Venture Dog Training Austin

Steven is phenomenal at what he does, and we cannot recommend his services and talents enough. We did a six-session course to help with our 75lb, 7-month old pup. Steven would give clear, actionable directives. He would help address behaviors that were important to us and that were important to our lifestyle. His guidance was specifically tailored to our dog and what was effective. He is also responsive to text when we have questions or need quick input. He clearly knows and understands dog behaviors well! We saw slow improvements in some behaviors, and fast improvements in others, all in the name of positive progress. He even met us in different locations to help meet the needs of the environments we wanted to be able to take our dog in. We've seen great success and behavior improvements in our dog since we've worked with Steven, and could not be more grateful!

I really loved working with Steven! He was a kind, skilled and knowledgable teacher. I'm neurodivergent and can struggle with task switching between processing verbal in person instruction and actually training the dog, but I try to take in person classes as well as online ones because there's so many benefits to training in a controlled environment like a class. In spite of me having a generally harder time with in person instruction, Steven was very patient, encouraging and a joy to work with. He also was always very flexible if I wanted to do something a different way, and was even creative enough to come up with new solutions himself if I preferred training a skill in a different way, which I did not at all expect. I would not hesitate to take a class with Steven again.

Steven is an attentive and genuine trainer, who knows how to handle a reactive dog with care. With our dog Ozzy he helped us better engage and refocus a smart, but powerful animal. With home visits he was better able to understand how this dog reacts to other dogs and people in our own neighborhood (leash-aggressive, curious but territorial) and give us the tools to help redirect his fear-motivated behaviors while also working on how to keep his mind occupied. With practice this dog was much more restrained when noticing other people and dogs and helped us introduce others into our home much faster, and more safely. Ozzy has made so much progress from where he started and I can finally take him on a walk without getting a sore shoulder from all the pulling or barking at a runner. While training will go on forever, Steven helped us understand what we will continue to do to set the right baseline for our dog's behaviors in and around the home.