Jon and I wanted to write a testimonial for your website. We are sooo grateful for all of your help!!! 🙂

After adopting Jamie, our German Shepherd, from an animal shelter, we knew she had a rough seven years. She had been abused and neglected by her previous owner and came to us with some serious fear aggression issues. After she had lunged at several houseguests and bit our elderly neighbor we felt helpless. We decided to “Google” Dog Trainers and came across Alpha Dog Training owned by Carrie MonteLeon. At first, Jamie would not let Carrie into our home without barking or growling. After only a few sessions, Jamie looked forward to Carrie’s visits and worked hard during her training. Thanks to Carrie, Jamie is learning that it is okay to trust people. In fact, Jamie is now a much healthier dog, both physically and mentally as a result of Carrie’s training. Without a doubt, you will not find another Dog Trainer as warm, compassionate, and genuine as Carrie MonteLeon.

I was a 7 year old Welsh Terrier who owned the house and my person, I was friendly and knew “sit” but was the ALPHA and sat when I wanted. I am 18 pounds and I would bark loudly at big dogs I saw on my leash during walks. Now I am an 8 year old Welsh Terrier who has respect for everything around me, including the big dogs, and I sit when I am told. I let the big dogs go by me while staying in a down position. I know hand commands, wait in a down position until I am told I can go to get my food, and stop in my tracks when told do so. You CAN teach older dogs many new tricks!

We first met Carrie Monteleon years ago, when she trained our Dalmatian, Damian. He had been abused, and bounced around from family to family, before we got him at only 7months of age. He came to us with a lot of baggage and aggression. Carrie turned Damian around and he was with us 3 months short of his birthday.

His long life is attributed to his happiness that Carrie helped us find and the wonderful food that Carrie recommended we put him on. About a year and a half of not having a pet we decided it was time.

In comes Riley, our German Shorthaired Pointer. Who else to call but Carrie MonteLeon – and Alpha Dog Training. We knew that it would not take long for this smart puppy to figure out who was going to be the master of the house. We picked Riley up on a Saturday and Carrie was at our home the following week training our then 9 week old pup. She is now going on 6 months old and is just a wonderful well behaved little girl. She will be getting a brother over the next few weeks. Without Carrie helping us over the bumps, and learning curves with Riley, I can’t say that we would have decided to get the second pup, but knowing that Carrie will be helping us with Logan makes it all possible. We cannot possibly say enough good things about Carrie & Alpha Dog Training, If you have a puppy or dog in your life, you owe it to them to call Carrie. Riley loves seeing Carrie and we just know that Logan will love her too.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Aunt Carrie for teaching me how to be a good girl for Mommy and Daddy. Love Riley

Alpha Dog Training is the best and fastest way to an obedient dog. This is our second dog (both Pitbulls) that have been put through Alpha training. I can honestly say, you get fast results. My dog Teak is a different dog today than she was last week. And my daughter’s dog Tank, is NOW a Certified Therapy Dog. Can you imagine a Pitbull is a Therapy Dog, all because of Alpha Dog Training.

I have 5 dogs and when I brought in the last dog my Pit Bull mix Steel I needed help and I thought it was the Pit who was the problem. CarrieAnn came to my house and within the first few minutes realized I had bigger problems than just the Pit. My Bichon Augie was extremely aggressive also and he was a big part of the problem. I also have a Bichon/Shih – Tzu mix Sonny and he follows whatever Augie does. So at present I have the 3 dogs in training with Carrie. I am so grateful to her for showing me how to handle the different temperaments of my dogs and my house is finally become more of a home and less like a kennel. Carrie is professional in her training but is also loving and kind to the dogs. Augie has fallen in love with her. And even though she is my dog trainer – she has also become my friend. I trust her judgment and respect her expertise when it comes to training dogs. I would not hesitate to recommend her.

I rescued a dog that went back to the ASPCA 4 times! To say that he had some issues would be an understatement. I was up for the challenge! Well… of all the dogs that I rescued… this one was the one that I thought would break me! I tried for 2 years to get a grip on his behavior……suffered numerous bites…..even resorted to the dreaded shock collar! Enter CarrieAnne……when I spoke with her the phone she instantly assessed the situation and put me at ease. She didn’t make me feel like a loser dog owner!! When she came to my house the following week…….she was thrown into a situation with my neighbors dog. She took over, controlled the situation and explained how and why she was doing what she did. My dog submitted and corrected his behavior immediately! It was magical! I cried for so many reasons…….I finally felt like Pedro would have a chance of becoming a functioning part of society!….and that he was capable of learning…..and actually very bright! CarrieAnne went over tools with me and suggested doing things that would stimulate his mind. I can honestly say that she is the one that saved his life!…..and mine! Thanks CarrieAnne for your professionalism, kindness, patience and Love of animals!

I am the owner of 2 pitbulls and a lab, that equals over 200lbs of dogs. after several dog disagreements and tuffs and trips to the emergency room I was given CarrieAnns name and told that she deals with “aggressive type dogs”. We are still in training as this is being written so in the short time that we have been training with CarrieAnn we now have our dogs under our control. there have been no disagreements or incidents since. CarrieAnn is available at all times via telephone and will help you thru any questions that you may have. Each training session I see better, well behaved and happier dogs. I will continue with Alpha Dog training because she has gotten results while other trainers wouldn’t take on the hard jobs.

I called Carrie as a last resort! My 2 yr old springer Riley was becoming very aggressive. He was people aggressive, other family dog aggressive, food aggressive and fear aggression, I guess every aggression know to man. I had gone to my vet with Cody our other household pet and talked to him about Riley. He didn’t want to see him, was adamant about that and told me the only reason to bring him there was to put him down. I was sick and heartbroken. I called Carrie and she came immediately since she realized we were in crisis. She walked in and observed and started laying out the plan. She did wonders with him and us, although she also had a hard time training my husband :). Her patience, support and calmness made all the difference in the world. Riley is doing much better and so are we. The one thing I would say is you have to stay committed for yourself and your fur baby. I can’t thank Carrie enough…she changed our lives for the better. We love you Carrie!”