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Kimberly Artley is a canine behavior specialist, author, educator, and advocate whose work centers on understanding what behavior is communicating rather than simply trying to suppress or correct it.

For 15 years, she founded and led PackFit Dog Training & Behavior in the Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia area, working extensively with dogs and their humans across training, behavior, rehabilitation, and relationship-centered work. Her approach grew beyond traditional obedience training into a deeper study of canine psychology, attachment, nervous system regulation, environment, human behavior, and the many interconnected factors influencing the dog in front of us.

She is the author of nine books, including My Dog, My Buddha and The Human End of the Leash: Dog Training’s Missing Link, a four-year writing project examining what Kimberly considers one of the most overlooked elements in dog training and behavior: us. Our end of the leash.

Kimberly is a contributing writer for Animal Wellness Magazine and serves as Director of Pet Health & Longevity for Long Run VIP Pet Care, where she developed Whole Pet Wellness™ — an integrative framework encompassing the physical, emotional, behavioral, environmental, and relational dimensions of an animal’s well-being.

She is also the founder of Copper Lantern Design Studio and You Had Me at Woof™, an initiative focused on behavioral literacy, responsible rescue, smarter human-dog matching, education, and long-term support.

Her work challenges conventional thinking around dog training, rescue, behavior, and wellness while continually returning to a central idea: behavior is information.