Tame Dog Training & Boarding

We are so thankful we found Matt & Tame Dog Training! We took our 2 year old Australian Shepard to Matt for the 17 day training and we are so impressed with the results. We used to not be able to walk our pup around the block because of his aggression and anxiety. We can now take him for walk and much much more with confidence. After Tame Dog Training we have a better relationship with our pup and are able to do things with him we never thought possible. Matt was so patient with us, answered all of our questions, and made us feel so comfortable. Matt's team is great! Madison was so sweet sending us photos and progress updates so we never had to wonder how he was doing. Eric was always so nice and had such a calming presence. If you are looking for a place to send your pup for training, this is the place to go! We put our trust in Matt & his team and they did not disappoint.

I highly recommend Matt and his team at Tame Dog Training. Our 90 lb labradoodle, Cloud, was a wrecking ball around the house before training. We sent him to Matt for the Standard program and his behavior and obedience are so much better. Matt and his team equipped us with a strong framework to continue training at home through videos and in-person training sessions. The ongoing support has been great – Matt is incredibly responsive to our texts with training questions or new issues. We love the private boarding option and Cloud is always excited to get back into the Tame routine.

I've had the pleasure of knowing Matt a long time, and he is without a doubt one of the most passionate people I have ever met. He pours that energy into his dog training programs and takes great pride in making happy customers and well-behaved dogs. My 6 month old German Shorthaired Pointer emerged from the program as a completely new dog! He is gentle with my 3 young children and eager to learn every day. We quickly built upon the foundation that Tame Dog Training gave him. Perhaps the best news: they made it as simple as you could possibly imagine! (If you have a difficult dog, don't worry, Matt specializes in that.)

I can't say enough good things about this trainer. My Shollie rescue pup, Molly, went from being frightened of anything that moved, growling and nipping at strangers' ankles, and shaking with anxiety - to being the sweetest and most well behaved dog in just a couple of weeks. While she's still working through some anxiety, she's much more accepting of strangers and almost all of the aggression she showed is gone. Molly had just gotten out of training the week before Thanksgiving. I traveled with her back to my hometown where she met my parents, both of my brothers and their 8 children, and a couple of dogs. Molly was able to adjust to all of the commotion and the constant barrage of love from strangers in a big, scary, unfamiliar place. Thanks to Matt and his team because before using Tame's training service, I was seriously worried that she'd have to be locked up the whole time to keep her and everyone else safe. But she proved that she's come such a long way and getting more confident with each passing day. When it comes down to it, Matt is very responsive and helpful through texts and calls before, during, and well-after the training to help me as an owner feel confident and advised on how to help Molly be successful. I couldn't have done it without Tame and it was worth every penny.

I am not normally one to leave reviews, but I am so frustrated and disappointed with my experience here. I boarded my puppy for the 2 week puppy board and train and I was really excited to bring her here because of all the great reviews. Basically, my dog pretty much learned nothing here. I did try training with her consistently at home after I took her back from the board and train, but I could barely even get her to do a simple “sit”. I did contact Matt with this issue to where he pretty much just said “Well dogs listen to each person differently. She just needs to get used to you training her” to which I’m wondering well I might as well just trained her myself! It also seems the dogs that they board spend a lot of time in their crates during the day, judging from whenever I came in and witnessed all the dogs just sitting in their crates and not being able to roam free. Also a huge thing — this place does NOT do positive-reinforcement training. Personally, I did not seem to find this training effective and my dog just seems very scared and runs away with this method. In our follow-up sessions, I had to watch Matt literally HIT my little puppy and THROW OBJECTS at her in front of me as a form of discipline. It makes me really uncomfortable and sad for my puppy wondering how harsh they must have been to her behind closed doors when “disciplining” her like this. I’m really sad about this experience because Matt and his family seem very nice and I really wanted this to work out. I spent a lot of time calling with Matt, texting, and even coming back for a refresher session but none of this seemed to help my puppy with her training. I literally feel as if she learned nothing, except for maybe potty training although she has been having pretty consistent overnight accidents since her stay here, and that I might as well have thrown my $1500 in the garbage and just trained her myself since that is what it seems like I have done. I tried asking Matt for some type of compensation or partial refund, since I didn’t receive the benefits of the program and I am unable to make the long drive to come back for refresher sessions and put in that large amount of time so often, but he refused to work with me on that. Since my puppy is basically at square one now and practically has no training, I have started taking classes with her at What a Great Dog and she has learned so much more after just one class there than her entire 2 weeks of boarding here. Unless you have an extra couple thousand dollars to throw away, I would suggest taking your dog elsewhere or just training your dog yourself (you’re going to have to put in that time and effort anyways after taking them here) so that you won’t regret your decision like me.