Certified Professional Dog Trainer
A certification offered through the Certification Council of Professional Dog Trainers. The requirements for certification include (but are not limited to) having over 225 hours of primary instructor training experience and passing a certification exam to become a CPDT-KA. In addition, certified trainers must maintain their certification every three years by attending educational events to receive Continuing Education (CE) credits.
About Scott Raymond, MS, CPDT-KA
Scott has been helping dogs and their families with training classes and private consults for over 12 years. He has attended numerous seminars and conferences on dog behavior and training issues and achieved the status of Certified Pet Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA) in 2004.
He has titled dogs in tracking and competition obedience and is a Canine Good Citizen evaluator.
Scott and his dog Sita are also a registered therapy dog team, and were participating in the Dove Lewis (now Delta Society) Read to the Dogs program for over two years, helping children become more confident readers. Together with his four fur-kids (Sita, Roo, Misha and Jazz) Scott helps people find solutions to dog training challenges.
