Paws Afoot

I absolutely love Lise! (Long post but very honest). We adopted a 1.5 years old border collie/brittany/terrier mix from a shelter about 8 months ago. I have worked in shelters before and knew perfectly well that is not uncommon for shelter dogs to experience some trauma or carry some trauma from past experiences. Knowing this, we still went all in and got our beautiful Daisy, however she indeed started to display multiple issues after a few weeks of having her at home. It was very hard at the beginning to try and understand what was happening, what was going through Daisy's mind and how we could help her. She was very loud and excitable, she reacted to a dog that came close to her and then she reacted even worse in a few other occasions. After doing some online research I came to articles that described her behavior as "Fear based aggression" and that it was recommended that I seek professional help. After about a week of researching and reading reviews, I decided to give PAWS A Foot a call. Lise was SO nice over the phone and listed to me as I explained to her everything that had happened. She was patient, honest and super knowledgeable, she told me that it can be worked out and gave me options to move forward. After the first call, we decided to schedule a first assessment. This only confirmed even further that Lise was excellent and that we wanted to continue working with her. We trained with Lise for about 5 months to address the first set of issues and we have seen so much change and improvement from the positive training approach that Lise uses. One of the things that I am most grateful to Lise is the fact that she was very honest with us. Letting us know exactly what she believed was going to be the optimal outcome and what we can and cannot expect our Daisy. This helped us tremendously to understand that our dog had certain issues that might never change but that she can learn to tolerate. Lise has also helped us connect with other local businesses, like groomers, agility trainers & dog walkers. We are still training Daisy & we reach out to Lise when we believe we can move forward and add more to our training plan.

Lise is GREAT! She spent a very long time with me on the phone before I even decided to schedule training sessions with her. My 4yr old dog was having some pretty bad issues with anxiety and I couldn't believe how fast this started turning for the better. Yes, it takes a lot of work on the owners part as well for any training to be successful, but Lise makes this easy. She will email you a report and instructions for you to work on with your loved one(s) after each training session. You can also call her anytime with questions. I learned a lot from Lise and my dog is doing so much better with the tools she provided me to be successful. She's very patient and easy to talk to. There's no loose ends or bad feelings after a session with her. I would recommend her to anyone and would work with her again hands down!