Samantha was AMAZING with Halo and I! She continuously made sure I understood the training methods and I always felt like I had a voice. Her notes and videos are always helpful. Plus I send videos of Halo even after training is finished and she still loves them :) Definitely recommend!!! - Anna M.
Samantha is fantastic her professionalism and knowledge in dog behaviors and why they do what they do is truly amazing. She leaves you with an abundance of resources to use between visits. With her guidance we have seen a positive change in our little anxious ball of fun! Thank you does not say enough! - Andrea R.
Our Goldendoodle, Daisy will be 5 months old on the 20th. It has been many years since I had a puppy! My last furbabies were also rescues, but a couple of years old so I didn't go through the puppy stage. Thankfully I found Whoa Nellie! Positive Canine Training and Samantha. For the last 6 weeks Samantha has come to our house and helped us start Daisy off the right way with training and helping her to become the best dog she can be. The whole family, including the grandkids learned so much!! We can't thank Samantha for her time, patience, kindness and expertise. We look forward to more lessons for Daisy and us humans! - Beverley T.
Samantha worked so well with my dog and me! She’s very gentle, knowledgeable, and adapts to the specific owner/dog needs. Our experience with her has always been excellent! My dog has already improved his skills (as have I!). I highly recommend working with Samantha. - Adrian M.
Samantha was the best trainer for Oakley, my 10 month golden retriever. She was so personable & always made herself available! Her way of training was beneficial for both me & Oakley & she made sure I fully understood how to train Oakley so he could be successful! I would absolutely recommend her to anyone in need of training no matter what age or breed your dog is! - Sydney C.
Samantha showed me how to teach my puppy in the best ways possible. She answered all my questions and had a lot of patience when I was feeling like giving up! I recommend her 100%. - Nichole A.
Sam was always punctual and enthusiastic about working with my dogs. I loved her personal approach and appreciate that she offers one on one in home training. I have a puppy & an adult dog and she was able to adapt the training for each dogs needs. After each lesson, she sent me a follow up email on our accomplishments and our “homework “ for the next week along with videos that demonstrated the skills we are to work on. I highly recommend Whoa Nellie if you are looking for personalized in home training for your dogs. - Terri B.
We highly recommend Samantha with Whoa Nellie! Positive Canine Training. She is organized, experienced, and professional. She listens to all questions, problems, and concerns you have and customizes lessons tailored to your dog. Each lesson is quickly followed with emails including customized video links of the skills learned in the session. From beginning level to advanced she is able to help you form a stronger bond with your dog. - Eric & Nanette R.
Samantha is amazing! We need some additional support in training our Weimaraner puppy , Odin, and Samatha was the perfect fit. She teaches you to use positive training to help your dog make good decisions. Odin is now house broken and crate trained and on his way to be my perfect waking buddy. I highly recommend Whoa Nellie to help you with training for your pets! - Amanda C.
I literally could go on for hours about just how amazing Samantha and her training techniques, knowledge, and professionalism is just second to none. Samantha truly has a passion for helping you learn just how your dog learns and training to their particular learning styles. My nearly 6 month Doberman and I have strengthen our bond while having SO much fun during trick class. He even got to apply for his novice trick dog title after her four week trick dog class. We have made incredible strides in our training all thanks to this amazing woman (and her cute pups!!). If you have any questions, simply reach out and she’s so quick and clear with her responses! Overall, Jefe and I LOVE Whoa Nellie! Positive Canine Training and we are already planning on coming back for private lessons!! Do yourself and your pup a favor and contact her for training! ❣️ - Nic. H
I cannot thank you enough. She is amazing to work with. She lives in Florida and I’m in Texas and we made it work virtually. I thought virtual sessions would be be weird or that I wouldn’t pick it up being a visual learner. She made the introduction smooth and easy! She is patient, respectful, encouraging, organized, and attentive. I love the way she has everything organized and easy to process, record, and proceed. She did a great job giving me examples during our sessions of the tools she gave us as homework on her dogs. This really helped me with my learning style and the tools have worked amazing on barley. Now the key is being consistent 24/7 😂😅 We have a lot of work to do, but Samantha made it easier for me to connect with barley. For that I will forever be grateful for being able to connect better with him. Don’t be afraid to check out her virtual sessions! You won’t regret it. - Elice M.
