Purely Positive Dog Training

Susan is a wonderful dog (and people) trainer! Our recently adopted pup Luna needed to learn some basic manners, for example, not to jump on visitors and to be less reactive on leash around other dogs. Susan was patient and kind with our whole family, and was happy to include our kids in the training sessions. Luna was always excited to see Susan, and by the end of 5 sessions, Luna was much calmer around other dogs, as well as with visitors to our home. We all learned a ton from the sessions and the follow up emails with additional info was so helpful. I would highly recommend Susan and Purely Positive!

I had a fantastic experience with Susan’s private training classes for my beagle Cody, who has an abuse history and issues with fear aggression (on top of being a typical stubborn beagle) that led to me being out of answers about how to re-socialize him. Susan was able to understand his situation immediately and structured a program that was perfect for what he needed at this stage of his life, working with me each session to find the right level of challenge and adding new techniques each time. After several sessions it was clear that Cody was quickly picking up on our techniques to improve his recall, defensiveness around the house, leash walking, resource guarding, and stress threshold around other dogs. After finishing his training, I have a peace of mind I haven’t had in years that Cody can handle situations that were previously impossible, and I look forward to being able to spend more time with him outside the house. I highly recommend Susan as an expert positive trainer that will customize her program towards you and your dog’s unique challenges and leave you with plenty of educational material to continue to reinforce the techniques you learned!

Christine was a great fit for us as she owns dogs with similar traits as our golden She gave us simple and clear instructions to help with our 1 year old female with prey drive, recall, leash walking with a gentle leader, grooming. She emailed us a recap after each lesson with instructions and videos. She even met us on the beach to work on our puppy’s obsession with birds. Her teaching style is calm and laidback. We will definitely call her if we need more help and highly recommend her.

Purely Positive was initially recommended to me by my vet because my dog, Callie, was scared of the world and would tuck her tail and run away when she met any strangers or other dogs. We completed 5 one-on-one sessions with Susan, and it made a world of difference! Callie now walks around with her head (and tail) up high, goes up to strangers to sniff them, and has successfully met a handful of new dogs. Susan was great with exposing Callie to various new places and building her confidence. She also gave us feedback and further training to work on in between sessions. Callie absolutely loved Susan and is a completely different dog now, I can't recommend Purely Positive enough!