Blue Step

Carla has transformed life with our pup, Scout, and made us all much happier! She took the time to understand our challenges and to get to know both our dog’s and our personalities and lifestyle to figure out what would work for us. I went from pretty hopeless to having joyful walks with Scout … and feeling confident we can tackle any issues that come up. Scout loves Carla and wishes he could join her pack … he’s stuck with us, but luckily we have Carla to advise us along the way. I highly recommend working with Carla.

We greatly appreciate Carla. She taught us, our dog and our granddaughter. Our rescued dog was a great dog except that after having him a few weeks, he became very territorial and growled at everyone except my husband and I. Carla helped us to understand our dog’s behavior and how to correct it, Because of the help from Carla we were able to give a home to a great dog and we all now enjoy him very much.

Carla is the BEST! It always gives me such peace and joy to know my dog is in such wonderful, caring hands when I am away. He gets great structured time and I can tell he absolutely adores her, which means the world to me! I could not recommend her services enough! (Photos taken while in her care)

Carla is great. She came highly recommended by many of my trusted friends. My dog, Nora, was well taken care of and I will continue to have her boarded with Carla. My dog is also very high energy and we are needing some training and I plan on going to Carla.

Carla has truly transformed life with Marcie, our 6-month-old Rottweiler! Knowing we would be out of town, we enrolled Marcie in Carla’s 3-week Puppy Development Program, and the results were remarkable. Marcie returned home as a completely different pup—well-behaved, confident, and happy! We were especially grateful for the regular updates Carla provided throughout the program (texts, pictures, videos), keeping us informed every step of the way. The ‘human training’ afterwards was also invaluable, helping us continue Marcie's progress at home. We couldn’t be more pleased with the experience!

We had a very energetic goldendoodle puppy who we took to Blue Step. Carla kept him for three weeks and completely transformed him. He is still very energetic but he is able to keep it under control. He follows all the commands and no longer jumps on my kids & every person he meets. I would 100% recommend taking your dog to Carla for training!!!!

We engaged Carla to help us incorporate our new rescue dog Moose with our 4 year old German Shepard mix, Charlotte. Although Charlotte has been in a family with another dog, she did not take well to us adopting Moose after we lost our senior dog about a year ago. We worked with Carla on both dogs, and saw the biggest difference in Charlotte after a board and train for 2 weeks and follow up tips she gave us after Charlotte came home. Charlotte has become way less anxious, no longer pulls on walks (which is huge since she is about 95 pounds), and has become way less reactive towards other dogs and animals (squirrels, rabbits, etc.) on walks (before, she would lose it). She made so much progress in such a short period of time, it truly amazed us, especially since she’s been in training before and we only saw marginal improvements. Carla also helped us understand our new dog Moose, and get us off on the right foot. Moose and Charlotte get along great now, and the house is way more peaceful than it was before. Thank you, Carla!