Off Leash K9 Training, Augusta

Tyler and his miracle team just work wonders for your pets. I have two beautiful dogs. Melissa took my Shih Tzu Bash under her wings for two weeks and really helped Bash focus on behaviors and potty training. This has been a tremendous help to me and my household because I’m married with three children and I was at my wits end with Bash spraying all over the house. I’ve had Bash back for several weeks. Tyler and Melissa have both checked on him multiple times and have just been fabulous to work with next step will be my golden doodle Duchess for command training and I know she will do terrific under their leadership. Thank you all so much for all you do for our pet family!!!

Foremost, it's apparent this company has a TON of good reviews. Just read all of this please: They were "nice" enough to entertain a phone call giving me generic advice and working with me on finding a good time (I was there for an Army school) for an in-person "evaluation" of my wife's service dog as to get more information on the small problems we were having. Needless to say, we arrive to their small business location to find essentially some kind of warehouse-esque sales company backroom with a large garage as their main working area. Not a problem, but before the garage is a fully dark room filled with cages of dogs big and small that are themselves inside of containers barely an inch larger than themselves on all fronts. There were even 2 or 3 in the garage right next to the table where one of the 2 trainers was sitting. As to our inquiry, as they are the experts, we ask for advice on a few simple things: why is our dog mildly barking and "reactive" (he's not reactive, but he gets nervous at vets, around questionably behaved dogs, etc, as it's actually part of his job); and why is our dog so anxious (he is servicing my wife's anxiety and panic disorder, so he's psychiatric... Ironic we know)? But allow me to get to the gist of it... Our dog is FULLY trained. My wife is THE trainer. Yet they kept pushing us to go with the THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR 2 week board and train in order to "determine" what is wrong with him. They gave us some particularly useful info, so not completely useless... Apparently German Shepherds, especially working line, are genetically like that... Plain and simple. But they also mentioned the importance of "place" and not using dog parks as a means of training. You wanna know what the answer was? No more dog parks. It helped our dog socialize and trust dogs, thankfully, as he was traumatized multiple times as a pup by being attacked. But that was literally it, and then WHAM. No more "leaking" or "reactive" barking. So therefore, thanks to at least SOME non-sales-oriented advice, it put my TRAINER wife on the right track, because we needed her service dog to be good for the trip to Germany. Otherwise, we might as well ship him, which is around $2500, so we'd save money doing it that way still without a "2 week board and train". Be aware: they shock your dogs to train for off leash, they confine them borderline inhumanely, and they were VISIBLY seen manually shocking them as they stay in that somber cage right in front of their eyes as they offered to "help" our dog too... For a hefty price. This "trainer organization" only wants your money, and be very careful with who you leave your loved ones alone with. This place is lucky to get an extra star lol. But yeah, the final note is that the "trainer" said they couldn't see my wife's service animal in an airport.... So I ask: do you see him now?

Off Leash K9 Training is a wonderful way to train your dog. Our dog Bandit, was a bit out of control when we signed up for the course. After the first session we noticed a remarkable difference. We are in better control of our dog. He is a delight to take on walks, no longer pulling us down the street. Thank you so much Rebecca for all your hard work. You are the best trainer we could have hoped for.