North Star Canine Connection

Elizabeth worked with me to evaluate a dog before I adopted him. I love her training method, which uses positive reinforcement, and was immediately effective. She was incredibly knowledgeable, kind and patient, taking the time to get to know my dog so that I could feel comfortable making the decision to adopt. Her training space is well built and well thought out. She has huge amounts of recommendations and resources that she readily shared. I will be returning to work with Elizabeth on a regular basis, I am looking forward to seeing her again and the progress we can make with my new dog. I can't recommend her enough, it was a wonderful experience!

I have a jack Russell that’s two years old. I’ve had him since he was a puppy. I had my old girl that was 18. She was a jack as well and had make the difficult decision to put her down last October so when that happened all the sudden his attention went to everybody that was walking by the house, and he decided it was his job to bark, but the barking was manic and out of control and I couldn’t stop him. I’m also an insurance agent so that it made it very difficult for me to work. He also had excitement pee he would do, so I would put doggy diapers on him at times, and then I had gone to last resort having a bark collar on him, which only made him go into a frenzy manic crazy barking state and didn’t stop them from barking. He passed out cold twice. I brought him to the vet twice. He couldn’t hear anything with his heart, but he suggested cardio check up, but I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a Jack Russell run, but this dog can run and he never had any issue of any kind after such a Exertion of energy. my gut told me that it was anxiety that was making him pass out and so we put him on anxiety medicine, but it didn’t help with the barking. gone a very stressed out, anxious barking mess to a very happy butt wagging Jack Russell.. I think I was putting too many controls on him. He didn’t understand what I wanted and I didn’t know how to tell what I wanted. Liz came to my house and did a one on one class with Buster and the immediate engagement that she had with him blew my mind! What I saw between the two of them was that what I wanted he and I to have. He is a jack Russell that did not want to be controlled, but he’s so wanted to engage and I just didn’t know what to do. He is a different dog today and so much happier! So there you have it I went to class because my dog fainted because I was too controlling for my poor Jack! We are still learning. He doesn’t have to be a perfect dog and I don’t have to be a perfect dog mom but we are learning. And I see him relaxed and by the way, he’s off the meds that makes me very happy and I can’t thank Liz enough!