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4.9 rating out of 1331 reviews
Astyn Richeda
I took the service dog training course with my twelve week old puppy. In our journey with Sam Ivy, we learned so much from these wonderful trainers.
They helped guide me in our training and answered any questions or concerns I had during it. If they didn’t have an answer, they went out of their way to find one.
My personal trainer, Maribel Pavarini, was so encouraging. If I felt doubtful about how I was doing, she cheered me on and helped me grow. She is truly a terrific trainer and teacher.
My dog has come a long way. She went from being a two month old terror to a mature and happy one year old service dog.
Overall it was worth the experience to have them by my side. Moving forward, I can feel confident in my abilities and my dog’s.
Courtney Richards
Wonderful experience with Thuylinh for our lab!
Our three-year-old rescue lab is a sweet boy but the introduction of a new baby into our home and increasing visits from strange little friends had him acting stressed with signs of aggression. We wanted to nip it in the bud, and correct a couple behavioral issues he was starting to display as he entered adulthood.
We felt in good hands with Sam and Thuylinh. They guided us through the pack behavior course and we learned how to relate with our dog at his level. I recommend their strategy and process. Our dog seems more relaxed knowing we are alpha, and we are armed with the tools and knowledge to correct and prevent unwanted behaviors as situations present.
I highly recommend them!
Sophia Shadid
Working with Sam Ivy K9 Consultants is one of the best decisions our family made. Despite having another puppy and an infant at home, our life was dominated by our dog Belle. We could not trust her unless she was crated or supervised; we had to check every door and gate constantly because she would run away; and she did not come when we called her. We loved her so much, but we were beyond frustrated and knew we needed to do something to bring a little more peace into our home. We began working with our trainer Haley, and she made our training schedule work with our busy life. It definitely required hard work and sacrifices over the past few months, but we are SO happy we put in the time. Haley was with us every step of the way. She really got to know our dog Belle and helped us navigate difficult situations and cheered us on every time we saw Belle make improvements. We now have a dog who comes when we call her, hasn't chewed or destroyed anything in the house that doesn't belong to her in weeks and is even taking walks outside with us off the leash. We cannot believe the growth we've seen! The greatest achievement for us is that we now trust Belle, and she now has the freedom that we know she always wanted. This has helped our relationship with her so much. She is much more attached to us now, and we love that we get to tell her what a good girl she is instead of correcting her behaviors. Thank you so much Sam Ivy K9 and Haley for making a huge difference in our life. If you're on the fence about doing this training, go for it. It's absolutely worth the time and money as it brings long-term positive changes!
Leann Ackley
My husband and I had two dogs, a 15year old husky Shepherd mix, named Debra and a 1.5yr old German Shorthair Pointer, named Dunkel when we rescued a 3rd dog a 1.5yr old English bulldog pit mix named Daphne. When we first got Daphne everything was fine for about the first 6mos but then she started being aggressive towards Debra and reactive to other dogs when around them. It started slowly with maybe a fight in our house 1-2x a month and increased rapidly to constant with us having to use gates to keep Debra and Daphne apart. Both my husband and myself got bit breaking up fights on more than one occasion. We were at the end of our rope, we could not relax in our own home, our marriage was affected by the constant chaos. My husband was typing up a Facebook post to try to rehome Daphne when we decided try training through Sam Ivy. The change in our house once we started with Thuylinh happened pretty quickly, we realized we were the ones that needed training and the proper tools to take back control of our house. We have graduation for our dogs tonight, and have not had any incidents with the dogs in over a month they can now be in the same room and even be shown attention individually without a fight breaking out. I am so glad we decided to go through training rather than rehoming, Sam Ivy gave us our house back!
