{"id":798,"date":"2011-07-11T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T19:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/austin-dog-training\/?p=798"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:41:34","slug":"shelly-pfeifer-dog-trainer-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/madison-dog-training\/articles\/shelly-pfeifer-dog-trainer-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelly Pfeifer Dog Trainer Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up my family never had dogs.\u00a0 All we ever had were goldfish and that was always one at a time. When Troy and I got married over 14 years ago, he told me he wanted a dog. Of course what did I do? I flipped out! I had no idea how to take care of a dog, never the less how to train one and get it to pay attention to me. When I finally decided that I wanted a dog, I decided to get the biggest one we could find: a Newfoundland. And not just one but two! With our female we did the basic puppy obedience class. She barely passed. In fact I think she only passed because the instructor felt sorry for her being such a bad student. When we got our male he was already 8 months old and for whatever reason we decided he didn\u2019t need training. Dumb idea! Over the next several years I learned how to walk them together. Let me rephrase that: I learned what dogs to avoid, what distractions to avoid\u2026basically doing whatever I could to keep 250# of dog from pulling me down and dragging me across the street. The walks were not relaxing because I knew I had just a whisper of control over them and at any given time, that control would be gone. I honestly wish I knew of Sit Means Sit<\/a> back then! The things I could have done with them, and where I could have taken them off leash would have been awesome\u2026 for them and for me.<\/p>\n

When we got our latest dog, Joson, from the animal shelter at 7 months of age, we decided we needed to do the smart thing and get him trained. He was like any other shelter dog that had already been with two previous families: didn\u2019t listen, pulled on the leash, wouldn\u2019t come when called, etc., etc. Shortly after getting Joson, we ran into a previous neighbor that told us about Sit Means Sit Dog Training. She had such remarkable things to say about the training and since I had a high respect of her opinion, I was pretty much sold before we even met with the trainers. Of course we signed up and after just 4 weeks of training (2 private lessons then group lessons) this is just a fraction of what we could do with Joson: We could take him to the off leash dog park, call him to us (even though he is 50 yards away) he would run straight to us (instead of us running after him to catch him and put a leash on him) we could then walk out of the park – no leash – with him walking right next to us. In the mean time we\u2019re passing dogs and their owners who are having their arms pulled out of their sockets because their dog is pulling so hard! The look of astonishment at Joson\u2019s behavior is priceless!<\/p>\n

We now have a 6 month old puppy, Jato, that we have been doing the Sit Means Sit training with since he was 4 months old. His attention to me and his ability to follow commands is remarkable because of Sit Means Sit. Because of the obedience training, he doesn\u2019t chew on things in my home, he stays off furniture, he doesn\u2019t run and bark after other dogs, he doesn\u2019t jump on people, I could go on and on.<\/p>\n

I decided to become a Sit Means Sit dog trainer because I wanted to give people the opportunity to have a better quality of life with their dog. I don\u2019t want people to be ashamed of their dogs behavior or abuse the dog because the dog is doing something they don\u2019t want such as chewing up furniture or soiling inside the house. I have an amazing relationship with my two dogs because of Sit Means Sit Dog Training. I want people to be able to take their dogs for fun walks, to take them to a coffee shop or outside dining area and relax without worrying about their dogs behavior, to hang out with them in their front yard without wondering if they are going to run after every bike or dog that goes by. Above and beyond all this, I wanted to give the dog the training and obedience and confidence he needs to keep from being returned to a shelter with the possible tragic ending of being put down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Growing up my family never had dogs.\u00a0 All we ever had were goldfish and that was always one at a time. When Troy and I got married over 14 years ago, he told me he wanted a dog. Of course what did I do? I flipped out! I had no idea how to take care…<\/p>\n

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