National K-9 Learning Center

My loving, sweet dog who is thriving now that he is no longer living in an apartment, is reactive to other dogs on a leash and shows occasional resource possession. I brought him in for an evaluation at National K-9 after hearing about a great experience one of my cowerers had with them a decade ago. After going through the evaluation, I was told by the trainer Grace that training was not an option and to essentially put him down. Her words exactly were "consider your options, training isn't one of them though." She refused to work with us because she said I had "waited too long" to train my 4 year old rescue dog. She not only shamed me for not getting him trained sooner, she laughed while telling me there was nothing she could do. Absolutely horrible experience. I talked to my vet afterwards and she was mortified that anyone would suggest that for my dog, and reassured me that there was absolutely no reason for someone to jump to that with my happy dog.

Stay away, very far away from National K9 over on the East side just South of Gahanna next to the freeway. The so called trainer there abused my dog, swinging her around by the metal slip collar and leash a foot off the floor. She had gall to do that in my presence. Who knows how many times she did that to Cinnamon. That dog was ruined to the extent we could not control her mental health. I had knee replacement, the dog again attacked my mom for no reason and I had to call Franklin Co. Dog warden out to put the pup (year old) down. So sad and was unnecessary.

Thanks to the education we received from National K9 school for dog trainers.... my wife and I have been running a successful dog training camp in Upstate NY for over 24 years. This business is our whole life and has been the most amazing career anyone could hope for. National K9 is an excellent school that will provide you with an amazing foundation to become a professional dog trainer. The facility is amazingly laid out and the instructors are extremely professional and knowledgeable. In this day and age, there is a dog trainer on every street corner....finding a trainer that truly understands dog behavior and has methods to help clients improve their relationships with their dogs is much harder to find. If you want to join that group of professional trainers that really knows what they are talking about and understands dog behavior then this is the school for you. We highly recommend National K9 School for Dog Trainers. Thank you so much NK9 for getting our careers on the right path all those years ago!! We hope to get back to Ohio someday to say hello!