Testimonials

Yes, Eva, your time spent and the information you sent over has been extremely useful and we have been putting things into practice.

I think the biggest thing I took from your visit was the fact I needed to change my attitude and become a "pack leader"! This is still work in progress but I know from the changes we have already implemented we have a better dog.

The biggest milestone has come in the form of Pepper having a sleepover at my youngest daughters. I was opposed to this, I felt it was too soon, Rob and my daughter said just bring him and let him do it. Rob took him, I didn't want my stress to go with him (something else I took on board from you). Within in an hour we had received photo's of him interacting and having cuddles with family members. Unbelievable, one occasion where I don't mind being proved wrong! He's also getting on better with some of the dog owners we meet.

Will sit and look and listen to them, occasionally take a treat. I'm thrilled with all of these subtle little differences which are now starting to happen.

For now, we are going to progress and work on the changes. I'm fortunate to have a happy little dog that has not challenged or fought the changes and is quite happy to take the instruction from his "pack leader".

Thank you for coming out to visit us and spend time with Pepper. More importantly thank you for making me see how I needed to change. I have reach a further sticking point or any other issues that may warrant your expertise, I will certainly get back to you.

Nina Todd

Eva is amazing, a virtual miracle worker with my hounds 👏🏻
A few weeks back I was a stressed “hooman”, I had 3 barking, lunging, mini dachshunds the whole street could hear us every time we went out for a walk, I actively hid behind cars, changed routes to dodge oncoming bicycles, mobility scooters, joggers and dogs all massive triggers for the barking trio.
My one hope was that I could take the 3 girls out in peace without the world hearing us, with Myrtle actually walking instead of refusing and being put in air jail whilst other 2 pulled me along. I spent my life apologising to anyone we crossed paths with for their behaviour.

Eva has quite literally changed our lives in a short period of time, after the first session Myrtle was walking happily, after the second Coco was less dominant, and calmer on walks, by the third session Coco & Myrtle walked together no stress no drama. The fourth session after some 1-2-1 garden work on Brooke we took all three together along a main road no drama, no barking just three happy sausages and after some breathing exercises one relaxed happy pup-mum.

I really can’t believe the change a few sessions has made, this week I am on holiday with them something I was concerned about but they all trot along in sync, ignore other dogs, one evening we met a black silver dapple dachshund boy on the beach he was barking happily and bouncing around Coco just glided up to him and sniffed his bum Brooke and Myrtle sat, allowed the family to fuss them whilst I could talk to them for a few mins in peace no barking or yapping or pulling honestly am so relaxed walking them, I have no fear of walking past dogs or people, whereas a few weeks ago I was actively dodging / hiding until the coast was clear, I was obviously tense walking them looking for the next person to hide them from! I really appreciate everything Eva has done to help us, am so pleased I asked Eva for help ❤️

Fiona Clements

I had a great session with Eva which has really helped control my dog's barking in the house. We had tried Reward based training and it wasn't working for us and a lot of what Eva said made an awful lot of sense. Even my parents remarked on the difference in noise! Eva is not at all judgemental and demonstrates a calm, kind way with my dog (and all dogs I've seen with her). Thank you Eva!

Cate Tylor

Have a reactive Great Dane who is use to farm living, but reacts to other dogs when on a lead. Eva sorted him in literally 10 minutes. Hard to believe but true. He is so relaxed now. Now we practice every day but he’s a different dog. Strongly recommend.

David Forecast

Eva has an amazing ability to connect with Alfie our three year old Cockerpoo. She started training as soon as she arrived - controlling him (and us) to behave as we needed him to. A typical cockerpoo he is not perfect and probably will never be but he is so much better with us and in our home.
Still needs better recall and to stop jumping up (if he ever will) but we live in hope! 😊🐕‍🦺🐾 I would strongly recommend Eva at Denton.

Paul West

Eva came to help me understand our adopted rescue puppy better and was very kind, patient and helpful with him. Our dogs loved her. Highly recommended and will carry on training with her to help him.

Alison Holloway

Eva’s support and patience were invaluable, I would definitely recommend her to other dog and puppy owners.

Carolyn Baker

I met Eva this week with my very disobedient frenchie and she has a wealth of knowledge and has been very helpful and understanding. I would highly recommend her.

Collette Adamson

My experience with Eva was very positive and I’ve noticed an improvement in my 9-month-old lab’s behaviour already - after just one session! She truly understands “dog language” and shares her wisdom in a kind and easy to understand way. Thank you, Eva!

