Hi, My name is Ariana, I always grew up around BIG dogs and when I was around 11 I started dog sitting and dog walking for neighborhood dogs. Over the last few years I have become close friends with a dog trainers and although I myself am not a trainer, due to learning from them over the years I have been mainly taught how to interact with dogs from trainers. I love an easy dog however, I am able to handle more complicated dogs due to my personal experience with traumatized rescues, reactive dogs and big dogs. Dogs in my life; I grew up with a lot of bigger dogs [think mostly rottweilers, dobermans and shepherds] and in 2015 my secondary family home got a Bernese Mountain Dog and I lived with 3 big dogs [Lab/Rottie/Shepherd, Ridgeback/Mastiff, Cane Corso/Boerboel/Boxer] for 5 years, a 2yo XL dog rescue who is very heavily trained and I was the primary pet sitter for him and walk him regularly, I have taken him overnight, longest straight care period was a week with daily training sessions and walks. Most of my experience is with dogs around 80-100lbs however I do have experience with smaller dogs! Skills and experience; I have a lot of experience with dogs who have more structure and training, so I will be able to keep up your training and have the confidence if your dog is more complex and reactive. I am able to keep up any training shown to me and ensure your dog has the same style structure and stability from me as they do from you, so the specific skills and commands will of course be different per client. However my personal base standard for structure/training when I have the dogs in my personal life in my care would be as follows; your standard commands [such as sit, lay down, stay, paw, etc], basic door manners [no crowding doors, if leaving to go outside sitting and waiting for a 'free' command to avoid door rushing, no jumping on the door], structured walking manners [walking at pace/no pulling, sitting before crossing roads, ignoring/no barking at other dogs or people]. Then in my home there is no animals on beds, or couch unless earned [listening to me and if they don't couch privileges are removed for time being].