SERVICE AREAS: Shively  Pleasure Ridge Park  Ft. Knox Military Base,  Southern Indiana (Jeffersonville, New Albany, Clarksville, Floyd Knobs, Charlestown, etc.)  Dixie Highway  Valley Station   Newburg, Jeffersontown, NULU, Downtown, Smoketown, Germantown, Metro Louisville, Prospect, Norton Commons, Simpsonville, Shelbyville, Bardstown, Shelbyville (extra flat rate travel fee for Mt. Washington, Simpsonville, Bardstown, Shelbyville).    

Welcome to Evolution Dog Training, LLC! We are so glad you decided to check us out! We are currently getting our FIRST BRICK AND MORTAR LOCATION READY for its GRAND OPENING EVENT! We are CURRENTLY ACCEPTING GROUP CLASS ENROLLMENTS. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE FOLLOW THESE TWO STEPS:

  1. SHOOT US A DIRECT TEXT AT THIS NUMBER 502.338.2453, including your Name, email, which class you want to sign up for, and the age and name of your dog. We will email you a packet with further instructions within 48 hours. Please be patient; it is only one person doing the job, which is made for about five at the moment. Thank you so much for your attention and participation.
  3. ABOVE Here’s our current Open Enrollment Class Schedule. All information is in the packet we will send to you: prices, sign-ups to portals, payment plans, and financing, if needed. Please send us that email or text, and let us send you the packet before bombarding us with questions. The answers may be in the packet. Thank you again in advance for your patience during our transitional process! 
  4. A little about our Owner and Head Trainer, Ellasha Ferriell, was born and raised in the south end of Louisville, and recognizes there is a dire need for PROFESSIONAL QUALITY and EDUCATIONAL DOG TRAINING. 

 

WHY CHOOSE US? 

With the field of DOG TRAINING NOT BEING REGULATED (meaning you don’t have to go through a qualification process to say you are a “professional dog trainer”, you don’t have to hold a certificate, although there are some programs that do “certify” people. You can watch a bunch of YouTube Videos, charge people an ungodly amount of money, like $5000 (for a 2-week training program), and call yourself a dog trainer. For our beloved, unsuspecting, and trusting pet owners, it can seem impossible to find a dog trainer who isn’t a scam artist, aligns with your training philosophies, and can actually fix the issues you are having with your dog. EVOLUTION DOG TRAINING, LLC tries to alleviate that stress in making that choice very easy for you by spotlighting the differences in our programs, what we focus on, which dog trainers we consider mentors, and whose training theories we follow, and those we don’t follow. We explain why we don’t follow those theories or philosophies. The dog training world is ever-changing, and we are always trying to follow suit. Ellasha attends at least three professional training conferences and events to keep current in the world of dog training.  SPOTLIGHTING THE DIFFERENCES THAT WE HAVE IN OUR PROGRAMS FROM OTHER DOG TRAINING COMPANIES: 

1. WE REALIZE THAT EACH DOG IS INDIVIDUAL. WE DO NOT SELL YOU A COOKIE-CUTTER PACKAGE. EVERY DOG LEARNS DIFFERENTLY. THIS IS WHY WE DO CONSULTS WITH EVERY DOG THAT COMES TO US WANTING TRAINING. 

 2. WE ARE ALWAYS LEARNING. Ellasha is big on education and continuing education. But also requires her trainers to do these annual trainings as well. Whether that training is in the form of a conference, specialized certifications (Pet First-Aid & CPR, E-Collar Training, Understanding Dog Psychology, Volunteering at Various Rescue Shelters, Shadowing Behaviorists, etc.), specialized training workshops, seminars, with known experts, elite instructors, dog sport champions, etc, in dog training.

3. OUR GROUP CLASS SIZE are  ALWAYS small in size. Group classes have a SEVEN (7) DOG CAP. If we pack too many dogs in the class someone is bound to fall through the cracks and we want to prevent that from happening as much as possible.

4. WE OFFER COMPETITIVE COACHING. AFTER YOU’VE DONE THE PUBLIC MANNERS CLASSES, THE NEXT LEVEL IS COMPETITIVE OBEDIENCE, AND RALLY. WE HAVE TEAMS THAT TRAVEL AND TRIAL TOGETHER AS A GREAT SUPPORT UNIT. WE ALSO HAVE OTHER ACTIVITIES YOU AND YOUR DOG CAN GET INVOLVED IN, SUCH AS:  AKC FAST CAT, AKC COMPETITIVE  OBEDIENCE TEAM, AKC COMPETITION RALLY TEAM, Evolution Dog Team Membership (includes key FoB Access to the building). AKC EVOLUTION FIT DOG CLUB- SCHEDULED WALKS, HIKES, FITNESS CLASSES TO GET POINTS THAT GO TOWARDS AKC FIT CLUB TITLES. OUR CLUB IS  CURRENTLY ACTIVE.

