Dog Training, Agility, Dog Obedience, Southern Maine, Falmouth, Tree Frog Farm

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Liz Langham, MS, CPDT-KA
North Yarmouth, ME
207 846 1690
treefrogfarm@gmail.com

At the end of last summer, we adopted an adolescent rescue dog. We contacted Liz Harrison to help us with training and behavioral concerns. We have been dog owners for more than twenty years. Liz has been invaluable with her knowledge, help and support. She gave us much more training than "sit & stay." She helped us understand the psychology of a dog and owner. She came into our home every few weeks, assessed what we were doing with our dog, tweaked our actions, gave encouragement to us and our dog and helped us learn the next step. We highly recommend Liz at Tree Frog Farm.

Laurel Ladd & Luke Lockwood 5/7/2007

We recently had a series of four puppy training sessions with our family and Liz Harrison, after finding Liz through the recommendation of a friend. Liz met with us in our home, which was a phenomenal perk -- primarily from the perspective of learning to work with your puppy in a "real" setting -- with all the distractions our puppy would encounter in everyday life. Our children participated, intermittently, and we also included our older dog in portions of some sessions.

Liz is patient, knowledgeable, and shows you first hand how to teach different behaviors and then works with you until you get it. She came prepared with a "lesson plan" to each session, which became the leave behind of what we could work on with our puppy on our own time. She also worked with us on ensuring we established and maintained independent relationships with our puppy and our older dog.

It was very easy to have Liz in our home, and having gone through other external training programs with our older dog, I believe the individualized approach at our home was much more successful. As with any training program, you do have to do your homework!

We would recommend Liz to anyone seeking individualized puppy training, or seeking to address problem behaviors with their dog(s).

Gretchen Span 3/12/2007

Liz, this is a pleasure to say. . .
At three months, our golden retriever puppy, Lilli, was an out-of-control “flying mountain lion”, leaping from surface to surface, unraveling the never ending toilet paper roll at every opportunity, chewing on everything in sight and, in all, giving us a major run for our money. What to do? Enter Liz Harrison. Calm and gentle, soft spoken and firm, Liz directed Lilli, using her effective training style of positive reinforcement. Her magic worked immediately! Within minutes, Lilli understood what she had to do. She needed to sit intently, respond to the next command and then delight in Liz’s ever present "YES!" And we learned too! With Liz by our side, she instructed us in the "how-to" to direct Lilli ourselves. We continue to connect with Liz for fine tuning our training program. At nine months, Lilli is a smart, spirited and responsive "good dog." Liz is the best!

George and Roberta (Bobbie) Gordon

Dear Liz, Rudy and Mr. Stuart, Thank you for coming to our school and talking to us about agility and obedience. I learned that not all dogs get freaked out by sudden moves. I liked it when Rudy did a figure 8 around the jump! I want to teach my dog how to spin, and I want to see if he can do a figure 8 around a jump too! Sincerely, Grace
Dear Liz, Thank you for coming to our science class. I learned that if your dog doesn't do something close to what you want it to do, you don't click the clicker, and you don't give it treats. But when it does do something, you give it positive reinforcement. i liked when Rudy did the figure 8 on the posts. Sincerely, Chloe
Dear Liz, Rudy and Stuart, Thank you for coming to our school to tell us about what you do. I learned that when a dog does something wrong, you don't say bad dog, you just don't click the clicker. I liked when you did the jump with \|Rudy. It was really fun and cool! Sincerely, Elly
Dear Liz, Rudy and Stuart, Thank you for coming to talk to the Canine Group. I learned that you don't just teach agility, and I know how hard it is to get an eight month old dog to get its paw on a Tonka truck. Rudy and Stuart are very cute. I liked how Rudy jumped in a figure 8. Sincerely, Semhar