Attorney’s Career Goes To The Dogs

Ridgefield Press:

“I don’t love the law, and it’s a hard way to make a living,” said Bruce Caplin, a former attorney who now lays down the law with canines.

Last January he launched his own business — The 10 Minute Dog, LLC, — for which Mr. Caplin and his two associates-in-training travel to clients’ homes to offer free consultations and in-home training and behavior modification.

“Dogs don’t speak our language,” said Mr. Caplin, who is a licensed professional trainer and canine behaviorist. To that end, he teaches owners to read their dogs physically, in an effort to “help communicate to the dog the behaviors that we want and the behaviors that we don’t want.”

“Working with the family is crucial because the family is that dog’s pack, and they all they have to work to become pack leaders so the dog respects them,” said Mr. Caplin, who’s also the training director at Danbury Animal Welfare Society [DAWS] and an expert witness and consultant in dog bite cases. “Dogs are social pack animals, so humans have to be the pack leaders for this to work.”

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