Beyond the Dog, LLC

I called Beyond The Dog to ask about training options for our lab mix 8 month old puppy, Vanilla. We had issues with excitability, jumping on guests and nipping. Vanilla is a great dog but all my training efforts just weren’t working and I was going thru puppy blues. Decided to go with their 4 week in home training. Abby was our trainer and I’m so happy that she was able to help us so much. Abby was outstanding in every way. She was professional, calm and took time to understand Vanilla. Abby got to know us and our wants and needs. She worked with our dog 3 x week, and with us once a week. Abby answered all our questions & sent weekly recaps of the training. Vanilla is 100% better and we are continuing to train her everyday using the techniques we learned. I highly recommend and encourage anyone with dog training concerns to use Beyond The Dog.🐾 Thank YOU so very much ABBY, you’re the BEST!!!

Shyenne is the best! She was a wonderful trainer and I sincerely appreciate her help with my reactive dog, Merlin. I decided to invest in Beyond the Dog training because Merlin would bark and lunge at other dogs when I'd walk him in my apartment complex. It felt like any attempt I made to help only made him more reactive over time, and I needed professional help. Shyenne trained Merlin well, and taught us both how to handle these stressful situations. She went above and beyond answering questions, providing feedback, and being a reassuring presence throughout the training. After six weeks, we're no longer on edge walking near other dogs! Merlin's come so far, can't thank Shyenne enough!

If you are a cat owner seeking cat training services, look elsewhere. As you can see, 99.9% of the reviews for this company are from dog owners and now, unfortunately, I know why. They know absolutely nothing about how to train cats. We have been keeping our cats separated because of fighting, so we hired a trainer to come out to our home to help us reintegrate them. Before the trainer came, she asked us to have the cats in their harnesses, even though our cats have had zero harness training and for them to be in separate rooms where they can’t hide from her, which was an odd request. She spent absolutely no time trying to bond with our cats and decided that on the very first day, the cats were ready to be in the same room together. What? They haven’t been in the same room together in months. They are wearing harnesses, which they do not like wearing, there is a stranger in close proximity, and they have been put in the same room together. What could go wrong. Needless to say, everything went wrong. The cats freaked out. They were so stressed. One was trying desperately to hide, but was trapped by the trainer. To top it off, the trainer texted later and thought the cats seemed relaxed when she left. OMG, seriously. It was a terrible experience for the cats and for us. You don’t have to be an animal behavior specialist to know all the things the trainer was doing was wrong. Any pet owner with any common sense would know that. We canceled the rest of the sessions. Lost our $250 deposit and money for the training session. What is more disappointing is the owner of the company, Dr. Savage, never reached out to ask why we canceled the rest of the sessions and never asked about our experience with the trainer. You would think, as the owner, she would want to know what happened.