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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Weekly Training Notes: SPECIAL EDITION: Boxer Weekend Training 2.16.19- 2.17.19 in Clarksville, TN

Every few months us Boxer people get together for some training with my breeder and her husband. The first training of the year was held at our friends house in Clarksville, TN. We also had some party crashers from other great breeds like German Shepherds, Malinois, & Dobermans. All of who are great friends. We are a great group of people cheering each other on and working on the great sport of Schutzhund/ IPO/ IGP.

All week last week I’ve been nursing an injury to my left knee. The IT band is very much inflamed. It hurts like hell if I bend it a certain way. So I went into the weekend a little nervous about my knee.

Friday night, I got to my Airbnb, which was super nice and we all gathered for dinner and drinks. Lots of fun of course. I only see these people handful of times a year so we all try to catch up and enjoy ourselves before we work our booties off on training. I got called out by my trainer Diamond, he said my biggest problem is not doing the homework for the next week. I need to discipline myself to get it done or I’m not going to advance. But on the positive side he said at least I don’t lie about it, if asked I will tell them “nope, I didn’t work on that”. But, I will do better about doing my homework because I know its frustrating for the trainer to keep doing the same damn thing over and over and not going forward. As, a dog trainer myself I know I get frustrated when my clients don’t do their homework because it does set us back because we end up doing the stuff that was supposed to be done the previous week and we just don’t advance.

Saturday, We did obedience first and protection second. While doing obedience with Tia we were doing her recall from a down and she slammed right into both my knees. Hard. Yep I was done for the day. Spent most the day in Jill’s house icing and elevating it. I decided to not do obedience with Capone but asked Renee to hold Tia during protection for me. I was really happy that Diamond was there so him and Chris could talk about Tia’s biting issue. I think we may have a solution for it. Can’t wait to see what Diamond has planned next week for her. We got done around 6pm and had dinner at 7. Good times were had by all. Except I felt bad because I couldn’t hold my own dogs during protection but hey shit happens. And my “village” took over for me. I love these people that I train with.

Sunday the weather temperature was higher than Saturday but the wind was a little brutal. We toughed it out though. Both Tia and Capone got worked in obedience by me. I learned again that I need to be harder on Capone because he can take it and he needs to start respecting me. I also learned that I need to start doing warm ups before I go on the field to get the dogs in the right mindset. Christina held my dogs for protections which was super nice. Both dogs did good and I was proud of them. Capone did a bark and hold for the first time, being released and going to helper. One time he bit Chris’s knee but eventually he caught on to he needs to bark before the sleeve is presented to him. Tia was in full beast mode when she came out for protection. She was ready. So proud of both of them. The work they did was amazing.

It’s also nice to see everyone with their progress and “Aha” moments. We cheered each other on and was totally there for each other. That’s what a good training team does for one another. There are a lot of things that I need to work on in obedience with Tia and Capone, and I really need to start tracking again. But the weather has been so stupid and with this IT band its hard. But like Christina said some things can be done inside like working on articles, here position. She’s right. I’ve got to get harder on myself.

There are some pictures I think from Tia doing protection. I should get them soon and I will post.

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