ABOUT JENN
Wise Canine Training is dedicated to providing effective and reliable results using positive, science-based training standards in Whitehorse, Yukon.
About Jenn Stellbrink
Karen Pryor Academy, Certified Training Partner (KPA CTP)
Predation Substitute Training Certified Instructor (PST-CI)
Fear Free Certified Professional
Jenn's education includes a Professional Dog Trainer Certification and a Puppy Start Right Instructors Certification from the Karen Pryor Academy of Animal Training and Behavior. The Karen Pryor Academy is widely acknowledged as one of the most outstanding and rigorous training programs available to serious professional dog trainers. Founded by world-renowned trainer an author Karen Pryor, this intensive program sets its graduates apart in an industry without professional standards.
Jenn is a Predation Substitute Training Certified Instructor, and specializes in addressing challenges with dogs who have strong predatory instincts. She focuses on how to transform predatory chasing by working with the dog, instead of against them.
Jenn is also a Fear Free Certified Professional and has completed training for Better Vet Visits and Co-operative Care Husbandry at Home.
Jenn has completed the Aggression in Dogs Master Course for Trainers and Behavior Consultants taught by world renowned aggression expert, Michael Shikashio, CDBC. This comprehensive program has equipped her with the knowledge and skills to assess risk, improve safety, and implement behavior change strategies designed to reduce aggressive behavior.
In addition, Jenn has a Bachelor of Science with a specialization in Psychology which has provided her with valuable knowledge in learning theory and behavioral intervention. These are key principles in creating behavior change in all learners, including dogs.
Jenn has also completed training programs focused on Therapy Dog Team Training, Canine Freestyle, and Smart Reinforcement, which focuses on the use of non-food reinforcers.
Jenn is owned by Eva, a senior Belgian Malinois, and two young Elkhound and Bear Dog crosses named Blitz and Donner.
If you’re looking for a positive science-based approach to training, get in touch with Jenn!
All Certifications, Courses, Seminars & Workshops
2025
Success Under All Conditions - Karen Pryor Academy
How to achieve behaviours while working in any environment and across contexts, under any conditions, and against unpredictable distractions.
2024
Clicker Expo 2024
3 Day Online Conference for professionals to improve their skills, keep up with the latest techniques, and learn from world leaders in positive reinforcement.
Predation Substitute Training for Instructors Course (Certification)
A 10-week course focused how to teach clients to manage their dog’s predatory behaviour with fun, force-free methods and amazing results. Instructors learn how to skillfully address challenges faced by owners of dogs with strong predatory instincts. Instructors learn how to help clients enjoy relaxed walks and a deeper connection with their dogs.
Snake Avoidance Training - Karen Pryor Academy
A proven, go-to, positive reinforcement protocol for teaching dogs to detect, indicate and avoid snakes. Discussion in how to adapt this protocol to help keep dogs safe from a wide variety of other environmental dangers and odours including skunks, porcupines, and other critters.
The Path to a Great Bath
A Fear Free course discussing fear free bathing including the introduction to the tub, counterconditioning and desensitization, and how to modify the environment for success.
The Neurobiology of Toxic Stress
A Fear Free course discussing the types of stress, learned helplessness, toxic stress and trauma, and the power of agency.
Addressing Noise Aversion in Dogs
A Fear Free course to provide strategies for how to approach, prevent, and treat sound sensitivities, including teaching desired coping skills.
A Close Look at Canine Enrichment: what, why and how?
A Fear Free course that explores enrichment using all the senses while identifying balance as well as enrichment for dogs in the vet clinic and on restricted exercise or cage rest.
Puppy Socialization - Karen Pryor Academy
A novel approach to socialization built around a framework of cooperation, control, and agency focused on a set of natural behaviours that not only keep a puppy safe but also foster happy curiosity, confident exploration, and a relaxed resilience to the surprises that life brings!
Using Enrichment to Solve Problems - Karen Pryor Academy
A powerful, straightforward process for enhancing life with our pets and a necessary foundation for ethical behaviour change.
2023
Clicker Expo 2023
3 Day Online Conference for professionals to improve their skills, keep up with the latest techniques, and learn from world leaders in positive reinforcement.
Canine First Aid
A full day course with classroom and hands on scenarios covering how to properly take vital signs, choking, toxic/poisoning, stabilization for transport, bandaging & wound care, and much more.
Co-operative Care: Husbandry at Home - Karen Pryor Academy
Learning to make husbandry and veterinary care safe, low-stress, and significantly easier for animals and their caregivers. Learning and practicing proven training strategies and techniques to transform the care experience and deepen the relationship between caregivers and their animals.
The Aggression in Dogs Conference
3 Day Online Conference for professionals to learn from the world's foremost experts focused on sharing the most up-to-date techniques, developments, and research related to dog aggression.
Smart Reinforcement - Karen Pryor Academy
How to use non-food reinforcers effectively. Non-food reinforcers can become as powerful as, or more powerful than, food alone, but only when integrated systematically.
Canine Freestyle - Karen Pryor Academy
Canine Freestyle combines obedience, tricks, and dance. The course focuses on training fundamental behaviors such as duration attention, left- and right-side heel positions, and key maneuvers like leg weaving, bowing, spinning, backing around, and jumping. Participants learn the skills of selecting and integrating music that complements both handler and dog, how to select and integrate music, and how to put it all together for a performance setting.
Therapy Dog Team Training - Karen Pryor Academy
Learned essential skills for successful therapy dog work including reading canine body language, teaching dogs to be comfortable and confident performing required skills and behaviors in hospitals, nursing homes, libraries, school classrooms, and other environments where therapy work often takes place.
Call Off the Chase, Predation Substitute Training Master Course
Participants are educated in the concept of predation, how to structure walks for success, how to introduce predation substitute games that satisfy dogs' predatory needs. The course also covers safe and ethical methods to interrupt predatory behavior, and fostering a stronger bond between owners and their dogs through positive training techniques.
2022
Fear Free Professional Animal Trainer Program (Certification)
A rigorous certification program that allows trainers to work in partnership with veterinary teams to prevent and alleviate fear, anxiety, and stress and improve an animal’s emotional wellbeing during veterinary care and home care.
Better Vet Visits - Karen Pryor Academy
A comprehensive program about the practical application of training protocols to reduce fear and stress for pets during vet visits, handling and husbandry.
The Aggression in Dogs Conference
3 Day Online Conference for professionals to learn from the world's foremost experts focused on sharing the most up-to-date techniques, developments, and research related to dog aggression
Puppy Start Right for Instructors (Certification)
Ken Martin DVM, DACVB and Debbie Martin RVT, VTS (Behavior), KPA CTP
Karen Pryor Academy
A comprehensive course developed by a Veterinary Behaviorist and Certified Trainer covering puppy socialization curriculum, growth and development, problem-solving, preventing or solving common puppy behavior problems, interrupting play appropriately, and safe class and teaching set-up.
Dog Trainer Professional Certification Program (Certification)
Instructor & Evaluator: Terry Ryan, Karen Pryor Academy
CTP Certification Number: 42541
Provides the knowledge and skills needed to attain to the highest standards of positive reinforcement training, and effectively teach these skills to others. Based on the most up-to-date behavior science, from foundation knowledge to advanced concepts in animal training, and behavior management solutions.
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