How do we do this?
Bespoke Training strategy
We don’t use basic treat-and-command training. Instead, we help busy Toronto professionals, executives, and families in the Beach, Rosedale, and Leaside. We study your daily habits, your dog’s unique personality, and your home to create a custom training plan just for you.
Proprietary LEASH methodology
We underpin your custom strategy with our unique LEASH Method:
🔹 L – Less is More (Quiet Leadership)
🔹 E – Everyday Rituals (Calm Habits)
🔹 A – Adrenaline awareness (Energy Levels)
🔹 S – Space Invaders (Respect Circles)
🔹 H – Household consistency (The Family Commits)
Our give back
A portion of the money we make from our paid clients goes right back into our social mission. We take high-energy and challenging dogs out of local Toronto shelters or rescues and foster them. Using our training methods, we are passionate about bringing out the best in these dogs to increase their chances of adoption. They all deserve the gift of safety, understanding, effort and time. With your support we help many dogs find their forever homes.
We specialize in training…
Behaviour issues in home
Excessive barking, separation anxiety, resource/human guarding, high energy behaviours like property destruction, toileting issues
Behaviour issues on Leash
Reactivity to dogs, noises, humans, other animals, bikes, scooters, garbage trucks
Multiple dog household management
Introducing a new dog to an existing home the correct way, managing multiple dog conflict, peaceful coexistence
Puppy training
Start as you mean to go on – LEASH puppy training designed to endure beyond the puppy years.
The LEASH Method
We don’t use treats to bribe your dog, and we don’t use force. Instead, we use a simple 5-step plan that both you and your dog will naturally understand and follow.
The Breakdown:
L – Less is More (Quiet Leadership): True power is quiet and peaceful. We teach you to lead through your posture and inner calm, not by constantly shouting orders.
E – Everyday Rituals (Calm Habits): The daily routines that take away a dog’s stress. By mastering the 5-Minute Reunion, the Food Ritual, and Danger Management, you show the dog they are safe and can finally relax.
A – Adrenaline awareness (Energy Levels): Safe tools to release energy in your dog before, during and after stressful situations.
S – Space Invaders (Respect Circles): The easy way to stop leash pulling. We teach your dog to stay just outside a four-foot circle around you unless given permission, while also respecting your dog’s personal circle to build strong trust between you. No more space invaders.
H – Household consistency (The Family Commits): Training only works when everyone follows the same rules. The whole family must agree, because mixed rules confuse and stress your dog.
OUR STORY
Chloe Stewart
Founder
As an executive coach, my superpower is sensing the subtle shifts in emotion and energy that dictate team performance. Interestingly, reading these exact energy levels is also the key to understanding dogs. Today, I use these skills to coach people and train dogs, creating positive change at both ends of the leash.
Why now?
My journey with dog behavior started with a friend’s dog Pedro, a 30-pound 9 year old Boston Terrier. He yanked so hard on his leash while I was walking him that he pulled my lat! This injury taught me some humility, and that I needed to look beyond treat training to fix the problem.
To solve Pedro’s reactivity, I had to look at both ends of the leash.
What was the solution?
By using my leadership coaching skills, and with extensive research of dog behaviour and training models, I developed the LEASH methodology. I applied it with clear rules and calm energy. Guiding Pedro like a true pack leader. In just two weeks, he walked calmly on a loose leash and virtually stopped reacting to distractions. This behaviour continues as we keep the LEASH method going.
How do you know it works beyond Pedro?
To test this framework, I tried it on my own two dogs. Chewie was an overly protective guard dog at 7 years old and 25 pounds, and BB was a 5 year old 12 pound guard barker who reacted to every little noise and person outside. By watching what set them off and changing our home’s energy, BB’s barking reduced in just one month, and Chewie is finally retired from guard duty!
What happened then?
After proving the concept worked with three very different types of behavior, I took on my biggest scaling challenge yet: fostering Layla, a 65-pound, 1 year old, high-energy rescue dog who was simply chaotic and wild on the leash. My lats were in danger again. Even if she wasn’t a foster that had to stay on two leashes outdoors, she was a ‘runner’ before she came to me. Off leash exercise was not an option even in a fenced in area.
At her size and strength, her frantic state of mind was a high-stakes challenge with my two much smaller dogs in tow.
How did the Foster dog Layla respond?
She is a very sweet dog, but got too excited whenever her adrenaline spiked. After just three weeks of our training, the changes were amazing. She learned to stay calm for the majority of the walk, ignore big distractions with proper tools, and no longer looks to ‘run’. I continue using the LEASH methodology as her trainer to underpin her specific training needs as she gets older. Every day she is learning more and more about how to live calmly in her new adopted home (with none other than Pedro as her adoptive brother).
How do the four dogs exist together?
The biggest challenge was introducing these four very different dogs to each other and reach the point where we can all switch off because everyone knows their roles, responsibilities and feels safe. This took solving Olympical level logistical challenges due to confliciting ages, sizes and energy levels in the dogs, as well as managing the different humans who were also a big piece of the puzzle. The result is the work has paid off and all four are able to be together in small or large spaces, indoors and outdoors without any problems arising.
So what now?
These successes are precisely why I have launched of Both Ends of the Leash Training. I can bring owners and their dogs together to live a calm coexistence. The humans at the end of the leash will learn to lead the dog and communicate in their language.The dog at the end of the leash will transition from worker to companion, retiring the management dog to unleash the joy filled, loving family pet.
What our clients say…
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If your household energy with your dog is not where you want it to be, and you’re ready to transform both ends of the leash, let’s talk.
