: About Me

Public relations, magazine, radio and television broadcast writing and editing has been the forefront of my career. My passion is writing about animal behavior and travel. My writing experience and skills are diverse.

As a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh with a Bachelor of Science in Communication and a minor in Journalism, I was college newspaper editor and won a journalism award for magazine writing.

My writing journey has taken me from hospital public relations, to television and radio broadcasting and commercial production. Managing, writing and editing a local magazine titled Metropolitan LIfestyle led to writing online for websites, businesses, and currently for Helium and Associated Content. I am Helium Channel Manager for Dog Care and Health and the Birds Channel.

I have also worked in the Silicon Valley as a Senior Producer for online and now defunct Liveworld Productions, Inc. creators of Talk City, 1996.  I've worked during my career for Fox, ABC and NBC as a reporter, special events and news director, promotions manager, and in advertising sales.

My passion, however, is dogs and other animals, especially behavior modification and I have a keen interest in communication between humans and animals. This is reflected in my writing focus and professional work today.

I am a Certified Tellington Practitioner (P1) and a Clicker Professional training parrots, dogs and other companion animals. My focus is on positive reward-based training methods.

I am co-moderator of a popular discussion listgroup  "Clicker Solutions". Melissa Alexander author of "Click For Joy" and Clicker Solutions founder formed one of the most popular clicker lists with the largest membership online today. 

I live on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound just north of Seattle, Washington in a little town called Langley. Langley is fondly named "Village By the Sea" and paradise to me, my husband, two Belgian Tervurens and two parrots. I write about local travel and events.

My business Canine Transformations Learning Center operates out of the Island County Fairgrounds 4H building and I have a mobile unit and travel to clients located from Seattle to Bellingham, Washington. 

My passion is ...

Dogs and dog behavior and training, especially reactive and aggressive dogs

I know too much about ...

Dogs

My parents always told me ...

"Think"

My childhood ambition ...

veterinarian

My favorite memory ...

My dog Lady, a reactive Cocker Spaniel, who saved me from a very bad man.

Why I write ...

To inform, and it is a continuing passion representing self.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading all things dog, dog training, also Terry Goodkind at the moment. Watching: Animal Planet, Food Channel, HDTV, GMA Listening to CDs all types

My first job ...

Working for my dad in his Dairy in Cadillac, Michigan

My best moment ...

So many, my wedding day, my children's birth, my graduation from college

My inspiration ...

Positive reward-based dog behaviorists and dog trainers

Pets & Animals > Birds Bird facts: Barbary partridge

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The barbary partridge is a more distant relative of the rock partridges, genus Alectoris, a genus of Perdicidae or Old World Partridge and depending on the resource, there are four to six subspecies that range from Morocco across North Africa into Libya and Egypt.  A fun fact is that the barbary partridge is also a resident of the Rock of Gibraltar in the south of Spain. In fact, Gibraltar considers the barbary partridge its own unique and national bird.  General Appearance. Barbary partridge are much more colorful than most other partridge. The plainest part of the body is the f...

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