Shelby Semel Dog Training

We enrolled our newly adopted dog in an outdoor "basic obedience" class in Central Park and it was great. The trainer Jenna did a great job teaching us how to teach our dogs. We especially liked how our whole family could attend the classes at no additional cost. Jenna also made sure that the class was fun and safe - especially during this pandemic. Thank you to Jenna and the whole Shelby Semel team for creatively offering these great classes in safe outdoor environments.

I highly recommend Shelby Semel Dog Training! I have been working with Laura from Shelby Semel since February when we brought home our (then) 3.5 month Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy. Laura is amazing — within the first session alone, we had made significant progress on crate training and our pup had learned basic commands such as “touch” and “sit”. Over subsequent sessions we were able to tackle housebreaking, leash training, and tons of fun/useful tricks that I can confidently say I would not have been able to master on my own. Laura is super responsive and also provides handy follow-up notes and guides so that we can continue to practice on our own in between sessions. Additionally, mid-way through our training we switched from in-person lessons to virtual lessons due to covid-19. I was a bit skeptical that we would be able to make the same progress via virtual lessons but the transition has been seamless and we have been able to accomplish just as much as we had been through our in-person training sessions. I really can’t recommend Shelby Semel Dog Training, and Laura in particular, highly enough!