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Kelly Dunbar

Kelly Dunbar

  • Berkeley, CA
Profession: Trainer

Kelly Dunbar is a contributing editor for dogtime.com and cofounder and the Executive Editor of the dogstardaily.com — a free online, multi-media dog-training learning center.

Kelly is President of Open Paw, a non-profit organization devoted to addressing the unwanted animal problem in a whole new way, arming communities worldwide with valuable user- and animal-friendly training and behavior information with the goal of keeping cats and dogs out of shelters, by keeping them in their original homes.

Kelly lectures internationally and consults for animal shelters regarding program implementation, layout, and staff and animal training protocols and procedures.

Kelly is a Director for both the Center for Applied Animal Behavior — a multi-faceted business that focuses on teaching people how to train their dogs to be the best canine citizens possible and for K9 GAMES® Corporation — a venture dedicated to bringing fun and games to the process of dog training in order to make it easy, entertaining and accessible for all people, especially including children.

Kelly Dunbar is a cofounder and the executive editor of the dogstardaily.com and a contributing editor at DogTime.com.

She is the President of Open Paw, a non-profit organization devoted to addressing the unwanted animal problem in a whole new way, arming communities worldwide with valuable user- and animal-friendly training and behavior information. The goal is to keep cats and dogs out of shelters and in their original homes. Kelly lectures internationally on the principles of Open Paw and consults for animal shelters regarding shelter layout and staff-and-animal training protocols and procedures.

She is a Director of the Center for Applied Animal Behavior, a multi-faceted business that focuses on teaching people how to train their dogs to be the best canine citizens possible.

Kelly is also a Director for the K9 Games Corporation, a venture dedicated to bringing fun and games to the process of dog training in order to make it easy, entertaining, and accessible for all people, including children.

What I like about my dog

All of my dogs have qualities that make them unique. Claude is earnest, Dune is sensitive, and Hugo is bold and silly.

What my dog likes best about me

Realistically probably that I feed and walk them everyday.

People I've met through my dog

I don't know how many people I've met through my dogs, a lot I am sure. But dogs in general have been the main reason I've met literally hundreds of people around the world. Dogs bring people together.

If I didn't have a dog, I'd like a...

I can't imagine not having a dog.

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animal friends

Dune

Dune

  • American Bulldog
  • 8 years (59 dog years)
  • monk, monkey, handsome, babes, butter, D
  • Jumping very high!
  • Grunting.
  • To be my athlete and companion.
  • He is very soulful and immature at the same time.

Claude

Claude

  • Rottweiler and Redbone Coonhound
  • 13 years (92 dog years)
  • Claudey
  • Walking backwards.
  • All of his habits! He is not much for change and has a routine that he sticks with every day.
  • He was very handsome and he needed help.
Hugo-Louis

Hugo-Louis

  • French Bulldog
  • 4 years (33 dog years)
  • mon petit chou, pooky-lou, little man, petit dauphin, lu -agu, oooh-loo
  • He loves the teeter in agility.
  • Sleeping on top of big bro Dune.
  • He is so happy and confident. He doesn't let anything get to him, everything rolls off of his back.
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