First Friends dog training

We worked with Jen for 6 months to help our fearful dog, Lola, with her anxiety and reactive tendencies. Lola was 4.5 when we brought her to Jen, and I would never have believed we could be where we are now! Jen is amazing. Jen did several one-on-one trainings with Lola, coming to our home and teaching fun games we could play with Lola to lessen her anxiety. This was not an overnight change, but we stuck with the program and kept up with what we learned in between sessions. Lola went from not being able to walk by a dog on the street without panicking, to calmly checking out the dog with zero stress reactions, and moving on! It’s incredible. Jen was so patient and understanding, and quickly become Lola’s friend. She is incredibly knowledgeable about dogs and their behavior, and had an answer to all of our questions. I highly recommend Jen’s training services! If you listen to her, practice between sessions, and commit — you WILL see a difference in your dog. Thank you Jen!!!

Jen worked with my dog Percy on his issues with food aggression, leash aggression, resource guarding me, and his aversion to the car. After three months of great of advice an consistency, Percy is now happy with my partner and I near his food or toys, he does not mind dogs as much (still working but a way better than when we first got him), and my partner can now sit on the couch or lay on the bed with me without Percy getting upset. Jen was very helpful and gave great instruction, she is going to be our dog trainer for Percy and future dogs.

I worked with Jenn when my baby boy was freshly done with his vaccines until he was past 8months! She was the absolute best trainer we have had. I was absolutely devastated when she moved and we could not continue with her. Since then we have struggled to fine a trainer as amazing! Jen just gets it she understands animals and she has a way of helping us humans “get it” my pup loves her and to this day the techniques and insight she taught have helped me more than anything. I also took her k9 first aid and have abided by her teachings! I can not recommend her enough and am even considering the 1-2hr drive north just to work with her again!

I worked with Jen extensively, weekly, for nearly two years training my newly adopted/rescued 5 month old pup Wilson. We knew Wilson was going to be a big dog and he had the perfect temperament to potentially be my mobility service dog. Jen worked with us from the very beginning (we started about 5 days after adoption) with the basics in obedience, she taught me bonding games to both increase my connection with Wilson while also building foundations for his ADA service job. Jen was careful to never over work or overwhelm either me or Wilson. Jen slowly and consistently built up our skills and taught Wilson and I how to be an excellent working team. He is my second mobility dog and thanks to Jen a whole new bar has been set for what I can do in the world with an amazing partner in Wilson. Jen is a highly skilled and intuitive, loving, patient, kind and generous teacher with both the canine and the human. A rare gem!