Hakuna Matata provided a wonderful training experience for our sweet but stubborn bulldog, Morty. Michael and Joselyn are amazing to work with!! Their passion for training dogs and setting them up for a happy life truly shines. They LOVE what they do. I would recommend Hakuna Matata for any and all training needs.

Hakuna Matata Dog Care & Training, LLC
Charlotte, North Carolina
About Hakuna Matata Dog Care & Training, LLC
Need help with your dog? We are happy to help. We’re located in Charlotte, NC. We focus on teaching Puppy & Adult Foundational Obedience Training. We offer Private Lessons, Daycare Training $ Board & Train Programs. After training, we offer grooming, daycare & boarding to reinforce their training. We are a Reward Balanced Certified Dog Trainers by the APDT & CCPDT. We have been training & rehabilitating dogs since 2015. We teach the most valuable methods and techniques to improve your dog(s) behavior, obedience & enhance their communication skills by providing a Home Environment to learn from. Creating a “Hakuna Matata” Lifestyle & achieve harmony between you and your dog(s) for the rest of your lives.
Training & services
Training goals
- Crate training
- Leash training
- Obedience training
- Puppy training
- Recall training
- Socialization
Behavior support
- Barking
- Resource guarding
- Separation anxiety
How training happens
- Board and train
- In-home training Customer-reported
- Owner coaching Customer-reported
- Pack walks
- Private training
Dog age
- Adult dogs
- Puppies
- Senior dogs
Training level
- Beginner training
Support between sessions
- Follow-up support Customer-reported
- Photo updates Customer-reported
Training approach
- E-collar training
Additional services
- Boarding
- Daycare
- Grooming
Other listed services
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- Anxiety
- Behavioral corrections
- Command Training
- Day Camp
- Desensitization
- Distractions
- Dog Handler
- Fence reactive
- Frisbee Lessons
- Leash reactive
- Pet Groomers
- Place training
- Public Training
- Rehabilitation
- Social anxiety
- Structure Fetch
- Territorial
- Trainer & Behavioral
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Customer reviews
Google listingMentioned in reviews
- Boarding 75
- Daily updates 42
- Caring staff 30
- Reinforcement training 28
- Board and train 26
- Leash pulling 18
All 10 topics
- Picture updates 16
- Two week training 11
- Personalized training 10
- Anxiety training 8
Google review topics, not confirmed services.
We are new dog parents and needed guidance to make our experience a less stressful one. We decided to put our 6 month old havapoo Ash in the 2 week puppy school program. Before puppy school he would constantly bark inside and even worse when we went outside. He would bark at ever…Read full reviewClose full review
We are new dog parents and needed guidance to make our experience a less stressful one. We decided to put our 6 month old havapoo Ash in the 2 week puppy school program. Before puppy school he would constantly bark inside and even worse when we went outside. He would bark at everyone and every dog he would see. Chewing and using the bathroom all around the house. While Ash was in school Michael did a great job communicating and sending pictures/videos to keep us updated on how our little guy was doing. I was really nervous about leaving him and I was def reassured everything was okay! After the 2 weeks we can proudly say we are so happy we went with Hakuna Matata and we already see so much improvement in and out of the house. We took him to the park for the first time and he did great! He stayed calm when other dogs walked by and didn’t bark like crazy how he normally would. We are no longer embarrassed to go on walks and we look forward to taking him with us wherever we go! Thank you Hakuna Matata!
So grateful for their training and expertise! My pup is an anxious boy and they did an incredible job working with him.
We LOVE Hakuna Matata! We had a bad experience with a previous board and train, and I think Hakuna Matata took our anxiety into account. The staff is extremely friendly and our dog took to them very fast, and she's usually a bit skittish with people. We got photos every day, tr…Read full reviewClose full review
We LOVE Hakuna Matata! We had a bad experience with a previous board and train, and I think Hakuna Matata took our anxiety into account. The staff is extremely friendly and our dog took to them very fast, and she's usually a bit skittish with people. We got photos every day, training videos about every other day, and a lot of small progress updates. My dog Polar is still the goofy puppy she's always been, but it's a night-and-day difference in her training. They taught voice and hand signals for all the basic commands. They have a great philosophy on e-collar usage. Polar will now sit, stay, heel, come, touch, go to her crate, etc with little to no issues, that will only get better with time. Use Hakuna Matata! They're incredible and you'll be happy you did it! -Christian
I could not say thank you enough times for the work that Hakuna Matata did with our reactive, overstimulated pup. They've been incredibly caring throughout our training process and so supportive in follow ups after our initial 2 week stay. I am continually amazed at the work they've done and how much more manageable our pup is in scenarios that were previously a huge hassle. Thank you guys!
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