Marvin Pierce Dog Teacher LLC

We would highly recommend Marvin Pierce Dog Teacher to anyone interested in serious and effective dog training. We currently have a one year old Portuguese Water Dog. Thanks to the excellent training we received at Marvin's we are able to take her to public places, trails, restaurants, indoor and outdoor events with no concern about her reactivity with people or other dogs. She recalls well and obeys all basic commands.

This was a good investment! We got a special breed puppy and then found out we were expecting baby #3! 5 weeks before baby was due, we met Marvin and the team and he was able to take our giant 15 month old Anatolian Shepherd right then. Their progress reports were always that Shep was doing great, way better than we expected since he had so much separation anxiety. We visited for a day of training and practice after 2 weeks and he was near perfect. After one more week of his training there, we brought him and seriously he was a new dog! Immediately issues we had before the training like no boundaries, mouthy-ness, stubbornness, no recall, no heel (I really could keep listing things) were corrected. He tiptoed through our house out of politeness! I think the timing was great. For the last two weeks of my pregnancy, he was a perfect leash walker for me even with a giant belly. We did a lot of practice to continue his new skills and it was like I was walking a feather attached to his leash - the 150+lb dog! Then, the baby was born, and he did exactly what we wanted. Kept his distance! She’s 4 months old now and he still does not approach her unless we invite him, and he knows to be gentle and avoid her face. This is a giant dog that loves big, every human and small animal he can find, so he shows major restraint this way to respect our boundaries with the baby. He also won’t even enter our/baby’s bedroom unless invited. He comes to look in if she cries, but won’t step through the doorway. He has about 2.5 acres fenced but he still LOVES when we take him on his leash so he can practice. He is too big and too smart of a dog to not have good recall and boundaries with. My only regret is not bringing him to Marvin sooner. It’s been 6 months since Shep graduated training and I still am convinced I’ll bring any future puppies to Marvin again for training! I also think Marvin should expand on the dog board and train to host it as a retreat where the humans stay in cabins and get on the dogs’ schedules to also learn all the new things! Training for both!