Vera Wilkinson, lifelong teacher and coach, is  a certified professional dog trainer and certified dog behavior consultant and owner of The Cooperative Dog in the Boston. She is now well into her third decade of working fulltime on behalf of dogs and their people.

Train Your Deaf Dog is the result of living with and training Hawk, her born deaf puppy and working with several dozen deaf puppies and dogs as well as dogs that are blind or deaf and blind, aka deaf-blind. Working with special needs dogs quickly became another area of specialty and offering virtual training and behavior consultations is about helping more people and dogs beyond Boston.

Vera’s approach is thorough and comprehensive. Her focus is not just that of teaching people about dogs and how they learn and communicate but of being mindful in our interactions with dogs. She always strives to keep training simple and her business tagline at The Cooperative Dog, ‘practical training for everyday life’ definitely applies here too.

What are her qualifications?

Vera  has worked with nearly 25,000 families and individuals on behalf of dogs since 1996.  She’s committed to her personal ongoing education and holds several certifications that require continuing education to maintain:  Certified Dog Behavior Consultant, IAABC (CDBC), Certified Professional Dog Trainer-Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA) and Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner (KPA CTP).