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About Salomi
Salomi Gupte, a certified dog trainer and behaviourist based out of Ahmedabad.
Her journey in her words
For the past 8 years I have been training dogs, and every day is exciting-new dogs, new pet parents and new behaviors to train. The journey has been arduous but fulfilling and it wouldn’t have been possible without the guidance of the best names in the canine industry like Shirin Merchant, The formidable Late John Rogerson and Kumar Rich.
While growing up, dogs petrified me and I assumed that all that dogs did was bite and bark. But life had other plans, and a purpose. My first experience of the love and gentleness of dogs came in the form of Nikki a beautiful Labrador. Nikki struck a chord in my heart and since I have never known what it is to be scared of dogs. By the time Nikki crossed the bridge, I was sure of parenting a pet. Enter Doobie, a tiny beagle puppy, extremely mischievous and notorious for her age and size, a far cry from what Nikki was.
The first few months I regretted my decision of getting a dog. I got bit, the furniture got chewed, socks had holes and there was pee and poop in the weirdest corners of my house but my anger and frustration would melt on seeing her largest, roundest puppy eyes. We lived in a place with no access to trainers. So as most pet parents would do, we read countless articles and saw many videos on how to tame the dragon (Doobie).
In the name of love, I ignored all signs of bad behaviour and pampered her spoilt, but we knew this had to stop for us and her.
So in 2016, I entered the fascinating world of being a dog trainer and behaviourist under the expertise of Shirin Merchant, a pioneer in the dog training industry. She opened to me the wonderful world of dogs and their psychology.
After the completion of this course, I began training dogs of friends and relatives, which help in understand dog communication in real time. This also meant more time outside instead of behind a desk. Finally, I had a purpose, a calling. Slowly and surely this became a full time career. I wanted to help pet parents to strengthen their bond with their dogs, train puppies to become great dogs, decode subtle dog body language signals and gain insight into all of the fascinating dog breeds.
I wanted to delve deeper into this area and the following years made me take up more courses- Canines Can Care under the mentorship of Shirin Merchant. Internationally renowned John Rogerson of Northern Centre for Canine Behaviour UK and Kumar Rich from Canaan Pet Resort. Each course made me feel, there was so much more to know about canine/human interaction and communication
While I was training dogs, is when I met Mr Rahul Sehgal in 2019 and joined his organization Qi to Happiness foundation which introduced the first ever Animal Assisted Therapy program in Gujarat. The last 3 years working I have seen our therapy dogs work their magic and heal not only people but me as well.
In the last 8 years I have crossed paths with the most amazing dogs be it our pets or the ones on the street. Have cried on the ones I lost, and got healed by others. I have seen pet parents going that extra mile to do right by their dog, and seen dogs being given up for most unreasonable reasons, and this is an effort to help guide people better so that we all do right by them.
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