Meet Tecla
Tecla Walton, CPDT/Tom Rose School and NADOI Certified Member, over 25 years experience as a dog trainer and 24 years experience as a music educator. Her unique ability to educate dog owners as well as train their dogs is a product of the way she has blended her two worlds. Tecla’s deep love for and commitment to the canine species has led her to continually seek out and implement the best training methods for the dogs she trains. Her emphasis is on balancing relationship between dog and handler through sound training principles, clear communication, and trust.
Tecla’s dog training experience spans the worlds of pet obedience and competitive dog sports. She has studied under Bart Bellon, Chad Mackin, Tom Rose, and Michael Ellis. Tecla holds multiple high-inobedience, high-in-trial, high-in-tracking awards and “V” scores with her dogs and has helped many clients to do the same. She has also earned High In Trial honors with three different dogs in three different disciplines in an 18 month period of time. While her dog sport achievements are impressive, she is equally adept as a pet dog trainer. Whether your goal is raising a happy, well-adjusted puppy or rehabilitating a dog that other trainers have given up on, Tecla is the “go-to” trainer in her area.
Tecla founded TK9 in 2007 and served as both Training Director and CEO at TK9 growing the company she started on her front lawn into an over- million dollar business that proudly serves the Baltimore-DC area, is highly recommended by veterinarians, breeders, and rescues in the Baltimore/ Washington area as well as across the country and was named the Best Of Baltimore Daycare and Boarding in 2019 and 2020.
During her tenure as Training Director at TK9 she successfully mentored a number of trainers into successful careers of their own and has utilized her background in education and her experience mentoring trainers to create University of Dog’s School for Dog Trainers. In her words “It is extremely fulfilling to help pass the baton to the next generation of dog trainers”.