Bill Marshall

Bill’s dog training career started by accident shortly after he graduated from college. In 1982, he took his then 6-month-old puppy, Thor to be trained by a ‘professional’ due to an inability for the two of them to effectively communicate (see Thor, The Beginning). After what appeared to be a miraculous change in the puppy after a two-week training program where he was taught a new rudimentary language, Bill and Thor were off to a new start.

As Thor’s owner, part of the two-week training program included Bill learning the mechanics that were taught to Thor to continue and progress in their journey of communicating. Although a lifelong lover of animals and equipped with a wealth of related knowledge, Thor’s transformation illuminated an area about animals that had eluded Bill. To remedy, that, Bill went on to work for a brief period of time for the same company that trained Thor in order to more fully understand the theory behind the mechanics. Turns out, neither the company or their trainers were able to explain, or even understand, the theory for WHY the mechanics worked.

Over the next few years, Bill continued his canine journey branching into other aspects of work such as personal protection, training for law enforcement canine units and specializing in behavioral issues and aggression. Many of Bill’s clients were amazed at their dog’s transformation (similar Thor’s), expressing that Bill must have some sort of ‘magic’, but Bill knew it was not magic. He continued his educational journey by furthering his observational studies of the laws of nature and wild animals, their behavior and instinctual forms of communicating. These behaviors and communication strategies allow many species to not only succeed in their family units for hundreds of thousands of years but to thrive. Bill began to parallel these natural communication phenomena to the rudimentary mechanics he learned in Thor’s training sessions. He made his parallel contemplating one of his favorite historical figures, Albert Einstein’s quote, “Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better”. And he did.

In 1992, Bill formally opened his door for business as Marshall K-9 servicing the Columbus community with in-home basic obedience training for dogs and their owners. He hosted basic obedience group lessons, in-home training and problem solving for difficult behavioral issues such as dogs with aggressive tendencies. Through these experiences, he became revered for his intuition and ability to assess and remediate extreme behavioral cases within normal family dynamics, i.e., multiple pet scenarios, new additions to the family, aggressive and/or fear biting, etc. During the next few years Bill embellished his breadth of experience delving into breed development through collection and artificial insemination, pedigree research/matching and training for sport dog activities such as agility and French Ring Sport. 

Throughout the next 23 years, Bill continued his own learning and development journey regarding communication strategies of wild animals in nature and applied those strategies to dog training. Having used these strategies to train thousands of dogs over the years, it was all coming together. He developed a method of training, his method, and it worked, every time. An intermediate language that can be learned and taught by both human and canine that is built on nature’s axioms. Brilliant.

Bill’s 40-year journey to understand how to communicate effectively with his canine companion is complete. Using nature’saxioms and applying those to dog training mechanics, it all makes sense, it is Natural Law … Evolved.

So, you ask, what is the next step in Bill’s journey?  To share it with you.