Denver North Dog Training Services & Behavior Solutions
Aggression
Aggression in dogs can stem from fear, anxiety, territorial instincts, or learned behavior. It may show up as growling, lunging, or biting and can escalate if not addressed. Dog aggression training in Denver North focuses on identifying the root cause and helping you establish calm leadership and clear communication, reducing tension and creating a safer relationship with your dog.
Attention Seeking Behaviors
Barking, pawing, whining, or nudging for attention can become persistent if unintentionally reinforced. Dogs repeat behaviors that get results. Bark Busters Denver North teaches you how to set clear boundaries and reinforce calm, desirable behavior. Help your dog learn how to earn attention in positive ways.
Barking
Barking is how dogs communicate, but excessive barking often signals boredom, anxiety, frustration, or lack of direction. Whether your dog barks at noises, people, or when left alone, it can quickly become disruptive. Excessive barking training in Denver North can help you understand why your dog is barking and teaches effective ways to control it.
Crate Training
Crate training gives your dog a safe, secure space while supporting house training and routine. When introduced properly, it becomes a place of comfort, not confinement. Crate training in Denver North helps build positive associations so your dog feels relaxed and confident. It also eases separation anxiety and keeps your dog safe during travel, storms, or busy household moments.
Compulsive Behaviors
Compulsive behaviors such as excessive licking, spinning, or tail chasing may be linked to stress, anxiety, or frustration. These repetitive patterns can be difficult to change without addressing the underlying cause. Your local trainers can help identify triggers and provide structured guidance to reduce stress and help your dog develop more balanced behaviors.
Digging
Digging is a natural instinct, but excessive digging can signal boredom, anxiety, or unmet needs. Dogs may dig to release energy, explore, or find comfort. Sara can help identify the cause and use clear communication, leadership, and structured training to redirect behavior and support a balanced dog.
Jumping
Jumping often stems from excess energy, excitement, or unclear boundaries. While jumping may seem friendly, it can quickly become overwhelming or unsafe. Bark Busters Denver North helps teach your dog calm, polite greetings and better self-control through consistent communication and leadership, so they learn when to settle down and how to behave appropriately.
Nipping & Biting
Nipping and biting are common in puppies as they explore the world with their mouths, but without guidance, these behaviors can become problematic. Puppies don’t intend to be aggressive, they’re learning. Sara can teach you how to calmly interrupt unwanted behavior, avoid reinforcing it, and redirect your puppy to appropriate outlets like chew toys.
Potty Training
Potty training is one of the first and most important lessons for any dog. Accidents often happen due to inconsistent routines or unclear communication. Bark Busters potty training in Denver North provides simple, effective guidance to help your dog understand where and when to go, building good habits that last.
Puppy Training
With Sara, your puppy gets personalized in-home training to develop confidence, good manners, and positive habits. Puppy training in Denver North focuses on essential skills like crate training, potty training, leash walking, and obedience while building trust and establishing a strong foundation for lifelong learning.
Leash Pulling
Pulling on the leash can turn a simple walk into a stressful experience. Dogs often pull due to excitement, lack of structure, or instinct to lead. With Sara, you and your dog can learn loose-leash walking through clear communication, structure and trust, helping your dog walk calmly by your side.
Reactivity
Reactivity occurs when a dog has an intense response to everyday triggers such as other dogs, people, or noises. Barking, lunging, and excessive excitement are common signs. Reactivity may be driven by fear, frustration, anxiety, or a lack of confidence. Reactivity training in Denver North helps you understand your dog’s triggers and build calmer, more focused behavior.
Recall (Come When Called)
A reliable recall is important for your dog’s safety and your peace of mind. Dogs may ignore commands due to distractions, inconsistent training, or lack of follow-through. Recall training in Denver North can help you build a strong, dependable recall using proven techniques that encourage your dog to respond the first time, every time.
Resource Guarding
Resource guarding involves protecting food, toys, spaces, or other valued items. While it can be a natural behavior, it may escalate without proper guidance. Dogs may growl, snap, or become tense when they feel something valuable is being threatened. Sara can help you build trust and teach your dog to feel more secure around people and other pets.
