The Dog Institute of Williamsburg

We had to do the training online because of Corona and it was AMAZING and highly EFFECTIVE. The sessions with Elisabeth not only helped our puppy to settle in but also helped us parents to understand our pups needs and behaviour better. Elisabeth takes a lot of time and is always there for you. We can always text her when we have a problem or a question. Each sessions equips us with more detailed instructions how to train our dog and leaves us more relaxed and confident. We can highly recommend Elisabeth services, she clearly loves her job and knows her puppies.

We love The Dog Institute! Elizabeth is absolutely amazing! We brought our black lab puppy to the baby puppy classes and day training up through the COVID closure. Once the location was closed, Elizabeth was extremely accommodating and worked with us virtually as our puppy continued to grow. During quarantine, our puppy began to excite-pee whenever she saw her Grandpa and Elizabeth worked with us for 1.5 hours to train all of us on how to prevent the excite-pees from happening. Since that session our puppy has not excite-peed! We have also been working on tricks and other behavior training virtually, and Elizabeth is always available to answer a quick question outside of a training session as well. We have seen so much growth in our puppy and Elizabeth has been a huge part of that. We highly recommend The Dog Institute both in person (post-COVID) and virtually!

Our 5 mo old pup Sophie has attended puppy playgroup, group training and had many 1x1 sessions in person (and now virtually due to COVID-19) over the last couple months, and we have continued to see great results! We prefer private Facetime sessions with Elizabeth (lead trainer), as she goes above and beyond coaching us to train Sophie in a loving and respectful way. As a testament to her coaching, our parents and friends are always telling us how smart and wonderful Sophie is - virtually of course! Highly recommend DIW!

We got our 8 month old puppy a week ago and we were desperately looking for guidance on the best way to manage house training/potty training. We were excited to find out about Elizabeth’s virtual/facetime sessions. It was perfect for us, given the self distancing situation we have in NY at the moment. In just our first session with her via facetime, she gave us so much confidence and provided such valuable information on how to potty train our puppy. We have seen immediate results with Lucky, and we are so grateful for Elizabeth’s advice. Our puppy refused to go potty outside, and simply implementing her instructions, he finally did it. I’m so excited to see where our next sessions with her will take us. Our little family of 3 is so grateful to have found her! - maria, manu & Lucky

Taking my puppy to The Dog Institute was the absolute best thing I did for myself and my pup. The group classes were like therapy for me – I met other puppies and their owners, and saw that I wasn't the only one struggling or with questions! And of course, what we learned in class was invaluable to bringing up my puppy right. Day Training and Puppy Play Group were Alma's favorite things to do. She loved Day Training so much, it was almost impossible to get her to leave when I picked her up at the end of the day! It was so comforting to know how loved and cared for she was there. Also, our private session with Elizabeth was like magic – she cracked the code with Alma's crate training in just one hour. It was amazing. I am forever grateful to her, and all the women who work there. We moved out of NYC, but if we were still there I guarantee The Dog Institute would be a part of Alma's life forever. We really, really miss it!