Meet Our Trainer and Behavior Expert -
Linda Thomas, LVT, CPDT
Friends Staff Trainer & Behavior Evaluator
Approved AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator to certify dogs for the CGC
title.
Member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers
Contact Linda at daslthomas@aol.com
Linda
Thomas graduated on the Dean’s List and at the top of her class from Wayne
County Community College in 1983 with an Associates of Science for Veterinary
Technology. She started her career in at Huron Valley Humane Society sterilization
clinic and quickly became the Adoption Coordinator, helping match animals
with new families to find permanent homes. At this time she took her first
training class and became interested in training and animal behavior. This
lead to offering free pet parenting classes at the humane society where she
worked and soon started to offer them at other humane society’s as well.
Linda became a member of a local training club and was in training to become
a dog trainer. In 1995 she attended her first Association of Pet Dog Trainers
seminar with other colleagues. At this seminar the idea of a behavior department
for the Michigan Humane Society was developed. Linda became a member of the
planning committee, creating the mission statement, class names and helping
with the class content, even creating and implementing classes on her own.
She quickly became head of the satellite training facility while still working
as a Licensed Veterinary Technician. Linda has attended seminars for feline
and canine behavior and training from Cornell University College of Veterinary
Medicine in Ithica, New York, Purdue University in west Lafayette, Indiana,
University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in Urbane, Illinois.
She became a Certified Pet Dog Trainer through the Association of Pet Dog
Trainers in 2003. She has written numerous papers and provided in depth presentations
for feline/canine behavior for the Southeastern Veterinary Medical Association
on feline and canine behavior. Is a lifetime member of North American Veterinary
Technician Association, Society of Veterinary Behavior Technicians, and Association
of Pet Dog Trainers. In 2007 she started her career at Friends For The Dearborn
Animal Shelter. Linda has two dogs, three cats & one tank of fish.
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Linda is a member of the
Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT), a professional organization of
individual dog trainers who are committed to becoming better trainers through
education. The APDT offers individual pet dog trainers a respected and
concerted voice in the dog world. We continue to promote professional trainers
to the veterinary profession and to increase public awareness of dog friendly
training techniques.
More about the APDT >
Contact our expert Paw-ty
Planner and Trainer, Linda at the shelter, 313-943-2697 or by email,
daslthomas@aol.com,
for more information about
any of our
training classes or
paw-ties.
Contact our expert Paw-ty
Planner and Trainer, Linda at the shelter, 313-943-2697 or by email,
daslthomas@aol.com,
for more information about any of our training classes or paw-ties.
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