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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So the following week after the working Boxer Nationals I was in Winnebago Illinois for the USA Box Sieger Conformation Show and the East Wisconsin Boxer Klub Conformation Show and ZTP test. When I had gotten to Illinois, I woke up on Friday with a zinging pain down my right leg. It hurt to move it and even get out of bed. Walking was ok but I couldn’t run (which is an issue because you have to jog around the ring with your dog to show their gait). I ended up hiring a handler to handle Tia and Capone on Saturday and on Sunday Minna handled Tia for me. It only got worse as the days went on so I was thinking it might be my Sciatic nerve. But anywho back to the show weekend. I was showing Capone and Tia in Open Brindle Class. I am still learning about conformation. Again, I will say I’m not a huge fan of conformation. Yes, I think it’s important but not as important as working (schutzhund, obedience, agility, etc.) But that is just my personal opinion on it. So Saturday was the Sieger Conformation show. Tia got 4th place out of 9 dogs which is great. I was super proud of her. Capone got 2nd place in his class. Very good day for both of them. Saturday night was the judges dinner at a very nice restaurant. Sunday was the East Wisconsin Boxer Klub Conformation show and ZTP. I ended up pulling Capone from the conformation show due to some stupid drama about his weight. Nothing official just some people thought he was too skinny…mind you the judge didn’t think so because he gave him a V-excellent rating and explained to the crowd that he was of working weight. I later talked to the judge alone and asked about Capone’s weight being an issue since I had heard people were talking about me. Bottom line could he stand to gain 2 or 3 pounds yes but the judge told me that if he saw a huge issue with his weight he would have marked him “unable to judge” and not “V-excellent”.  But Sunday, he was still entered for his ZTP, breed suitability test. Tia did great! She won her class Open Brindle Female with 8 other bitches competing. It was the largest class of the show. So proud of her. Photography was by the amazingly talented Allison Bilinski. The last photo is me with Tia’s breeder Minna Nousiainen Becher. Capone earned his ZTP title. This is the breed suitability test for the boxer. They have measure him, look at his conformation, gait. He has to heel while not being afraid of gunshots (something we had not trained on, but he did well showing no fear just curiosity), he also has to perform two long bites on a helper, walk though a crowd of people. I was super nervous about this whole thing because you only get 2 chances to pass a ZTP. If he fails twice, he can never retake it nor can his offspring. Plus even if you fail it the one time breeders are still skeptical about breeding to that particular dog. However he did great and passed his test. I was super proud of my boy. Here are some pictures from it:   So after trials and ZTP we all went to dinner and I went to bed. It was a super long and tiring journey for me both the Washington trip and Illinois shows, taking care of two dogs by myself, and living out of a suitcase. I was ready to come home. So that Monday I headed back home. I arrived back to Kentucky around 5:30PM and was never so happy to see my own bed, LOL. Overall was great experience and I loved seeing my boxer peeps. I’ve actually been home two weeks now and I’m just now finishing up this post. Things have been super crazy and busy since I’ve been home. So I apologize for missing my “Weekly Training Notes” posts but they will be back soon. Happy Training!! Ellasha

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