About Devoted to Dog
Our business was founded to help our clients–both human and canine–lead better lives through our services and knowledge.
Our goal is to serve our clients with the highest level of behavioral knowledge, and to habitually go above and beyond to ensure the health, well-being and safety of ALL clients who entrust us with their family members.
By giving dogs exercise, structure, socialization and training, they become better “canine citizens.” Our clients' dogs have shown not only their own families, but the community at large, what well-behaved dogs are capable of!
Devoted to Dog (originally Dogs Abound) was co-founded by Elizabeth (Liz) Randall in 2014, and transitioned into a behavior and training-focused model in 2022.
Elizabeth, or Liz, Randall grew up in North County San Diego, and has worked with animals her whole life. Growing up in a dog- and horse-centric family, she was an avid, competitive equestrienne by age nine. From riding ponies to Baskin Robbins in Solana Beach at age five, to working with a herd of more than 100 horses on a guest ranch in Wyoming in her twenties, to flying across the country to compete in New York City at the Westminster Agility Championship with her rescued pit bull mix Phineas, she truly understands what it means to have complex and fulfilling relationships with animals.
Not only does Liz oversee daily business operations, but she also heads the Devoted To Dog training program, using scientifically-based, positive methods, and has held her Certified Pet Dog Trainer credential (CPDT-KA) since 2011. She is continuously learning new methods and theories of dog training, health, and overall wellness, and strives to be on the forefront of what is best for our dogs’ well being.
Liz is known in dog sports for not only being a talented trainer of skills, but for having a high level of understanding of canine behavior, which allows her and her students to compete at the highest levels of their chosen sports. Liz competes locally and nationally in agility with her dogs. She also competes with and has titled her dogs in obedience, nose work, barn hunt, and lure coursing.
Liz’s dogs Phineas (mixed breed) and Beatrix (border collie) have both achieved multiple wins across a variety of agility venues at events across the country, including podium spots in Grand Prix, Biathlon and Steeplechase at multiple USDAA Regional events in 2018, 2019 and 2020. In 2019, Liz and Beatrix won the UKI Games Challenge National
Championship at the UKI US Open of Agility. In 2021, Liz and Beatrix were the overall West Coast UKI Cup winner and also won multiple rounds at the US Open and competed in the National Finals.
Liz teaches behavioral and sport lessons online and in North County San Diego at private facilities. She has parlayed her love and talents for working with animals into a career in which she helps dogs, and ultimately their humans, achieve higher levels of communication, with each other and beyond.