They have helped me so much with my puppy! First few session to establish the basics, then waiting once he grows to work on more advanced obedience. The trainers are so caring and dedicated. read more

Shelley has so much experience! Shelley has been training forever and there wasn't one thing my new rescue dog could throw at her, where she didn't have a calm redirect. Shelley explained where the behaviors of my new dog were coming from how she was experiencing the world from MY DOG'S POINT OF VIEW. Her analogies made so much sense. I have been practicing with her strategies and my dog is gaining confidence everyday. Our next session was even more eye opening as to how to work with my dog. Shelley followed up and has been an amazing resource for my needs. Highly recommend read more

Excellent place with a ton of knowledge. I have been taking my German Shepherd, Bella here since she was little and have never had a dog trained so well. I grew up with three German shepherd's and Bella is completely on another level in regards to her training and behavior. I could tell Dustin was very knowledgeable since the first meeting. He has helped with any problems that came up along the way, aggression towards other dogs and even helped bella respect my young daughter as well. She listens to all her commands for my daughter as well and not just me. We have been working to certify Bella as my service animal and will be taking a test to certify her at the end of the month. Looking forward to that and in the future possibly looking into some of the tracking to give Bella something fun to do once her training is completed for service animal. All the staff is very helpful and Bella gets excited every time we go. Ps. I've never had a dog that I can have off leash and it's amazing. I can take her anywhere and will listen to all my commands even if other dogs are around and activating aggressive towards my dog. She always comes back on command. I throw frisbees 300 feet away to practice for my disc golf and she brings them back with no issues. I can't wait until I move home back to Maryland where I can have her Domyn free with me in the woods and huge open spaces back home read more

Shelley is a extremely knowledgeable and talented dog trainer. She was brave enough to take on our 6 mo old Sheepadoodle and change our lives! We learned so much and are looking to more training with her! read more

North County Dog Training - Olaf 6 months old - Pet Training Near Me

Shelley has worked with our puppy in training to become a therapy dog, and while she doesnt offer the therapy classes, she teaches the prerequisite classes like AKA CGC which we just proudly passed yesterday!:) The other dogs in the class had already passed the course prior to our joining and were working on Community Dog classes. They will be taking their test next week and even though we were not enrolled in that class, we have learned so much so she suggesting we take the test too with them. The activities were helpful, fun, and things we could practice in our daily life to be an awesome two heart, 6 legged team :) She is a great trainer, a sweet person, and I'm glad she trained us. read more

North County Dog Training - Wade in his IN TRAINING vest and ready to get to work! - Pet Training Near Me

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Shelly is our dog whisperer! We have two young male labs six weeks apart. They are both under nine months old. They were bonded when we brought them home and will still sleep together on the floor, couch and their bed. They like each other, but had some littermate syndrome. We could not let them play together in the backyard as one will play so hard, it seemed as though he would bite the other dog. The same dog had separation anxiety, and would try to push his way out of the crate injuring his nose. We were told by other trainers, it would never work to keep both dogs. We knew there was someone out there that would help train us train our boys. One of my neighbors suggested I call Shelly. Oh my goodness! Talk about a dog whisper! The first time we spoke on the phone she informed me about resource guarding. We did as she asked, and our two boys were transformed immediately. We've had two in person visits and I cannot express how different our boys are. The improvements for the excessive barking, waiting at the doors to be released, and almost no separation anxiety is so welcomed. There are not enough words to thank Shelly for the continued training and ideas to make our family life more cohesive. read more

Shelley is amazing. She could nearly train my golden Micah to talk. Micah was also socialized by Shelley resulting in him being the most popular dog at our dog park. . He's so gentle especially while playing with small dogs. Micah loves Shelley. He's like putty when anyone holds him including our vet. Micah can be touched anywhere I credit Shelley for this. read more

When we brought home our new white lab puppy, we knew she was something special. And stubborn, smart and strong. We knew we had our hand's full for sure. The breeder recommended Shelley at North County Dog Training. She said Shelley is the best with puppies. Wow! Was she ever right! We took Sage down for socialization training and that was one of the best decisions we made. Sage is just great with other dogs. Sage went back for another couple of weeks for basic puppy obedience training and that was also very effective. What was different though is that we went thee on the weekends and the trainers showed us how they were working with her so we could do the same. They were awesome at identifying her trouble habits and teaching us how to correct them. Sage loves Shelley so much! We truly could not have had a better trainer and if we ever go back to CA to visit, we will definitely stop by and give Shelley a hug! read more

