APDT

Finding the genius in every dog.

To those who love and respect dogs, trainers are the line between happiness and frustration, calm and chaos, security and fear.

Finding the genius
in every dog.

To those who love and respect dogs,
trainers are the line between happiness and
frustration, calm and chaos, security and fear.

Offering trainers nothing short of everything.

LIMA

We support a Least Intrusive,
Minimally Aversive approach
to training.

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The largest dog training conference in the industry.

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So You Want to be a Dog Trainer!

The Association of Professional Dog Trainers, APDT, is a professional organization of individual trainers who are committed to becoming better trainers through education. The APDT offers individual pet dog trainers a respected and concerted... read more....

The question is not whether you can afford to join.
But whether you can afford not to.

Where the trainers of the world come together.