Humane Educator & Devoted Dog Lover

Aunt Penny is committed to providing the most effective, convenient force -free solutions for clients’ dog training needs, expectant families dog challenges, shelter/rescue staff and volunteer’s safety education classes, children’s dog bite prevention programs as well as first responders challenges with dogs they encounter on the job.

Penny avidly pursues ongoing continuing education and professional development by attending seminars and webinars, as well as keeping current on all industry literature. Penny is well respected and receives referrals from veterinarians, kennels, rescue organizations, and humane societies, whose staff she educates on handling dogs in a safe and humane way, keeping both the dogs and the handlers free of injury.

Penny has a diverse background in canines and training through her work with service dogs for people with physical challenges, working in a vet hospital, owning a boarding, grooming, and training kennel, and then branching into Aunt Penny’s Pet Services.

Penny is a National Speaker, licensed presenter for the International Family Paws Parent Education programs- (Dogs and storks and Dogs and Toddlers), as well as an Advanced Certified Pet Tech, a Nationally Certified Professional Dog Trainer, an occupational dog bite prevention instructor, a media consultant, and the first certified FEAR FREE dog professional in Western Pa. 

Penny and her husband Shawn reside in Irwin, PA and have four adult children and four grandchildren. When not educating humans about canines, Penny enjoys her husband, grandchildren, their own nine dogs, two pygmy goats and two betta fish.