Separation Anxiety
Separation anxiety occurs when dogs become stressed or distressed when left alone. It may lead to destructive behavior, excessive barking, pacing, or escape attempts. Separation anxiety training in Denver North helps your dog build confidence and independence through structured training, teaching them to remain calm, relaxed, and secure when you’re away.
Sibling Rivalry
Tension between dogs in a multi-dog household can lead to competition, conflict, or even aggression. These issues may stem from unclear structure or perceived imbalances in attention or resources. Bark Busters Denver North helps establish calm leadership and clear boundaries, creating a more peaceful and cooperative relationship between your dogs.
Socialization
Proper socialization helps your dog feel calm, confident, and comfortable in new situations. It’s more than exposure to dogs or people, it involves positive, controlled experiences that teach appropriate responses. Without proper socialization, dogs may develop fear or reactivity. Bark Busters Denver North uses structured exposure at the right pace to build confidence, encourage calm behavior, and teach your dog to look to you for guidance.
Dog Training Reviews & Testimonials
See what dog owners from Thorton to Greeley in Northern Denver have to say
...In our first session we learned how to take back control of the front door area through steps that were simple and extremely effective. An added bonus is both girls slept soundly for hours after training!
We are thrilled with how the first session went and look forward to learning more with Back Busters Denver North!
Sara’s program is almost too good to believe! There was immediate progress after just one visit with her. Our biggest concern was our dog’s behavior around our newly mobile baby and we’ve already seen huge improvement. I love that Bark Busters is respectful of the dog and doesn’t rely on treats and distraction or punishment. I would recommend to anyone!
I am so grateful for the time I spent with Sara. Her knowledge and training abilities are incredible, and I really appreciated her patience—not only with Kulu, but with me as well!
It became very clear during our time together that I was not being the alpha in my house, and Sara helped me understand how changing that will only strengthen my relationship with Kulu. By creating clearer boundaries and leadership, I can build even more trust with her, which ultimately means she gets to experience more freedom and do more fun things.
I also work with animals every single day, just in a different capacity, and I know the methods Sara taught me will carry over into my work with my own clients and my practice. That was an incredibly valuable part of our time together.
I truly encourage every dog owner to invest in training—not only for their dog, but for themselves. And if you live in the North Denver metro area, I highly recommend reaching out to Sara at Bark Busters North. You will not be disappointed. I am so grateful for everything she taught Kulu and me!
...I love that everything Sarah teaches us is practical, doable, and easy to incorporate into our everyday lives.
Before working with Sarah, I had so much stress and anxiety around Leia’s barking, feeding both dogs together, and walking Leia without her pulling or reacting to other dogs and distractions. Sarah has given us not only the tools to handle these situations, but also the confidence to use them. Things that used to feel overwhelming are now so much more manageable, and I feel confident that I know how to respond when challenges come up.
The difference this training has made for us has been incredible. Sarah is knowledgeable, supportive, and makes the training feel achievable rather than overwhelming. I would absolutely recommend Sarah and Bark Busters to anyone looking for help with their dogs!
...I'm so thankful Sara helped me find my voice with Baki. He is so happy with the consistency and prompts we give him. I never thought I'd be one of those dog owners that has my pup under control when people come over, we go on walks, or at dog parks. But here I am using the tools we got from Sara living my best life as a dog owner. I love that she involved our whole family. Baki is actually my son's dog but I spend quit a bit of time with him. We have had several dogs over the years and we've spent a lot of money training them, and I never had the confidence I have now with Baki. I wish we had used Bark Busters with all of our pups. Having good training just helps life run easier especially if you're busy. I'm so excited to keep watching Baki grow.
Sara is amazing. She was patient and kind with Zander and taught us too what we needed to do. She is an excellent trainer. Would recommend for your training needs!!! Thank you Sara!