Absolutely wonderful to work with! Fantastic communication and explains everything as we work on training and shaping behavior. Really feel like the positive games and training are making a difference with my excitable dog! Thanks so much! - Kylee D.
Sam is wonderful. She helped us tremendously with our GSP puppy from the time he was about three months old through 7 months. We completed six individual puppy lessons and a group class that lasted six sessions. She was patient and kind with us, with our puppy, with our older dog, and even with our two and four year olds boys who wanted desperately to be involved and be “dog trainers” just like Ms. Sam. Sam provides recaps of your lessons, along with additional resources, videos, and feedback to help you get the most out of your training. As with anything, you get out what you put in. Do your homework (practice what she teaches you) with your dog and you will see great results! Having the email recaps and videos was extremely helpful to us for this aspect of training. Sam also helped me a lot with expectation management. Expecting to have a perfectly behaved 7 month old puppy is unrealistic, but she helped me know what boundaries were ok to set for him and how to set them so he could be a successful member of our family. She offered redirection suggestions when things we tried didn’t work. Sam continues to help us when questions arise now even though our training sessions are complete. She goes above and beyond her contractual obligations. Not only is Sam professional, but she is also extremely responsive, kind, patient, and flexible. I would recommend her as a wonderful resource for training your dog. Thank you, Sam, Nellie, and Mango for the part you played in making Beau a sweet, respectful member of our family! - Carol M.
Samantha is amazing! We were at the end of rope with our very stubborn six-month-old Yorkie puppy. Samantha was very meticulous in understanding what we wanted to address and put together a detailed plan of action before we'd even met. She was great about working with our hectic schedule and making the most of every session, even providing a summary email afterwards with tips and instructional videos. I love that she provided multiple options for training, understanding that every dog needs a different approach. We've seen drastic improvements and can't thank her enough. I would recommend her to anyone. - Betsy B.
Samantha and Nellie are the best! My golden retriever and I have taken two sets of group classes through Whoa Nellie- both puppy and advanced obedience classes. Sam really tailors the classes to each individual dog’s need and ensures that both pup and owners are working together for the best chance of success. She also prepared Graham for his Canine Good Citizen test which he passed at the end of the Advanced Obedience class. We will happily return to Whoa Nellie for any future training needs! - Ashley S.
I wanted to write a note of recommendation for Samantha and her Whoa Nellie Training business. I have an extremely lively Westie Finlay who is my pride and joy but very lively and who I never thought would pay attention or calm down. I tried the class setting which did not work for us . Finlay was much too distracted by the other dogs . He did much better in the one on one training . He is now ten month old and is a joy to be around. He loves everyone and everyone loves him.. He is kind sweet with both people and other dogs , everybody loves Finlay and Finlay loves everyone.. Thanks to Samantha's patience and kindness we are in a much better calmer place for both Finlay and myself. I can't thank Samantha enough for all her help and will continue to work with her should the need arise. I would highly recommend her to anyone that needs a great trainer to assist them with helping them with their fury companion. - Susie P.
If I could I would give Whoa Nellie/Samantha Davis 10 stars! She is not only an incredible trainer, amazingly smart but also so friendly and easy to work with. I can not recommend her enough, what she has taught us has transformed our dog! We went from being literally dragged down the stairs and dragged on a walk to perfect stair behavior with her following commands and now we all actually enjoy our walks! I can’t begin the THANK YOU Samantha! You Rock! - Lynn P.
Whoa Nellie! helped me reconnect with my 3 year old German Shepherd. Samantha helped guide me with positive motivational techniques that helped administer a trust between me and my dog. I’m so happy with everything I have learned while training with Samantha. My dog and my family members are most grateful for Samantha’s training services, for instilling a confidence between us and Bella. I recommend Whoa Nellie! for all dog lovers. There’s no better feeling than connecting with your dog and knowing how to make a positive and fun environment for both you and your dog! - Grace B.
Samantha is amazing and I HIGHLY recommend her for training! She came to our home and helped me, my husband and my 3 kids understand how to train our puppy and be better pet owners. Samantha gave us so many practical (and easy) ways to train our dog and always followed up each lesson with a re-cap email, including videos. She is positive and encouraging and I thoroughly enjoyed working with her. - Jaime F.
We had a great experience with private lessons with Sam for our two Golden Retrievers. Both our pups had different needs and we were able to address them both! She is very knowledgable, flexible, responsive, and thorough by being available for questions and providing materials and summaries after each lesson. Mia & Addie ♥️ you! - Jessica B.
