Jenn Merritt is the owner of Blue Dog Creature Coaching in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Blue Dog offers dog training help, new puppy training, and Tellington TTouch in group classes and private training sessions.

Classes are offered in North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Durham, Burlington, and surrounding areas. Jenn’s career in dog training began when she attended reward based obedience classes at the Animal Protection Society in Mebane, NC, in 1998 with her behaviorally challenged dog Elvis.

Seeing the connection between positive reinforcement dog training and better behavior first hand, Jenn became a volunteer, a dog training instructor, and eventually manager of the APS Dog Training Program (now Paws 4 Ever) for four years. After an accident left her dog Big Sandy an amputee, Jenn discovered Tellington TTouch. Using TTouch to assist in her dog’s recovery, Jenn found that the gentle bodywork and non-habitual movement exercises of TTouch combined seemlessly with reward based training.