Talmage Smedley, a professional dog training expert with over 30 years of experience, has seen every challenge in the book. He’s helped thousands of overwhelmed and frustrated dog moms learn the leadership and communication principles that create a truly remarkable relationship with their dog. You can trust him to guide you through any issue you may be facing. When working one-on-one, people pay $1250 for six 45-minute sessions. But not everyone can visit him in person. To make his unique training system more widely available, we put his expert strategies into an affordable online video course. Now you can effectively communicate with your puppy, eliminate its poor behavior, and start building the happy relationship you’ve always dreamed of.

Meet Talmage Smedley

Talmage Smedley is a professional dog training expert with over 30 years of experience. He has seen every challenge in the book. He’s helped thousands of overwhelmed and frustrated dog moms and dads learn the leadership and communication principles that create a truly remarkable relationship with their dogs. You can trust him to guide you through any issue you may be facing.

Talmage's Story

The year was 1985. While society was obsessed with neon fashion trends, leg warmers, and MTV, Talmage’s obsession was different–he was focused on animals. He transformed his boyhood home into a menagerie of sorts, filled with dogs, birds, rabbits, turtles and everything else he could talk his parents into allowing. He was just 13 when bought his first English Setter, and he started riding horses in his teenage years. Talmage found himself consumed by television specials and how-to books with insights about breeding, raising, and training his two favorite animals: dogs and horses.

Fast forward to 1995. After serving a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he began professionally training reining horses. He continued horse training and breeding for more than 20 years, enjoying brilliant success and winning multiple local and national titles, including Utah Futurity Champion, Utah Derby Champion, and the 2009 National Open Derby Level 1 Champion in Oklahoma City. Additionally, horses from his breeding and training programs have won many additional titles with their riders, both in the United States and abroad.

Despite his success in the horse training industry, Talmage felt something was missing. His passion for dogs kept surfacing, and he longed to be more involved in the dog training arena. After heartfelt consideration and counseling with his wife, they decided to expand his career to encompass breeding and training dogs. It was a brave transition with four children and a household to support, but he made the leap and has been enjoying incredible success and finding great personal fulfillment. He raised several dog champions, national qualifiers and national award-winning dogs. His extensive breeding, training, and competing experience involves dogs of all types, including pointing, flushing and retrieving bird dogs, and other sporting and working breeds.

He has helped thousands of people develop an unbreakable bond with their dogs by using his unique principles of leadership and three lines of communication so dogs can clearly understand what they are being asked to do, and quickly lock in the training. In recent years, he developed educational training courses, including his comprehensive puppy training course T’s Puppy Playbook: The Step-by-Step Guide to Raising a Well-Behaved Pup.

His mission is to help you become the confident, kind leader your dog needs, so you can have harmony in your home and enjoy a truly remarkable relationship with your well-behaved dog. He is a coach and developer at heart who loves seeing others achieve all they possibly can. With his help, you can build a beautiful connection with your canine companion that will last its lifetime.

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