Katja Krauss

When she was only two years old, Katja explained to her parents that a life without a dog would not be conceivable. She received her first dog on her third birthday and has had several dogs and many other animals in her life since that fateful early birthday present.

After finishing school, Katja opened her own dog school in her favorite city, Berlin. Right from the start, she integrated Tellington TTouch® in combination with Clicker Training into all of her classes. In parallel, she has trained her own dogs for film and television.

One of Katja's interests is scent detection training. She has been working with mold-detection dogs for two decades and is involved with wildlife detection dogs. She was also involved in a project training dogs and pigs to sniff out breath samples from lung cancer patients.

With her colleague Lina Grobecker, Katja teaches students who want to work with their dog in a social, therapeutic, or educational environment. This training combines Tellington TTouch®, Clicker Training, and Leading Dogs in Balance which Katja created with Stephanie Hornung.

In the meantime, she very successfully leads the combined training ttouch-n-click, where dog trainers and veterinarians are trained to become TTouch Associates.

Katja has also created an online course with her colleague Gabi Vana, which transfers Nonviolent Communication according to Marshall Rosenberg to dealing with animals. The course is also available in English and is called Loving Animals.

Katja's participation in Tier TV (Animal TV) has sparked a lot of interest in her as a speaker, both at home and abroad. She regularly travels to Dubai to support the royal family in the training of their animals. Katja also works with big cats and monkeys, but her heart belongs to the dogs. She believes she was one in a past life.

Katja is the author of several books, including "Educating Dogs with the Clicker" and the highly successful "Dogs in Translation" which she co-wrote with TTouch practitioner Gabi Maue. The book reached the prestigious Spiegel Best Sellers List in Germany and has been described as the bible to reading and understanding dogs' emotions.

Pictured with Katja is her dog, Arwen.
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