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In 1979, Jill Haley Rose began volunteering weekends at a local animal shelter in House Springs, Missouri called Open Door Animal Sanctuary. She did everything from cleaning kennels, exercising the dogs, giving medications, to assisting the general public with dog adoptions and dog rescues. During the summer months a few years later she was hired on as a Kennel Technician.
In 1984 she was hired as an Assistant Kennel Manager for a shelter in High Ridge, Missouri called Martha’s Animal Sanctuary. In addition, she took a second part time position as a Veterinary Surgical Assistant for Dr .Richard Kircher at South County Veterinary Office in St. Louis, Missouri.
Many times Jill would bring home dogs who were not coping well physically or behaviorally in the kennel environment at Martha’s Sanctuary. Reading what was available at the time on training and behavior as well as learning from other local dog experts, she patiently helped many of these dogs overcome their fear or other behavioral problems
In 1987, after the shelter relocated to Bonne Terre, Missouri, there was a tragic arson caused fire which killed all the dogs at Martha’s Animal Sanctuary. Even after the television show, Unsolved
Mysteries, aired an episode on the fire, the arsonist was never apprehended. This effected Jill’s psyche so deeply she left Missouri for a new home in San Francisco and began a new career as a Photographer and later a Computer Graphic Designer.
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In 1991 Jill decided to adopt a dog from the San Francisco SPCA. “Frazier” was a one and a half year old Rottweiler mix, weighing in at 125 pounds. Having spent the first part of his life in a backyard in the suburbs, Frazier was extremely under socialized to the sights and sounds of an inner city environment. He also had an extreme fear of men and would tremble uncontrollably, bark, grow, and urinate if a man would approach him.
Jill adopted Frazier, and with the help of SF SPCA staff trainers, Frazier slowly became less fearful and more confident. One year later he was a transformed animal. Nobody could believe he was the same dog Jill adopted in 1991. Jill and Frazier enrolled in the public dog training classes and over the next 2 years they worked their way through the advanced level training classes. Frazier became a well known and loved dog throughout the Mission District of San Francisco. He accompanied Jill everywhere she went. He was known as the “big, loveable bear” especially among the city children in Frazier’s neighborhood.
As Frazier grew older, Jill couldn’t let go of the excitement she felt during Frazier’s behavior rehabilitation. The bond that was created throughout the training process was like nothing she had felt before. She started thinking back to her experiences at the shelters in Missouri. The number one reason dogs were abandoned was for behavioral problems. Instead of trying to help the dogs after they were given up, why not help them long before they were left tied to the shelter door? Why not help these dogs and their owners before the problem gets so big that the owner feels too overwhelmed to try and fix it?
In 2001 she made the leap back to the world of canines and was hired as an Assistant Dog Trainer by Alison Smith, CTC, owner of Canine Culture Dog Training in Oakland, California. Not only did Alison become Jill’s mentor and a good friend, but she gave Jill lots of hands on advice and experience working with dog owners and the myriad of behavioral challenges they were facing with their dogs.
Sadly, Frazier died of cancer in May of 2002. Not long after, through Alison’s recommendation, Jill applied and was accepted to the prestigious San Francisco SPCA Dog Trainers Academy. Considered the “Harvard” of dog training schools, Jill proudly completed all the academically grueling courses and graduated in December of 2002 with a Certification in Training and Behavioral Counseling.
Immediately upon graduation Jill enrolled in the post graduate Internship Program with the Behavior and Training Dept. at the SF
SPCA , focusing her studies and work on canine fear and aggression. After completing the program, she received a Certificate in Dog Aggression with Honors. Jill continued to volunteer her time for the SF
SPCA Behavior and Training Dept., doing behavioral evaluations and training work. It was at this time that she also started her own Training and Behavioral Counseling business, Paws of Nature, serving the communities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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In March of 2004, Jill married Massachusetts native Todd Rose and in April relocated to Westfield, Massachusetts, where she reestablished Paws of Nature Training and Behavioral Consults. Jill and Todd hope to one day have enough funds to open up a state of the art boarding and training facility in Western Massachusetts.
Since 2001, Jill has attended countless seminars and workshops
by world renowned animal trainers and behaviorists and continues to do so to
this day. Jill strives to use the very latest techniques and keeps continually
educated
on the most current information available on canine behavior and training.
Jill Haley Rose training shape discrimination to a chicken at a Bob Bailey Chicken Training Workshop held at the San Francisco SPCA. Her colleague Aishe Berger assists her while world famous animal trainer Bob Bailey critiques her progress. For more information about Bob Bailey and Animal Behavior Enterprises click here .