This review is only for the puppy class, we have no basis to judge for the rest of their ability to train. When we got our new puppy my husband and I signed up for several different puppy socialization classes to get him socialized early and decide who we wanted to use for more advanced training. I was excited about North County Dog Training because I loved the information on the website and that she comments on the importance of continued education for trainers. I was in contact with Shelley early on and she was very responsive to my emails. The website says: "Puppy Pre-school is a socialization class. In this class, your puppy will learn by interacting with other puppies in a safe, controlled enviroment, overseen by professional dog trainers. This class lasts six weeks and is one night per week. During this class, your puppy will learn to respond to you when surrounded by the distraction of multiple puppies." It further comments that puppies would ideally complete the class by 16 weeks of age. Unfortunately, when we went to the classes they didn't really live up to the expectation. For one, there were no puppies...ours was the only puppy, all the other dogs there were 4-5 months old and older. The first half of "puppy class" was free-play between a bunch of dogs, and the first day she even told us our 10 week old puppy shouldn't go in to play with them because he was too little (then why call it a puppy class?!?), the second time the dogs were still too big and too rough with him so we had to pick him up to avoid him getting hurt (and he wasn't a tiny 11 week old puppy - he was already 20+ lbs but thats nothing with a bunch of full sized dogs). Additionally, the training area had multiple piles of dog poop which is concerning for a puppy class given that many are not yet fully immunized. There was never any formal instruction or structure. During the second half of class she would separate out the owners and puppies and tell them to go practice various things around the property, however, she was not providing the owners with any instruction on how to practice those things. We observed several very confused owners standing around with their out of control dogs. The free-for-all play with so many older dogs was a little too much for our puppy and frankly most of the other dogs playing were badly behaved and were barking and jumping on people. We decided the class was teaching our puppy bad habits and had no benefit so we stopped attending after 2 classes. Shelley may be a great trainer...unfortunately we have no way to know that because she gave no instruction or guidance during the puppy classes. She seemed to be very helpful for the older dogs that she was working with so if you are getting more advanced training with an older dog then I'm sure she's great based on the other Yelp reviews, I just wouldn't recommend her puppy class. We have attended several puppy classes at other companies and found them much more appropriate for early socialization and training of young puppies. read more

Update: We've since been able to contact Shelley. She apologized to us and showed up at an appointment we made thereafter. She recommended we rehome our dog and has been working hard to try to find a rescue that will accept our dog. She informed us she's offering training to whichever rescue does take our dog, which is kind. We've only had one session with Shelley so far, but she's missed two others that we scheduled with her. We paid up front at the first session for all five sessions. Shelly seems to really care about the dogs she's working with and I'm sure we'd see improvements over time with working with her. The second session Shelly wasn't able to make because she was sick. I completely understand this and don't hold it against her at all. Our third session was scheduled yesterday, a Wednesday. We spoke with her on Monday and she said she would stop by on Tuesday so we could buy some supplements to help alleviate our dog's joint pain from her. She said she would call or text before she came. She didn't call or text and never showed on Tuesday. She also never contacted us on Wednesday, and never showed up for our appointment. I feel like I'm a pretty reasonable person and I understand when life happens and appointments need to be rescheduled. That being said, I feel she should have called or texted us to let her know her change of plans. I texted her and haven't heard back. I don't want to discredit Shelly's business as I've read testimonials on her website and was referred by someone I know who loved working with her. However, I will say that I do not feel I was treated professionally and I'm pretty disappointed. read more

Shelly is amazing and you can tell she really cares about the dogs she trains. My husband and I got our first puppy, Oso, an 8 week chocolate labrador, and we're feeling a little lost. Shelly came over on a Sunday and helped by answering the million questions we had and began working with Oso and us. We had peace of mind in the short time we meet with her. She is worth every penny and we look forward to more lessons with her! read more

NCDT has worked with our rescued dogs at Shorty's Pit Bull Rescue with incredible results, taking a dog who was unsocialized, skittish in temperament to confident, trained and well behaved. Even the most energetic pit bulls can be tamed by Shelley through her training methods. read more

Our family adopted a cute four year old boxer-beagle mix from a rescue two moths ago and were struggling with major behavior issues. With in the first two days of having him, he attacked our neighbors dog and broke through every screen in our house. He would pull and lung when walked, he was just was a terror. We were heartbroken. Until we found Shelly! After only working with her for a short period of time, we have seen HUGE changes in our dog. She has given our whole family, kids included, the tools to train our dog together. We are walking our dog and he's not walking us!!!!! We are grateful for Shelly and can't wait to see more changes!!! read more

Giving a shout out to Shelley from North County Dog Training. She gave me excellent advice on how to correct an issue I was experiencing with one of my dogs. Her explanations were detailed and precise. I've been working with my dog for 10 days now using Shelley's techniques and have seen an amazing transformation in my dog already. Thank you Shelley. Your love for animals shines through in your work and heart. read more

I highly recommend Shelley and her dog training talents. She not only represents herself professionally, she is very personable and relates to dogs with amazing dexterity. I have taken the CGC Test with her as the Evaluator and she provided the ring, paperwork, and registration/tags information and made our group event fantastic. She readily provided training knowledge and expertise to those who had questions and my group can't thank her enough! We are looking forward to our next event with NCDT! read more

If there were more trainers like the ones over at North County, I bet the shelters would have allot less pups in them! They have the answers for everything that could possible go wrong in the Human-Dog relationship. Their classes are warm and inviting to both handler and pet, and never are they uncomfortable. I HIGHLY recommend North county to ANY owner! read more

Shelley has made a tremendous impact on Chloe, my 3 year old German Shepherd mix. Chloe had all the typical habits that are hard to break- jumping on people, pulling on walks, not staying when told, and reacting to dogs on walks. After 1 session I went away with so much knowledge and I could not wait to use the techniques she taught us. I like that Shelley trains you on how to work with your dog! Chloe is such a different dog! Her habits are broken and she is steps away from completing her CGC to become a therapy dog. Thank you Shelley!! read more

Shelly is the best! Shelley did a private training lesson and observed my dog, Savanna's, behavior for 2 hours. Savanna, had terrible behavioral problems and was always trying to bite people and other dogs.. We live in an apartment complex and it was an absolute nightmare to take her out to go potty. Shelley saw how bad the problem was and suggested that we put Savanna on a medication that could lessen her anxiety and to also use a pheromone calming collar on her Boy was Shelley right! Savanna is a completely different dog!!! She no longer barks at people and tries to bite them. She doesn't pay much attention to other dogs either. Thank you for saving Savanna!!! read more