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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Boxer Training Weekend February 21-23, 2020- Clarksville, TN
Jill, Me, Renee, and Minna
Friday Afternoon

Yes, I know this entry is way overdue. I have not fallen off the face of the planet. I have just been busy with some things. So this entry is about the training weekend in Clarksville, Tennessee about a month ago. I have tons of pictures and tons of feedback so lets get started. That Friday morning on the 21st, Me, Tia and Capone headed 3 hours south to Tennessee. We arrived in TN a little after 12PM. We couldn’t go check in our AirBnB until 4 so we went straight to Jill’s house to meet with Jill, Renee, Minna, Chris and Lloyd to do some training. We finished right around four o’clock which was perfect timing for me to go check in to the AirBnB. (I will write a full review on the AirBnB in a separate post). Dinner was at 6pm. We went to O’Charley’s because on a Friday night it was the only place that had like no wait to be seated. I got back to the AirBnB around 9:30PM. I fed dogs and got them settled, took a shower and watched tv for a little before going to sleep. I was preparing myself for Saturday. Had my clothes out and getting into bed early to have my energy.

We started with tracking on Saturday around 8am. I didn’t want to lay long tracks for Tia and Capone because they hadn’t tracked in a long while and I didn’t want to set them up for failure so I just did a 50 pace track, no articles, and one turn, for both of them. Tia did well on her track. So did Capone, I was really shocked. My main problem Chris said is I need to switch up how I lay the treats instead of doing one treat every third step, keep the dog guessing where the treat will be. Do every third step then maybe every 2nd step, then every step, just to keep the dog guessing so they don’t get used to where the treats are. Next we went back to Jill’s house to do Obedience and Protection.

Obedience with Tia went good our heeling had improved a lot since Chris last saw us. We did some heeling and some pace changes and about turns. Chris said I need to play with the dogs more instead of making the training session so formal. Like instead of starting from basic position every time to heel I need to build her drive up and just go and worry about straightening myself out as we are heeling. Here are some pictures from Tia’s Saturday Obedience.

Me, Tia, and Chris Becher

Capone got the same notes. Heeling looked good. We also worked on out of motions. He has to work on me being able to continue walking during them instead of me stopping and then him sitting. Here are some pics of Capone’s Saturday Obedience session.

Me, Capone and Chris Becher

Weather was great for training. Next we moved on to Protection. Tia wasn’t taking the sleeve from his arm for some reason. Her barking was strong though. Here is some pictures of Tia Protection.

Helper: Chris Becher

Capone did good in his protection session. I was able to send him into the blind and let Chris work with his bark and holds. Didn’t get any pictures of Capone’s protection session on Saturday.

After training, I went back to AirBnB to change clothes for dinner and to go ahead and feed dogs. While in the shower I started to get dizzy and I almost collapsed. I was so tired and started to feel weak. I worked my own dogs and it took a small toll on my body. I decided to stay in and rest my body. So I didn’t go to dinner at all. So me and the dogs chilled and watched “Silence of the Lambs”.

Sunday we started early so those (me) could get on the road back home early. Tia in obedience did great. She did the jump for the first time. Here are some pictures. Tia was going home with Minna and Chris so she could get trained to get her breed survey title (ZTP) in April.

Capone’s Obedience session on Sunday went great too. He did the dumbell for the first time and worked more on the out of motions. Here are some pics.

Tia’s protection went better on Sunday.

And so did Capone’s Here are some pics:

Everything went well, learned a lot and had a lot of fun. Tia is now with Minna and Chris in Wisconsin. Me and Capone got home about 8 or 9 o’clock that night and we were so tired. Ready for a recharge. So we got our homework and what to work on me and Capone are going work hard on that. Happy Training!

Ellasha

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