Humane Society of Charlotte

training tips

The Humane Society of Charlotte is happy to have on staff Robin Brown, Animal Behavior Manager to assist you with your training questions. Robin's experience includes over 20 years as a companion dog trainer. She has titled dogs in both UKC and AKC obedience and her experience includes obedience and field training, agility, and therapy dog work. In classes as well as private training, Robin specializes in helping her clients communicate with their dogs in a way that will foster a relationship of both mutual respect and trust. Robin also acts as a canine ambassador for the American Kennel Club. She is also a certified evaluator for the American Kennel Clubs canine good citizen program. She can be reached at 704-377-0534, ext. 222 or via email at rbrown@humanesocietyofcharlotte.org .

If you're lucky enough to share your life with a pet, you already know that the relationship requires commitment and perseverance. Pets provide us with unconditional love and companionship, and even lower our blood pressure. But sometimes they can make our blood boil when they act like, well, animals. Sadly, for too many animals exhibiting behaviors their caregivers can't deal with, their fate is tragic: They are given up, or given up on.

Behavior problems top the list of reasons for pet relinquishment. Thousands of other pets are given up because of lifestyle changes or human health issues. Still others are given up because their caregivers couldn't find animal-friendly rental housing, or because their owners simply had unrealistic expectations about what it meant to care for a pet.

For all these reasons, the Humane Society of Charlotte has compiled a collection of informational sheets to help caregivers meet the many challenges of pet ownership. Our goal: to lower the number of animals relinquished to shelters—or otherwise given up on—because of breaks in the human-animal bond.