Our trainer is Sara and she is a gem to work with! Our pups are sweet but one suffers from separation anxiety severely that often results in barking whenever we leave the apartment. First and foremost, you can tell Sara LOVES dogs and her job. She is so friendly but also knows when it’s time to get serious, both with us and the pups. We loved that Bark Busters approach isn’t a gimmick or special product. It’s simply teaching dog parents how to communicate with their dog in a manner that establishes to the dog that we (the human) are in charge. During the first hour or so, the sole focus was on us learning how to “speak dog”. This part was so important because it lays the foundation for the actual training so that we as humans better understand how dogs communicate. After ensuring we understood that, and answering a million questions, Sara began showing us the corrective technique (yes that is singular - one technique) that has changed the way we interact with our dogs and the way our dogs respond to us. No, this technique does not involve harming or physically hurting the dogs whatsoever, it’s purely a communication thing. Within minutes of applying the corrections, we began to see a shift in the way our Aussie engaged with us. She was looking to us for her guidance rather than the other way around. This included being in her crate, establishing boundaries physically (no jumping), and pulling on leash. So what’s the catch right? It’s not magic and it’s not a one time fix. Our first session was approximately two weeks ago and while the “issues” aren’t gone, here’s what’s changed.
1) barking when left at home: used to be 45 minutes to an hour of persistent barking that began as soon as we left - now is down to 15-30 minutes of intermittent howling that doesn’t start for about 10-15 minutes after we leave. Still lots of room for improvement but this is also the one we’ve been able to dedicate least amount of training time to. Why? Because we only correct her when she howls and since we began training, her intermittent howls can have gaps of up to 15 to 20 minutes. This means that in a best case scenario, we get 3-4 corrections in an hour of training and quite frankly, we don’t have a full hour to dedicate each night (yes that’s an us problem).
2) jumping and invading personal space: this has been fixed almost entirely. The only time it continues to be an issue is when the pups get really excited (someone new at the door or we get back after being gone for several hours) but only requires one correction and the pups back down.
3) pulling on least: before the dogs would “lead” approximately 4-6 feet in front and pull tirelessly. They now will stay in step, if not a bit behind. The Aussie is taking to this better than our yorkie, he’s still trying to lead at times but given a quick correction will step back. They are still easily distracted but we’re working on that. They definitely pay much more attention during walks and are looking to see if we are giving them feedback throughout.
4) barking at door when someone walks by outside or someone is at the door: God bless these dogs, they are protectors at heart. If they hear a sound at the door, they are in go mode. Sprinting and barking at the door. This is still their instinct, but with a single correction, they back away from the door and look to us to lead and handle the situation.
Let’s address the elephant in the room, have our dogs’ personalities changed? That is, do we just have robots now? Nope! The pups still love us, we’re still their best friends. They simply look to us as leaders now. We can provide a correction and within 30 seconds we’re back to cuddling our dog. They still give tons of affection and are just as energetic as ever.
We’re incredibly satisfied with Sara as a trainer and Bark Busters as a program. We can’t wait to continue seeing improvements with our pups, and ourselves as leaders! :)
Enjoy some pup pics.
Aussie: Coral, 4 yo
Yorkie: Ezra, 2 yo
Since finding out we were pregnant, we have been dealing with our dogs being very possessive of me. This was causing extreme anxiety with me and I was constantly having to keep them separate. Sara came in and showed us how to take our house back with learning to assert our dominance in a way our dogs understood! In such a short time I can't believe how well our dogs have learned to listen to us and understand our space as well as our dogs! I can't thank Sara enough for giving us the tools to start our dog training journey and ease my anxiety!
Sarah is simply amazing! Her approach to dog training is incredible. Today she came to help us work on our dog’s jumping behaviors, and by this evening, our dog hadn’t jumped up on anyone! She is patient and very thorough in explaining the techniques that she is teaching us and she answers all of our questions. She’s very quick to respond to text messages and to set up appointments when we need her to come for a visit. I am so glad I took the recommendation. I was given to call Bark Busters for training.