Susan Averill

Eva is very knowledgeable & approachable; her group dog walks & training classes have been invaluable for us with Amber our English Setter. We enjoy continuing to learn and develop with Eva's support.

Rachael Grice

I've trained two of my small dogs with Eva. Both had issues with other dogs for different reasons. Eva helped me to understand my relationship with the dogs both at home and out walking. She is wise, patient and caring with dogs but also their owners. A marked improvement in both my doggies. I would recommend Eva as a dog trainer and carer. She is highly knowledgeable and brilliant with dogs and their owners.

Loretta Trickett

We had training with Eva to help my dog to stop barking because it was a very bad problem. She gave some amazing tips and taught my dog to stop barking at everything. The training was very successful and now my whole family is happy. We also wanted to get my dog to swim and be comfortable in the water and Eva helped my dog to be excited to go swimming in the river! I can recommend this training very much.

Agnes Kurowska, Grantham

Eva is amazing. Lottie our dog took to her straight away. Within minutes, Lottie doing what was expected. Eva explained the psychology and the bad habits I had implanted in Lottie. Lottie very receptive to being trained, very relaxed throughout and very obedient. I was stunned with how Lottie responded, and am looking forward to continuing her training in the coming weeks. Would recommend without hesitation. ❤️

Kevin Gill, Grantham

Excellent, incredibly professional and insightful in dog psychology. We have learnt a great deal about how to understand our dog's communication with us and how to best communicate with our dog. We have been working with Eva for a number years (from pup to adult dog), having a slightly anxious pooch, both solo and in groups and always found her advice timely and effective. If you want to learn how to have a happy, calm pet, then Eva is your trainer.

Virginia Panizzo, Grantham

Eva is phenomenal. She has worked with us over the last 3 months to train our puppy and the difference now is incredible. She is calm, patient and kind and really cares about you and your pet. Eva is adaptable and works with you to help do the best for your dog. The training sessions are fun and engaging for our puppy and everything is modelled so well so you are able to practise on your own. This training has really developed my relationship with my puppy, and I just couldn’t recommend Eva enough.

Beth Cooper, Grantham

Eva was fantastic with our dogs. A 4 year old rescue who is very sensitive and nervous, and our 6month old pup who is very excitable. She taught us what changes we need to make to create the best environment for each of their different needs, and I am confident we can implement this for a significant improvement in our day to day lives ♥️. Would highly recommend

Amy Hennessy, Grantham

Eva is such an experienced, knowledgeable trainer and her unique quality is that her training methods work! Whatever the issues she has a solution.
I am so pleased that Eva was recommended to me by a dog breeder. Her special way of training makes the process fun, varied and interesting for the owners and their dogs.
I would highly recommend her.

Margaret Beattie, Sedgebrook

I’ve been using Eva’s dog services for our rescue dog Danny who has issues with dogs he doesn’t know. We’ve both made significant progress with Eva and her friendly, fun and safe classes.

Mark Denton, Grantham

Finding Eva has improved my self confidence with my dog, knowing that I can shape his behaviour showing that I'm the leader. I like being with him even more!
My daughter commented after our first session with Eva that she didn't realise our dog was so clever! I highly recommend and look forward to more sessions.

Teresa Kaczmarek, Woolsthorpe by Belvoir

Eva is amazing, after listening to her and following her advice it was like I had a completely different dog. She is kind and patient and really went out of her way to help me to understand how dogs think and how I can use that to improve my dogs behaviour. Her knowledge is amazing and she explained things in a way I could easily grasp and understand as well as how to put it all into practice. Totally recommend her services.

Leanne Blackwell, Barrowby

Eva has been helping with my both dogs, firstly Japanese Akita and then Tornjak, both very big and stubborn breeds. She has done amazing work around them and around me too as I had to address lots of bad habits I was accidentally putting on my dogs. She is wonderfully calm, no idea how she is doing it, but she is staying in control over pets and very efficiently correcting their behaviour. I can highly recommend Eva for all kinds of problems with your dogs. She has extensive knowledge and lots of experience, and patience for your furry friends and you. You won't be disappointed with service received from Eva. Thank you

Daria Szczur, Grantham

Eva is everything you could wish for in a doggo trainer. She's so calm, patient, non judgemental and encouraging. She has such a chilled energy. This helped me and my dog! She knows her stuff.

Cris Perez, Grantham

We have Amber since August. She is a rescue dog, and she came to us with couple of behaviour issues. We visit a dog behaviourist; we absolved a dog obedience training but unfortunately at the end we have been told that we will never be able to let Amber off leash on a walk. Despite this we didn’t give up on our dream to have a trusting and happy relationship with Amber.

