Utah Branch
Joe Tomsich
Joe loves the Utah mountains. He also loves meeting new people, chocolate chip cookies, outdoor sports, and spending time with his family. Joe has a 5 year old German Shepherd named Drago and a 1 year old English Cocker Spaniel named Lucy.
For years Joe has been involved in many aspects of dog care and training. He has been involved with obedience training, conformation showing and competition, and protection and sport training. He has titled his own dog in competition and loves studying, researching, and becoming better at his chosen craft of dog training.
I’m Joe Tomsich and I am the lead training director for Ty the Dog Guy.
For years I’ve been involved in many aspects of dog care and training. I’ve been involved with obedience training, conformation showing and competition, and protection and sport training.
I’ve titled my own dog in competition and love studying, researching, and becoming better at my chosen craft of dog training. Together with Ty we’ve developed Utah’s most intensive service dog training and protection dog training programs as well as programs for solving all of dog owner’s most frustrating problems with their dogs.
For several years I’ve run the training and customer care side of our business and welcome new dogs and new challenges every day.
In addition, I work with Ty on our dog training podcast, Ty and Joe Go to the Dogs. Listen in and watch for my videos on our blog and on our Facebook page.
I’m proud to bring Utah’s best dog training solutions to the residents of Utah and I look forward to helping you with your dog. Whether you’ve got a puppy that just needs to learn the basics or you need to fix an aggressive dog, off leash train an adult dog, fix a housebreaking problem or any other issue I can help you accomplish that goal.
Joe is our Utah branch manager and loves the Utah mountains. He loves meeting new people, chocolate chip cookies, outdoor sports, and spending time with his family. Joe has a 5 year old German Shepherd named Drago and a 1 year old English Cocker Spaniel named Lucy. Joe is passionate about protection work and is a great protection dog trainer!
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Dayna Winter-Nolte
Dayna likes to hike, play soccer, travel and Mexican food. Dayna also likes training dock diving, frisbee, PSA, agility and IGP. Dayna’s favorite thing about living in Utah is all of the dog friendly, easily accessible outdoor activities and the scenery. She has a 7 year old Border Collie/Poodle named Theo, a 7 year old GSD named Ryder, a 5 year old GSD named Jezzi and a 2 year old GSD named Ray. Dayna enjoys working with Ty the Dog Guy because of our atmosphere of truly wanting to help dogs and the consistency with which we are able to help all of our clients.
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Jessica Jenson
Jessica works with her husband Andrew training dogs. Jessica loves the Utah mountains and the 4 seasons. She likes to read, hang out with her daughter and Snickers candy bars. Jessica and Andrew have a 5 year old Corgi named Gizmo, a 4 year old Corgi named Murphy and a 3 year old Shiba Inu named Hachiko. She enjoys working with a lot of different types of dogs and doing IGP and dock diving in her free time.
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Andrew Jenson
Andrew works with his wife Jessica training dogs. Living in Utah allows him to enjoy year round outdoor activities. His favorite treat is Oreo’s and he also enjoys having dinner with friends. Andrew and Jessica have a 5 year old Corgi named Gizmo, a 4 year old Corgi named Murphy and a 3 year old Shiba Inu named Hachiko. Andrew likes meeting all different kinds of people and dogs and being able to help them reach their training goals.
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Andrew Jenson
Andrew works with his wife Jessica training dogs. Living in Utah allows him to enjoy year round outdoor activities. His favorite treat is Oreo’s and he also enjoys having dinner with friends. Andrew and Jessica have a 5 year old Corgi named Gizmo, a 4 year old Corgi named Murphy and a 3 year old Shiba Inu named Hachiko. Andrew likes meeting all different kinds of people and dogs and being able to help them reach their training goals.
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Amberly Frandsen
Amberly loves all of the hiking spots here in Utah. She enjoys walking with her cat, cinnamon pizza and doing anything dog related. Amberly has an 18 month old Belgian Malinois named Caprice that she enjoys doing dock diving and IGP with. She enjoys working with amazing people and their dogs here at Ty the Dog Guy.
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Alexis Rayburn
Alexis loves the range of seasons here in Utah and everything they have to offer. She also likes Twizzlers and Goldfish crackers, and in her spare time she enjoys reading. Alexis was also previously a client and did training with her 4 year old Lab named Jax. She likes being part of the community we have here at Ty the Dog Guy.
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Alexis Rayburn
Alexis loves the range of seasons here in Utah and everything they have to offer. She also likes Twizzlers and Goldfish crackers, and in her spare time she enjoys reading. Alexis was also previously a client and did training with her 4 year old Lab named Jax. She likes being part of the community we have here at Ty the Dog Guy.
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Bailey Dimond
Bailey is another one of our clients who is now a trainer. She had such a great experience with our training system she wanted to work with us. She really loves dogs and wants them to live their best life possible. She loves the Utah mountains, doing anything outdoors, french fries and ice cream. Bailey has a 6 year old Boxer named Nova and a 3 year old Boxer named Luna.
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Amanda
Amanda loves the outdoors and all 4 of the Utah seasons. In her spare time, she loves to road bike, hike with her dogs, ski, and travel as much as possible. She also makes a mean grilled cheese. Amanda has 2 dogs, a 7 year old Shepherd named Rainy and a 14 month old Doberman named Arlo. She enjoys working with Ty the Dog Guy because she loves helping others and knows how beneficial our system can be for everyone and their dog!
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Melanie Blackburn
Melanie's favorite thing about living in Utah is all the outdoor recreation opportunities. She comes from a behavior management background which helps with dogs and people. She used to work for Granite School District doing behavior management and modification in severe special needs with a particular focus in severe autism and applied behavior analysis. Behavior management is where her heart is, she loves finding the function of behavior. Melanie’s hobbies include being a spotlight operator at Hale Centre Theatre and performing with It’s Been Awhile Dance Company. Her favorite foods are caramel Panda cookies and Dutch Croquettes. Melanie has 3 dogs: Zoe who is a 7-year-old Great Pyrenees/Malamute mix, Frankenbeans who is a 1.5-year-old Pug and Murph, a trained service dog, who is a 5-year-old English Mastiff. She loves working with Ty the Dog Guy because of the support system!
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Mia Newsome
Mia loves the snow and how close she lives to the mountains. She also loves how dog friendly Utah is. She likes cheesecake, hiking, taking pictures of her dogs, dock diving and Rally training. Mia has a 2 year old Malamute mix named River and a 6 month old Lab named Forrest. Mia loves the opportunity to help people and their dogs.
