Kayleigh La Liberty started her training journey teaching swimming, triathlon, and lifeguarding courses to students of all ages and backgrounds.

However, when she adopted her first dog, Casey Jones, an incredibly fearful dog, his fears and uncertainties led her down a new and exciting training path.

She has since adopted another dog, Kobe, with his own set of strengths as well as a new set of challenges to work through and learn from. Their latest addition, Splicer, is bringing forth a whole new journey of dog sports, as he loves everything from Conformation to Top Dog!

Kayleigh has developed the entire Target Ready Program for K9 Leadership.

Her focus starts with creating a solid foundation built on trust, focus, and engagement, incorporating activities that are both fun and functional to keep both the handlers and the dogs wanting to continue.

Having worked with her own fearful and reactive dogs, she understands the importance of working within the dog’s threshold and that slowly building upon skills to reduce frustration while building positive associations is the key to any successful training. 

Kayleigh completed her apprenticeship with K9 Leadership and is regarded as a talented and creative trainer with a keen understanding of how dogs learn. 

She has attended and completed all of the obedience and boot camp classes and is often seen co-teaching. Having also completed all of the tracking courses she is currently working towards reintroducing the skill back in her dogs.

She also dabbles in agility, trick dog training, scent detection, barn hunt, weight pull, and rally-o with her dogs and is planning to add disc and dock diving to their growing list of activities.

Kayleigh is excited by learning from others and enjoys continuing her education and increasing her knowledge through seminars and workshops.

Currently, she has participated in the Debbie Jones Fearful Dog seminar, annual Clicker Expos, and online Fenzi dog sports/IAABC lemonade conferences, to name a few.

In 2020, she participated in the online Aggression in Dogs Conference, and more recently, she was thrilled to participate in a working spot with Jay Jack, learning more about play and social responsibility.

She has also completed Training for Professionals Across Species with Ken Ramirez at The Ranch and, recently, the Dive Deep Course with Ken Ramirez, an advanced level of the same.

Kayleigh is constantly training, participating in seminars and workshops, and educating herself in diverse areas of dog training and dog sports.

She is an exceptional one-on-one coach and instructor with a talent for working with the dog in front of you on any given day.