were capable of being much more than our companions. After serving four years as an Infantry Assaultman with three deployments to Iraq, Daniel left the service a combat veteran, Purple Heart recipient, and passionate dog enthusiast.
Daniel poured himself into dog training. Reading a library’s worth of material, he spent countless hours training and working with his own personal dogs as well as helping his family and friends with their dogs. It was a passion that would eventually lead to the decision to pursue dog training professionally. Wanting more than the simple online education that most dog training programs offer, or the limited experience of apprenticing under one trainer, Daniel left for Texas to attend the Triple Crown Academy. There he honed his skills in working with pet dogs and learned a wide range of behavior modification techniques to solve everything from house breaking to aggression.
After earning his certification as a Canine Training & Behavior Specialist, Daniel began working as a professional dog trainer. Over several years, Daniel has worked with dogs of almost every breed; puppies to seniors, timid to aggressive, and many in-between, teaching obedience and finding solutions to behavioral problems.
However, his drive to continue learning and improving as a dog trainer never stopped. With a desire to enter into competitve dog sports and become involved in more specialized fields of dog training, Daniel decided to attend the highly renowned Tom Rose School for Professional Dog Trainers.
While at the school, Daniel trained dogs to complete many difficult and challenging requirements that were graded to competition and real world working standards. This included AKC’s Novice, Open, Utility, and Agility, IPO’s BH, Schutzhund II & III obedience, and Schutzhund II & III Tracks. In addition he completed search and rescue, a lost key search, a one acre gun search, a buried cadaver search, and several narcotic search qualifications. Fully immersed in the field, he excelled at the Tom Rose School and graduated at the top of his class, earning the title of Master Dog Trainer.
Becky Russell is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and the top graduate of her 2019/2020 class from The Tom Rose School for Professional Dog Trainers. With over six years experience working as a professional dog trainer she has helped train everything from advance obedience to rehabilitating serious behavioral problems.
Beyond her credentials and practical experience working with hundreds of dogs is a lifelong love of dogs that has created a deep passion for self-education that drives her to provide the best and most modern approaches to dog training possible.
Our Training Philosophy
Just as no two people are the same, no two dogs are the same. What works for training one dog, does not necessarily work for another dog, even within the same breed.
Here at the Right Paw we don’t adhere to one specific method of dog training and instead focus on three key principles that allows us to communicate effectively and adapt our training to fit each dog.
Timing
Science tells us that we have 1.3 seconds to effectively influence a dog’s behavior. Understanding how to properly take advantage of this can mean the difference between successfully shaping your dog’s behavior into something we want or having them think they’re getting rewarded for something else entirely.
Motivation
What does your dog really want? Sometimes it’s as simple as a piece of kibble, but more often it is far more complicated. Being able to read and understand what your dog wants in different situations allows us to create successful training scenarios where your dog learns quickly & calmly in a fun loving environment, while at the same time learning to place your commands above their impulses.
Consistency
Dogs love consistency. Creating clear rules and situations where they can predict the outcome is paramount in dog training. This leads to happier and more confident dogs. We help eliminate confusion and problem behaviors by creating clear rules that both you and your dog will be happy with.