Stephanie Bennett's Believe in Dog

We are so grateful to trainer Valerie and the entire team at Believe in Dog for helping us bring out the very best in our rescue dog, Phoebe. We first started taking classes in September 2024 and have continued taking weekly classes throughout the year. Humans and dogs alike have learnt new skills, grown in confidence, and developed a great bond! Valerie is knowledgeable, patient, and positive instructor! We especially job her doggie fitness class and have taken it twice. Looking forward to more classes together!!

Mabel just graduated from Puppy Class part 1 and we could not be happier with her progress or the staff and program at Believe In Dog. Mabel moved from timid to confident in just 6 weeks, and we learned so much about how to keep her on that path (spoiler alert: cheese). Seriously, the skills were broken down so we could understand and teach her the basics as well as some fun tricks. I like that they offer weekend classes which really helps those of us who live in the suburbs or work long hours!

Every time we walk in Believe in Dog we get renewed hope in making it through puppyhood and adolescence with our huge and continuing to grow German Shepherd. Thank you Believe In Dog!! Rocky and his pawrents love everyone who works there. A BIG SHOUT OUT to Stephanie, Megan and Alyssa. Reactive Rover class has really helped all us. And we made it through puppy stage with the Puppy Day School program and continue with Enriched Doggie Day Care with Jessica and Pedram. And of course Joanna has a gift with every dog and great suggestions. It all started with a phone call to Roxanna who helped explain everything and make it easy. Stephanie said in the first Reactive Rover class "after these classes you WILL see a change in your beloved dogs but for SURE you will see a change in yourselves." Wow! So true. We thought there would be a magic potion and all would be calm. Nope. But we are making progress and we have all improved. We want to be more comfortable on walks. We want to be less reactive. At first we (us and Rocky) would explode at the smallest sounds. People, lawn mowers, cars and trucks passing by, birds landing on the fence, another dog within 100 yards. Forget about it! Flooding with stimulus does not work with dogs. It only made things worse. We worried other people would think "Man they can't handle their dog." We now know he is not a bad dog and we are not bad pawrents. Quite the opposite. Rocky just wants to love and be loved. He wants to play and the leash or fence is restricting him from running over to other dogs and people. With the help of Reactive Rover class we are now equipped with tools to help Rocky and especially us. We understand more of what is going on in Rocky's mind and mostly us. The very last class we saw HUGE improvement with Rocky and how we react to his reactivity. We learned it is okay to "begin and begin again and if necessary begin again - again." It's a process, not a product. We know for sure Rocky was a gift from God. We will never give up on him. We will love him every single day for all of his life. We are Believers! Thank you dear people of Believe of Dog!! With belief and deepest gratitude, from Mitzie, Phil and Rocky Danielson