There's a Puppy in the House: Surviving the First Five Months
Michael Wombacher has been involved with dogs for over twenty years and at this point has performed over 15,000 in-home behavior consultations covering the entire spectrum of dog behavior from the mundane to the bizarre. He is an author (his first book was "There's a Baby in the House: Preparing your Dog for the Arrival of your Child"), lecturer and has also taught classes, trained other trainers and runs his own small-scale boarding and training operation.Mike has been certified as an expert on dog behavior by the California Superior Court and does occasional work evaluating dogs in legal matters. He has also been featured on Fox 5 Television's Good Day New York, San Francisco's Channel 7 News, "The Family Pet" with Dr. Jonathan Greenfield as well as radio programs around the country. He has trained dogs for high profile celebrities in the entertainment and financial worlds such as Robin Williams, Sharon Stone, Joe Satriani, Kirk Hammet, Barry Levinson, Charles Schwab and Michael Tilson Thomas.His training approach focuses on channeling a dog's natural drives and instincts into behaviors acceptable in the human pack primarily through principles of operant conditioning as well as through methods that appeal to the dog's canine sensibilities.His training methods are so effective and his style so clear that Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony and one of the great classical musicians of our time, commented that "Michael Wombacher is a Maestro of dog trainers. His clarity of thinking, sense of humor and skills in communicating make dog training fun for both pet and pet lover."