The Enlightened Dog

We absolutely love Dara! She was incredibly helpful in training our beagle pup in learning commands and offered valuable insight on how to best socialize him with other dogs and our older dog. She alleviated the stress of being a first-time puppy mom and helped me understand that his behaviors are normal and would subside as he gets older. She answered all of our questions thoroughly and practiced each command with us until we were comfortable with them. I would recommend her to anyone who is looking for personalized training for any dog!

Dara is fantastic. She trained our Dog Harper two years ago and people comment she is the best trained dog they have ever met. She is a great communicator, smiles and laughs which is always nice, and is a true "dog whisperer" and professional in every sense of the word. Today she started training our rescue puppy age 3 1/2 months named Jade and in just one session we saw a difference but will definitely be signing up for a package. Dara has a rare gift-- gentle, kind, consistent. We couldn't be happier-- totally worth it! Call her!

I have taken all of our dogs to Dara and recommended her to countless of my friends. Dara also offers a class once a year called great outdoors and it is one of a kind! just wanted to share a story with you from today. So we are heading out for a walk Dino , Flip and out new foster Starz at the door and Niki wrangling Emi and Colson. Everyone is Excited and The new foster is jumping around the door is opened and our Foster bumps Flips leash clasp and she bounded ahead off on her walk. I stop call her name, she stop i call her name again and then tell her to come I may be repeated the command. and she trots over to me. i grab her collar and Niki gets her a piece of cheese and we hook her back up.We didn't even have to use pour emergency word. So thank you for teaching us recall and enabling this happy ending.

Dara is absolutely amazing! We attended her basic obedience class for our newly adopted greyhound, who had very little interaction with other dog breeds. Her class is a safe space for all dogs to learn and she provides a structured program that’s very easy to practice at home and to continue after completion. She made classes fun and truly follows a positive method of training your dog. Not only did we see great improvement in our dog, but it was fun to see the other dogs in the class progress as well. We are sad we can’t do the next level class with her due to moving out of area. You will not be disappointed by choosing Dara to work with you and your canine companion!

We are very pleased and delighted to share our experience with Dara! She was so patient with our puppy! She is extremely knowledgeable, kind and a great listener, as the previous reviewer stated. We had four private lessons with her in our home, and highly recommend her! We are excited about the results of the training and looking forward to continuing our training with the lessons we have learned!