All In Stride Dog Training

We worked with Elly for three months to help address our dog’s separation anxiety. Elly came recommended by a fellow dog trainer. We reached out to her because we were having trouble making progress on our own and needed additional support. We met with Elly initially for a consultation to determine our dog’s threshold for being left alone. We also discussed how separation anxiety training would work and what reasonable expectations looked like. After that, Elly developed a plan where we completed “missions” four days a week and then met with her once a week to check in on progress. All of our meetings with Elly were virtual. She wrote out the missions in a shared Google Doc, where we could also track important factors that might be affecting our dog’s threshold day to day. Overall, we we

Elly is such a kind, smart, caring, and dedicated person! She took the time to get to know and understand our formerly abused and very high strung rescue pup, Ellie (not to be confused with Elly with a “Y”!). She was able to break down the psychology of Ellie’s behaviors and triggers so we could understand the world through our dog’s eyes. She offered gentle strategies to put Ellie at ease, manage her environment, and reinforce positive behaviors. Additionally she recommended anxiety medication and communicated with our vet for the prescription. She also made sure our older dog Obi wasn’t neglected and had his own needs addressed. I highly recommend Elly not only for basic dog training but also for more complicated and nuanced behavioral and emotional issues! Pictures of our pups for cuten

I could not recommend Elly more highly! We started to work together a couple of weeks before I brought a puppy into our home. I knew nothing about how to effectively raise and train a dog. She advised me on everything from what to purchase, how to set up my home, how to establish a schedule that worked for both the puppy and my family, and how to address unwanted behaviors. She is incredibly knowledgeable, responsive, and encouraging… An absolute pleasure to work with and a resource I cannot imagine navigating this pet transition without.

We hired Ellie to work with us and Hazel, our nine month old rescue pup, on basic obedience, loose leash training and socialization skills. Ellie is highly knowledgeable and effective. While we have had dogs most of our lives, Ellie introduced us to approaches that were new to us. Perhaps one of the most important being how to find balance between letting a dog be a dog and being well-behaved. A great example is the experience of our walks with Hazel. Rather than focusing on walks in which we worked on eliminating reactivity and pulling, she had us include long-lead adventures and time for lots of sniffing (which Hazel loves). In short order, Hazel became a calmer and happier pup on our walks! She also helped us quickly prevent Hazel from excitedly jumping on our visitors to greet them.

We bought 5 dog training sessions with Elly. Each session she showed up on time and with a great professional attitude. She helped teach our 9 month old pitbull mix to be comfortable using his crate as well some basic manners like “off” and “place”. My 3 young children often wanted to be involved in the sessions so she patiently taught us a few fun commands that they could help practice. Overall, Elly was a pleasure to work with and I would recommend her to anyone looking for dog training services.