Julep’s Success Story —

Jenna was wonderful to work with! She was incredibly responsive with all emails and review videos. Her ability to read a dog's body language and then in turn teach us how to read our specific dog's body language is so impressive. I knew what my dog's specific triggers were before working with Jenna (UPS guy, strangers in driveway, etc.), but I had no idea what to do when Julep was triggered or how to make Julep less anxious around the house and we had a new baby on the way and knew we needed to get a handle on it. 

We feel more comfortable understanding Julep's triggers and being able to predict (better) when/what will make her anxious and how to respond to her. I think it has made her trust us more and we feel better giving her positive reinforcement rather than "punishing" her to the back room.

We were worried about what would happen when the new baby arrived and we began working with Jenna 3 months before the baby was due. The first 4-5 days after bringing home the baby were very stressful (for obvious reasons) and Julep had a tough time adjusting to her - but with all the knowledge Jenna imparted on us over the previous three months in regards to Julep's triggers and redirecting with positive reinforcement, we were able to successfully help Julep adjust to the new baby (and to all the visitors we had). When we started playing the "training games" Julep instantly relaxed and understood what was expected of her - Julep thrives on routine and feels safest when she knows what to expect and if we had not practiced/trained with her for the previous 3 months she would not have been able to relax around the baby.

The craziest thing is that Jenna never specifically taught us training for when we brought the baby home - she taught us how to handle Julep's anxiety around triggers and we were able to successfully implement the training for every instance we recognized Julep was anxious/triggered.

Valuable knowledge that will help Julep and us the rest of our lives!