Canine Perspective: Structured Daycare, Boarding & Training

As first time dog owners, we woefully overestimated our ability to handle our Belgian Malinois mix puppy, Gretchen. We had previously sent her to a large chain doggy daycare thinking we were giving her a positive experience but she developed some strong reactivity in that overwhelming environment being surrounded by up to 40 dogs at a time. Canine Perspectives literally saved us. Gretchen started her structured daycare experience with Jesse & Elizabeth after we did some research into Jesse’s experience and philosophy. After a short transition, Gretchen truly transformed as a dog. Her reactivity was seriously reduced and she was happy and tired at the end of her daycare days. We subsequently completed a 2 week board and train to address obedience with the goal of giving Gretchen off leash freedoms, further reducing her leash reactivity, and making expectations more clear in our house. The training completely exceeded our expectations. Not only had our dog’s obedience skills been remarkably increased, but Jesse provided us with hours of training videos (not just stock videos but training videos specifically of our dog) so that we could really understand how we could reinforce her training and learn ourselves. In our experience there is really no better dog trainer or daycare in the Chicago marketplace and will be trusting the team at Canine Perspectives with our dog for years to come. We truly are so grateful to have found them.

Our dog is turning two next month and he’s been with canine perspective since being a puppy. We started off doing a puppy group, some daycare and eventually training. We have nothing but wonderful things to say. Our dog has some separation anxiety issues, but mainly he’s over friendly on walks and would pull on the leash. He has no off switch and is always excited. The training was night and day. Beyond trusting my own dog, I have a hard time trusting other dogs in the city of Chicago. He gets barked at, lunged at, and more on our walks in the neighborhood and thanks to his training he just keeps on walking ❤️. It’s so nice to have a place that he can play with his friends where I don’t worry at all about his behavior or the other dogs because the canine team is so focused on structure. We love this place and it’s so nice not to worry about our dog when we go out of town or are busy one day. Thank you Elizabeth, Jesse and canine team!!!

Our dog is 1.5 years old and has been training with Canine Perspective since she was 4 months old for severe behavioral issues (she has a neurological disorder). This training has given our dog opportunities that we never expected her to have (ie. Being able to take her on vacation with us and have lots of people meet her and pet her, taking her on off leash walks, peaceful interactions with our cat, ect). You can tell from the way that she looks at Jessie and how excited she is to be there that she has fun with the training too. :) I recommend them to everyone who is struggling with their dog's behavior.