Hello fantastic dog lover!

I am Mimmi Janeld and I am proud and happy to be your supervisor/teacher and mentor at this Dog Daycare Training Programme.

My path into the dog industry started in 2002 with a move to Norrland (up north) which was preceded by a depression of exhaustion with sick leave for a total of 1.5 years. At that time, I turned my back on everything human and humane. If I could, I would even have preferred to run away from myself.

Before my move to Norrland I was a dog sitter for four dogs in Stockholm for three months. I had already discovered at that time the challenge of bringing dogs from different homes together during common days, times and activities. In January 2002 I and my convertible drove 800 km up to Robertsfors where I was to stay for a year to attend a 1-year full-time training course to become a Dog Instructor and so it happened. With my Diploma in hand, I moved again, this time back to the capital of Sweden Stockholm to plan and start my dog ​​care business.

"Easy-peasy", I thought before starting off. Not at all. The fact was that I discovered early on that my Diploma as a Dog Instructor did not help me enough in my role as a dog care provider. Shocked by the insight, and not completely rehabilitated in body and soul, it took me a couple of years to actually realize what I had gotten myself into and that I wished there had been someone in the industry I could have sought support from. Based on this, I feel a genuine calling and obligation to support others with this Dog Daycare Training Programme.

My goal and hope is that you will be able to work safely with dogs and maximize the joy and benefit that a dog care business actually entails. After 15 years so far with this training programme, I look forward to guiding you and supervising you even more.

Warm welcome!

PS As to being one of the very first in Sweden to start a mobile dog daycare business, the media sniffed me out with articles/reports in the newspapers Hundsport, Hundliv and Dagens Nyheter that followed (see below).

My first years as a dog daycare manager, I added dogs to my dog ​​group based on the "first come, first served" principle if I had a free place in my dog group. Oh, oh, oh. Irresponsible. But at that time, I didn't know any better. How could I have known?

However, I quickly became familiar with my gut feeling and what my thoughts and feelings were trying to tell me. This resulted in the fact that when a more competent dog was about to leave my dog group, I got a new chance to even out the energy levels in the dog group and balance it up with the next dog. This was because the new dog wouldn't be as difficult, complicated and competent as the one that had left.

As a beginner with dogs, I made many "rookie" mistakes and I often refer back to them during this training programme. My hope is that you will be able to avoid making the same ones based on a theoretical and practical "toolbox" that exclusively works for the dogs' positive well-being and self-realization. But above all - their safety and yours. When that happens, you enjoy the same positive effects as your dogs. Win-win!!

Slowly but surely, I continuously replaced individuals in the dog group until I finally became clear and certain of my reasons (to myself) for why I chose to keep each individual in the dog daycare group. Conscious choices.

My first dog group, completely without risk calculation, consisted of Rottweilers, Dobermans, Dalmatians, German Shepherds, Bullmastiffs, French Bulldogs, Schapendoes, Catalan Sheepdogs and several Wachtel and Staffordshire Bull Terriers.

When I look in the rearview mirror over a decade later, I understood what boundless luck (not skill) I had had during all these years. No serious incidents had occurred. Incidents, they did happen, but fortunately the dogs were ultimately intact to the very end.

The years passed and in the last few years I ran a small dog daycare and a group photo of these dogs is below. My four-legged friends, and the dog owners, became my "family". My years as a dog daycare manager have given me many lifelong memories and joys to cherish. And lessons learned.

During my 13 years, I never regretted my career choice, but today I know what kind of knowledge, education, support and previous experience I would have needed for my own start-up. All of these, I want to give to you in this Dog Daycare Training Programme.

September Month´s KPA CTP 2015, Mimmi Janeld vid Aurora Hundtjänst.

Certified Professional Dog Trainer vid Karen Pryor Academy for Animal Training and Behavior