DTYD Handbook
Explore foundational dog parenting techniques with “Don’t Train Your Dog”. The handbook offers easy to implement recipes and prescriptions to address behavioral issues using firm but supportive guidance.
Read NowReal Parenting, Not Just Training
A universal handbook, designed to empower dog parents to achieve happiness and good behavior regardless of their pet’s age, breed, or sex.
Digital Companion
Videos and content that expand on the book’s teachings, included with purchase. See techniques in action and access additional materials that create a supercharged learning experience.
ExploreParent Consults
A 45-minute one-on-one session with Angie – For dog parents who’ve read Don’t Train Your Dog and are looking for tailored guidance for their dog’s specific behaviors.
Get StartedDog Parenting Coach
Meet Angie Winters
For Angie Winters, author of Don’t Train Your Dog, helping dogs is a calling. As a dog parenting coach and social entrepreneur for over 25 years, Angie has obsessively studied, raised, and rehabilitated over 1,000 dogs…and helped their parents. Her record for fixing broken dogs (who were deemed unfixable by typical dog trainers, vets, medications, behavioral experts, parents, and rescues) is unparalleled. Using a careful understanding of dog emotion and effective communication, Angie’s cutting-edge dog parenting philosophy helps dog parents, rescues, and prison dog training programs nationwide. Her mission is to create a world where dogs are understood and valued for their incredible gifts, leading to happier and healthier lives for both dogs and their parents.
WHY PET PARENTS LOVE US
Our Approach
Firm but Supportive Dog Guidance enables you to repeatedly land on the parenting sweet spot that creates happy, well-behaved dogs. It uses praise and treats to enhance understanding and good feelings, and balances a clear, firm no, not this against a clear, uplifting but, yes this.
Natural
For dogs, things either make sense according to their natural wiring or they do not. Through its wisdom, the natural world provides the balanced guidance dogs understand. By understanding it and replicating it in your own family life, you can teach your dog what’s not allowed without causing any fear, aggression, or loss of trust.
Balanced
Firm but Supportive Dog Guidance enables you to repeatedly land on the parenting sweet spot that creates happy, well-behaved dogs. It uses praise and treats to enhance understanding and good feelings, and balances a clear, firm no, not this against a clear, uplifting but, yes this.
Proven Effectiveness
Delivering results for extreme dog behavior cases for over 20 years in home environments and real-life scenarios, this approach transforms even the most challenging dogs into well-behaved family members.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Pawsitive Feedback
I have witnessed Angie change "bad" dogs into "good" dogs, all in a matter of minutes. She communicates to dogs in their language – which seems to be equal parts eye contact, nonverbal cues and love. It’s like she makes dogs believe what she believes, that there is no such thing as a bad dog, only bad behaviors. Angie knows dogs, loves dogs – and honestly, she can help you bring out the best in your dog.
- Michael Ivey, Former Commentator, NPR’s "All Things Considered"
"We run a prison dog program in Oregon and follow your programs every time we bring in a new dog and have every adopter watch it. It’s a huge part of our success placing dogs in their forever homes! If everyone getting a puppy would watch your Puppy Program first, puppies/dogs wouldn’t be filling the shelters."
- Dawn Wagner, Two Rivers Correctional Institute, OR
"Angie has worked tirelessly to help chip away at the epidemic of dogs being turned into shelters for fixable problems. Too many of which will never make it into a new home. Her lessons have helped so many of our toughest dogs in the rescue I volunteered for. Instead of just trying to throw treats at an issue, she teaches people how to truly connect with the dog’s emotions and needs.
- Lindsay Oliver, Anchor/Reporter, Spectrum One News