Christine is an expert in dog behavior and has an obvious love for dogs. She has helped our shy dog become happier and more confident.
Most importantly, she has taught us the knowledge to understand our pup's behavior and the skills to work on several of her behaviors including aggressive behaviors like hard staring and anxiety behaviors like noise aversions and freezing. Highly recommend her!
[Teresa & Brad N.]
We have a history of adopting challenging dogs and Christine has been there for us and our pups each time.
A couple years ago Christine began helping us with our boxer girl who is terrified of the world and shows it by being aggressive towards other dogs. With Christine's training we've been able to turn walks into a fun experience for both human and pup, by teaching our dog how to calm down and relax while outside of the house. We were provided different ideas and were able to practice the methods with Christine right by our side.
A couple years later we upped the ante by adopting a giant dog who is terrified of everything, but especially people surprising him or coming into his home. Christine has been immensely helpful in growing his confidence so that he's become curious and comfortable instead of terrified and frozen.
She is so patient and thoughtful when working with us and our pups. Not only does she watch to see what works for us and our dogs, but she also considers potential challenges we may face and provides us ideas of what to do in those circumstances as well.
[Erin M.]
Christine was a huge help on a variety of issues with my dog, Luka, including excessive barking and reactivity.
After several sessions with Christine, Luka was calmer and more attentive to commands. Christine was also a great teacher to me. In addition to sharing concrete techniques, she gave me confidence in my own ability to help Luka feel safe and happy.
[Gina G.]
Christine is amazing with dogs and their people.
I met her shortly after getting two small terrier rescues. Smokey was afraid of people and Flora afraid of dogs. Christine jumped in to coach me through getting Smokey to come back to me after he got startled, slipped out of his new halter and bolted down the street. Next she was set up meet and greets to introduce my two to her Ezri and then Pepper. Flora didn’t show any anxiety at all and the four dogs became best friends.
Christine worked with the two specifically on leash manners, disengaging when Flora saw a dog or Smokey a person, demand barking, and backing up to wait for a door to open. She did an excellent job of writing up protocols so that I could continue the training and reinforcing good manners. The dogs also loved the game of “find it” when Christine would throw treats to give the dogs a job to help calm them down. Both dogs, but especially Flora, is always so very excited to see Christine, Ezri, and Pepper in the neighborhood.
I highly recommend Christine for all your pup’s needs.
[Kathy F.]
Christine has been a friend, trainer, and dog walker to our dog Merlin for almost four years, since he was puppy.
He is always so excited to see her! When they walk they don’t just go on strolls. Christine has taught him many tricks, and currently they are working on agility training and movements that will help maintain his flexibility as he ages. She has also taught us humans many dog-training techniques along with consulting on behavioral understanding and advice. Highly recommend Christine as a dog trainer.
[Kathy & John S.]
Christine has helped us with a number of our more challenging foster dogs.
With her guidance, we’ve addressed issues such as resource guarding, fearfulness and reactivity. Christine is very skilled both at reading dogs’ cues and communicating with their human guardians. Thanks to her support, we’ve been able to set these dogs up for success in their new forever homes.
[Allegra & Nick]
Christine is wonderful. She gave us a ton of tools to "talk" to our dog.
We discussed several issues that we wanted to work on and Christine put together on hands training, videos as well as a ton of resources for us to work from and use as resources. I highly recommend Christine and her services! You and your dog will be better because of her.
[Kelly T.]