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I first learned about Your Dog's Friend through a friend and attended a workshop. After that experience, I attended workshops regularly and eventually started volunteering as a coach for the reactive dog classes (I had a reactive dog at the time) and a training assistant for other dog training classes. During the pandemic, I know that access to Your Dog's Friend's resources and online training prevented many families from returning their dogs to shelters or rescue groups. I know because people in the online classes told us. I also volunteer with a number of animal-related organizations in my community and Your Dog's Friend has been very helpful in providing resources and introducing me to a wonderful network of dog people who have helped with my community projects. Several trainers, and students training to become trainers, volunteered to help train shelter volunteers to work with the dogs of the Greenbelt Animal Shelter. The goal was to make the dogs more adoptable and to help prevent shelter dogs from being returned. Your Dog's Friend's free workshops for helping pet parents as their adopted dogs transition into their homes is an amazing resource as well. I share information about Your Dog's Friend and their resources all the time in my community. It is great that I can point to one organization to help community members access the resources they need to enhance their relationships with their dogs and to find help in resolving behavior problems that people encounter with their dogs. I know there are many other people out there whose lives have been positively touched by Your Dog's Friend and who continue to spread the message about Your Dog's Friend to their community. Although I have volunteered with Your Dog's Friend for years, Your Dog's Friend staff members continue to exceed my expectations as the resources and variety of training classes only get better.

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I live in a 1600 unit housing cooperative and we volunteer with a companion animal committee established by our Board of Directors to perform community education about being a responsible pet parent. In addition I volunteer with an organization in my community that won a grant for children and animal safety workshops. With both of these efforts Your Dog's Friend was willing to partner with us and provide us with resources and connect us with trainers who volunteered to help us with these efforts. In addition they provided our animal shelter with resources about common behavior problems that pet parents encounter. We also were able to refer our new adopters to YDF's workshops, helping prevent returns to the shelter. In addition I have attended a class with my Jack Russell Terrier and was extremely pleased with what I was able to accomplish with my high energy, terrier brain pup. I appreciate their rewards only training approach. I recommend YDF to others daily!