Testimonials

“Thank you, Lisa and Brad, for the classes. You have taught me how to be a good pet owner. I thought my dogs, Misty and Lady, just needed a lit­tle tweak­ing in their behav­ior, but I dis­cov­ered in your classes that I had them reluc­tantly obey­ing com­mands only because I kept yelling at them. After your gen­tle teach­ings, I now have their imme­di­ate atten­tion and they respond hap­pily because the com­mands have become a fun game.

I have lost my frus­tra­tion with them and find their reac­tions heart­warm­ing. They look to me for fun and inter­ac­tion now, rather than to the squir­rel run­ning up the tree (well, most of the time).

The most amaz­ing thing I learned is that it doesn’t take that much time to train a dog when you know the right way. A behav­ior was usu­ally learned with just two or three five-minute ses­sions a day and within a week they were solid with the com­mand. Thank you again.”

–Judy Grove, Brasstown, North Car­olina (Dog Train­ing Classes)

“You are so com­mit­ted to mak­ing us, the humans, do the right thing. You taught us the tools to train our dog out­side the class­room, as well as the con­sis­tency and patience with the edu­ca­tion process to make it suc­cess­ful. Thanks again for every­thing. You guys rock. You both do an excel­lent job and I can’t wait to work with you again.”

–Jan & Jim Salem, Hiawassee, Geor­gia (Dog Train­ing Classes)

“Thank you for pro­vid­ing my two dogs with a won­der­ful play expe­ri­ence today. The fenced, safe envi­ron­ment and hav­ing you two there to watch over my dogs’ behav­ior was so reas­sur­ing to me. I was con­cerned about one of my dogs being aggres­sive and you helped me real­ize the dif­fer­ence between want­ing to play and an inap­pro­pri­ate play style.

Your atten­tive and calm demeanor kept the play­time fun and inter­est­ing, giv­ing us some of the best play­time we’ve ever had. Today was totally worth the money (quite hon­estly at any price—although I think you’re giv­ing us all a great bar­gain) to get to watch my dogs play while hav­ing trained pro­fes­sion­als there. Thank you from the bot­tom of my heart.”

–Toni Bahn, Mur­phy, North Car­olina (Play in the Pasture)

“My dog and cat, Ash­ley and Sunny, can now co-exist in the same space! I had begun to doubt if this was ever going to hap­pen. Thank you for com­ing to the cabin and teach­ing us how to work with them. It took Sunny a long time to feel com­fort­able enough to not be so afraid of Ash­ley, but now we’re a suc­cess story and you were a part of it. Thank you for all your help!”

–Sandy & Randy Aguiar, Blairsville, Geor­gia (Pri­vate Training)

“Even though you are long-time friends of ours, I have to say, objec­tively, that the week­end was unbe­liev­ably help­ful and fun. I’m so thrilled Daisy and I could attend. Now we’ve got plenty to work on. We prac­ticed our polite walk­ing on the ter­race this evening and it’s like she’s a dif­fer­ent dog from a week ago. She actu­ally knows I am there. What a fan­tas­tic work­shop. I loved each per­son and dog.”

–Pat Robin­son, Atlanta, Geor­gia (Moun­tains of Learn­ing Workshop)

“Max, the dog-reactive Doo­dle we fos­tered, is now with his new fam­ily in New Jer­sey. They are thrilled with him, telling me often about his accom­plish­ments. They use your meth­ods, read your rec­om­men­da­tions, and are see­ing great results at their local dog park.

We were able to get Max to ignore other dogs in most sit­u­a­tions and his vet­eri­nar­ian, Dr Becky Stone, was most impressed by his progress after the edu­ca­tional ses­sion we had with you. We’re thank­ful to you and look for­ward to more train­ing at Cold Nose Col­lege with you and Brad.”

–Mari-Jonn Ruskowsky, Mur­phy, North Car­olina (Behav­ior Modification)

“Where does this dog trainer from Atlanta go for an edu­ca­tional and pos­i­tively fun week­end? To the moun­tains for Moun­tains of Learn­ing, of course. Through Lisa and Brad’s hands-on classes, I have improved my train­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills when I train my own dog.

The time we spent out­side of class—walking the River Walk, free play in the pas­ture, agility, and morn­ing hikes—created a fun envi­ron­ment where both dog and owner had to learn to work, play, and focus on each other. Thank you, Cold Nose College!”

–Mara Whitacre, Atlanta, Geor­gia (Moun­tains of Learn­ing Workshop)

“Wanted to let you know that the train­ing is already work­ing. We’ve been click­ing like crazy, and already both dogs stare at me like I’m a giant slab of bacon. Bernie is even com­ing when we’re out­side. Oh, and the trick of hook­ing the leash to the front of his har­ness resulted in the most pleas­ant walk I’ve had with him in a long time.

In other words, it’s only been three days, Bernie hasn’t even phys­i­cally been to class yet, and already your meth­ods are work­ing won­ders around here! Woohoo! Thank you, thank you.”

–Eliz­a­beth Dulemba, Atlanta, Geor­gia (Basic Man­ners Class)

“Those 6 weeks of class went by so fast and I had a com­plete blast. I looked for­ward to the next one before the cur­rent class was over—my Kar­ley is going to be the best dog ever. I tell every­one I know that Cold Nose Col­lege is the place to go! You are both won­der­ful, kind, car­ing peo­ple, and I’m so glad to have met you and acquired some of your knowledge.”

–Kim Dwyer, Blairsville, Geor­gia (Basic Man­ners Class)

“We enjoyed your train­ing class so much and can’t wait for the agility class to begin. We learned so much from you and look for­ward to learn­ing so much more. Sophie is great. She is relax­ing, though not on cue yet, but we’re close. This week I intro­duced her to the Hula-Hoop and today she jumped through it! We started on the ground just walk­ing through, but that was too easy. Next I raised the hoop a lit­tle. Easy. Then a lit­tle higher and she soared right through. She loves it, and I never thought I could have so much fun teach­ing a dog. What a joy it is. Thank you for all you do!”

–Kelly Miller, Hayesville, North Car­olina (Agility Class)