About | Chaos K9 | Kelowna, BC

The Background

This Didn't Start With a Certification Course

I've been working with animals at a serious level since I was young. Not as a hobby — as a profession, in environments where getting it wrong had real consequences.

Before I ever trained a client's dog professionally, I spent over 15 years in Thoroughbred racing. I worked as assistant trainer to Hall of Fame trainer R.K. Smith, managed my own stable across Canada and the United States, and later taught at Olds College's Equine Science Horse Racing Program. During that time I worked with horses that competed at the highest levels of North American racing, including the Preakness Stakes.

When I moved into dog training professionally, I brought everything with me. The ability to read an animal. To figure out what actually motivates them — not just what gets them to comply in a controlled setting, but what drives them at their core. To build something that holds under pressure.

That background is what sets Chaos K9 apart.

The Dog Work

Twenty Years of Working at the Highest Level

I started competing in IGP in the early 2000s and have been deeply involved in competitive obedience, protection sports, conformation, field trials, and hunt tests ever since. I've learned from some of the most accomplished trainers in North America, competed at a national level, and had the privilege of evaluating and selecting dogs across the United States and Europe for breeders, competitors, and companion homes.

My own dogs have earned national recognition — including the #10 pointing dog puppy in Canada (2018), the German Shorthaired Pointer Field Club of Alberta Derby Dog of the Year (2019), and the #2 pointing derby dog in Canada (2019).

I currently serve as Training Director of the Anarchy PSA Club and sit on the GSPFCA Board of Directors.

When I walk into your home to work with your dog, I'm bringing two decades of working at a level where results aren't optional.

The Philosophy

What I Actually Believe About Training

There is nothing new in dog training. Every approach worth taking is built on the same sound principles, refined over generations of serious trainers who came before us. What does evolve is our understanding of how to apply those principles — the research, the refinement, the nuance. I pay attention to that. But I'm not chasing the latest method or rebranding fundamentals with a new name. I'm using what works, applied with precision.

What I bring is the ability to read your dog — to understand what actually motivates them beyond a food reward, and to use that to build behavior that holds in real life. Not just in a controlled session. Not just when you have a treat in your hand. In your home, on your street, in the situations that actually matter.

The experience I bring goes beyond dog training. Decades working with animals across disciplines and species — horses, dogs, and cattle — builds a depth of reading and instinct that you can't get from a course or a certification. That experience runs deeper than most trainers will ever see. Every environment teaches you something the others don't. That shows up in how I work.

Every dog is different. Every plan should be too.

I've spent my whole life figuring out what makes animals tick.

This Didn't Start With a Certification Course

Twenty Years of Working at the Highest Level

What I Actually Believe About Training

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