No Leash Needed

I feel so fortunate to have found No Leash Needed in Valley Park. If you have a high energy and pack-​friendly social dog… This is the place for you. We started taking our puppy there at four months for daycamp after our neighbor referred us there. Now at nine months, she cries the entire way there and cannot wait to get out of the car.
Being boarded there is a treat to her, which makes traveling or all day events around town so much easier for us. In fact, sometimes we let her go stay the night for fun. That is how much our dog loves this place and the staff.
Speaking of the staff, they are friendly, courteous, and truly love these dogs. Everyone knows our puppy by name and indulges her and her excitement when she sees them. I am in love with this place. It is always clean, the staff is fantastic, and our dog’s enthusiasm to return speaks for itself

I have had the absolute BEST training and guidance from the staff at NLN. If you have a dog that needs special attention, or if you’re a dog owner like me who needs to be trained too, I highly recommend No Leash Needed. The facilities are clean and inviting, the staff are always kind and pleasant and the in home visits and one in one’s are priceless. Their boarding and day camp are life savers for those parents that travel or have high energy fur kids too.

While looking for training options for my new, timid dog, I stumbled upon No Leash Needed and vaguely remembered seeing the huge building near 44 and 141, so I called to find out more.
Basically, before you start training, you have to come in for a one-​on-​one training evaluation that is totally free/​no-​obligation.
Elsa and I met with Shannon, the owner. I filled out some forms then we went over the issues we’d like to correct with Elsa, as well as their available training programs. Because Elsa needed some work beyond the usual obedience to help her conquer her fears, we agreed that day training would be the best choice.
For two weeks, I dropped Elsa off at NLN in the morning before work and picked her up in the evenings. After the first week, I went in for my own lesson in which her trainer, Shawna (sp?), showed me how to work with Elsa on the things she’d been learning that week.
OMG amazing! These people really know what they’re doing and know how to coax the desired behaviors from a dog. After another week and another lesson with me and the hubby, we’re so impressed with how far Elsa has come — and how they’ve created the basis so that we can continue to work with her on new things down the road.
As part of our day training package, we get a month of group lessons that we’ll start this Saturday (with Shawna, yay!) In the meantime, Elsa’s gone to visit once for day camp and had a blast.
A few more little things:
— I love how the people at the desk now know and remember Elsa and tell me how much they enjoy her. True or not, that’s what every dog-​mom loves to hear!
— They don’t stick to any one type of training. They decide what will work best based on your dog’s personality and your own style.
— For daycare, they pair dogs by personality, not just or necessarily by size.
— Elsa (who is seriously so shy/​scared around new people) loves them, breaking out in some big-​time butt wiggles when she sees her trainers.
— They even worked with me to get better manners from Elsa when riding in the car.
They also do boarding though we haven’t tried it yet. While we’d love to take Elsa there since she knows the place and it includes doggie daycare during her stay, for the long trip we’re planning this summer we just can’t fit it in the budget (especially since we have to board one of our troublemaking cats somewhere else, too). Maybe for a shorter stay another time.