Nicole Larocco-Skeehan

Nicole’s professional animal training career began in college where she taught horseback riding lessons. After graduating from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh with a double-major in marketing and advertising, she worked at a large training facility as a head trainer and obedience instructor. There she earned her CPDT-KA title.

In 2005, Nicole moved into shelter work with Animal Friends, a no-kill animal shelter and companion animal resource center in Pittsburgh.

In 2008, The Pennsylvania SPCA in Philadelphia recruited Nicole for the position of Director of Animal Behavior and Training; where she built a program to enrich the lives of the animals during their stay in the shelter, and to educate the public in an effort to find permanent homes for shelter animals. Nicole also created behavior programming and served as the Director of Behavior for New Leash on Life-USA, a prison dog training program; working hands on with the inmates and their dogs. Nicole’s efforts in animal rescue have been documented on television shows including Animal Cops: Philadelphia; Animal Planet’s: Dogfighting Exposed; National Geographic Network’s show ‘What Breed Am I?” and on local television and radio programming.

Nicole’s business, Philly Unleashed is currently ranked “Best of Philadelphia” by Philadelphia Magazine and provides group and private dog training and behavior modification to the Philadelphia metro area.

Uluru Virtual Dog Training:
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Website: https://www.ulurutraining.com/

Philly Unleashed:
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Website: https://phillyunleashed.com/