The Speaking Dog Training Co.

Jamie created a wonderful and personalized dogscaping proposal for Payton’s Promise Sanctuary, recognizing that we care for senior, blind, and special needs dogs. Her recommendations were clearly tailored to their needs, with creative ideas for enrichment, sensory exploration, cooling, and comfort. I especially appreciated how intentionally she designed everything to support engagement and quality of life for this very special population of dogs. This has given me so much inspiration as we continue to improve our sanctuary space.

I cannot recommend Jamie highly enough. She's warm, patient, flexible and clearly adept in what she does. She taught us so much about behavioral cues, training strategies and simple ways to enrich our dog's life. We started working with her after our dog had issues with reactivity towards people who he deemed were a threat to us. Now, after working with Jamie, we are equipped with a processes to approach dog-human interactions that was adapted specifically to our situation and our dog's needs. I feel like our dog is set up for success when meeting new people. I feel much more confident and safe when introducing him to new people and also in my ability to recognize signs that he needs a break or should sit a situation out entirely. Our dog has done so well after our work with her and has had so many positive interactions with new people. I can't express how grateful we are for her help.

Jamie is great! We contacted her to help train us and our 8-month Australian Shepherd, Frisco. In addition to the traits and behavior typical of an Aussie, Frisco is an Amish-surrender and came to us with some baggage. She helped us work on a lot of those issues. She also helped us with Frisco's sister, Breck, a two-year old Border Collie/Great Pyr mix, who is a sweetheart but has a stubborn streak. As serial dog owners, we've hired trainers in the past. Without a doubt, she's the best! Would definitely highly recommend her for anyone who needs some help with their dog.

Jamie is absolutely wonderful and patient with both her four-legged and human clients! As most will note, behavioral training is as much about understanding your dog(s) and teaching them how to understand their world as it is for the people to learn how to achieve this in a consistent way. Jamie did this with amazing patience and grace. We adopted an Amish Surrender dog that had very little love or socialization for the first 5-months. While he had made good strides being in a safe environment; all of the tools and "hacks" that Jamie gives her client's to work with has made an incredible change to his confidence as he experiences new sights and sounds... We will continue to look to Jamie as we move forward and will highly recommend her and Speaking Dog to anyone in need of training/behavior modification services!