Bonny Wainz

Bio

Did you know that dogs are right or left pawed – or when they destroy furniture it can be a sign of separation anxiety? These are only a few of the behaviors Bonny Wainz considers when training a dog. As owner of Alternative Canine Training, Bonny is a brings to her clients over 25 years of experience. She feels her best attribute is that she loves seeing dogs and and their owners living happy, joyful and peaceful lives together. This only comes about when the dog is well trained. If a dog bites, urinates on the carpeting, chews, barks, or is confined to the house because they can’t be controlled, the dog as well as the owner suffer. Bonny is expert in the art of training dogs whether competing in the obedience ring or out in an open field at an American Kennel Club or United Kennel Club Hunt Test. Her background and credentials truly speak for themselves that’s why she has been sought out by celebrities like radio personalities, Dick Purtan and Chad Mitchell, TV news personalities Val Clark, Paula Tutman, and Monica Gayle, and NHL hockey players Steve Yzerman and Kirk Maltby. A master trainer and behaviorist, Bonny has been featured in stories in print as well as on TV and radio, and for several years shared her knowledge in a column for the Eccentric Newspapers. Anyone can control a dog when they are on a leash or along side of them. Many trainers can only maintain control when a dog is 15 to 25 feet away, but Wainz shines at 50 yards and more. On a daily basis she works her dogs 300 to 400 feet away using no more than hand signals and a whistle. Bonny’s love and involvement with animals goes back to her childhood, starting with the family’s pet rabbits. Bonny showed her ability to train animals at a very young age with her favorite rabbit named Thumper. She taught Thumper to come to his name, and hop along side her on a leash.