4 months later, in January we have met Eva by dog walking. That time we mainly struggle with Amber’s reactivity on the leash to another dogs. We have been afraid that she is aggressive to them, but Eva explained us why she is behaving like this and showed us how to calm her down.

Another problem was that she was barking on the neighbour and traffic. In Eva’s hand was Amber relaxed and calm without any bark. She explained us the importance of leadership role by living with a dog. By home visit she gave us exact instruction how to interact with Amber, so she knows that we are in charge and don’t need to worry about anything.

Eva’s approach to Amber was very gentle and calm, we have noticed that Amber is very relaxed and trusting during whole process of the training. We slowly started to relax and build a trust towards Amber as well. Eva supported us also by recall training and after a time we achieved to let her off leash. While this process we became more and more confident and now Amber can enjoy off leash walk with us even when we are on holiday. We still working on recall because sometimes Amber doesn’t come straight away but we are very comfortable and not scared any more that she runs away from us.

We still have Eva’s support and know we can contact her if any issue arises. Just recently Amber suddenly starts to refuse to go into a boot of our car, she stayed in a eight yards distance and refused to move towards the car. Eva helped us and in ten minutes was the problem solved.

We are so happy with Eva’s professional services that we have recommended her to our friends and we will continue doing so.

Brian and Joan, Grantham

Eva has a magical way with dogs, her energy is incredible and she explains things in such a simple and effective way! I would recommend Eva to anyone looking for help with their pooch!

Mel Evison, Marston

Eva, it was such a surprise. Eva taught me techniques to deal with the various issues. We met a few more times to continue the training. Poppy is a different dog. She is clean at home, she walks beautifully on the lead. She no longer hounds other dogs and is learning to play with them. She is now loving and affectionate. She is an utter delight.

I cannot praise Eva’s teaching and techniques enough. She is indeed another dog whisperer. Thank you Eva.

Sue, Barrowby

I first met Eva after giving a rescue lurcher a home. She was found dumped in a horsebox with a broken leg. When I first homed her, there were several issues to deal with. Poppy suffered with quite severe separation anxiety. After initially improving she was beginning to soil in the house. Poppy was also dominant on the field off the lead. She would hound other dogs and “mouth” them on their backs. Consequently, I was unable to let her run free regularly. Poppy was reasonable on the lead, but did have a tendency to pull, and always led. She also jumped into the seat someone was going to sit on or jump up at me when I arrived home. I invited Eva to my house to discuss how to make changes and improve things for Poppy and myself. Eva was lovely. She listened to my difficulties and explained the cause of the behaviour. Poppy was immediately obedient to

Eva has undertaken three sessions with my small dog called Toots (little cross breed) who was exhibiting problematic behaviours including aggression. After working with Eva he has improved considerably and is a lot calmer and happier. I began to see results immediately. She has really built my confidence also in how to deal with my dog, to understand what he does to get him to behave well. I would have no hesitation in recommending her services as a dog behaviourist to any dog owner.

Loretta, Sedgebrook

Oakley is a five and a half year old rescued lurcher and we have owned him for the last three and a half years. Our struggle with him is his reaction to other dogs on a lead and no recall so we were very reluctant to let him off his leash.

Eva was recommended to us by good friends of ours who had had a very positive experience with Eva helping them with their rescue dog. Eva visited our house to talk to us regarding our concerns about Oakley and she gave us some pointers and also walked Oakley to see where the problems were occurring.

We have been very pleased with the help she has given us and we learned how to communicate with Oakley so he listened to us.

The greatest success is what we never thought possible as we now let Oakley off his lead while exercising him on the local fields.

We are very happy to recommend Eva to anyone who requires help with their dog.

Jacqui and Howard, Grantham

We loved Eva's patient and gentle approach to training the dog. We found the information she gave us very useful in understanding our dog's 'Hiro' behaviour, and what needs to be done in order to promote a different response in certain circumstances. We warmly recommend Eva for dog training services.
Stefan, Grantham

Dear Eva,

I just wanted to write and thank you for the great help you have given me and my little dog.

When we met I had almost reached the stage of giving up. It seemed as if I couldn‘t give my dog the home she needed. Although some things worked very well at home, she was very reactive outside and this unsettled her so much, she couldn‘t listen or settle for quite a while. Every walk felt like a survival treck, she pulled and lurched and barked at people and dogs. Usually I returned home feeling frazzled too. I used a harness, which she hated. It worked but it was managing, not resolving the problem.

When I saw how she behaved with you on your very first training session, I could see how she was

engaging and responding, it became clear it would be possible to work things out. I just needed to understand what I needed to do.

