Emily began her training career as an animal care-giver in a shelter 19 years ago where she found out about the magic of Positive Reinforcement Training from the trainers at the shelter. After many years of apprenticing, study, learning from both human and thousands of canine mentors, she began her own business. She combines her artistic background and training skills to invent creative, fast and reliable ways to solve problem behaviors as well as train complex behaviors and tricks. She has been invited to conduct seminars on her techniques for training dogs without intimidation in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. She has also spoken at conferences such as the PPG Summit, Clicker Expo, Clicker Expo Europe, APDT, APDT Australia and the Art and Science of Animal Training Conference.

She runs the business Dogmantics Dog Training in San Diego, California and is known around the world for her popular Youtube Channel ‘Kikopup’ where she has posted over 400 free in-depth dog training tutorials. She believes that by putting out free training tutorials that don’t involve any forms of physical or psychological intimidation, it will not only effect how people treat animals but also how people treat other human beings.