A caring education
The Animalin Center, run by Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse with its team of professionals committed to dogs, is recognized in France as one of the pioneers in the dissemination and transmission of friendly and positive methods. For more than 20 years, the Animalin Center has carried out its commitments around training services, the AnimalinBoutique online store and the Génie Canin editions.
The training center
The Animalin Center is a reference of professionalism both in the quality of its training and in the philosophy of approach responding to positive education, based on the clicker-training method, games and lure reward, but above all on the view taken by Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse on their exchanges for more than 20 years with dogs. In the context of education courses, internships, long-term professional training and dog camps, the missions of the Animalin Center, whose trainer referents are Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse, with its team of speakers recognized in their fields of expertise are to inform and train in a behavioral approach to dog education in order to prevent the most common behavioral problems faced by most owners. Concerned with active and personalized listening, their professional approach is based on the desire to respond to the demands of owners while preserving the needs of dogs.
AnimalinBoutique
AnimalinBoutique, whose manager is Alain Cadieu, is the first French online store engaged in the sale of non-painful accessories for education and behavioral rehabilitation. Since 2003, AnimalinBoutique and its team have been implementing a selection of more than 2000 products - around education, saddlery, rest, meals, transport, games and bookstores - with some accessories from the registered brand Animalin, including the anti-traction harness designed by Catherine Collignon (also available on our e-shop).
The Canine Genius Editions
An independent publishing house specializing in dog training and dog behavior, created by Catherine Collignon and Alain Cadieu in 2010, the Génie Canin editions are aimed at all dog enthusiasts and professionals in the dog training field. Driven by the distribution of a selection of works translated and written by international specialists in dog training and behavior, it works to transmit caring methods. Ian Dunbar, Turid Rugaas, Emma Parson, Linda Tellington-Jones, Jean-Pierre Brigeot, Karen Pryor, Barry Eaton, Catherine Collignon , including Teaching my dog to walk on a leash without pulling , or more recently Katja Krauss and Gabi Maue, The Dog and its Language - Observe, Decrypt, Communicate , as well as its Exercise Booklet can be found on our e-shop.
2013-2018
Animalin offers long-term professional training in partnership with the agricultural high school of Masseube; the first and only French training recognized by the Veterinary Canton of the Canton of Geneva and equivalent to the SCS or UCS educator certificate provided in Switzerland. In 2023, the Animalin Center is continuing this adventure and opening its long-term professional training to the profession of Dog Educator.
2006
Catherine Collignon, with the support of Ian Dunbar, created the association MFEC (Mouvement Professionnel Francophone des Éducateurs de Chien), which aims to promote the use of respectful methods in the education and rehabilitation of pet dogs, and brings together professionals in canine education and behavior. In 2023, Catherine is an honorary member of the MFEC.
2004
The Animalin Center organizes the 1st Summer Camp, a stay organized around canine education and its different disciplines bringing together passionate professionals. Since then, other Summer Camps organized at our Center have emerged: Doggy Relax, Doggy Games France and the Odor Discrimination Summer Camp.
2002-2003
Animalin becomes a Training Center (approved by the Ministry under no. 73.32.000323.32), the Animalin logo and name are registered and protected.
Opening of AnimalinBoutique
First French boutique to offer accessories tested by dogs, respecting their physical, emotional and mental integrity.