So I tried to follow your advice, even when I couldn‘t see how it would help and very quickly there were changes. Every session brought new learning for me and I can see that this way of being with my dog is firm but kind, because she is so much more relaxed and happy as a result (me too). I don‘t know how many sessions we had, maybe 5 over 6 months? I don‘t find anything a problem now, although there are things I would still like to improve...so you haven‘t seen the last of me! Tess is settled and sociable...still her reactive, joyous little self, but not in the red zone, she can hear and respond as she should. We understand each other so much better. Thank you from both of us!

Jennifer, Barrowby

Eva helped us with a very nervous timid puppy. After just a week following her advice he has come on fantastically, and turning into a sociable little man. She is full great advice I would definitely recommend her services.

Claire, Grantham

Eva has been training and walking my dog over the past few months. He is a cross from border and patterdale terrier nearly three years old.

When Eva started training he was extremely over anxious and very excitable, puller while on the leash with no recall at all. Since training with Eva he is a completely different dog it is a pleasure to have him on the lead and now walks beside me no pulling (I am disabled) so this is for me a complete success. She conquered recall in a quiet no nonsense attitude which my dog obeys. My dog now obeys my commands which Eva has taught both me and my dog.

Dogs are strange and wonderful creatures to share your life with and thanks to Eva for her complete dedication I now have found that.

Eva is deeply compassionate about her training of dogs. She has a quiet manner, a firm attitude and is completely dedicated to her dogs. I would personally recommend her whole heartly as a trainer (any breed large or small). She has compassion and is trustworthy, kind and loyal.

Mrs Margaret, Barrowby

Eva came to my house to help with my JRT/Yorkiepoo cross, Tilly. I was having problems with her eating meals, walking and her barking/growling at certain types of dogs. I found Eva to be very knowledgeable in the ways of dogs and explained why my dog was behaving the way she was. She gave me sound advice on handling meal times, which I followed and has worked; my dog now eats one meal a day all in one go thanks to the advice given. My partner and I were shown the correct way to walk my dog and how to deal with her problems when walking. Eva fully explained why my dog reacted the way she did and on a few occasions when out walking we have come across Eva walking her own dog and without asking has given advice and even taken over walking my dog to show what we were doing wrong and how to do it right.

Eva has a different approach to dog training using the psychology of dogs to help train them and to give you a better understanding on how a dog reacts to certain situations. Her explanations are clear, specific and easily understood and I can highly recommend her to train your dog.

Lesley, Barrowby

We had our female cockapoo, Mo, from the age of eight weeks and had done all the usual socialisation and obedience training. She was a very loving, intelligent, happy dog but there was one problem we could not overcome, she guarded objects and toys, especially those she found herself. Mo would guard the item and growl, bark and become aggressive if we approached or tried to take them away from her. She was nearly two and half years old when we went away on holiday and Mo went to stay with Eva Simova in Barrowby, she instantly recognised that this behaviour could not be tolerated, especially when there were young children around who could be frightened or at risk during an aggressive outburst. With her natural empathy and knowledge of dog behaviour

Eva was able to gently overcome Mo’s problem. She gradually won her trust and confidence and Mo will now happily give up an item to anyone on request. Six months later after Mo’s return to us, she is still our happy, loving dog and has never guarded anything again.

Lorna, Bingham

Mo’s Story Part 2

A year later we went on holiday with Mo and we noticed that she was becoming defensive, almost aggressive when other dogs approached. This was most noticeable when I was with her and she was on the lead, if another dog came close to us she would growl and bark. I have a back condition and I find it painful to be jerked or pulled around so not only did we need to stop her aggressive responses but also to get her to steadily walk to heel. On our return from holiday I asked Eva for her advice and she explained Mo’s behaviour – she was guarding me because she felt that I was not in control of the situation and that she had to take charge when other dogs were around. Eva showed me how I could change this by calmly asserting myself and controlling her natural drives to lead and gradually I won her over. Eva also showed me how to control her urge to pull on the lead when we are out walking, she now walks quietly at my side when I want her to. Mo is now much calmer and more relaxed and I am confident when with her around other dogs.

Lorna, Bingham

Eva came and help us with our 1 and half year old dog Mollie as she had never been socialized and was nervous around all dogs. Spent a couple of hours with Eva and her dog and I seen a different Mollie, she was calm and they walked along side by side. Following Eva's guidance I am sure we will have a sociable Mollie, looking forward to the days and weeks ahead with the training. I would recommend Eva as she is very calm and full of great advise.

Carol, Nottingham