Aligned K9

I highly recommend Noelle as a dog trainer; she is very skilled. Her training style is calm, positive, and playful. She uses positive and negative reinforcement methods very effectively to teach impulse control, discipline, and obedience. Noelle understands dog behavior and psychology very well, especially for herding breeds. Her approach is very structured, but also flexible enough to adjust the pace of training to the dog’s needs. You can tell her whole heart is in it, and she cares about every dog she trains. Noelle also had a great way to explain the training concepts to me so I could implement them after getting my dog back. I rescued an at the time 4-year-old German Shepherd mix (Taffy) in Fall 2023. She has a dog biting history from when she was a young dog due to her high prey d

We sent our Kai Ken (primitive Japanese 13 month old dog) to a 6-week board and train with Noelle. He went from having a very low drive (would play with toys for 30 seconds to a minute and then lose interest, refuse treats quite often, and not care much about praise while almost never checking in) to being more food, toy, and praise motivated. He checks in regularly no matter where we are now when before he NEVER checked in outside! Noelle taught him to be calm in different situations, increased his durations for holding sit, down, and place, taught a crate command, taught jump into the car, increased his paw handling tolerance, taught recall, and e-collar trained him. She also taught him how to understand what we want; new vocabulary includes yes/yep, okay, good, and nope. The before and

I started following Aligned K9 on Instagram for the training tips as a first time Belgian Malinois mixed breed dog parent. When the timing and circumstance aligned for me to send Samson to stay with Noelle for a 6 week board and train I was both excited to see all he would learn and anxious about his well being and being apart from him so long. I picked Aligned K9 because the training style and level of love and affection I saw matched what I hoped for my dog and my own style if I were more skilled. The regular video and photo updates were helpful to me as an anxious owner in both showing how much love and affection he was getting as part of his training, but also in teaching me the appropriate style of training. It was obvious from the videos how engaged and happy my dog was during train

I had spent a lot of time, before we got a pup, looking for solid online training demonstrations and advice that aligned with the type of training we would *eventually* want to focus on. That’s when I came across AlignedK9 on IG…and maybe the algorithm understood the assignment. The education, experience and commitment demonstrated by Noelle in her content was the reason I reached out when we unexpectedly adopted our heeler/mix. She has an immense amount of knowledge when it comes to working breeds and she didn’t (and doesn’t) sugarcoat what it would take to get our pup to be successful (for himself and us). She stresses the importance of consistency, communication and emphasizes the better relationship you build together, the results will come. Our pup has been training with her (online/

We picked Noelle out before we got our Belgian Malinois, Storm. Once she turned 6 months old, we sent her for 5 weeks for board and train with Noelle. She learned all the basics along with being socialized with people, places and animals (even horses). My husband and I received videos and pictures multiple times per week because we really really missed our baby girl! We could tell she was having a great time with Noelle though! She had doggy friends to play with! She learned everything we wanted her to learn and Noelle really set her up for success. When we picked her up, she made sure to teach us what to do and how to do it to make sure to keep up with the training and practicing at home. Our Storm is now a year old and we just took her back to Noelle for a two week brush up. As soon as S