The Canine Coach - St Paul

We took our 6mo old puppy to Obedience 1. Only 1 trainer was supposed to teach the class, but we ended up with 3 different trainers over the course of 6 classes. We chose Sadie after observing her lead a class, but she moved to a different location after 2 sessions and mentioned that Brittany would be be teaching the rest of the class, which would have been fine. But we go to class 3 and Courtney is there instead. Class 4, I believe Lauren shows up and says she'll be there for the next two classes. So we had a total of 3 different trainers teach Obedience 1. By the last class, less than half of those who started the class bothered to show up to complete it. If we had learned something completely new for our puppy from this level 1 class, it would have been a silver lining, but the bare basics were taught in this class and we had already spent the month before covering almost everything that was taught in class. At least we got to use the class as reinforcement training for what we taught our puppy with distractions. Ultimately not worth the time or money.

I have a highly intelligent Portuguese water dog with a strong work drive. He is quite the challenge to keep mentally stimulated! I have taken classes with him at several different facilities/companies and my favorite trainers have all been at The Canine Coach in Saint Paul. They are very intuitive and pay close attention. They always use positive reinforcement, marking behavior techniques and are highly effective! For someone with a very demanding, high maintenance breed, I REALLY appreciate that! My daughter has also used The Canine Coach for her pitbull mix and has nothing but good things to say about all of her training experiences with them. I would go out of my way to use them for my training needs in the future.