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Behavioral Consultations:
True love comes when we meet the needs of others - Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer
After training, rescuing and rehabilitating hundreds of dogs over more than 15 years, Rory O'Neill has gained a vast amount of knowledge and understanding of dogs and their behaviour. Rory O'Neill counsels pet owners how to solve dog behavioral problems, about puppy education and prevention, the necessary amount of socialization & basic training, and why leadership is critical. Rory specializes in rehabilitating unruly and aggressive dogs.
Rory O'Neill is a certified dog behaviorist and a professional member of the following associations:
Rory is also a recipient of the Pioneer Spirit Award for rescue efforts during and after the worst pet disaster in history (Hurricane Katrina), recently certified in Canine First Aid , and is currently working on an animal rescue certification. Prior to becoming a professional trainer, Rory graduated from a University in California in Business, and immediately knew the business field wasn't for her. Consequently, her passion became her career and she now specializes in helping pet owners overcome any animal problems they are facing.
During private sessions, Rory assesses the needs of her clients and their dog, critiques the pet owner, demonstrates different techniques, teaches how to properly use reward-based training, how to clicker train (a tool used to mark the timing of a desired behavior), when and how to use food in training, the use of exercise, how to discipline, and to overall expect more from their pet.
A training program is designed for each dog considering its age, breed, background, sex, size, temperament, environment, and owner. Many pet owners don't use appropriate discipline or exert enough confidence and leadership to gain necessary control over their dogs. Seeing the need for pet owners to be head of the household, Rory conducts one-on-one lessons with her clients educating them how to gain their dogs respect by incorporating manners, obedience training, and dog psychology into every day.
All too familiar with all the frustrations of pet ownership, Rory is particularly adept at teaching others about canine psychology, and how and when to discipline their furry friends. Whether your household is just you, or a couple, or a family, Rory can teach you how to "think like a dog" enabling you to take the guess work out of training your pets in order to minimize their confusion.
Rory understands that dogs are pack animals that are expected to live up to their owners expectations, however, the pet owner often doesn't understand how to fit a canine appropriately into a human household. Consequently, pet owners use human values on their dog and treat it like a child. Dogs have vast amounts of feelings and emotions like humans do, however their differences on how to raise a child and a dog are broad due to humans and dogs being different species. "Dogs need rules, boundaries and leadership to live in harmony in their human family's home." Rory teaches pet owners how to best go about achieiving this.
Seeing the need and value in building confidence in pet owners, Rory also teaches how to understand dog communication through canine body posture and how to redirect unwanted behavior.
Rory can assist pet owners with the following needs:
- Aggression & dominant dog behavior
- Re-establishing leadership
- Socialization
- Separation anxiety
- Fear
- Phobias
- Household manners
- Pulling on leash & leash aggression
- Coming when called
- Housetraining
- Puppy training & prevention
- Crate training
- Barking, destructive & unruly behavior
- Multi-dog households
- New pet ownership
- Counseling children about training
- Cat behavioural / litter box problems
- Post Traumatic Stress
- Animal rescue and adoption
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Rory O'Neill is available for Private Consultations and series of lessons in Alberta, Canada (Calgary, Cochran, Canmore & Banff) and parts of British Columbia (Windemere and Nelson), and available worldwide by phone and email consultations and in person. Please email Rory O'Neill at rockymountainanimalrescue@gmail.com or call 403.673.3224 for more information.
Rescue Efforts:
Saving just one dog won't change the world...but surely the world will change for that one dog ~
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Volunteering/Humane Efforts/Career:
I am only one but I am still one. I cannot do everything but I can still do something ~ Edward Everett Hale
Rory began her career rescuing animals doomed in high-kill shelters in California, adopting out dogs, cats and rabbits, training and finding them good homes. Compelled to work to with animals, after university Rory began a new career managing a ranch for animals trained for movies. Incorporating administrative work with training, she trained animals for script. Training wolves before dogs, Rory learned how to train without force, using positive reinforcement and clicker training to train wolves to perform on cue. She worked on the Disney movie's Iron Will, White Fang II and Incredible Journey. Rory saw many dogs being purchased from breeders for a movie, so she went to animal shelters looking for a certain breed of dog wanted for a movie role, adopted it out, trained it and took to auditions. One such dog, Zippy the healer, was chosen for the role in Last of the Dog Men (coincidently filmed in Canmore, Alberta).
Wanting to further help animals, Rory moved to Santa Barbara to work with a gifted dog behaviorist, John Sorosky, at Camp Canine. Working one-on-one with John, she learned about dog behavior problems and helped frustrated pet owners in the hopes of preventing any from being abandoned at animal shelters for behavior problems. Rory worked daily with basic obedience as well as difficult situations such as fearfulness, aggression, fixation, separation anxiety, phobias, and obsession.
Pet overpopulation is a huge and heartbreaking problem that should not and does not need to happen. Most animal shelters are are overcrowded due to pet owners abandoning their pet due to changes in their personal life and not taking responsibility and caring enough about the future of their pet, or abandon their dog or cat them instead of getting proper behavioural counseling, as well as irresponsible breeding, buying from puppy mills or pet stores that support them, breeders exploiting animals for conformation and trophy ribbons or income, greyhound racing, the lack of laws on spay and neuter, and the many humans that consider animals to be disposable. You may view the YouTube video here to decide what you think of pets left at shelters that are overcrowded, and then how you can help an animal in need. Helping one won't make a difference on the grand scale, but it will to that one pet you saved from death or a life of misery due to your compassion.
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Rory can be reached at: rockymountainanimalrescue@gmail.com |
