Meet the All Day Dog Adventures Team
We have a dedicated team of Trainers- knowledgeable, experienced, approachable, and fun! Our Trainers are all passionate about dog training, using their knowledge of reward based positive dog training methods to educate and guide owners on their dog training journey. We are proud to have such an experienced team of Trainers. Our Trainers specialise in group classes, scent classes, private 1:1 training and Behavior rehabilitation.
Austin Smith- Lead Trainer
Austin has been with All Day Dog Adventures since 2020.
Austin is our Lead Trainer for our Group classes. Austin also does private 1:1 training and can be found all over the Valley training dogs.
Austin grew up in the mountains in Colorado and moved to NW Montana in 2003.
Favorite thing to teach: Recall training- always good fun and great to see the progress.
Best training moment: Seeing owners enjoy walking their dogs, no longer being tracked along!
Hobbies: Snowboarding in the winter and endless hobbies in the summer. Scent work with his K9 Jasper- who is certified in Air Scenting for live, cadaver along with open water and Crime scene through IPWDA.
Pets: Jasper- 5 year old Belgian Malinois. He also has an older Golden Doodle sister Dolly who rules the house and keeps him in check. Dolly can often be found being Stooge dog and heading out to work with one of our Trainers. She LOVES joining the other trainers!
Favorite food: Thai
Favorite Color: Blue
Brooke Krysiak- Assistant Lead Trainer
Brooke has been with All Day Dog Adventures since 2021. Brooke started off her positive reinforcement training at a National Zoo training birds.
Brooke is the Assistant Lead Trainer for all of our Saturday Group classes. She also runs our weekday Puppy classes and specializes in Loose Leash walking workshops. Brooke is also available for private 1:1 training.
Favorite thing to teach: Recall training- I love it when owners and dogs get to act goofy together practicing.
Best training moment: Training a dog that got easily distracted to walk loosely on the leash. We found the treat that worked and went from there!
Hobbies: Gardening
Favorite food: Pizza
Favorite Color: Blue
Cole Kleinberg- Assistant Trainer
Cole has been with All Day Dog Adventures since Spring 2022.
Cole is the Assistant Trainer for our Saturday Group classes. Cole is also available for private 1:1 training.
Favorite thing to teach: 'Leave it'
Best training moment: 'Having a random mule walk up to us in a training session when we were working on recall!'
Hobbies: Skiing..... more skiing and then some more skiing!
Favorite food: Pizza
Favorite Color: Turquoise/purple
Louise Latham- Assistant Trainer
Louise recently joined All Day Dog Adventures in Spring 2023. Great to have her on the team!
Louise is the Assistant Trainer for our Saturday Group classes.
Louise is passionate about dog training and animal welfare. When she is not training her group of dogs, she is looking after her rescue mini ponies, a retired race horse, cats and chicken.
Best training moment: Tracking with Mr Joey and Scent work with Mr Ted. Best moment was Urban Tracking with Joey. Working on general dog training with the younger dogs, Selkie & Quinn.
Hobbies: Gardening and working on the tractor.
Favorite food: Pasta!!
Favorite Color: Black and Blue
Nelly Koller- Office Administrator
Nelly joined our team Summer 2022 to help run the office. Nelly focuses on providing excellent customer communication and making sure everyone gets scheduled as quickly as possible.
Nelly is a native Montanan, raising her young family in Columbia Falls.
Best office moment: This I have to think about! There are too many! Trying to keep Tracy supplied with good Coffee.
Hobbies: Camping
Favorite food: Anything chicken
Favorite Color: Turquoise
Pets: Luca 2 year old Akita/Lab mix with a little pug mixed in)..... well what can we say about Luca? He is lovable, mischievous and a little stubborn.