About Crystal Clear Canine Academy

About Crystal Clear Canine Academy

The about page introduces Crystal Close as "founder of Crystal Clear Canine Academy," listed there

as a "Certified Canine Training & Behavior Specialist," an "Aggression Specialist," and an "AKC CGC

Evaluator #96988." The footer gives the address as 209 N Main Street, River Falls WI 54022.

Background as the site tells it

The page credits Crystal with "working professionally with dogs and their people for more than 20

years," starting earlier still: she writes that she "grew up on a farm in Bruce, Wisconsin, started

training dogs through 4-H at 13, and originally went to college intending to become a veterinarian

before realizing I was far more interested in behavior than medicine." Her training education is

given as "Triple Crown Academy for Professional Dog Trainers, now Starmark Academy, outside Austin,

Texas," where she says she later "developed curriculum for two of the Academy's distance education

programs and served as an instructor for professional dog trainers." The page then says "In 2009, I

returned to Wisconsin and worked with The Canine Coach in the Twin Cities before starting my own

training business in 2011."

Approach

The stated method is explicitly not a single system: "I'm a balanced trainer, and I want to

understand the dog in front of me, the person living with that dog, and what is actually happening

between them." She describes a particular interest "in how space, pressure, and energy influence

behavior and communication, and in helping owners understand not just what to do, but why they're

doing it." The work is framed as ongoing rather than transactional – "less about giving someone an

hour of dog training and sending them on their way, and more about building a relationship."

Who they work with

The page says she has "worked with everything from puppies learning how to navigate the world to

dogs with complicated behavior and aggression concerns." A second trainer, Summer Witzel, is listed

as a "Professional Dog Trainer"; her bio says she "was actively involved in 4-H for eight years" and

that she "now attends the University of Wisconsin-River Falls," pursuing a degree in Animal Science.

Programs on the site menu

The site menu lists Day-Train, Board & Train, Available Courses and an Academy Portal. Note also that the private lessons, group classes and board-and-train work

described in Crystal's bio refer to her earlier employment in Texas, not to a current program list.