Who is Fox Hollow?
Finn Cross KPA-CTP CCUI
Fox Hollow Dog Training is owned and operated by Finn Cross.
Kindness, dedication, patience, loyalty, and fairness are some values that Finn holds in their personal life and in their dog training.
Finn has been working with dogs since they were 13, starting in local shelters and rescues, volunteering their time to help care for the animals.
In summer of 2013 Finn pulled a pit bull from a local pound, who they named KayLee. This little pitbull needed to learn how to be a house dog and Finn fell in love with her.
Finn started working at a boarding facility that also offered positive reinforcement training. They learned much about training dogs with positive reinforcement, and KayLee came leaps and bounds, even earning her Canine Good Citizen title through the AKC!
From then on Finn was hooked on learning everything they could about human and dog behavior with positive reinforcement.
In fall of 2020 Finn adopted a husky mix who they named Fox.
The universe felt that Finn needed to learn a bit more about behavior, so they gave them a pandemic puppy with human reactivity. One dog with dog reactivity and another with human reactivity, the universe sure is something some times.
Helping Fox with his reactivity pushed Finn to learn even more about how to work with nervous dogs and really change emotions for fearful and stressed-out dogs. Help them learn to be more confident and successful in a very scary world.
In 2022 Finn officially opened their training business,
Fox Hollow Dog Training.
Dedicated to furthering their knowledge in order to provide the most effective, and up to date methods for communicating with our dogs, Finn is always taking continued education seminars and workshops to bring the best training methods to you and your dogs.
We focus on supporting puppies through the vital socializing windows, helping tackle struggles with raising adolescents, and teaching humans the joy of training dogs with positive reinforcement.
We look forward to helping many families in Western MA!
Dogs of Fox Hollow
Fox
Fox is a husky mix that Finn adopted in 2020.
He was adopted from NYC at 4 months old and is very nervous around people. We have done a lot of work together to help him feel more comfortable in the presence of strangers. Fox loves other dogs and agility, he often likes people who are also associated with those things.
Fox was Finns canine partner for their certifications, this was a huge challenge for him but he rocked it!
Fox’s responsibilities at Fox Hollow include but are not limited to: Dog Social Tester, Class Demo Dog, Canine Alarm System, Video Demo Dog, Off Leash Hiking Pup.
KayLee - 8/26/12- 1/13/25
Ghibli
Ghibli is a pure bred Boxer who came to live with Finn in 2025.
Ghibli used to be a client for hikes and Day School and had been working with Finn since she was a puppy.
Ghibli unfortunately developed some pretty severe inter-house aggression to her previous dog siblings. When her previous home mentioned they were considering rehoming her Finn jumped at the chance to bring this sweet girl home.
Ghibli’s’ responsibilities at Fox Hollow include but are not limited to: Class Demo Dog, Canine Alarm System, Video Demo Dog, Public Event Ambassador.
KayLee was adopted by Finn in 2013, she was a $5 dog from a CT Municipal Pound. Finn originally went to pull a different dog for recuse, but KayLee had caught their eye and adored their toddler.
Kaylee was a monster, her list of crimes including but not limited to; Dog Aggression, Intense Prey Drive, Door Dashing, Not House Broken, Counter Surfer, Scavenger etc… Finn almost rehomed her. She was A LOT.
BUT Finn connected with a positive reinforcement trainer and KayLee came leaps and bounds. By the end of her life KayLee has over come her struggles so far people did not believe Finn that Kaylee was a monster as a young dog.
Kaylee is the reason Finn dove into training, why they wanted to help other people with their own monsters with huge hearts, why Fox Hollow even exists today.
She is so deeply missed everyday, but we see her in every dog we help.