Brad Pattison

About 20 years ago, Brad's dog at the time was stolen from his backyard while he was at work. Devastated, Brad wanted to find a way to give dogs a safer environment and to diminish the chance of owners having to go through the same thing as he.
Thus, he created the first Doggy Day Care, which was in Vancouver, which allowed owners peace of mind while they were at work.

At that time, he had a Border Collie/Blue Heeler cross, named Dez. She would come to work with him and help out with the other dogs. Brad became fascinated with the interactions with the dogs and watching the different personalities come out. He began studying their movements and how Dez would discipline unruly dogs. He watched how the elderly dogs were respected, as were the Alpha dogs, with Dez being THE  Alpha. He observed that when a dog was disciplined, it would only take one time for that discipline and then the dog would not repeat that same action. It was quick and effective.

Brad started to question some of the dog training techniques out there and started to develop similar techniques as the Alpha dogs.

He noticed how the Alpha dogs did not give treats to the younger students and wondered why we humans give treats when a dog does something that is simply expected.

Brad continued his studies and observations through dogs, wolves and coyotes and noticed similar attributes... they communicate primarily through body language and they have expectations of their pups.

With that, he started to implement strong body movement along with little verbal communication to the dogs.
With the success and clear turn around with many of the behavior problems that clients were expressing, Brad started up his Street Safety Training classes.

All of his classes were held outdoors. Why train indoors when dogs usually get killed outside? Lets put the owners and the dogs in real life situations and give them tools to cope with these situations and lets create a real bond with our little buddies. That was Brad's way of thinking.

During this time, he had a dream to create a television show and express these findings and work with families who were under distress but need not be.

12 years later, "At The End of My Leash" was picked up and is currently airing in 35+ countries and has filmed 6 seasons, 78 episodes.

Other works that Brad has been involved in include:

-Heading up a team of Certified Educator Trainers to head down to New Orleans for canine rescue help in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

-Creator of 6Legs to Fitness™, Brad took a team of Fitness and Martial Arts Instructors to South Africa to certify instructors. This course is designed to get owner and dog active outside. Animal Planet came to Calgary to film one of Brad's classes and aired as one of their clips of what's new and happening.

-In 2008, at the Alberta Motion Picture Industry Awards, “At The End of My Leash” won 4 out of 5 nominations including Best Series and Best Host.

-The show was also nominated at the 2008 Gemini Awards

Now based in Kelowna, Brad has opened a school to train people to become Certified Educator Trainers. In 2008, 20 students from Vancouver to Toronto were certified, and by the end of 2009, another 30 students will be serving cities throughout Canada.

Daniela Sodero
Alpha Female

A native Calgarian, Daniela’s first career path was that of a ballet dancer which began at the age of 4. Dedicated to ballet, Daniela began her professional career with Alberta Ballet, which lasted 8 years. After having traveled throughout Canada, the United States and China, Daniela retired as a dancer and took her experiences and passions to teaching, choreographing and then directing a small dance company.

In 2005, Daniela met Brad Pattison, now host of Slice Networks popular television show ‘At The End of My Leash’, through the training of her then 9 week old dog, Rudy.

Brad’s passion for his work inspired Daniela to make a career move and she began to work for him.

Later in that year, Daniela organized and oversaw the Pattison Canine Rescue Team for Hurricane Katrina relief in New Orleans.

In 2006, she worked Season 2 and 3 of the television show ‘At The End of My Leash’ as the Dog Wrangler.

With Rudy having been taught by Brad’s now passed on dogs, Dez and Max, Rudy has taken on a large role with these teachings to other dogs and appears frequently alongside Brad as he works with many families.

Both Daniela and Rudy have had the opportunity to work with a wide range of dogs from 9lb Minpins to 180lb Bullmastiffs…. Never in the wildest dreams of a Sugar Plum Fairy!

In the fall of 2008, Daniela headed over to Johannesburg, South Africa, with Kurt Pattison to do a pilot project with Brad Pattison's, 6Legs to Fitness™. Upon the success of this project she then returned to South Africa with Kurt and Brad to certify 5 Instructors and is now head of the 6Legs to Fitness™ division.

Shantel Hordos
VP Education

Shantel always knew she would one day have a career based on animals. There were a number of things she aspired to be while she was growing up… a vet, dog trainer, zookeeper, dog breeder, dolphin trainer…pretty much anything to do with animals!

In 2004 Shantel began a degree for a Bachelor of Science in Zoology to one day become a zoo keeper. In her spare time she volunteered weekly with the Animal Care Department at the Calgary Zoo. During her time at the zoo she was able to watch exotic animals interact, study their behaviour and work with them up close. The animals at the zoo helped her to see that a bond must be formed through trust and respect before you can accomplish any task with an animal, especially one that is behind bars and cannot be physically controlled. Even though she loved the zookeeping position, she decided it was not the right path for her and moved on to bigger and better things.

Shantel met Brad Pattison in the spring of 2007 after she saw his show “At the End of My Leash” on TV and had him over for a private training session with her own dogs. She loved Brad’s method of training and saw so much progress in her dogs that she enrolled in his next course to become a Certified Educator Trainer. Later on that year she became a Certified Educator Trainer and began her own training classes.

In 2008, Shantel worked as the Animal Wrangler on Brad’s television show “At the End of My Leash” for seasons 4 and 5, with small appearances of herself and her dogs on a handful of the shows.

After Brad opened up his school in Kelowna, BC in 2008, Shantel began to search for a new house and made the big move from Calgary to become an instructor at the school.

Combining his talents he developed a self defense program for young at risk women and branched out by creating an awareness and self defense program for women.

Amongst the different walks of life Kurt has worked with are inmates at a maximum security institution, attempting to bridge them into employment upon release.

Kurt joins us as one of the trainers for certifying 6Legs to Fitness™ Trainers. With his vast experience in Martial Arts, he brings his expertise to the forefront in the Self-Defense portion of the 6Legs to Fitness Instructors Course.