Back To Basics Dog Training

We had the best experience with Wen during our 6-week advanced obedience course! Milo is a rescue who struggled with excitement reactivity on walks and stranger danger at home, and the transformation we’ve seen in just six weeks has been incredible. Wen gave us the tools and confidence to actually enjoy walks again without lunging at other dogs, and she taught us effective, structured introductions for when new people come over. Milo has gained so much confidence, and it’s been amazing to watch his progress week after week. We’re excited to continue practicing everything we learned and even plan to enroll him in daycare in the future, something we never would have felt comfortable doing before. Thank you, Wen, for your patience, knowledge, and genuine care for Milo. We are so grateful for everything you’ve done for our family!

Wen and Jenn at Back to Basics were wonderful to work with. We came into our private training lessons with Jenn overwhelmed with our reactive and highly distractible Pyrenees Bobbi. Our previous training gave us a foundation for basics but was not helping us or Bobbi with her reactivity and excitement around other dogs. Jenn patiently worked with us and Bobbi and since the completion of our training Bobbi has steadily improved her calmness around other dogs and attentiveness towards us on walks. Months ago we couldn't even think about walking past another dog on the same sidewalk because Bobbi would jump at any dog she saw, not to be aggressive, but to play. She would lock onto dogs across the street and lay down which was frustrating when we were trying to walk her on a time crunch, she pulled like a freight train even with corrective harnesses, and would completely ignore us. Jenn gave us the tools to manage these issues and now we don't dread walks anymore. She is much more attentive to us, and mostly ignores dogs that are across the street or farther away, which is insane considering she used to lay down for dogs a block away from us. Jenn gave us some redirection tools that allow us to easily re-route her now when we see potential issues with other dogs arise, and we have also gotten her pulling much more under control. If Jenn and Wen were able to help us and our crazy pup, I'm confident they can help you as well!

We chose to do daycare and train option because our puppy Charlie was a pretty nervous guy so this was a good compromise giving him the opportunity to have plenty of training while still coming home to us after work- it also gave us the opportunity for socialization. Connor did a great job with Charlie and adjusted to how our nervous boy was feeling on a given day or setting. He gained more confidence and I can now walk him without being dragged down the street :) Charlie learned a lot of things that really help in the day to day like stay and door manners and his recall is great which is really helpful especially at 7 months and full of energy. Aside from videos we were able to ask a lot of questions and adjust along the way and Connor also helped us break some of Charlie’s bad habits we were struggling with. I looked into a few options for training and Back to Basics was absolutely the right call!