Shel Graves Animal Consulting

Expertise, support, and encouragement to help you do your best for the animals in your care.

Dog and Cat Behavior Help, Consulting
Animal Chaplaincy, Grief and Loss Support

Based in Everett, Washington
Virtual Consults Available

At Shel Graves Animal Consulting, we want all animals (including humans!) to feel relaxed, confident, playful, and safe together. We use positive reinforcement training and reward the behaviors we want more of (and get fewer difficult and stressful ones–hurrah!). We help fearful animals participate in family life and their care at home and at the vet’s office. We have a special heart for rescue animals and senior dogs and cats. With compassionate listening and practical advice, we offer animal-centered spiritual care for grief, loss, and trauma support for animals and humans.

We provide:

behavior consulting to support you
animal chaplaincy to offer compassion

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Shel Graves

Certified, Experienced, Ordained

Shel Graves, Academy for Dog Trainers CTC; UW-AAB, Applied Animal Behavior; Fear Free Certified Trainer, Speaker, and Coach, has seven years of shelter and rescue experience working with traumatized animals and working to strengthen the human-animal bond. She is a dog trainer, animal behaviorist, and animal chaplain.

About Me

Behavior Consult
Get help for a troubling dog or cat behavior issue.
1 hr
235 US dollars
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Services

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Dog and Cat
Behavior Consulting

Get help to learn to manage and resolve troubling behaviors so you can spend more time having fun with your friend — and less time feeling frustrated.

Behavior Consult: Schedule a virtual consult to receive recommendations, resources, and referrals.

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Animal Chaplaincy: Animal Loss and
End-of-Life Care

We offer compassionate listening and practical advice. We can help: make medicating and procedures easier, advocate for the animal including identifying pain, create a more comfortable environment, and make last days meaningful ones with special activities.

"Shel has been a kind, compassionate, patient, and experienced coach for our family as we have worked together to reduce our dog’s fearfulness so he can enjoy a full life. We strongly recommend her!"

Mary M.