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Kim Palermo, Faculty

kimmpalermo@gmail.com

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Kim Palermo CPDT-KA (she/her) is a Certified Control Unleashed Instructor and ACE (Animal Centred Education) Practitioner. She specializes in teaching Control Unleashed and ACE Free Work with private clients, teaches a high volume of in-person CU classes, and incorporates CU into all of her membership-style group pet dog classes for her dog training business, BlueDog, located north of Boston. In 2008 she began offering dog walking and soon grew and managed a large team of staff and introduced dog training services. She’s been working with dogs professionally for over 20 years and has been an avid dog owner and sports enthusiast her entire life. She has a fondness for helping dogs with big feelings, and uses compassion and kindness with every animal and human that she works with.

Kim’s passion is to help others pursue their dream of training dogs and she continues to expand her business in a way that supports growth, mentorship, and opportunity for her team. She is a mentor for Control Unleashed certification program, the CATCH dog trainers program, and for local trainers. She has spoken in conferences, teaches in-person workshops, and presents for her local community.

Kim is a true dog sport dabbler and dog lover, trying everything she can with her five dogs to learn as much as she can! Currently she’s training her two Collies for herding, obedience, agility, conformation, and scent work. She also competes in Rally and Obedience with her miniature poodle. Kim is the vice president of the Collie Club of NH and a member of the Collie Club of America and is actively working on expanding performance options for Rough and Smooth Collies. During her free time she likes to escape to the woods to hike, is a beekeeper, raises a flock of chickens, ducks, turkeys, and guinea hens, and dreams of the day when she has a farm.

Pronouns: Kim goes by she/her.

Kim Palermo's current and upcoming courses

BH230 Control Unleashed - A Deep Dive into Pattern Games

Bring the power of Control Unleashed into your training with this deep dive into CU Pattern Games! Control Unleashed is a program that was founded by Leslie McDevitt to help dogs adapt to and live comfortably in our big crazy world whether they’re a family dog, a sport dog, or a working dog. Patterns allow a dog to use voluntary behaviors to initiate asimple, repetitive chain that creates a predictable pattern. This will help to normalize the environment and allow the dog to process information from the safety of the pattern.

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Keep training exciting with interactive exercises and games

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This class model has been so helpful, regardless of level of participation. I feel I learned so much from the lecture materials and the participants' videos/feedback. Feedback was specific and easy to follow. I can see so much change already in my and my dog's performance, and in our relationship. I can't wait for the next class!

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I was at first hesitant about taking online training courses, in general. This course has convinced me that it can be almost an even better training and learning opportunity, reviewing your training sessions with the instructors input, analyzing what you did yourself. Precise, fast and clear instructions, help and very positive feedback made this course a blast - 6 weeks went by too fast! I live on a farm way out in the country and while my dog loves to learn between his severe travel anxiety and the price of gas we don't have a lot of opportunities to try new classes. The Fenzi Academy is perfect for us and gives us the opportunity to try things and have access to trainers that we would never have in person. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity! This is my first time taking a Fenzi Academy class, but not my first time taking an online class. I have to say it is the best experience I have had so far. What was better than previous experiences is the greater detail in breaking down training plans with good videos and lectures, and making it less of a "figure it out yourself" kind of experience. The other component is technology they use allows for more organized discussion and content delivery - it may seem secondary to the quality of teaching, but the delivery tools are really important. Lastly, the timeliness and quality of the coaching was excellent. will be taking additional classes in the future and would recommend her course and Fenzi Academy to others.

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A great course - so worthwhile for teams at all different levels. Even at bronze I found it to be fantastic. It felt like it was personal instruction for me - for both of my dogs, each very different. Taking courses from the Fenzi Academy gives you a chance to "work" with many different highly skilled/positive instructors and even today it isn't easy to find that many trainers who are primarily positive at competition levels. I feel like I come away with a new skills or insights from each class I take (4 so far).

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