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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Ellasha Ferriell 0 Comments Posted at
Getting back in the saddle of Training
Last weekend was my first weekend back at training in IPO with Tia and Capone. Yay, I survived. LOL, Saturday we attended our club Training. Both Capone and Tia did ok. I handled Tia and Dan handled Capone. Me and Tia just did some basic focused heeling and did a long down which she did very well. Capone and Dan worked on heeling. Here are some pictures from training! These pics are kind of bad promise to do better at the picture-taking. It was good to be in the club atmosphere again. I had missed it so much. My knees really held up. It was good to not get tired during heeling or during obedience as well. Sunday I got to work with Diamond Hansel. He’s an international competitor in IPO with his Malinois. He came highly suggested by Chris Becher, my breeder, Minna’s husband who is a trainer. I can’t go train with them because they are in Wisconsin. We had to lay some foundation work in Obedience of course. She came out strong in protection at first but then got a little overheated and lost her drive. Also, I learned that the harness I have for her is not allowing her lungs to expand. I have a new Julius K-9 Harness for her (in her color of pink). But I couldn’t figure out how to put the chest plate on. Definitely going to YouTube that later. Because I believe that harness is better for her and won’t restrict her lungs. All in all, Diamond say’s she a good dog and now we know where to start, obedience and protection-wise with her. I actually met Diamond and his wife Christina in February at one of Minna and Chris’s training weekends they had in Clarksville, Tennessee. They were very nice and invited me to come out to train with them. They are very close to where I live. Now for a side note: I’m gonna be honest even before my surgeries I’ve felt some type of way about the IPO Club I belong to. It’s not the people, everyone is super cool personality wise. However, we are the only Boxers in the group and nobody really takes the time to see what makes the boxer tick and work. You can’t train a boxer like you would a German Shepherd. Every time I do a training with Minna and Chris my boxers are like rock stars, I especially see this in their protection work. They are barking and are consistent. I have video proof of it. Of course, Chris has worked with multiple breeds and has done this a long time. The helpers at my club don’t seem to be interested in figuring it out. It’s kind of like “oh well, they didn’t bark today,” and to me honestly it’s just not acceptable. Sunday when I worked with Diamond he engaged Tia during protection. After chatting with him about Tia and just about training, in general, I am very confident that he will get us to where we want to be. He actually shows interest in Tia and Chris is only a phone call away if he has any questions. The other helpers in my club I doubt even watched the videos of Chris with Tia and Capone so they could see what he was doing differently. So, with all that said I have decided to take a small break from training with the club. I may go on Wednesday nights to do Obedience and practice on the field, but I think I’m going to leave the bulk of my protection and obedience training up to Diamond and Christina Hansel and their group. Diamond has had many off-breeds compete at the national level. And if he’s coming highly recommended by Chris and Minna I believe this is the right thing to do at this point. He is also closer being only 45 minutes away versus over an hour away. So, in turn, I’m ready to get this training started and grow and finally get a BH and hopefully an IPO1 title in the near future. Have Fun and Happy Training!   Ellasha

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