Michaela Greif, MSW, CPDT is a certified professional dog trainer and the owner of Noble Hound Training. With a master’s in social work, she has worked in mental and behavioral healthcare with children and adults. Michaela has been training professionally since graduating from the Assistance Dog Institute at Bergin University of Canine Studies in 2008. In addition to working with pet dog clients, Michaela has trained service dogs for people with disabilities. As a staff member at Paws & Affection, she trained service dogs for children. She has participated in canine-assisted programming for young people in the Philadelphia school system, residential foster care, the CA juvenile justice system and the Hand2Paw program. She also created a training curriculum for the prison dog program, New Leash on Life USA. She occasionally gives educational presentations to other animal professionals and has been featured on WHYY and NBC-10.

For more than 20 yrs., Michaela and her husband, Dan, have fostered and cared for many dogs and the occasional cat. Amongst 30+ foster animals, Daisy and Arlo are the most recent dogs to haved joined the household permanently.