Head Trainer
Felicia Marcoux
10+ years training. Buck's-certified. Reactivity and behavior-modification specialist. Runs the family hand-off that transfers the work back to you.
Why I train
I have been a dog trainer and a dog lover for as long as I can remember.
I have five personal dogs — two in scent and bomb detection, and a tracking dog learning to find missing people. They are all still in training. My family and my husband mean everything to me — they are the reason I do this work. I became a trainer to unify my family pack, to learn the skills I needed to enrich my own high-energy dogs, and to bring families together through training, education, and enrichment.
At Buck's I run our reactivity and behavior-modification floor. Every 3-week and 4-week behavior-mod case in the facility crosses my desk, and I personally run a large share of the go-home lessons that transfer the work back to the owners.
Like every trainer on our floor, I am certified through Buck's own train-the-trainer program — the same standard we hold the whole team to. The detection and tracking work I do with my own dogs feeds straight back into how I read and rehabilitate the hard reactivity and anxiety cases that come through my floor.
Areas of focus
Reactivity + behavior-modification floor
Every 3-week and 4-week behavior-mod case runs through Felicia. Leash reactivity, dog-on-dog, window-going-off, anxiety — this is her primary work.
Buck's-certified trainer
Certified through Buck's own train-the-trainer program — the most rigorous standard we know, and the same bar every trainer on our floor is held to.
Family-integration coaching
The hand-off lesson is where the program lives or dies. Felicia personally runs most of our go-home lessons and follow-up refreshers because the handler half of the team is half the work.
Want Felicia on your dog's case?
Tell us about your dog. We will route the case to the right trainer — Felicia takes reactivity, aggression, and most behavior-mod cases personally. First 30-minute call is free.