Working with Kate – Rescued By Training has been truly life changing for us. Our rescue, Ruthie, has severe fear based anxiety, intense separation anxiety, and other issues stemming from her trauma as a puppy. A vet recommended Kate to us and working with her has been a long road. We’re about 2 1/2 years in and are just now finally getting to 4-5 hour successful departures. While we haven’t officially “graduated”, Kate has patiently worked with us these long, long years to try to understand Ruthie, and help her the best we can.
What’s really significant about working with Kate is, she not only shows you what to do via specific training exercises and missions – but she really taught us how a dog with fear and fear based anxiety thinks and functions in the world.
We’re experienced dog owners (we lost our 18 year old Satine in September 2020 before rescuing and adopting Ruthie in December 2020), so learning how Ruthie sees to the world and how she interacts with other dogs/humans has given us a vocabulary and awareness we would’ve never had otherwise.
Thank you Kate! The great work continues and we’re so appreciative!!! 🙂