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With free and for-purchase study materials and hands-on instruction, Dialogue Dog Training enables any dog owner to learn to develop Dialogue with his or her dog. Dialogue is a training method that addresses all behavior problems by reducing dog anxiety.

Dialogue Dog Training uses as its textbook Dogs Deserve Dialogue: Rover Should Hang on Your Words and Not on Your Leash, a book which reveals the secret to overcoming problem behavior in dogs. All dogs are born with the seeds of anxiety because they are born clueless for how to live in an alien world--the urban human world. Dogs are, however, born with information, and we call that information their instincts. Instinctual information is faulty for giving dogs a way to live in a human world, but dogs, of necessity living by trial and error, make behavior decisions based on this faulty information. Much of this behavior is considered by humans to be bad, the dogs meet with punishment, and their anxiety grows to a level of fear or even terror. This anxiety drives still more "bad" behavior, and problems escalate.  A training method called Dialogue is the answer. Dialogue provides the solution to every kind of dog behavior problem because Dialogue reduces anxiety in dogs.

Founded in 2000 with the publication of Dogs Deserve Dialogue, Dialogue--a dog and owner communication partnership--is now embraced throughout the world by dog owners seeking a perception of dogs and dog behavior that solves problems and saves dogs' lives. Judy Moore, the founder of Dialogue Dog Training and author of Dogs Deserve Dialogue has lectured about Dialogue to audiences throughout the U.S. and in Mexico and the U.K. She has taught dog owner training clinics in all these locations, working one-on-one with dog owners and their dogs--some of the dogs having been condemned to death by other trainers--with 100% success.

Judy is a dog behaviorist and dog trainer,often affectionately called a dog whisperer.Judy has been a student of animal behavior all her life. She grew up in a lakeside home in Michigan, rescuing and training everything from ducks to dogs, with horses on the side. She graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in zoology and completed a masters degree in Communications and Environmental Education while on a fellowship at the University of Wisconsin.

While traveling in countries throughout the world, Judy observed firsthand the neglect and abuse of dogs in many human cultures. After a brief career as an editor and writer, in 1976 she returned with her husband to the Colorado mountains where she devoted her life to caring for her family (two boys) and the many animals she rescued. In 2007, Judy and her husband and business partner Jim relocated to the Bitterroot Valley of Montana.

Judy has personally rescued and rehabilitated for adoption over a hundred abused and abandoned dogs. As a dog behaviorist, Judy has employed her skills in communications research to discover ways to reach and restore the confidence and happiness of severely traumatized dogs. Because of her unique sensitivity to what these dogs need, Judy is often referred to as a dog whisperer, but she rarely whispers. She mostly praises and reassures non-stop with her best cheerleader voice!

As a dog trainer, Judy’s volunteer work with dogs in animal shelters, including a rescue organization she founded, has been invaluable in making shelter dogs more adoptable. It was at the urging of several students whom she helped to save their dogs—dogs who had been condemned to death by other trainers for their dangerous and “incorrigible behavior”—that she wrote and published the book Dogs Deserve Dialogue®: Rover Should Hang on Your Words, NOT on Your Leash.

Along with the book, Judy has now made available four DVDs to provide a "virtual clinic" that can reach many more dog owners than her personal teaching ever could. Dog owners on every continent except Antarctica report success at self-training themselves to develop Dialogue with their dogs. Judy can be contacted from her website for additional consultation or to apply for one of the clinics she schedules at her homebase of Missoula, Montana