Meet The Team
Certified Trainer Team
Samantha Jagt, CPDT-KA FFCP
Certified Professional Dog Trainer
Samantha is one of our group class instructors and our puppy socials expert. She also works in the service & guide dog industry and has raised 5 service/guide dogs in training. Her first puppy, Shamus, moved on to work as a mobility service dog for a few years before deciding on early retirement re-joining her family. She also shares her home with a rescue pup named Lump.
Samantha previously ran group classes, socials and day training programs through K9HQ Doggy Daycare. She enjoyed helping dogs develop appropriate forms of play, and helping owners understand the meaning behind their dogs’ behaviour toward other dogs, narrating in the moment what dogs were communicating through their body language, and allowing owners to develop confidence in reading their dog in social settings.
She is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed, through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers and enjoys continuing her education through conferences, seminars and reading training books and articles. When she’s not working you can find her camping, reading or hiking with her pups or ideally a combination of all three! With a positive approach to problem-solving and a love of working with people and dogs, Samantha is very enthusiastic about training people and their pets!
Chelsea Major, CCTBS ADT
Certified Canine Training and Behavior Specialist
Chelsea is deeply passionate about the well-being of dogs and is committed to continually enhancing her expertise in training, behaviour, and enrichment. As a Certified Canine Training and Behavior Specialist through the Animal Behavior Institute, she strives to empower both dogs and their owners by fostering trust, understanding, and positive relationships.
Chelsea’s previous experience as a dog daycare manager at K9HQ Doggy Daycare built her passion for supporting puppies and adolescent dogs and their owners. She takes pride in offering an empathetic lens to the challenges clients face in these early stages of raising a dog.
Her services include day training, with a focus on puppies’ foundations, basic manners for all ages, group classes, leash reactivity, cooperative vet and grooming care, and dog walking and enrichment visits designed to promote physical and mental stimulation. Chelsea takes pride in offering compassionate, science-based training methods that strengthen the bond between dogs and their owners.