About Jeanne

I have been training my dogs and helping other people with their dogs for over 22 years.  Love 2 Play grew out of demands from my friends to pass on the knowledge I was gaining by attending workshops.  The world of dog training has changed significantly in the past decade and I travel to numerous multi-day seminars each year in order to keep abreast of improvements in training methods in obedience, agility and behaviour.   Initially it was for my own benefit training my dogs, but now I attend seminars in order to bring to my doggie classroom successful training methods based on science. 

My certifications include:

1. 1. • Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA) since 2010
      • Karen Pryor Academy of Animal Training and Behaviour (KPA-CTP) since 2012   
      • Certified Dog Behavior Consultant since 2016
      • Certified Behaviour Adjustment Instructor
      • Certified Nosework Instructor
      • Certified Trick Dog Instructor 
      • Professional Dog Trainer with Absolute Dogs

My passion is helping people and watching dogs and people learn together, as relationships blossom.

I am a judge with the Canadian Association of Rally Obedience and have sat on the Board of Directors for the past 10 years.

I am also an agility and scentwork judge for a number of organizations.

I am an Evaluator for the St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Program.

My own dogs compete in all the sports and 3 of them have been certified Therapy Dogs.

My dogs teach me everyday how to be humble with my human brain and body and my extremely fearful dog has taught me to better teach people with fearful dogs.

My students teach me how to be an even better instructor.

In my ‘other’ life, I was a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing and also taught at UBC in the masters program educating potential teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing.  My dog students benefit because my teacher training background has made me adept at breaking down concepts and individualizing instruction.