"Untrained dogs become
the prisoners of their own misbehavior."

                                                                           -- Carolyn Krause

FireDog Enterprises, Inc. is owned and operated by Carolyn Krause.  Carolyn is training and behavior consultant to Bradford Park Veterinary Hospital, Grant Avenue Pet Hospital, ParkCrest Veterinary Hospital, and Deerfield Veterinary Hospital and others.  She has instructed classes in obedience training and tracking dog training for many years including running the Bradford Park Puppy Preschool for more than five years, and then serving for nearly three years as Director of Training at Happy Tails Doggie Day Care & Training Center in Springfield, Missouri. Since leaving Happy Tails she has re-established her Positively Puppies Plan Classes hosted by Bradford Park Veterinary Hospital and ParkCrest and Deerfield Veterinary Hospitals.  She sees private training clients by referral from many Springfield area veterinarians.

She’s a professional-level member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, and has served on one of their national committees. She has given tracking dog training seminars in several states in the Midwest.  Two of her Dalmatians. Becky the FireDog, (Cee Kay Becky Thatcher UDTX, TDI, DeltaDog Pet Partner 0006) and Poppy the FireDog, (CH, Paisley Poppycock CDX, TD, TDI, DeltaDog Pet Partner 0011) served as the fire safety education mascots of the Springfield Missouri Fire Department.  She has been involved in obedience competition, tracking dog training and animal-assisted therapy programs in local hospitals.  She has earned AKC titles with dogs from six months to twelve years of age.  Her dogs and her students’ dogs have worked in both still and video modeling.  Carolyn is an emeritus American Kennel Club Tracking Test Judge.

Carolyn is an award-winning writer, a past officer of the Writer's Guild, and a member of numerous dog clubs.   Her work has appeared in Dog Fancy, Dog World, The American Kennel Gazette, Springfield! Magazine, and Springfield, Missouri's paper The News-Leader, and other publications.  She is the author of  The Puppy Tracking Primer, now out of print, which had been required reading in some search and rescue training programs.  She was a contributor to The Official Book of the Dalmatian, T.F.H. Publications, Inc.  This last book won a "Maxwell" award from the Dog Writers' Association of America as the best new single breed book for 1997. 

Her new book, Try Tracking! The Puppy Tracking Primer, on entry level tracking training is completely rewritten and expanded from the earlier tracking book.  It is now available from Dogwise Publishing through the links on this website. The lesson plan will satisfy both the serious tracking trainer and for the pet owner wishing to have great fun exploring the world of scent training with their pet dog or pup.  

Her personal life list of animal friends have included 3 horses 3 ponies, an angus cow, a broken winged duck named Flapdoodle, a budgerigar, a marmalade cat and the dogs, a pointer, a Scottie-poodle mix, a beagle, a Pekinese, 2 collies, 3 miniature schnauzers, 5 Dobermans, 5 Irish setters, 6 Dalmatians, 2 Brittanies and a Pug.  No partridge in a pear tree, yet.  With animals … like potato chips, one is never enough.