Dog Virtuoso

Our family fundraised for an Autism Service Dog for our son and reached our goal before COVID hit. Unfortunately, the company claimed bankruptcy before we could receive our service dog. We met Ivan through a Facebook support group and his compassion for families like ours was evident. He’s pledged to help us find a new dog and train him/her to be a service dog for our son. From the beginning, Ivan has been responsive to our phone calls and texts, he sends us articles about finding the best dog and once we receive the dog, how to prepare ourselves to continue training at home. He has dispelled the promises/lies/misconceptions of the Bankrupt service dog company. He has given us hope again! Ivan is extremely dedicated to his career and his craft and wants to help families. He’s constantly researching and meeting with other trainers, striving to learn new techniques such as search and rescue training. This specific training is essential to an ASD service dog since children on the spectrum have the propensity to wander or bolt. We’re eager to continue on this journey and Ivan is an excellent “guide”! -Mike and Kristen

Ivan has given us many options for training with wide range of opportunities to succeed with our service dog! We are looking for ways to help train our service dog for our autistic child and he has studied and trained and gone out of his way to find answers and better opportunities for us and setting the right achievable goals for the service dog. He’s also open her eyes to other opportunities for our dog with and showing us to have a happier healthier life for her! The passion Ivan has in training the dog as well as the people that own them goes without saying! I strongly recommend him! And are very glad to have him in our lives! Meggan :-)

Ivan worked with our family and our medical service dog. Working with Ivan was a great experience. He truly is the Dog Wizard. He has a great approach and understanding of dogs as well as their people. Ivan helped us and our dog prepare for the public access assessment and by the time we were done working with him we were completely confident with our dog’s skills. We are all very grateful that we were able to work with and learn from Ivan.

Working with Ivan has been an excellent experience! Ivan helped us with training our service dog who was specifically a diabetic alert dog . We worked on techniques at our local mall, our pet store, restaurants ....all over town. Each training our dog responded more consistently & appropriately- Ivan was like the dog whisperer. Ivan is calm gentle and he listens to what the owner needs & to what the dog needs. I was so impressed with his approach & how our dog positively responded. I highly recommend Ivan !

I got a diabetic alert service dog a couple years ago and had Ivan as my trainer for a couple of training visits. He was very professional. He genuinely wants to help you and cares a lot about you being successful in the training of your dog. I learned a lot from him and he helped me understand the basis for a dog’s behavior. I feel more comfortable and confident being a handler of my service dog.