About DanBar Ranch
Know Who You Are Dealing With:
My Parents: Daniel & Barbara Jessup
DanBar Ranch is a tribute to my beloved parents, Daniel and Barbara Jessup, long-time residents of West Seattle, WA. Dad was a captain for United Air Lines and mom worked tirelessly to give us kids a clean, safe, intelligent and loving home. Because of them, I was able to retire to the country and "live the dream" which is DanBar Ranch. Thanks, mom and dad, for instilling in me my love and respect for all animals, my ethics and my common sense - the best gifts parents can give their kids. They taught me that if the store clerk accidently gave you too much change back - you walk back in and return it. They were pure class. I hope whereever they are they can see into my heart and know how much I love them. The picture above shows them before they were married. After my mother passed, my father wrote the small note seen on the right bottom. "Oct 1948 we met. Oct 2013 Barbara went on ahead."
Diane Jessup - 65 Years With Dogs
Training Achievements
The one and only thing a person takes with them into death is their personal honor. I despise those who think "getting away with something" is a virtue. I have dedicated my life to the stewardship of Cairn terriers and Dobermans. Stewardship means putting the welfare of the breed ahead of personal gain, and producing dogs that will be handed on to the next generation healthier - and unchanged by current fads.I have a life-long commitment to EVERY pup I produce and they are all microchipped and I remain as a contact for them their entire life. ANY pup found in a shelter is taken back and if any owner no longer wants their dog - it comes back to me.I am retired from 20 years as an animal control officer, have written three well received books on dogs, have traveled to five countries giving dog behavior workshops to animal control and law enforcement workers. I have been featured on TV shows such as Oprah, 48 Hours, McNeil/Lehrer News Hour, Bryant Gumble Eye on America, CNN and many local stations. I have also been an expert witness for law enforcement agencies concerning the use of Police K9 dogs.
More about my life and work HERE.
(Below: Not what every teenage girl wanted for Christmas! LOL! My parents were very understanding! Its a suit for training attack dogs.)
More about my life and work HERE.
(Below: Not what every teenage girl wanted for Christmas! LOL! My parents were very understanding! Its a suit for training attack dogs.)
Above: Richard Schlesinger reporting for 48 Hours works with Diane Jessup at her home in Olympia, WA. Over the past half century I have put many "old school" training titles on my dogs. I use positive "marker training" methods.Multiple High In Trials in AKC/UKC obedience
Multiple High In Trials in Schutzhund/IPO
Man-Tracking Titles (AKC TD, TDX, SchH Tracking I, II, III, FH
Weight Pull: IWPA WDS Gold/Silver Medals
Herding ASCA (Started Trial Dog ducks/sheep) (with pit bulls!)
Barn Hunt: RATN (finding rats)
Movie Work: I've trained and handled pit bulls, Dobermans and a Rottweiler in major motion pictures (showing who we worked with) including: Green Room with Patrick Stewart (pit bull), The Good Son with Macaulay Culkin (pit bull), Lawn Dogs with Sam Rockwell (Doberman), Plain Clothes with Arliss Howard, George Wendt (pit bull), Assassins with Sylvester Stallone (Rottweiler), Hear No Evil with Marlee Matlin (pit bull) (great scene but got cut!) Getting Even With Dad with Maccaulay Culkin/Ted Danson) (pit bull) Simon and Simon Movie: In Trouble Again (Gerald McRaney/Jameson)
I have donated several American pit bulls to Law Enforcement for explosives and narcotics detection work.
More about my work and past dogs HERE.
(Below: My beloved "Dirk", SchH 3, IPO 3, French Ring Brevet.Dirk was a gamebred pit bull purchased from a dog fighter and trained to his complex titles with "pure positive" training (no corrections). Here he is earning his Schutzhund 3 title.
More about my work and past dogs HERE.
(Below: My beloved "Dirk", SchH 3, IPO 3, French Ring Brevet.Dirk was a gamebred pit bull purchased from a dog fighter and trained to his complex titles with "pure positive" training (no corrections). Here he is earning his Schutzhund 3 title.
Today, with so much business being done on-line there is quite a risk of fraud. I'd like to introduce myself and tell a little about my past decades "in dogs". I'd also like to introduce you to the two most important people in my life, my late parents, for which "DanBar" is dedicated - Daniel and Barabara Jessup.
Books By Diane Jessup
I do not sell my books. They can be located at book stores or on ebay.