The training may feel odd at first, but is is so effective. My dog has separation anxiety and is reactive towards/distrusting of other dogs and people. After just one session Rookie was already a bit calmer, his demeanor has changed already. There’s a lot of consistent work for us to do, but for the first time since we got him, I finally have hope. And Sarah (the BB trainer in my area) is amazing, kind, and so easy to talk to. It’s worth the investment.
Sara was absolutely amazing, and we learned so much from her! We absolutely love her and this program! My boy zombie has separation anxiety and is reactive to other humans and dogs and in one session we are already seeing a change in his behavior. We are so excited for him to be able to be calm and carefree and live his life to the fullest! Thank you so much for training us to train him correctly!!!
Wow. What an experience. We had high hopes and expectations and all of them were exceeded. After 2 hours we had a completely different dog and we are determined to see this through to the end. Pepper will be a happy boy soon.
Awesome trainer!!!! Really appreciate how Sara knows how to train you can really tell she loves dogs and knows her stuff.
Google Review: Sarah is awesome!!!! I learned so much from her after only the first session. After only two days, Sadie is already learning what she is and is not supposed to do.
Google Review: Had our first training today at home with two Jack Russell’s and a miniature dachshund. The techniques felt like they were genuinely helping and we have a few weeks of training to go but I am confident that this will be successful. I will post an update in a few weeks as we continue on with training.
LIFE CHANGING!!! I thought I was going to have to rehome our dog…. Sara and her knowledge/insights saved my dog and kept the dog in our home!
The “Dog Behavior Specialist” (not a “dog trainer” that trains to sit and such) was amazing!
I adopted a large breed dog for safety concerns, and that dog ended up biting my mother when she entered my house without me beside her to introduce her to the dog - the dog bit ‘the stranger’ in the house to protect me. I knew this wasn’t a bite for no reason, but the dog was becoming more and more protective of me to visitors. Sara, the Dog Behavior Specialist, was able to show me how to be the dominant presence in my own home, and to take the fear of needing to protect me out of my dog.
In just a few hours Sara was able to stop the lunging, barking, and growling! We have been practicing what was taught to myself and my dog daily and have not had another incident (3 weeks now)! Sara was amazing at explaining to me the behaviors of my dog, taught me to “speak dog”, established me as the strong leader (that doesn’t need protecting) in my dog’s mind, and stopped ALL aggressive behaviors in JUST ONE VISIT!!!
I honestly was believing that I would have to relinquish the dog back to the shelter because of the aggression and the bite… but Sara TRANSFORMED my dog’s and my relationship so that the dog has become an amazing companion!
…and it is for LIFETIME of the dog! I have already contacted Sara after our first session to ask other questions and she has gotten back to me promptly! I have already set up a second session for more insights to having visitors over to my house as I am expecting company within 2 weeks - just as a refresher for Athena, my dog, and me!
I can’t thank Sarah from Bark Busters enough for her support with my dogs today. She was incredibly knowledgeable, patient, and understanding. A few times, I had tears in my eyes because, for the first time in a while, my dogs were actually listening, and it gave me so much hope and happiness. Sarah’s guidance was clear, effective, and tailored to our situation. I feel like I finally have the tools to help my dogs and create a more peaceful home. I highly recommend her to anyone needing help with their pets!
Sara was so easy to work with and was very patient with us when trying to "train" us to be effective dog parents. Several of her pointers have worked wonders with our puppy immediately, and other tips are going to take a bit more practice, as we found out after Sara left. It was a very comfortable and pleasant training experience overall and we will not hesitate to contact Sara with any questions or concerns we have during our training journey. Thank you, Sara, for giving us the confidence to tackle this most important task! We will be in touch soon!
Sara, our Bark Busters trainer did a fabulous job! She gave us thorough explanations, examples and lots of “hands on” practice. Both dogs (one is 14) are doing well with not barking. The front door and vacuum are the biggest challenges and we are making progress!
