Emma Lewis-Galic (writer) is an amateur but enthusiastic writer. Dogs of London is her first novel. Excerpts from her next book are being posted on substack here.
You can mostly find my dog training stuff for now on instagram (@nomadthiefdogtrainer) but I’m also gearing up to starting a YouTube channel (entitled, unsurprisingly, Nomad Thief Dog Trainer)
Emma Lewis-Galic (aka Nomad Thief Dog Trainer, currently an aspirational title) started ‘training’ dogs at the age of 9 with her first dog, a rescued border collie/husky/corgie cross. She is now seriously pursuing an education in dog training and behaviour via different sources. She is working towards becoming a qualified canine science behaviourist with the School of Canine Science and an accredited dog trainer through the IMDT. Along with continued commitment to theory there and on other platforms she has been lucky enough to have already undertaken some practical training experience with the precise, lovely, dog super guru that is Robert Kranjcec of Alpha Dog Team (Croatian champion and global competitor in IGP dogsport) and workshops with Alex Lato, Corinne Wrend, Sarah Whitehead and Craig Ogilvie, amongst others. She uses positive, motivational based methods involving a lot of bonding and play combined with boundary setting and strong leadership where necessary. She considers herself to be a practical, sensible and adaptable trainer. Once qualified she hopes to specialise in working with high energy or working breed dogs living in pet homes and in supporting people struggling with the stress of coping with dog reactive dogs. Her ongoing mission is helping her ex-kill shelter, ex-street, ex-hunting dog Jackson thrive in a domestic lifestyle, managing (and ‘re-training’ as far as practicable) his dog reactivity, extreme prey drive and crippling separation anxiety. Emma enjoys dabbling in completely non-competitive scentwork, obedience, urban agility (dog parkour), canicross, heelwork, trick training, gundog inspired (retrieve / whistle exercises) training, and dock diving with him and Stevie, her other trainer dog, also a German Wirehaired Pointer.
