Jenn Merritt, CPDT

Jenn Merritt, CPDT

Jenn Merritt is owner of Blue Dog Creature Coaching in Efland, North Carolina and offers group and private training and Tellington TTouch. Jenn’s career in dog training began when she attended reward-based obedience classes at the Animal Protection Society in Mebane, NC in 1998. Seeing the connection between positive training and better behavior firsthand, Jenn became a volunteer, a dog training instructor; and, eventually, manager of the APS Dog Training Program for four years. After an accident left her dog Big Sandy an amputee, Jenn discovered Tellington TTouch. Using TTouch to assist in her dog’s recovery, Jenn found that the gentle bodywork and non-habitual movement exercises of TTouch combined seamlessly with reward-based producing not only vibrant health, but also better behavior.

In 2003, she left the APS to create Blue Dog Creature Coaching integrating her dog training experience with the methods of TTouch. Through Blue Dog, Jenn offers family dog classes at three area facilities, along with educational public workshops on TTouch, the benefits of animal assisted therapy, dog park safety and canine body language. Jenn is certified by the Certification Council for Pet Dog Trainers, a professional member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, an AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator, a certified Tellington TTouch Companion Animal Practitioner, and a Delta Society Pet Partner wither her shepherd mixes Big Sandy and Bernie. In her spare time, Jenn produced a DVD on dog park safety/play behaviors and a set of DVD’s for TTouch, documenting the 30th anniversary “CELLebration” with Linda Tellington-Jones. Currently, Jenn is working towards her certification as a TTouch Equine Practitioner and hopes to work extensively with geriatric horses. She is blogging about using all her knowledge in behavior, training and TTouch as she and her husband raise their puppy Royal at her blogspot “The Life of Royal.”

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