I’m Bronagh Daly, a Certified Control Unleashed Instructor, Certified Family Dog Mediator, Graduate of the Aggression in Dogs Master Course, and Certified One Mind Dogs Instructor. I’m a dog-obsessed—Buffy The Vampire Slayer loving—dog trainer and agility coach. I pride myself in my creative thinking, and am always ready to tailor every training solution to your individual dog. 

Why is that important? It means I don’t believe in ‘one-size-fits-all’ solutions! Instead, we’ll work together to find the solution that’s best for you and your dog. 

Growing up, I wasn’t initially allowed to have dogs in my NYC home, so her love of animals started small—from crickets to frogs to gerbils to cats. I eventually started fulfilling my love for dogs volunteering for Animal Welfare Society in New Milford, CT and in 2009, my love for animals took me across the world to South Africa on a conservation trip to help the brown hyenas who are marked as near threatened in the IUCN Red List. Unsnaring traps on reserves and learning all the ways to help the misunderstood hyenas, solidified to me that helping animals would be a huge part of my life.

Shortly after returning from South Africa, at 16, I was finally able to have my own dog, Stella. Ever since, I have fallen in love with dog training and agility and turned my attention back to domestic animals. Overall, my main goal is always to help you foster the strongest possible relationships with your dogs and give them their best possible lives. 

My own dogs have had a huge impact on my dog training journey and current instruction. It all started at 16, when Stella brought me into the world of dog training and agility.

In agility, Stella taught me about how to help dogs with ring stress gain the confidence they need to feel comfortable in the ring. And in daily life, Stella was the perfect girl to help me learn everything I needed to know about training a dog when it came to house manners or polite leash walks on the busy streets of NYC.

Seven years later, Razzle, 5-year-old my recovered reactive border collie, became reactive to strangers at around 2 years old.

Building the trust and the skill-set necessary to work through his panic-infused reactivity and fears, Razzle taught me a great deal about helping reactive dogs take a driver’s seat in their own behavior modification and how to make them feel comfortable in their own skin. Through hard work, Razzle was not only able to feel brave amongst strangers once again, but we were able to successfully travel to and around Finland together only a year later. Today, we are happily training for agility competitions and enjoying our daily hikes together, gracefully meeting strangers in the woods without a second thought.

My youngest border collie, Oz, has been (and continues to be) my greatest teacher. Oz, who has Generalized Anxiety Disorder, sound sensitivity and epilepsy, has worked through more fears in his first two years of life than all of my dogs combined.

Through his sometimes arduous behavior modification, Oz has taught me most about resilience and optimism, gaining confidence every day in the ever-less-scary world, always with a smile on his face. With trust and consent always at the forefront of our work, he has gone from fleeing from cars and panicking at the sight of a dog to genuinely enjoying walks in NYC and reveling at the chance to meet strange dogs on CT hiking trails. His deep love and ever-growing bravery has most shaped me into the dog trainer I am today.

I am a member of the APDT, a Certified Control Unleashed Instructor, a Certified Family Dog Mediator, a graduate of the Aggression in Dogs Master Course, and a One Mind Dogs Instructor, and am fully insured. I believe that education is never-ending and attend as many conferences, such as Clicker Expo and The Lemonade Conference, and seminars as I can to continue to further expand my knowledge and techniques.