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The Liberated K9

Kirkland, Washington

5/5· 18 Google reviews

About The Liberated K9

At The Liberated K9, we specialize in compassionate, custom-tailored dog training that empowers both dogs and their humans. Whether you're working on leash manners, confidence building, reactivity, or everyday obedience, we create a personalized plan that meets your dog where they are, and helps you both thrive. Our focus is on real-life results through relationship-based, motivation-driven methods. Training is available in-home or in your neighborhood, making it practical, effective, and deeply connected to your everyday life.

Training & services

Training goals

  • Leash training
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  • Obedience training
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  • Recall training
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Behavior support

  • Aggression training
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  • Fear and confidence
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  • Reactivity training
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  • Resource guarding
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Dog age

  • Puppies
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Your dog’s background

  • Rescue dogs
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Customer reviews

Google listing
5
out of 518 Google reviews

Mentioned in reviews

  • behavioral issues 4
  • leash pulling 4
  • aggression issues 3
  • dog behavior issues 3
  • resource guarding 3
  • interacting with dogs 2
All 10 topics
  • reinforcement 2
  • rescue dog training 2
  • successful methods 2
  • training tools 2

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18 collected reviews

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Samantha Stewart
5/5

We contacted Marisa to help with some behaviors for our 3 year old dog Smokey. We noticed an immediate change within a few sessions! Smokey is now fully recall trained, place trained and e collar trained. Marisa has been so awesome, helpful and her methods successful. I would highly recommend working with Marisa!!

Dave Kaylor
5/5
Marisa is an absolutely amazing trainer. We were struggling with our Bernese Mountain Dog puppy particularly around biting. I've got grandkids and that behavior is unacceptable but we were really struggling to curb it even though otherwise our girl Valkyrie is highly trainable. N…Read full reviewClose full review

Marisa is an absolutely amazing trainer. We were struggling with our Bernese Mountain Dog puppy particularly around biting. I've got grandkids and that behavior is unacceptable but we were really struggling to curb it even though otherwise our girl Valkyrie is highly trainable. Not only has that behavior all but entirely stopped at this point, but Valkyrie is now amazingly well behaved in almost every situation. Marisa doesn't just train your dogs, she helps teach you how to communicate with them and provides an arsenal of tools for continued consistent training. I really can't recommend The Liberated K9 enough. In the span of 2 months, Valkyrie's behavior has drastically improved and everyone who interacts with her comments on it. In fact as I type this, Valkyrie is laying politely laying at my feet in the middle of a busy cafe, holding her "down" perfectly. Marisa focuses on exactly what you want worked on, she makes an effort to observe the behavior you're experiencing with your pup by coming to you, she listens, and she's always open to help out. If I could rate higher than 5 stars I would.

Amy Fraser
5/5
Marisa is wonderful! My dog Colt is a good dog but I've had issues with him pulling on walks and taking him for a real hike has made me nervous because of his pulling. With the consultation alone, he has made improvements. Marisa showed me what to do, why and I've been working wi…Read full reviewClose full review

Marisa is wonderful! My dog Colt is a good dog but I've had issues with him pulling on walks and taking him for a real hike has made me nervous because of his pulling. With the consultation alone, he has made improvements. Marisa showed me what to do, why and I've been working with him for 2 weeks now and let me tell you, I think we are almost ready for a proper hike. My 9 year old niece was able to walk him by herself for the 1st time and he walked right beside her and didn't pull at all. Huge win since not even my boyfriend was able to walk him before without being dragged. Colt is an 8 year old shepard/mal mix and about 85 pounds. Who says old dogs can't learn new things?

Emily May
5/5
We had two 5 year old male dogs with some behavioral issues and resource guarding. Marisa came in with so many great tips and tools to help our situation. She really showed us how we should be interacting with them in our home. Within 3 weeks we had gone from being nervous to hav…Read full reviewClose full review

We had two 5 year old male dogs with some behavioral issues and resource guarding. Marisa came in with so many great tips and tools to help our situation. She really showed us how we should be interacting with them in our home. Within 3 weeks we had gone from being nervous to have people over, to having the dogs calmly lay down in place while people came through the door and walk peacefully on the leash. Could not thank her enough for being friendly, understanding and helping us so quickly!

Paul Yahnig
5/5
My wife and I adopted a 4 year old rescue that is a Boxer/Pitty Mix (Storm). She was high strung and was having issues resource guarding. We did a web search and found Liberated K9. We reached out for information and help. Marissa got back to us quickly and we had our first in ho…Read full reviewClose full review

My wife and I adopted a 4 year old rescue that is a Boxer/Pitty Mix (Storm). She was high strung and was having issues resource guarding. We did a web search and found Liberated K9. We reached out for information and help. Marissa got back to us quickly and we had our first in home session 2 or 3 days later. Marissa was able to immediately help identify what we can do different, gave Storm some training...as a result Storm was able to become comfortable around our senior dog as well as being able to stop resource guarding. Marissa is amazing! She is a true dog whisperer.

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