About Us

Certified Service Dog and Pet Dog Trainer: Morgance Ellis is a active professional  member of the International Association of Canine Professionals, (IACP) an internationally recognized dog training organization. She is a IACP certified service dog trainer (CSDT) & pet dog trainer CDT, CDTA, PDTI. Morgance proudly serves as a member on the IACP Service Dog committee and leads the service dog international project.

She is deeply and passionately involved in the world of Service Dog work both locally and internationally in regards to laws, regulations, policies, obedience and task training, and education. She developed a program K9 Wings Service Dog Air Travel Education & Training that allows service dog teams to experience and train in an airport environment before they actually take their first flight together. This program educates service dog teams on the correct interpretation and proper use of the laws, regulations and policies pertaining to air travel with a service animal. Those include, Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) regulations under the Department of Transportation (DOT), Transportation Security Agency (TSA), and air carriers’ policies on traveling with a service animal. Service dog teams learn all the nuances pertaining to air travel to reduce or eliminate problems from occurring and how to handle them when they do.

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Our Mission, Our Goals & What We Stand For

Lead With Your Heart Dog Training founded in 2005, was established to develop, promote and offer the highest standards of professional education, training and business practice in the dog training industry.

LWYHDT advocates and supports all valid service dog guidelines of accepted use, humane training techniques and education. We understand that service dog handlers, dog trainers, public businesses, private entities, and the general public, all have rights and their interests and needs are equal in importance.

We focus on tangible ways to communicate that tap into the heart of how norms can change at a deeper level to help address and ultimately contribute to fostering new changes for today’s current needs.

LWYHDT plays a vital role in the service dog community by guiding, training, testing and educating on laws, regulations, policies and respectful protocols that strictly follows the government law definitions and requirements.

A service dog’s proven value is no longer just limited to guiding the blind. They assist with medical treatments both visible and invisible for example; people with diabetes, PTSD, autism, physical mobility, deafness, brain trauma injury, life threatening food allergies, and seizure response/alert, just to name a few.

With any business, there are the unscrupulous that prey on the innocent, with the service dog and pet dog industry of trainers and suppliers certainly being no exception.

LWYHDT stands strong in their position to find productive and effective ways of making appropriate changes that will curb the increasing abuse in the dog training industry while supporting trainers whose reputation is based on humane training and the humane use of training tools, and the counterfeit use of service dogs known as fraudulent misrepresentation.

We encourage worldwide participation and interest to help us continue the worlds evolving understanding of the amazing work legitimately trained service dogs perform in making life changing differences for people with disabilities.

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Morgance has over 25 years of experience in the dog training industry and is passionate about exceeding your expectations with both pet dogs and service dogs training and education, with quality results, superior customer experience and service.

As a teacher, Morgance understands the importance to be a student herself, and strives to always keep up to date with the most innovative methods of working with dogs and people by working one-on-one with her dog training mentors, and attending workshops, seminars and webinars across the country yearly.