K9 Team Training

Samantha and K9 are the best trainers anywhere around - hands down. I’ve been in the dog training world for over 30 years and worked with many trainers across the United States. when I met and worked with Samantha, I was at ease. We finally found our person. As Samantha teaches us, dogs are just being dogs. Most of what we’re working on is how we humans Can support them and give them clear, healthy boundaries. And in just six sessions, our highly anxious rescue, quickly became the most well-behaved, happy, calm dog around! We not only have the best behaved dog in our entire town with an almost perfect recall off leash, but will we will be singing Samantha‘s praises and keep coming back to her for future training!. Next on our list is agility! Her property is amazing - they have everything from indoor training with limited stimulus to outdoor training to reenact a dog’s natural life. Her knowledge, expertise, wisdom, experience, and excellent communication skills make her one of the best trainers I’ve ever worked with. She’s not only incredible with dogs, but she’s incredible with people too. My wife and I each had very different styles. She worked with us to get on the same page so that our dog had the clearest, best training and communication possible. It’s even improved my communication and parenting skills with my wife :-) I couldn’t be more grateful and would highly recommend her to anyone and everyone!

My 2-year-old cavapoo Poppy had never been away from me for more than a night or two, so I was quite nervous when a two-week vacation came up, our dog-sitter cancelled last minute, and all the places I used to take my previous dog to board (Patty's, Rhinebeck Animal Hospital, and All Creatures) are all no longer doing boarding. Ack! Thank goodness for K-9 Team Training. TJ and Sam are great, and the grounds are beautiful, and they clearly have a good routine there. Poppy doesn't speak English so she can't confirm this, but just based on her demeanor, I'd say she had an amazing time at "sleepaway camp" and was tired, healthy and happy upon her return home. (The only thing I wished was that they would send pics or I could see pictures of her on Facebook or something while I was away, because I missed her, but that's a ME problem, not a them problem -- I did email halfway through the trip and got a nice email back with an update on how she was doing, so that was reassuring!)

Our GSD puppy Rayna attended the 3 week Dream Dog training program and we could not be happier. Samantha was professional, responsive and reassuring throughout the process. Our Rayna is now listening, healing and just delightful. Recently we had a minor setback with leash frustration but I reached out to Samantha and she guided us through what to do. Happy to say Rayna and I are both enjoying our leash walks and she’s living her best dog life! Thank you K9 Team Training!