Jody Karow, CTC, is the founder of Go Anywhere Dog® in Minneapolis and the creator of Boundaries Without Trauma®, a training methodology built on emotional safety before obedience.
Jody Karow, CTC, is the founder and lead trainer of Go Anywhere Dog®, a puppy and dog training school serving the Minneapolis metro since 2012, and the creator of Boundaries Without Trauma®.
She came to dog training the long way. Before dogs, Jody worked in child advocacy and adolescent mental health, then spent the 1990s in corporate technology. She began training dogs professionally in 2004 and earned her CTC from the Academy for Dog Trainers, the program founded by behaviorist Jean Donaldson.
That path shaped the method. Boundaries Without Trauma® applies to dogs what Jody learned working with traumatized young people: emotional safety has to come before compliance, and boundaries built through fear don’t hold. Her instructional video on canine body language has been viewed nearly a million times.
Signature topics: Boundaries Without Trauma: What Dogs Taught Me About Teenagers; The Socialization Window Nobody Explains Correctly; and Your Dog Isn’t Dominant. Here’s What’s Actually Happening.
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Jody Karow, CTC, is the founder of Go Anywhere Dog® in Minneapolis and the creator of Boundaries Without Trauma®, a training methodology built on emotional safety before obedience.
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Jody Karow is a Certified Trainer and Counselor from the Academy for Dog Trainers and the founder of Go Anywhere Dog®, a Minneapolis puppy training school she started in 2012. Her registered methodology, Boundaries Without Trauma®, draws on two decades of prior work in child advocacy and adolescent mental health.
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Certified Dog Life Coaches with 20+ years of hands-on experience
Science-backed methods rooted in modern canine behavioral research
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We believe love, trust & dignity are the foundation of every great training journey.
