Meet the Wiggle Butt Team
Mads Barth-Mathias, CPDT-KA, CCDT, FFCP, FDM
AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator
Mads is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA), Catch Academy Certified Dog Trainer, and Fear Free Certified Professional. They are also a certified Family Dog Mediator through Kim Brophy’s L.E.G.S Applied Ethology course. They offer training in manners and reactivity for dogs of all ages, Canine Good Citizen training, Trick Dog training and more!
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​Mads has owned pets throughout their life, and entered the pet care industry when they became a dog walker in New York City. They became very interested in helping the reactive dogs in the unnatural urban environment. They enrolled in CATCH Canine Trainers Academy’s Master Class program to start their education in dog training. During their time studying, they worked as a trainer at Instinct Dog Behavior & Training teaching puppies and foundational manners skills. Mads earned the Certifed Dog Trainer title after completeing the Master's program. In 2022, Mads moved to Dallas, and began teaching group classes in manners, tricks and fungility (fun agility). They also helped develop What A Great Dog’s Puppy Day School program.
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Mads lives with their wife, Gracen, and their two dogs, Gambit (Chihuahua/Pit Bull rescue) and Bingo (Icelandic Sheepdog with a cleft lip). Their goal is to bring positive reinforcement to the forefront of the dog training world. They believe in approaching their clients, both dogs and humans, with patience and compassion.
CPDT-KA stands for Certified Professional Dog Trainer - Knowledge Assessed. Those with this certification have at least 300 hours of dog training experience within the previous three years, obtain a reference from another CPDT-KA trainer or veterinarian, and agree to the certification council's Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics and Least-Intrusive Minimally-Aversive (LIMA) Behavior Intervention Philosophy. They have also passed a 180-question exam that tests them on instruction skills, learning theory, ethology, training equipment and animal husbandry. To maintain certification status, trainers must complete continued education credits or re-take the exam every three years.
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Catch Academy Master's Certification is the program's most comprehensive knowledge and skill building program. Catch is a Government-Approved School and education program.
https://catchdogtrainers.com/our-program/courses-tuition/#Master-Class
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Certified Fear Free Professional (Veterinary). Completing the Fear Free Animal Program 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. This certification program is designed to give qualified animal trainers the knowledge and tools required to begin implementing Fear Free techniques with their clients’ pets at the veterinary hospital, through in-clinic training classes for puppies and kittens, and in day-to-day training of animals in the home.
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Certified FDM: Kim Brophey’s L.E.G.S. Model of Integrated Canine Science, endorsed by leading canine scientists and celebrated by dog pros worldwide, has been called “ the single most important development in the dog behavior industry” and “ the future of dog training”. As an applied ethologist, Kim introduces us to the basic foundational system of orchestral elements that direct the behavior of every single animal on Earth and explains what this means for our modern canine companions.
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An AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator is trained and approved to hold and certify Canine Good Citizen exams. Evaluators may also certify and/or teach the AKC Community Canine, AKC Urban CGC, AKC Family Dog, AKC Trick and Therapy Dog.
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