Leader Of The Pack

I cannot speak highly enough of Ida, owner of Leader of the Pack. We recently bought a private training package for our three year old dog who needed help with naughty behaviors — jumping, barking, inconsistency with command following, etc. Even after the first hour lesson, she taught us new commands for our dog, different approaches to take and explained thoroughly different rationales for the approaches and why dogs do such behaviors. I was nervous to have a trainer at first, it is a financial investment, so I was weary she would just teach us what we already knew, and it would be a waste. But this is not the case!!! Ida has great prices — especially her packages. After only two visits so far, I would already say we have gotten our money’s worth & we still have three more sessions left in our package!
Ida has gone above and beyond her role as the trainer of our dog. We are in the process of rescuing a dog, and during a trial visit she was available for multiple unexpected phone calls from us, taking her unpaid time to help us in anyway possible. I cannot rave about this company more. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

Ida was fantastic with our lab mix. We took two of her group classes, from the time our dog was 4 months old until he was 7 months old. He learned a ton from her! She is great about giving each dog in the class individual attention while adhering to the group structure and content. She has an excellent «sense» for dogs, and they all implicitly like and trust her. She even went the extra mile to help our dog get his AKC canine good citizen certification! We would HIGHLY recommend Leader of the Pack to anyone looking for a friendly, knowledgeable, trustworthy dog trainer!

We learned effective tools and techniques to get a better handle on our very active Australian Cattle Dog. Leader of the Pack’s approach is positive and realistic. Positive in the sense that she doesn’t use choke collars or do any shock treatments! The focus is picking a word that you assign to certain behaviors and train the dog with treats and praise to understand what you want them to do. Realistic in the sense that she understands that your dog is your pet and part of your pack, and though you need to become the leader of your pack, as owners we weren’t scolded for wanting our dog on the couch or to sleep at the bottom of the bed or to give them love – just make them earn it first with a few quick commands.
All around, it worked out great! We did 4 sessions and we really feel we have better control over our dog and our pack is happier because of it!!!