Walking Dog Training

Oct 2021

Thank you thank you thank you for giving us a puppy who is happy and confident and the tools to work through his difficult moments! You have changed our lives Bethany!

Jun 2021

I was referred to Bethany Johnson's business Facebook page, and website while at a shadow program at The Good Dog in Louisiana. I have been a dog trainer for four years, and I am extremely impressed with the content on her pages, and I love how her website is set up, in every way. I have purchased her e-collar starter guide, and her reactivity e-books, and I was blown away how packed full of very useful information was in them. Bethany is clearly a shining star that knows dogs, and how to help make lives better for them, and their owners. I highly recommend her.

Oct 2020

After getting to know Bethany through my daughter and seeing the major improvements that my daughter’s dog made during her Walking Dog board and train, I knew that Bethany would be my go-to trainer if I were ever to need help with my own dogs. Sure enough, a few months after first meeting Bethany, my husband and I realized that the puppy we had adopted some 6 months earlier was turning into quite the sassy girl. At that point, our almost 9-month-old Husky mix Milla was regularly growling, snapping, and near biting when she would anticipate that she was going to be forced to do something that she didn’t want to do (for example, while getting paws cleaned, if bothered while she was resting, if approached while she was in her crate, resource guarding, etc.). Ultimately, we decided to have Milla spend a few weeks with Bethany. During the board and train time, Bethany does an amazing job keeping owners informed regarding progress, sending and posting pictures and videos to us and on social media. It was evident through our communications that Bethany was really prioritizing our specific goals for Milla (which included being more polite, less growling, better obedience, specifically recall). Because of Milla’s situation-specific attitude and her unwillingness to give Bethany much pushback, addressing Milla’s reactivity posed a unique challenge. Nevertheless, Bethany did an amazing job teaching Milla to be more obedient in times when she wouldn’t have been in the past, and the fact that Milla wouldn’t give attitude to Bethany really emphasized how high levels of structure benefit Milla. By the time we brought Milla back home, her recall had significantly improved, she learned to politely tolerate her paws being handled, her growling/snappiness was reduced by, perhaps, 75%, and now she’s even learning to play a friendly game of dog-toy keep away with our other dogs (as opposed to aggressive guarding). Now that Milla is back and feeling comfortable at home, her sassiness sneaks up at times, but we know that this is just a reflection of the training process in general - it starts with the board and train, but must must must continue at home. Bethany couldn’t have done a better job improving Milla’s obedience and setting us all up for success as we continue the training at home. Working with Bethany has been such a pleasure and a blessing for our whole family and that’s dogs included - even though Milla was with Bethany for training we were able to see that she was so well taken care of and had a blast being there as well! Bethany’s professionalism, knowledge, creativity, and dependability is outstanding. She continues to reach out asking for updates on Milla and always makes herself available for follow-up questions and advice. Bethany makes it so clear that she wants the best for each of her human and dog clients and will be there long after the board and train to make sure that they can achieve and maintain success. Also see above the wonderful pictures that Bethany takes!