Kim Palermo, Faculty
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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
Patterns are a simple tool to help with a number of challenges:
BH255 I CU in the Real World
Ready to take your CU skills on the road? Welcome to I CU in the Real World: Advancing Your Control Unleashed Skills! This class will build on all previous CU classes. Gold students will have the opportunity to address challenges specific to their own dogs to work on throughout the 6 weeks. We will also dive deeper into CU concepts, start to bring patterns together to build routines, decrease reinforcement, and dive into advanced concepts like Voluntary Sharing, Requested Approach Training, and LATTE (Look At That, Then Enrichment.) This class is ideal for any team who has already taken a previous CU class and is ready to bring their skills into the big wide world!
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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).
Read all testimonialsThis is the first online class I have taken. Although I took it at the bronze level, I was amazed at how much I got out of it and couldn't wait to try the exercises and share them with my training partners. As an inexperienced handler with little competition experience, I was nervous. There was no need to worry. Denise accepts her students, canine and human, right where they are. She is very clear that you don’t have to keep up, make comparisons or master it all in the 6 week session. Her feedback is prompt, frequent and right to the point. As she discusses areas that need work, she is encouraging and reinforcing. I always felt like wagging my tail and working harder after every interchange. Getting to know and watch the other students is fun and instructive. I am looking forward to taking classes regularly through the Fenzi Academy. And I highly recommend that you go for the gold!
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