meet the owners

Bonnie and Jason met in early 2024 and immediately became best friends after chatting about their love of training and understanding dogs, adventuring in the outdoors, pushing themselves mentally and physically through sports and exercise, their shared sense of humor, and love for their community.as their relationship grew they realized that they made an wonderful team together. so, when Jason had the opportunity to move from San Luis Obispo back to his families ranch in grass valley, he asked bonnie to come with him and move her dog training business to start a new adventure together. wayward dog ranch is a product of bonnie and Jasons combined knowledge, creative effort, and hard work. they hope to build a beautiful and supportive community in their new home.

a little about us

bonnie started out her dog business ownership with a pack hiking business in san Luis Obispo in 2016 called slo dog adventures. from there the business steadily grew into a well known and loved dog training business that served her hometown for 8 amazing years. when given the opportunity to move to grass valley with Jason, she sold sda to a long time client of hers, and moved on to create wayward dog ranch, bringing along with her all of that great experience, knowledge, expertise, and love for dogs + helping thier owners.

Bonnie is licensed in the county, insured & bonded through Business Insurers of the Carolinas, CPR certified, a member of the International Association of Canine Professionals, and a registered AKC Canine Good Citizen evaluator.

we believe that continued education is extremely important in this industry. Understanding new methods, tools and ideologies has been priority to bonnie from the start, and always will be. our promise to you is to always keep growing our "toolbox" so we call it, so that no matter the goal, we can help you reach it in the most educated, kind and effective way.

here is an ever growing list of training classes, workshops, seminars, shadow programs & mentorships attended up to the current date:

- Oregon Tails "Student of the Dog" Scapoose OR 2019

-Brandon Fouche "The Fouche Way" Virtual Seminar 2019

-Tactical Explosive Detection K9-Shadow Program- Vandenberg AFB 2020

-Jay Jack "Play is the Way" Pasadena CA 2021

-Jonas Black- Shadow Program. Santa Barbara CA 2021

-Oregon Tails "Fundamentals" Templeton CA 2021

-Larry Krohn, Joel Silverman, Jay Jack. Irvine CA 2021

-Cheri Wulff Lucas "Learn to Lead" Templeton CA 2022

-Brian Agnew "Understanding Drives" Oakley UT 2022

-Brian Agnew Mentorship Program. Oakley UT 2022

-Dogtastic Training- Intro to Nosework, Intro to Odor, Continuing Odor 2022.