5. WE DON’T TEACH YOUR DOG TO SIT. WE TEACH YOU AN EXTREMELY VALUABLE SYSTEM THAT CAN BE DUPLICATED. WE FIGURE OUT WHAT MOTIVATES YOUR DOG. We’d like to show you how to use that to your advantage to share the behavior. We want TO ASK. It’s NOT ABOUT mimicking a behavior. It’s A LOT MORE TO IT THAN THAT, AS YOU WILL SEE. We will explain everything THAT WE ARE SHOWING YOU TO DO AND WHY WE ARE DOING IT. Please introduce yourself and ask any questions you may have about this process. Oh, AND I ALMOST FORGOT, THE BOND THAT WILL GROW BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR DOG IS AWESOME. YOU ARE SHOWING YOUR DOG HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO YOU. I’D LIKE YOU TO TAKE THE TIME TO FIGURE OUT HOW HE LEARNS BEST AND HOW TO IMPLEMENT THAT BEHAVIOR.

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With every trial, you learn something. I had a pretty big wake up call in the face at the 2018 USA Box Working Nationals. First of all, I will say that Tia and Capone did not get their BH titles and it’s entirely my fault, mostly. I will explain all of this later. Let’s start with the journey to get to the Nationals. On Sunday, I drove 8 hours to meet up with my mentor and friend Minna Nousianen Becher (she’s also Tia’s breeder). 4:00 AM start heading to Omro, Wisconsin. I drove to where her club was training and did some Protection training with her husband Chris Becher. Here’s some pics of Tia doing protection that day at OG Bierstadt in Wisconsin: Tia is a strong bitch…lol I couldn’t hold her during the protection. My friend Renee held her. She never once tried to bite the elbow of the sleeve with Chris as she does with Diamond. So after that, I drove to Minna’s kennel (she owns a grooming and kennel facility). It’s a very nice facility. We put Capone and Tia in two of the kennels and I feed them for the night. I picked them up early in the morning so they could do a training session with Chris. Monday, I had a session with Chris in the morning where we thought maybe that Capone is not ready to do his breed survey (ZTP) because he’s a little afraid of the stick hits. He just has to get used to them. You can only try for the ZTP twice and then it looks bad if you fail it. I decided to pull him from doing it and not take the chance. He looked great during obedience. Off leash heeling was awesome. Chris said he should pass his BH. Tia was a little different, it was possible if she stayed with me on the off-leash heeling. So a pretty good training session. Tuesday morning at 4:00 am, we embarked on our 30+ hour drive to Washington for the Nationals. It was two ladies, and 4 dogs in a minivan driving across the country. Sounds like a good premise for a sequel to Thelma and Louise, LOL. We stopped and saw “the faces” aka Mount Rushmore:   We made it to right outside Battleground, Washington on Wednesday night. We woke up on Thursday morning and drove into Battleground and straight to practical training on the field. Both Tia and Capone did good on the field and I was pretty confident that we would get our BH’s. Friday there was training and then lunch after. After that, we drove up to the rainforest, which was nice. I chose not to hike the rainforest, just a gut feeling that I wouldn’t last so well. So I stayed at the entrance, walked my dogs and rested in the car. It was 4 hours away from Battleground, Washington. Then we traveled another hour to get to Forks, Washington. Yep, that’s right folks, the one the only Forks, Washington from the Twilight Saga. Forks, WA  South Dakota Nothingness In MontanaWashington Beach on the way to Rain Forest. We finally got back to Battleground, Washington around midnight. So on to Saturday, which was trial day. Tia was doing good until she decided she had to poop you can see in the video I’m about to post when I start to lose her is when she is searching for a place to go. Totally my fault, I should’ve pottied her longer and made sure she peed and pooped before going on. Like I said in the beginning you definitely learn with each new trial experience and this was the lesson I learned. She decided to poop at the very end of the last exercise. But here is video that my friend Darlyne took of Tia during her BH. https://youtu.be/2fmUi-0jiD8 Followed by some pictures: Capone had a heavy fixation on the demo dog that checked in with him. From the picture you can see that I am completely positioned the wrong way and didn’t help matters at all. Again a learning experience. I excused myself from the ring at the end because I did not have Capone’s attention and he had just peed on the field. I just ended the humiliation. It was my fault again not making sure he was all peed out. Again a learning experience. Here’s the video. https://youtu.be/MVkiEwdloL8 And the picture I was talking about with my bad positioning. Overall, I learned a lot from the trial. Sunday I did a seminar with Tia…with the helper from the trial Thomas Benearnas, we did all three phases Tracking, Obedience and protection. Here are some pics from that.   Tia did great in tracking, learned a little in obedience and she got a good work out in protection. Super proud of her. After the seminar we headed back to Wisconsin for a day then drove straight to Winnebago, Illinois for 2018 Boxer Sieger Show, EWWBK Club Show, and ZTP Test. That will be my next post. Happy Training!   Ellasha    

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