Live Oak Dog Obedience Utah

Jan and Live Oak Dog Obedience are amazing. Jan was instrumental in my successfully training our french bulldog as a puppy and young dog. Our french bulldog had to have a disk removed from his neck recently which means we will have a number of changes to our lives. Jan was incredibly kind to take the time talking me through many ways we can work with him during his rehabilitation period and how to develop modified behaviors to support some necessary lifestyle changes going forward. Jan is literally a life saver.

We showed up 4 years ago with a dog that wouldn’t let you touch him, if you did he would attack and latch on to your hand and it was terrifying. I decided to find a trainer and i found Jan and she changed not only my dogs life but my whole families life. She is patient, thorough and so knowledgeable. There are so many things as humans we think are right when it comes to training our animals, but Jan explains things to us from a dogs perspective and point of view. Once you are able to see things from your dogs point of view the whole world changes. Now my dog is in the advanced class and loves to go and learn new things and learn positive interactions with other dogs. (As you can see in the photo he is surrounded by other dogs which we wouldn’t have ever been able to do before) I will forever send everyone Jan’s way because i saw first hand what she was able to do for my dog who is my child by the way. I don’t trust him with just anyone. We will be here for many years to come!

We absolutely love live oak dog obedience! We started going when our dog was 3 months old and her behavior has drastically changed for the better! Any question that we have Jan always gives us some options as to how we can address the problem. She is so kind and knowledgable. We love how basically all of the training and exercises is for your dogs safety. We would and do recommend Live Oak Dog Obedience to anyone and everyone!

Did not listen to me when consulting over the phone. Arrived at her recommended class to find it was not tailored to what we had discussed. Just about spent time and money to address items that were nothing to do with the issue I needed the training for. On top of all that, Jan could not remember in the class that we discussed those specific needs over the phone and when I told her that we already discussed it in depth on that call, Jan dismissed it with "well, I talk to everyone on the phone". Well take notes then, because this was unprofessional — Speaking of which, Jan started publicly addressing another clients' account balance, during class time! Not only did class start late, but Jan provided a 20 minute lecture on her thoughts and opinions on several dog related topics, but not training. After 35 minutes of class time, right as we began a lesson in 'heel', I walked out. If Jan listened on the phone call she would have known my dog already knows heel. My dog started barking from anxiety and Jan started trying to have me aggressively shake the leesh and say "QUIET". This anxiety was the issue we wanted worked on. I am not sure what Jan would have done to train my dog (and I wasn't going to find out) but with the way Jan talked it souded like negative reinforcement training. Jan promised the moon and the stars on the phone call, sounded very understanding and empathetic, made me feel confident that we were on the right track. I had nothing but skepticism and dread standing in that class. Completely agree with the other 1-star reviews here, too.