Calvert Dog Training

Elizabeth helped us with our newly adopted dog. We did a six session package. Elizabeth was amazingly helpful and we learned a lot about watching our dog's emotions. We can have calm enjoyable walks now with no barking, snapping or pulling! He feels better now about visitors to our home as well. Elizabeth provided videos from our sessions as well as written information about all the techniques we worked on. I will definitely recommend Calvert Dog Training to everyone with dogs and we will be returning customers with any of our dogs behavioral needs.

Had a horrible experience with Calvert’s puppy class at Foothills. This trainer had me release my tiny 3 lb puppy with other puppies 10 times his size for ‘play time’ before there was even any introduction or discussion. It was terrifying for him and, quite frankly, irresponsible and dangerous. I said I wasn’t comfortable and was shamed into doing it, then criticized and shamed in front of the class numerous times over the rest of the 45 minutes, which were extremely disorganized. Go elsewhere if you have a small dog. It’s disappointing how ill equipped many professionals are to nurture and train small dogs.

2 weeks ago, I adopted a 2 year old Boxer from Foothills Animal Shelter as a companion for my 12 year old Boxer/Lab mix. The pups a had nice meet & greet before the adoption, however within the first 24 hours of bringing Rocky into my home, he had 3 fights with my old pup Ramsey. I've never been around dog fights before and so this was quite intimidating for me, especially with such a big, strong dog. I was just about to take Rocky back to the shelter when I found Calvert's flier in my adoption packet and decided to give Elizabeth a call. Elizabeth made an emergency house visit same day. She was absolutely wonderful in assessing both pups, recognizing the trigger points, giving me tons of tips and showed me a drill I could do with the pups to help with their openness to each other, and also taught me how to handle situations in which conflict starts to arise. After 2 weeks, I can't say the pups are quite companions yet, however we've made SO much progress. Honestly I'm so grateful for Elizabeth, and I know Rocky is too. There is no way I could have made it past day 3 without this extremely valuable consultation. Not only is Rocky acclimating easier, but my old pup Ramsey has also benefited from some much needed advice about dog walking tips. I thought I'd tried everything, but Elizabeth was able to give me great tips that have made walking with Ramsey so much more pleasant. Rocky, Ramsey, and I are so grateful and our confidence with each other grows stronger by the day.