I can climb inside your animal's mind and return your dog to his natural, happy, confident animal self with impeccable manners, and an ability to communicate that wasn't there before. My goal is to restore your dog to his full, animal nature. Leonard Ludovico is quite simply the finest behavioral pet trainer that one could ever encounter. He has an amazing ability to understand and communicate with animals.

By the young age of 6, Leonard already knew what his calling in life would be, working with animals. And to this day, that prophecy has held true.

Leonard's experience with canines is extensive. He has handled more than 80,000 dogs during the last 25 years. He spent the first ten years of his career as a Veterinary Technician in Mar Vista, California, specializing in caring for sick animals and rehabilitating dogs that had suffered trauma and injury.

It was in these early years that Leonard began developing new and effective approaches to working with fearful dogs. He recognized that these were and are the dogs that frequently become aggressive and extremely difficult to handle. When the City of Los Angeles was under siege during the 1982 riots, it was Leonard's job to handle canine units as violence erupted onto the streets. The canine units helped restore peace and played a key role in keeping everyone safe.

To learn more about dogs, Leonard studied wolves. He views the dog as a member of the wolf pack and uses many training techniques modeled after those used in the pack. He behaves toward them like the Alpha dog of their pack and they start learning. A dominant wolf may roll over a bratty, pushy subordinate to the ground. Or the dominate wolf will use eye contact to cast a misbehaving wolf down.