“Michaela is a fantastic trainer and I would recommend her to all fellow dog owners. She helped us with our new puppy who detested the crate, and her gentle demeanor with our puppy (and us) worked for a successful outcome! We have taken other classes with her, and thoroughly enjoyed seeing how our dog thrived with her guidance.”
Our Trainer
Michaela Greif, MSW, CPDT is a certified professional dog trainer and the owner of Noble Hound Training. She holds a master’s degree in social work and has worked in mental healthcare with children and adults. Michaela has trained service dogs for people with disabilities, completing a service dog training degree at Bergin University of Canine Studies (2008), then as a trainer at Paws & Affection in Narberth, PA. She has participated in canine-assisted programming for young people in the Philadelphia school system, residential foster care, the CA juvenile justice system, the Hand2Paw program and created a prison dog training curriculum for New Leash on Life USA. She’s been a featured trainer on WHYY and NBC-10.
Michaela loves empowering people and dogs to communicate and live together more enjoyably. She finds the science and art of behavior, learning and teaching (of all species) to be endlessly fascinating. Always looking to expand and refine her own skills, Michaela is a fiend for continuing education and loves participating in advanced training or new activities with her own dogs. She and her husband, Dan, have fostered 30+ foster dogs (and the occasional cat). Of these, Daisy, a pit bull-lab mix, and Arlo, a german shepherd mix are the most recent dogs to have joined the household permanently.
