Victoria Schade is an author, speaker, and dog trainer known for her upbeat approach to living and working with dogs. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, Reader’s Digest, The Bark, and many dog-specific publications. Victoria has worked on Animal Planet’s annual Puppy Bowl special for the past twenty years, and appeared on two seasons of the Animal Planet show Faithful Friends. She has served as a pet expert for Petside, Pet360, petMD, PawCulture and Chewy, writing training and behavior content and appearing in educational videos.

Victoria shares her 1850’s always-in- need-of- renovations home with Millie the Smooth Brussels Griffon (who wants you to know that she is not a skinny pug), Boris the chug, the occasional foster pup, and her incredibly tolerant husband, Tom.