About the Speaker

 Quoted from the book "On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals"
Turid Ruggaas has spend most of her life with animals. A former racehorse trainer, Turid has always known instinctively that kind methods are the most effective, and has worked in this manner with any animals coming into her care.

She is founder of Hagen Hundeskole in Norway, training dogs and their ownrs and spends most of her time travelling around the world to deliver her message.

Best known for her work on calming signals, studied at the end of the 1980's along with a colleague, Ståle Ødegaard, Turid produced her first book in 1996, with a video/DVD that followed shortly afterwards.

Turid is a founding memeber and President of the Pet Dog Trainers of Europe, an organization devoted to teaching through kindess and respect.

Sampler from "The Wee signs of Dogs" DVD