Aimee Burton- Owner

AKC Certified Trainer

Aimee was born and raised in San Diego and is the daughter of a veterinarian. Her mother ran and operated their 3 veterinary hospitals where she grew up helping out after school with the family business. She also grew up with many other types of animals. Goats, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, turkeys, ducks, rabbits and horses that were on her grandparents' small farm in Ramona, where she spent her summers riding her horses and helping care for the animals.

After moving to Los Angeles, she began her dog training internship in 2008 with the owner of very popular fear free dog training company after adopting her heart dog, Ginger from the East L.A. animal shelter. She was very fearful and aggressive but very frail at only 4lbs. Her newly adopted little dog needed more than just standard obedience training. She needed gentle methods and a vast knowledge of animal behavior so she employed the help of Dr. Karen Sueda, a renowned veterinary animal behaviorist in Los Angeles that opened her eyes to the complex needs and emotions of dogs. Working with Ginger sparked a passion in her to learn as much as she could about this special little dog no one wanted just days from behavioral euthanasia. Since 2008, Aimee has continued to study canine behavior through workshops, conferences, seminars, webinars, books and shadowing other experience scienced based fear free trainers and behaviorists. Her little dog and teacher, Ginger made remarkable progress and shared her life with her for 13 years until her passing in 2021.

Aimee now lives in San Diego with her 4 rescue dogs and has worked with over 3,000 dogs to date. She specializes in helping dogs with reactivity, fear, resource guarding, general anxiety, noise phobias, over arousal, touch sensitivity, desensitization to grooming, fear of the vet visits, sensitivity to handling and touch, basic manners, new puppy education, impulse control issues and is an AKC certified instructor. For the last 13 years she has designed and taught puppy kindergarten/socialization classes, fearful/shy puppy socialization and confidence building classes, basic obedience classes, intermediate obedience classes and Canine Good Citizen prep classes, and "out and about classes", trained psychiatric service dogs and therapy dogs as well as trick trains her own dogs for fun. 

She strongly believes that dog training should be fun, gentle, and rewarding to the dog and handler using, play, food, life rewards and be physical punishment free while at the same time provide benevolent leadership and structure to build confidence and to keep your dog and other dogs safe and confident in a variety of environments. She belives a well-trained dog should want to interact, feel good about offering behaviors and show impulse control because good things happen to them when they do. A well-trained dog parent should understand what their dog is communicating, what situations their dog is comfortable in what environments or situations they need to avoid with their dog when their dog communicates that they are struggling and need guidance.