Creative Dog Training

Margaret Jones Davis, founder of Creative Dog Training, may have made the company official in 1984, but it's roots travel far deeper.

Her father, Earl Monroe Jones, Sr, DVM., gave her a lifelong introduction in the need for compassion with animals. Not only was he a life-long veterinarian who built one of the largest practices in Alabama, but he was instrumental in the authoring of the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act, that was signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson on August 24, 1966.

One day she met her first TRAINED dog. From that moment, she was hooked! There was not a dog training book she didn't read, she took local classes, and even practiced on dogs that were staying at the vet clinic!

One day, when talking to a dog owner about a behavioral problem her dog was having, Margaret realized that there was something missing in the world. Owners needed simple and practical answers to help achieve the results they wanted. And from that one moment of clarity, 3 decades and over 15,000 dogs and their owners have been helped.

Every day Margaret has taken steps to reach her simple goal of Helping Dogs through Educating People. Just like her father, she has passed on the tradition and values to her 2 sons, Damian and Conor, who have taken up the cause and vision as well.

In 2006 we opened a new location of Creative Dog Training in Homewood, AL. In 2018, our Cahaba Heights location relocated and became our Summit campus. Now the 2 locations serve thousands of local dogs and owners, each location seeing 100-125 dogs per day, offering simple peace of mind for the dog's owners and striving every day to make an improvement in every dog.

It it also became very clear to us that technology was going to be a large part of our future. With the launch of the new website in 2014 ( ), it gave us an opportunity to not only help dogs locally, but also help dogs across the globe that had no access to a good dog trainer that could help them with their problems. Influenced by many great pioneers of the digital age, there is something that stirs inside us that pushes the team to create new tools and techniques for educating people.