Dog Savvy Dog Training

Andrew and Brittany are amazing at what they do. Andrew has helped us with our dog, Posey, who was reactive to just about anything. From shadows, to reflections, to cars, to people, she always had an opinion. We are still in the midsts of training but are seeing fundamental changes in how she processes stimuli. She still reacts to many things but, what used to take her 5-20 minutes to calm down from, now takes her a minute or two. She used to spend most of the day awake, pacing, and reacting to sounds, but is now able to relax and sleep for the majority of the day spare a few barks. They target the emotions behind the behaviors dogs exhibit which makes for a highly effective and unique training experience. After a year of “traditional” training showed no results, we are so grateful for the progress Andrew and Brittany have helped us make.

We hired Brittany and Andrew because our older dog was getting aggressive. During the first visit, the dog wanted to eat Andrew. During the second visit, the dog was a lot more chill. By the third visit the dog was paying very little attention to Andrew except as a source of treats. They have some very unusual homework to do with the dog. It's all about changing the dog's attitude. If you don't change the attitude you have to always be worried about Bad Behavior breakthroughs. The first exercise was showing the dog that chilling out is an option.

In January 2021 we put our 1 year old Border Collie, Keen into the 6 week Board and Train program. Keen is a complicated dog, to say the least. We had tried pretty much everything since he was 2 months old, and still Keen was full of fear and anxiety. Britt and Andrew did a FANTASTIC job with his difficult case. Before we couldn’t trust him around children, as he had nipped a little boy before, and we were expecting our first child in just 2 months…he came home with not only the ability to deal with kids, but to enjoy them. There are countless other wonderful things he learned with Dog Savvy (not to mention a HUGE change in reactivity to sights, sounds, people, other dogs), but that one gave me hope for a sweet little friendship my son could one day have with his dog. We can’t recommend Dog Savvy enough, and the investment in your dogs well being is truly an investment in your own. Don’t settle for a dog that you have to maneuver around because of their struggles—HELP them, they need you to do that for them! And Britt and Andrew are there to teach you how.

I wanted to take a moment to share our experience with Dog Savvy Training and Development. We have 2 rescue dogs, 1 that was brand new to us and we were having a significant amount of leash aggression with our first dog. This lead to behaviors in our new dog and walking our dogs became a nightmare. This was our number one priority--to be able to walk our dogs and be out in public and not struggle, be nervous, embarrassed, etc. We did lots of searching and lots of talking to friends. We were lead to Dog Savvy and have had the most positive experience from the first click on the website to the current/ongoing ability to be involved in their community of support and training. Brittany and Andrew are a dynamic duo with dog training and I can not recommend them highly enough. It started with a visit to our home to meet our dogs where we learned we had 2 very different dogs with very different energy and responses to situations. Over time, we boarded one dog (Mr. HIGH ENERGY) for training while working with the more aggressive one at home using the Dog Savvy training videos and community Facebook support. We were amazed at the results we were getting. During the boarding period, we often met for training with both dogs. I think the key to this whole program is the way Andrew and Brittany really get to know the dogs AND the people living with them. Many things have improved--even things that were lower on our list! But, #1--we can now walk our dogs and take them to new settings with little to no issues at all. In fact, just this past weekend, we stood talking to a neighbor who had her dog with her and we had a 10 minute conversation with NO ISSUES of aggression, nervousness or embarrassment!