Roxy (my French bulldog puppy) and I had a GREAT time with Samantha! She came to our home and taught us in our own environment, which was super helpful. Straight forward, positive reinforcement for us both to learn and develop our relationship. Email follow up with notes of our sessions plus links to videos and PDFs with additional tips. - Alex S.
Samantha Davis with Whoa Nellie positive canine training is an awesome dog trainer. She has been working with our 4 month old Australian Golden Doodle Daisy. Daisy has learned so much from Samantha. her puppy behavior has improved immensely. She uses positive training techniques; redirection, positive reinforcement. She loves dogs. Daisy loves working with her. I highly recommend Samantha and plan on continuing to use her. - Mary L.
Samantha was wonderful and patient with us and our pups. We have 2 dogs that both needed work but on different skills and she made a clear plan towards our big goals by changing small things that we do with the pups everyday. Our 6 month old has improved significantly with her recall and our 1 year old is more patient and not so jealous of our attention being elsewhere. Still plenty of room for improvement for both of them but thanks to Samantha we have the tools we need to continue training at home! Yay Whoa Nellie Training! - Robin H.
We rescued a 2 year old female rat terrier/chihuahua mix, Sophie, and wanted to start dog training right away. We got a great referral for Samantha and we are SO happy we found her. Samantha is a true professional! Detailed, organized, enthusiastic and so loving with Sophie. She assessed goals with us, sent us a detailed training plan, each week met with us she worked on goals and commands unique for our situation. Immediately after each training, she sent a follow up email with You-tube videos to help us learn the commands. The final week, she worked with Sophie one-on-one for “day training” which helped to reinforce all of the commands. We HIGHLY recommend Samantha and hope you will enjoy her expertise!! - Christine B.B.
Sam helped us to better understand our pups behaviors and get to the root of the issues. The mix of working with us and working with our dog one-on-one helped tremendously! Boone was a 6-month old lab when we started working with Sam and has had issues with jumping, mouthing, eating stuff he shouldn't, and issues with pulling on a leash. Every area has improved after 6 classes with Sam. Definitely takes consistency on our part, but we are very happy with his progress! - Jill L.
Samantha has been amazing to work with! We can not say enough good things about our experience with her. She is very personable, trains through positive reinforcement and makes it fun for the dogs to learn. We have a Golden Retriever and started training when he was 6 months old. He has tremendously improved over the 6 sessions and is an all-star now. I truly enjoy that she comes to your home and teaches you how to work with your dog, which in return I believe Toliver had better success with since we were able to work with him daily on the training and getting him use to responding to us and our wishes. Looking forward to working with her in the future with our future fur babies! -Kylie W.
Whoa Nellie! / Sam is absolutely fantastic. We have been able to grow & learn with our pup through this informative & effective training. Besides an evident passion & love for dogs, Sam is patient, thorough & I love the notes that are sent to help continue & solidify Nymeria’s lessons! Sign up today with your pup- you will not be disappointed! -Tiffany T.
My dog Diamond was handled with great care and I loved the detailed report I got when her training was done and loved the videos and pictures as well! I’m so happy I found a trainer I trust!! - Talya S.
After only a few sessions with Samantha we could not be happier with where we are with our 3 dogs. We feel more confident in how to handle and train our dogs and manage their individual quirks. Samantha was super knowledgeable, friendly and professional. We highly recommend Whoa Nellie! - Emilie B.
I cannot believe the difference in our dog. The previously sweet but crazy dog who would pull horribly on the leash and was hopelessly stubborn about coming back has been tamed! Whoa Nellie is an amazing trainer, really amazing. Porkchop (our dog) is now a happy obedient dog who will return even when a squirrel runs by her, she can walk normally and not try to pull off our arms. She has become a better family member that we will love for many years to come. What I loved about Whoa Nellie is her calm, positive work with the dog. No punishing or controlling - which is exhausting and hard to keep up. She uses positive reinforcement and works with the dogs natural instincts, love of play to get the behavior changes. Even my husband who was not convinced we wouldn't need a shock collar was impressed (and we still don't have a shock collar). Great service, very reliable she was organized and professional. She made the experience very pleasant. Whoa Nellie, thank you for making our dog a great member of our family! - Amiee C.
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