Pawsitive

When our 4 year old dobielab started being reactive to other dogs at the park we were at a loss for how to address. What was once a fun activity was now full on angst! We reached out to Simone for help. Simone was very professional, kind and caring. In our very first session she provided us with specific exercises and tools we were able to use right away. Our dog responded immediately to the training. Overtime we have all gained confidence and a well trained dog. I highly recommend Simone. She is so knowledgeable and we loved that the training she recommended was easy for us to adopt and we started seeing results right away! We are so happy to have met her.

Simone has essentially cured my dog's leash reactivity in only 2 sessions!!! I am so happy and excited to be confident in walking my dog in busy places again, with no fear of her lunging uncontrollably at every dog that walks by. I now have the skills and tools I need to continue training my dog on my own, and I can see her brain thinking and learning every time we pass by a dog.

Before Simone, I had tried 4 different dog trainers in Calgary for this issue and found Simone to be clearly the best, both in her
knowledge/qualifications and training method. Some trainers are too soft and expect you to repeat an excercise every day for 6 months before seeing any hint of a result. Others I've tried are too hard and want you to use choke chains etc which I really wasn't comfortable with. Simone's method is exactly the right balance between the two, with small force free corrections which are outweighed by tons of delicious sausage.

Simones method also transfers into other behavioural issues and so a happy side effect is that my dog's barking while in the house has considerably improved. After only a couple of minor corrections, my dog now barely barks at the mailman, people walking by, the beep my neighbours car makes every morning at 8am when they lock their car... it's like magic!

I super highly recommend Simone to anyone struggling with a behavioural issue, or just dog training in general!

We have had 2 appts with Simone so far and HIGHLY recommend her! We have 4 mini doxies who range in age from 2 - 14 and within a couple days of our first appt we were able to get the dogs to sit on command, within a week we were able to curb the barking tremendously and now we are currently working on walking loose leash. We can't wait for our next appt.

Simone has looked after my beagle (now 10 years old) since she was a puppy and I wouldn’t want to leave her with anyone else!

Simone is very gifted in her ability to understand and help dogs. I would highly recommend her to anybody that is looking for a very skilled and experienced dog trainer.