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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The title of this post is quite humorous because it’s from the movie “Girls Trip” w/ Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Regina Hall. But I found it relevant to the subject matter of today’s post as well. Today, I’m going to talk about my experiences thus far in IPO. We have been doing IPO for over a year now (we started at the end of January 2017). I am leaving out club names in this post because I’m not creating drama, I am explaining our experience this year. The first club we trained with was local. It had just gotten started. We (me & Daniel) really knew nothing about IPO when we first started. Besides some videos that we had seen, and we knew it was hard work but that the Boxers we saw do it looked so polished. We wanted our dog to look like that. At the time we only had Capone. I will start off by saying this I made some really great training friends throughout that club, people that I am still friends with today. Our training journeys just are taking us all in different directions. I felt that they paid attention to my dog but was a little unsure of how to handle her. For whatever reason, our club disbanded. So the search was on for another. Our first visit was to my current club Greater Cincinnati Schutzhund Club. We were so impressed with their field and clubhouse. It was super nice. We didn’t visit any more clubs and we started training with them. They are an hour and 15 minutes from Louisville. We paid our club dues and started being regular members of the club. They were very welcoming to us especially me with an off breed Boxer. We started training with them in July 2017. However, their helper was not very experienced. At first, they seemed interested in my Boxer. You can’t train a Boxer like a GSD. There’s a little difference there. As time went by I saw the disinterest in my dog and they would have the most inexperienced helpers try to get her to bark. I went to a training back in February 2018 in Clarksville, TN with Chris & Minna Becher (Boxer Training Weekend With Minna & Chris Becher .) and he was able to get her to bark consistently. Chris is definitely to Boxer whisperer. And he got Capone to bark as well. Diamond has gotten Tia to bark. I think I drew the line on this club when they let a 13-year-old inexperienced girl to work Tia during protection. I mean WTF? I’m sorry about the language but I was so upset. I don’t drive an hour and fifteen minutes for a 13-year-old to work my novice dog. I called Minna and asked her if I was overreacted or was I in the right to feel upset. Minna told me if she would’ve gone off. She said if she’s an inexperienced helper she should be working with an experienced dog, not one that is shaping their behavior. So, we’be paid our dues for the year so we are members until January, I think. GCSC is not a bad club. But their main focus and interest is the German Shepherd and Malinois. And I need someone like Diamond who teaches and puts in the work. At the training in February, I met the  Hansels and they were super nice and invited me to come out and train with them. Minna and Chris strongly suggested it since we were so close and Diamond is so experienced. So, we have found our tribe in the Hansels group training. I feel like its right. They take interest in my dog and tries to figure her out instead of saying “oh well she didn’t bark” and letting it go. Of course, my surgeries put a hold on my training so I’m behind. But I’m confident that Diamond and Christina can get me to where I want to go. And that’s where we are with the no club thing. Diamond’s group is just that, not a club. I am a solo member of United Schutzhund Club of America. USCA puts on the most trials and you have to be a member unless you want to pay $100 extra. So If I was to get Tia’s BH title and I wasn’t a member of USCA they would charge me an extra $100 which would make my total fee about $160-$170. If you are still confused on the titles, I’m working on that post to explain what the titles are and what they mean. Happy Training!  

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