We couldn’t believe how much better our dog responded to our commands. The big surprise was how quickly we saw a great reduction in aggressive behavior. Thank you and we look forward to working with you over the next several months
We only had one session so far. That is the reason all issues have not been addressed yet. We have FULL confidence the other issues will be timely and appropriate for our training sessions. We were amazingly impressed with Holly at first sight. She thoroughly explained to us how we are like a wolf pack to our Toby Tabito. He is doing great! We hope to learn what we need to as his pack leaders. Thank you so very much Holly for your kindness and thorough help in just one session so far! We are so excited for the ease of this method! We promise to do our best to do the training correctly and daily!!!
We are still in shock at how quickly the first behavioral changes began and how impactful it has been for our dogs. After two years with these lovely sisters, food aggression and resource guarding became too much for us to handle. Holly came into our home and within minutes our pups were better behaved than the entire two years prior. They listen, understand our stance and commands, and are much more at ease around the house. We are no longer just those weird two-legged dogs they protect from ourselves, but rather we have become the leaders of the pack and everyone is happy. I have already shared Holly's success with so many people and will continue to recommend her! Can't wait for our next training together!
Holly has been incredible! We are first time dog owners and rescued a two year old Staffordshire terrier. Mr. TAZ. Leash pulling was his favorite on top of running away. Bark Busters was easy to get ahold of and provided high quality training in a short amount of time. Our furry friend no longer pulls or runs alway. Fun fact “Dog run away when they don’t have leadership in their current home.” Taz has been a blessing in disguise. Bark Busters specialize in aggressive dogs. Picture of Taz and Three playing on his last day of training. Bark busters is the best lifetime investment. Highly recommend.
I have nothing but amazing things to say about Holly. In just the 2 hour initial training we learned so much!! We recently adopted a German Shepherd who was struggling to fit into our pack. Turns out we were sending mixed signals which was in turn causing havoc. We finished the training feeling a sense of relief and a new confidence in our leadership skills. 🙌 We have emailed questions to Holly and she was quick to respond. We look forward to you 2nd session and are absolutely thankful we found Holly! 10/10 highly recommend!
Great day when I connected to Holly and Bark Busters. She is both professional and personable. Her skills at quickly sizing up the needs of owner and pet are remarkable, and much appreciated. In simple modeling and directions, she quickly had me getting the necessary behavioral outcomes with the dogs. Because of her encouragement, I am confident I can get my little pack on track. So pleased I decided to go ahead with Bark Busters.
I have alot of work to do but already seeing an improvement in both Dogs
Made working with our dog Gus much easier. We were able to get Gus on a leash and walking with no pulling and fighting. It was truly amazing. Gives us hope we will be able to have more enjoyable walks for a long time to come. Highly recommend Holly and Bark Busters!!
Holly was excellent to work with. She was able to show us how to get our dog to walk on a leash without pulling in the first visit. We had tried 3 other trainers from different facilities without luck. I would highly recommend Holly for any dog training issues. Much better understanding of how to work with our dog.
Holly is amazing! We received so much help just in the first 15 minutes of talking with Holly and explaining why our dog is acting the way they are and all the light bulbs started going off that explain the behaviors. The training was great and there was progress right away. The way bark busters trains is 100% the way to go!
Local Dog Training Services in Denver North and Surrounding Areas
Our dog training experts provide personalized, in-home dog training throughout Denver North
helping dogs and families overcome common behavior challenges, including barking, leash pulling,
aggression, separation anxiety, and puppy training.
Our service area includes: Atwood, Ault, Briggsdale, Brighton, Broomfield, Brush, Carr, Commerce City, Crook, Dacono, Denver, Dupont, Eastlake, Eaton, Evans, Firestone, Fleming, Fort Lupton, Fort Morgan, Frederick, Galeton, Gilcrest, Gill, Greeley, Grover, Haxtun, Henderson, Hereford, Hudson, Iliff, Johnstown, Julesburg, Keenesburg, Kersey, La Salle, Log Lane Village, Longmont, Lucerne, Mead, Merino, Milliken, National Park, New Raymer, Nunn, Orchard, Ovid, Padroni, Peetz, Pierce, Platteville, Roggen, Sedgwick, Severance, Snyder, Stoneham, Strasburg, Thornton, Watkins, Weldona, Westminster, Wiggins
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