Mission
We are a business dedicated to developing dogs with a purpose. Our training releases a dog’s potential based on their personality, breed and function.
Vision
We believe that we can create a world where humans and dogs coexist in a better environment, understanding each other needs and lifting each other up one paw at a time.
About Us
Daniela Carrera is a Service Dog trainer and a Dog Trainer Specialist who graduated from Starmark Behavior Center and Highland Canine Training. She has successfully trained over 200 dogs in the past 7 years.
She believes every dog should be trained depending on their temperament and personality so she has a different approach to every dog she meets, emphasizing and using the canine qualities to get better results.
Good Dogs has been around since 2013. The passion to train and care for dogs started in Ecuador, where our team developed a successful dog-training program.
Good Dogs developed methods and training that have proven to be successful in all environments. At any level of training, Good Dogs can help you develop a great relationship with your pet and help you develop the behaviors you and your dog deserve!
We are always expanding our knowledge and commitment to dog owners and now our training facility is located in Leesburg, VA where we offer private, online, and group classes. We also offer boarding and training programs. We have our service dog-training program that is delivering service dogs across the world to those in need!
One of Daniela’s keys for successfully trained service dogs is early socialization in intense, sensory overloaded environments.
She believes almost every dog has a chance to become a service dog if it learns to perform proper obedience everywhere and if it gets the right exposure to new things.
The relationship she has with her service dogs in training is unique and valuable to her. Service Dogs that are trained by Daniela are eager to please and have structured training foundations.
Ali
Daniela’s Service Demo Dog
Ali, Daniela’s Service Demo Dog, waving from the distance. Follow her adventures on instagram! @alitheservicedog
Our Trainers
Beverly Elis
Beverly believes all dogs are good have the ability to be well behaved members of the family. She’s passionate about helping create a stronger bond and understanding between dog and owner and believes the key to this is education.
She loves teaching small children learn how to manage powerful dog’s. She’s also developed a deep passion for service dog tasks and is often out in public doing training classes with therapy and service dogs. Beverly has six years of professional pet care experience.
Jenna Lee
Having spent her early childhood years bonding with her pets, Jenna got into dog training, competitive obedience, agility, tricks, and task training with her border collies since 2012 as a hobby. Loving the experience of helping others with deepening their own canine relationships, she’s studied further and graduated from Starmark Academy for behavioral modification training in 2017.
Since then she’s successfully used her education to train various households and dogs of different temperaments to help bring balance, security, and some joy into everyone’s lives through dog training.
Elisabeth Austin
Elisabeth has had 7 years experience in the industry and has been involved in her own dogs’ training from a very young age. She attended the Starmark Academy for Professional Dog Trainers. The wide variety of courses that the school provided gave her the freedom to carve out her personal path within the dog training world.
One of her aspirations is to help as many people that are affected with mental illnesses such as PTSD by training psychiatric service dogs. This includes her brother, who developed severe PTSD after he served two tours in Afghanistan as a pilot.
