I have been a 25+Year in Northern, California - Local Small Business Owner and Professional Dog Trainer specializing in Puppies. Offering Small Personalized Group Training Classes & Private Training. Started off originally as Cindy C. Smith Horse & Dog Training offering Private Training. Then in 2003/2004 became Owner of The Right Steps (with my Husband) in Orangevale California (also offered In Home Pet Sitting and Dog Walking for a short time in addition to Training), then moved to Fair Oaks, California in June 2010
I became a NACSW Certified CNWI - National Association of Canine Scent Work Certified Canine Nose Work Instructor since February 2012 (the first one so far north of Davis/Dixon, California area at the time). Offering Group Classes, Private Training, and Work Shops.
2003/4 to 2010 had a 1000 square foot Inside Training Facility, then in June 2010 moved to a 1200 square foot Inside Training Facility. I have given free Seminars on Dog Training and Safe Handling to numerous Veterinarian Offices over the years, as well as been a Guest Lecturer at Cosumnes River College for Veterinarian Technicians in Elk Grove California on Dog Training and Behavior from 2012-tnru-2019 (soon after California shutdown due to COVID-19 Rules/Restrictions). I am very passionate about doing what I love and helping People, Families, Pet Professionals, and their Animals and Best Friends understand a common language and enjoy the time they have together to the maximum potential. We are excited to our new move and adventure to our new forever home in Montana, with the goal of resetting up the Business I love, my Husband happily retiring, and us (Husband, Dogs, and I) re-finding ourselves and spending quality time together and enjoying the great outdoors! After a near fatal auto accident September 2021, not of my own making/fault, 3 surgeries so far to date and their rehabs, sporting a new hip and knee - finally on no cane and walker - I am looking forward to having an active personal and professional life back! Our Passions? Me? ANIMALS! I love Training and Competing in Dog Sports - Agility and K9 Nose Work! I have also done Rally in the past. Bicycle Riding and going for walks with my Dogs. 18 + years ago I was crazy into Horses - Showing (Western Pleasure, Trail, Reining, and a secret love for cutting) and Trail Riding. I also have a passion for Photography, Reading Paper Books, and Drawing/Art, Camping. Peace and quite - an Introvert by nature, I appreciate the rare and true friends. Love a good nap with my Dogs! My Husband? Fishing - Fly Fishing, Biking, Cars, Tractors, Tinkering, Camping, a nice relaxing B**r and Conversation in local Brewery or Pub, Coffee Snob (I say that laughing), Music, Vintage Stereo Equipment, Photography, Reading. Very social by nature - Enjoys talking and making new friends. We both enjoy privacy, peace, and quiet and look forward to having our own piece of heaven to relax, after living in the insanity of California, a once gorgeous great State, that sadly year by year went rapidly downhill - so not the same place I grew up in, loved, and wandered the hills as a kid and teen on foot, bicycle, and horseback - sad. That said, yes, I will deeply miss our Friends, my CA Clients and their Dogs/Animals, and my Pet Professional Referral Sources of 25+ years. It has been an honor and privilege to be trusted to train, do what I love, and make a difference.
