NY Clever K9 Inc.

5 stars for Christina (NY Clever K9) for helping us to develop a healthy relationship with our puppy based on mutual respect, eliminating our puppy's severe food aggression, and helping us to manage her aggressive-dominant behavior. We contacted Christina at the recommendation of another NYC based trainer to help us with our cockapoo puppy's food aggression, which was severe - growling and biting us as we approached her food bowl, which she guarded nonstop for hours after a feeding. Attempts to pick up the food bowl resulted in bites (to us) and a stressed out puppy. Christina patiently worked with us over a period of months (with flexible evening visits) to help us build trust with our puppy during meal times with a series of manageable steps. While our cockapoo still sometimes hangs out by her bowl for a few minutes post-meal, she wags her tail as we approach her food bowl and lets us approach to pick the bowl up without a problem. Miraculously, she will now leave the bowl to snooze, lounge on her bed, play or go out for walks. Needless to say, picking up the bowl is a breeze, and most of the time she doesn't even glance over to us as we pick it up. Meal time has become so much less stressful for all of us thanks to Christina! While we were working with Christina on our food aggression issues, our puppy began to display some signs of aggressive dominant behavior - acting out with a growl or bite if she didn't want to be brushed, touched, or have her leash or collar put on. Christina spotted these issues immediately and thanks to her help, taught us how to develop a relationship with our puppy based on mutual respect. Our puppy now sits patiently for us to put her leash/collar on, and just this morning, she stretched out on the floor so my husband could brush her hind legs. While Christina warned us that this behavior may pop up again, she gave us great tools to help manage our puppy's behavior..and if it isn't something we can manage, we will gladly contact Christina again. Major plus for all of the other training tips that Christina shared, like the "Find Its," the puppy push-ups, the "See Me's" and help with basic commands/walking. Christina is a very sweet, caring person, and her tough love approach helped give us the push we needed to stop excusing our puppy's behavior and start taking action so we could have a great family pet for many years.

After 51 years of marriage, 2 children, and 7 dogs, we adopted a 3 month old Leavitt Bulldog. Although loving and lovable, Larry soon showed very unpredictable behavior and difficulty interacting with other dogs. We kept him at home and avoided public places. Several months later, Larry was a strong athletic dog but unpredictable, lunging at other dogs and working himself into a frenzy when outside, making walks frightening and leaving us all feeling overwhelmed. Then we found Christina. After a simple and easy meeting with her followed by a hands on evaluation of Larry on the sidewalk, she quickly understood the behavioral problems and began educating and training us as well as Larry. Under Christina’s tutelage, Larry’s transformation to a fun companion was rapid, straightforward, and reliable. Walking him very quickly became a pleasure instead of something to dread each day. We are still amazed and thrilled and very grateful to her for her expertise and her palpable love for her students. I would just like others to know how our lives have been changed by her expertise and caring. Another huge "thank you" to Christina!

We first met Christina in 2002 we needed a behaviorist who understood the make up of a Keeshond. Well what a find! Comet was SO in love with her and we were truly amazed and knew we found a gem! Comet loved Christina so much that if I wanted to get him to come inside all I'd have to do is pretend Christina was in the house and he'd come running. Prior to find Christina (a Loooong deliberate search) we had your "old World" type trainer come in, Comet was not happy, we fired him on his second lesson AND to prove the difference, he was in the neighborhood one day a few years later and it produced stress in Comet, his fear was unreal! NEVER that with Christina, she truly changed his life and ours. We had her back for our Freya in 2004 and will again soon for Baldur. She is a dog whisperer!

Rosie, our rescue pit bull, is a changed dog thanks to Christina. In August we adopted Rosie, who at the time was estimated to be 2 1/2 years old. Soon thereafter we observed she was severely dog aggressive. Could dog aggression be treated, were pit bulls as dangerous as rumored to be and was she safe to keep, especially with our 17 month old son? We scoured the NYC area for a reputable and very experienced dog behaviorist until we came across Christina... and thank goodness we did! In only 8 weeks, Rosie went from a dog that lurched, lunged and barked at every passing dog (to the extent that we had to walk around cars to avoid dogs on sidewalks) to a dog that could pass a pack of dogs barely noticing. Christina is an incredible behaviorist and completely rehabilitated her by teaching us, Rosie's owners, how to use positive, reward based training (in carefully planned out stages) to change Rosie's psychology of other dogs. It was amazing and not something my husband or I thought possible. We also can't thank Christina enough for educating us on how misunderstood pit bulls are and showing us how wonderful they can be, both inside and outside the house, Rosie is an amazing, affectionate, beautiful dog.

Christina is just an amazing behaviorist, the session our rescue dog Cappy had was way beyond our expectations. Doing rescue work I have never seen anyone work so dramatically or quickly, she was able to not only keep Cappy from exhibiting any of the aggressive signs of fear of strangers that we began seeing in him but to engage him and bring out a playfulness we hadn't seen before (but suspected!) We have been seeing amazing changes in Cappy since she came -- he is much less fearful, more confident, engaged, more animated... happier! We think Christina is a terrific find.