Renee co-authored a children's book called Be A Dog's Best Friend with Jennifer Gladysz from Mobile Mutts about safe dog interactions, and conducted "How To Meet a Dog" seminars for young children throughout the NYC area. Channel's website, and has contributed articles to numerous other print and web-based outlets on topics ranging from training and behavior problems to breed traits. She wrote several articles about dogs and kids for The Nick Jr. Renee designed a written and interactive interview process for co-op buildings to evaluate potential canine residents, and was interviewed about the evaluation process by The New York Times. Renee evaluates the adoptability of dogs for local shelters and rescue groups, taught learning-abroad seminars and dog trainer-training programs to students from Japan for two years, is a mentor trainer for the Animal Behavior College and for CATCH Canine Trainers Academy, and ran her own dog trainer internship program from 2002 through 2017. She teaches those classes on an ongoing basis. In 2019, Good Dog became involved with the NYC Department of Education, and along with their Comfort Dog Administrator and Behavior Consultant, Renee created curriculum specifically for therapy dog teams that want to apply for the DOE's Comfort Dog program. She took her own dog and several other therapy dog teams to Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan and Westchester County Jail during parenting classes. Renee managed therapy dog teams for Good Dog and Pace University's Parenting, Prison & Pups program during their partnership, which ran from 2016-2020. Renee developed curriculum for a class specifically for Crisis Response, which is open to select Good Dog therapy dog teams, and she teaches the weekend-long course. In addition to doing regular therapy dog visits, Renee and Fonzie also work in Good Dog's Crisis Response Division, responding to natural or man-made disasters or crises. Following in his footsteps, Renee's German Shepherd (Fonzie, pictured above) started his career in therapy dog work with Good Dog in 2017. Renee and her previous dog, Jimmy, volunteered as a therapy dog team certified through Good Dog until Jimmy's retirement at the age of ten. In May of 2017, she accepted the Director of Training position at the organization and currently oversees the class curriculum, class trainers, and juggles several other Good Dog hats. In the summer of 2015, Renee started work as an independent contractor with The Good Dog Foundation as the Executive Trainer for Manhattan and Brooklyn, evaluating, training, certifying and placing new therapy dog teams in facilities throughout the city. The therapy dog class she teaches for The Good Dog Foundation was featured by The Guardian, and the Brooklyn Dog Training Center's puppy party was featured on NBC's Today Show. Renee graduated from the Animal Behavior Center of New York, is a member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, has been certified by the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers since their inception in 2001, and is a certified tester for the AKC's Canine Good Citizen Program. She has been interviewed as a behavior expert by CBS News, Fox News, The New York Times, CNN, MNN, The New York Post, GOOD, Modern Dog Magazine ( more than once), Pet360, Esquire Magazine, Health Magazine, and various other media outlets. Walk This Way is owned and operated by Renee Payne, CPDT-KA. To give each individual dog and owner what they need, we offer a balanced approach. We use positive-reinforcement, reward based methods first and primarily, but also understand that no two dogs are the same and there is no one "right" approach for everyone. Walk This Way opened for business in Manhattan and Brooklyn in 1999, and moved upstate in the spring of 2019.
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