Meet the Staff

Owner/Head Trainer: Bethany Tracy

• Has been training dogs professionally since 2007

• Owner and founder of Wasatch Canine Camp, LLC
  

• Head Trainer for Wasatch Canine Camp, LLC

• Certified as an E-Touch ™ dog trainer in 2007  by Heather Beck

• Was taught Pack to Basics ™ by Chad Mackin, former President of the International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP)

• Has studied Dog Psychology and Pack Mentality
  

• Has attended multiple Training Between the Ears (TBTE) workshops/seminars, and is skilled in the methods taught and offered by Canine Behaviorist Marc McCabe

• Co-Founder/Creator of the Puppy Potential workshop (with Brittany Brauer and Megan Lewis) focusing on proper whelping, raising, and training of puppies.

• Canine Good Citizen Evaluator

• Professional level member of the IACP

• Has been featured multiple times on multiple local news shows/media outlets (Fox 13, The Daily Herald)

• Certified SATS Perception Modification Trainer

• Has been breeding/showing Bernese Mountain Dogs since 2010 (www.wccberners.com)

• Has attended multiple workshops focusing on how to deal with difficult and aggressive dogs hosted by Heather Beck as well as Chad Mackin

• Has attended multiple workshops/seminars hosted by Nelson Hodges, which focus heavily on canine behavior and body language.  Nelson Hodges specializes in working with wolves and wolf hybrids, he also lived with wolves for 2 years in the wild.

• Has completed Marc Goldberg’s Introduction to the Force Free Method of Dog Training course

• Skilled with Clicker training

• Certified JSDT Level 3 trainer through Joel Silverman, professional movie/television animal trainer

• Trained dogs featured in the movie “The Kane Files” 

• Head Trainer/Coordinator for Home Depot’s Chem-Dry commercial

• Has worked with The Monks of New Skete (the authors of “The Art of Raising a Puppy” & “How to be Your Dog’s Best Friend“) to learn all about their breeding program and how they raise, handle, and socialize their puppies.  They now very closely follow the New Skete puppy raising program to raise the best socially and mentally well rounded puppies possible.

• Has completed Cesar Millan’s Training Cesar’s Way Fundamentals 1 

• Skilled in The Art Of Attention taught by Duke Ferguson

• Skilled in trick training taught by Felicia Foy of Furtastic K9’s

Co-Owner/Trainer: Alan Tracy

• Co-Owner and Co-Founder of Wasatch Canine Camp, LLC

• Has been training dogs since 2013

• Professional level member of the IACP

• Has attended multiple Training Between the Ears (TBTE) workshops/seminars, and is skilled in the methods taught and offered by Canine Behaviorist Marc McCabe

• Has attended multiple workshops focusing on how to deal with difficult and aggressive dogs hosted by Heather Beck as well as Chad Mackin

• Has attended multiple workshops/seminars hosted by Nelson Hodges, which focus heavily on canine behavior and body language.  Nelson Hodges specializes in working with wolves and wolf hybrids, he also lived with wolves for 2 years in the wild.

• Has completed Marc Goldberg’s Introduction to the Force Free Method of Dog Training course

• Certified JSDT Level 3 trainer through Joel Silverman, professional movie/television animal trainer

• Has worked with The Monks of New Skete (the authors of “The Art of Raising a Puppy” & “How to be Your Dog’s Best Friend“)

• Skilled in The Art Of Attention taught by Duke Ferguson

Alan has been taught/trained in regards to everything that Bethany knows about dog psychology, behavior, training, socialization and more.  He and Bethany run Wasatch Canine Camp, LLC full time. Alan has a very calm and gentle energy. Almost all the dogs we work with gravitate around him because of how soft his energy is. He, along with Bethany, is constantly learning and attending different seminars and conferences, always learning as much as he can about dog training and psychology.

WCC Crew