FirstBarkChristie is awesome. You can really tell she loves dogs. She attempts to make personal connections with the owners and dogs. Highly recommended.
Training Your Best Friend LLC
Raleigh, North Carolina
About Training Your Best Friend LLC
Training Your Best Friend offers professional, positive dog training through group and private lessons. Specializing in behavioral issues like aggression, fear, and anxiety, the program uses behavior modification techniques in Reactive Rover and Fearful Fido classes to achieve outstanding results.
Training & services
Training goals
- Behavior consultation
- Canine Good Citizen preparation
- Leash training
- Obedience training
- Puppy training
- Socialization
Behavior support
- Aggression training
- Fear and confidence Customer-reported
- Reactivity training
How training happens
- Board and train
- Group classes
- Private training
Dog age
- Puppies
Training level
- Advanced obedience
- Advanced training
- Beginner training
Dog sports
- Agility
- Rally obedience
- Scent work
- Trick training
Training approach
- Positive reinforcement
Other listed services
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- Akc Community Canine
- Animal Behavior Consultants
- Basic Commands
- Class Registration
- Class Teaching
- Dog Bark
- Dog Communicate
- Dog Exercise
- Educational Programs
- Fearful Behaviors
- Handler Instruction
- Leash Reactive
- Obstacle Courses
- Pet Therapy Certification
- Reactive Rover
- Resource Guard
- Specialty Classes
- Sport Dog
- Therapy Course
- Training Day Camp
- Vehicle Searches
- Weekly Classes
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Customer reviews
Google listing4.8
54 Google reviews
Mentioned in reviews
- Manners teaching 10
- Confidence building 9
- Positive reinforcement 7
- Basic obedience class 5
- Public manners class 5
- Puppy class 5
All 10 topics
- On leash reaction 4
- Therapy dog class 3
- Loose leash walking 2
- Safe classes 2
Google review topics, not confirmed services.
I did the Reactive Rover class with our 7 year old rescue dog, Bailey from April to July 2022. The classes were each about an hour long and held on Saturdays from 10:30-11:30 am. At the first class, Bailey was extremely on edge, scared, and unhappy. She could not concentrate on g…Read full reviewClose full review
I did the Reactive Rover class with our 7 year old rescue dog, Bailey from April to July 2022. The classes were each about an hour long and held on Saturdays from 10:30-11:30 am. At the first class, Bailey was extremely on edge, scared, and unhappy. She could not concentrate on giving me her attention and we had to work very hard to keep her from going crazy and barking at the other classmates. After that first intro class we did a lot of just sitting in our chairs at the training site and working on getting our dogs to just relax, and I have to be honest, I was NOT confident this was going to do any good. But I learned very quickly Christie knows what she is doing. Each class was deceptively successful! By the last 3 classes we were all walking together and our dogs were not just calm but relaxed! I’m so happy with the outcome I’m enrolling our second dog, Bella, in the same class in the Fall.
Christie has been such a valuable help in understanding and training our adopted dog. He started showing some reactive behavior over the past year with unknown and varying triggers. Finally in the spring of 2022, I reached out to Christie about her reactive rover class. We have a…Read full reviewClose full review
Christie has been such a valuable help in understanding and training our adopted dog. He started showing some reactive behavior over the past year with unknown and varying triggers. Finally in the spring of 2022, I reached out to Christie about her reactive rover class. We have attended for 3 months now, since his threshold level is very low around other dogs and one set of classes wasn't going to be enough for him. We have made tremendous progress! Christie has helped and pushed us outside of our comfort level, but not to the point of being too stressful or unsafe for either of us. My dog is improving and getting better each class! Christie has been invaluable with her advise in class and also via email. We will continue to join in her classes and help guide him into knowing it's ok to be around other dogs and build his confidence.
We had Christie over for a puppy in-home visit and it was a great learning experience for our family. Not only did she work with our puppy, she taught us how to respond to and lead our dog. I then signed up for the puppy kindergarten class with her and it was fantastic for reinfo…Read full reviewClose full review
We had Christie over for a puppy in-home visit and it was a great learning experience for our family. Not only did she work with our puppy, she taught us how to respond to and lead our dog. I then signed up for the puppy kindergarten class with her and it was fantastic for reinforcement, socialization + training for our girl. Christie has been very responsive to phone calls, text messages and emails post class. Recommend!
This was our first experience in a class with our new puppy! It was great socialization for her to be around other dogs (big & small). Christine was great with email correspondence and checked in personally throughout the weeks to see how training/homework was going.
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