Shel Graves Animal Consulting

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

Dog training | Cat consulting | Multi-species care

At Shel Graves Animal Consulting, we want all animals (including humans!) to feel relaxed, confident, playful, and safe together. We provide in-home and online training and consults. We have a special heart for rescue and foster animals as well as senior dogs and cats. With compassionate listening and practical advice, we support you through difficult conversations and decisions. We can be part of your animal's hospice care team at end-of-life.

We provide:

training for happiness
behavior consulting to support you
animal chaplaincy to offer compassion

A happy dog trainer rewarding a happy pitbull.

Shel Graves

Certified, Experienced, Ordained

Shel Graves, CTC, UW-AAB, has seven years of shelter and rescue experience working with traumatized animals and working to strengthen the human-animal bond. She is a trainer, behaviorist, and animal chaplain.

About Me

Your Initial Consult
Let's get started doing our best for you and the animals in your life.
Service Information
30 min
100 US dollars

Services

A happy dog trainer with two happy rescue dogs.

Dog Day Training

Hire an expert trainer to help your dog get a jump-start on learning while you work or relax. In follow up private lessons, you’ll learn how to keep your dog’s new skills sharp.

A tortie cat doing a blep while being groomed.

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

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Shelter and
Rescue Consults

Get behavioral support for your shelter or rescue from a credentialed expert. Get assistance with behavior plans, staff and volunteer training, and policies.

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

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

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Doing our best
for animals

Shel Graves Animal Consulting

Shel Graves

Certified, Experienced, Ordained

Your Initial Consult

Services

Dog Day Training

Dog and Cat Behavior Consulting

Shelter and Rescue Consults

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

Subscribe for updates

Doing our best for animals

Dog and Cat
Behavior Consulting

Shelter and
Rescue Consults

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

Doing our best
for animals