Allie began working with animals in 2013 as a manager at a dog daycare and boarding facility. Wanting to learn more about the dogs she worked with every day, she started assisting the facility’s trainer during group classes and private lessons.

Through this, she developed close relationships with local 501c3 rescue groups, as many of their foster dogs attended group classes in hopes of improving their chance at adoption. After adopting a leash reactive dog of her own, Hartleigh, she dug deeper into animal behavior with the desire to help Hartleigh live a happier, more fulfilling life.

Seeing all of the progress made with Hartleigh, Allie was invited to join the rescue’s behavior team. This allowed her to meet many peers in the industry, including other budding animal professionals and be mentored by successful Atlanta area trainers.

Through the guidance of her mentors, she invested in her own education by attending seminars, taking online courses, reading books and completing shadowing programs to learn as much as she could about animal behavior, aggression and reactivity. She chose to foster some of the toughest behavior cases in these groups, to give them a chance at life or a happy sanctuary to live out their days.

With encouragement from her community, Allie opened her own company and began private training in 2017. She owes a world of gratitude to the Atlanta rescue community, who referred many of her clients to her, as well as her mentors who have since left the training world.

In 2019, Allie chose to shut down her company, after being offered a position to help develop a new training program at a well known Roswell boarding facility. Despite the business challenges posed by the Covid pandemic, training at this location flourished. Soon, Allie became an area lead trainer, helping to develop programs at other locations across Georgia, and mentoring trainers across the nation before ultimately joining the Peach on a Leash team.

Since then, Allie has kept her ties to the animal rescue community. She still is a phone call away for the non-profits that she volunteers for. Finds joy in helping the community through outreach and still fosters pups of her own. She remains a forever student, always seeking new knowledge and understanding about the dogs she loves so much.