Bark Busters Reviews
What Bark Busters clients have to say about our dog training services
- 4.97 Average Rating Average rating 4.97 out of 5 based on 17983 reviews.
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99.7% 4 or 5 stars 99.7% rate their experience with Bark Busters as 4 or 5 out of 5 stars.
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99.6% Would Recommend 99.6% would recommend Bark Busters to their friends and neighbors.
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99.5% Dog Responded 99.5% think their dog responded well to the training.
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Mavel Becerra and Adam S.
12 months ago
— Mission Viejo, CA
Josh was punctual and very patient and thorough.
PermalinkVery amazed with our fist session!
Lea B.
12 months ago
— Suncook, NH
We started working with Mariah after a few scary incidences of sibling aggression between our 2 female rescue dogs at home. After working with Mariah for a few hours, it was very clear how knowledgeable she about her craft. She is patient and personable. Mariah answered all of our questions and provided us with the necessary tools to begin our in-home dog training program. She’s very responsive when communicating between visits. We have already seen some positive changes in our dogs after the very first visit and look forward to continue working with Mariah! Highly recommend Mariah and her team!
PermalinkJoanne G.
12 months ago
— Boston Northwest
Bonnie is patient, kind, and non judgmental. We have a challenging Boston Terrier and she has had many excellent ideas for adjusting his negative behavior. Doing the training in the home where the dog lives we thought was most advantageous. We would highly recommend Bonnie, and knowing she will be available for the life of the dog is really comforting.
PermalinkJocelyn O.
12 months ago
— Monterey Park, CA
We could not be more grateful for our trainer Kevin and our experience with Bark Busters! Kevin is an incredible trainer and we recommend/speak of him so highly our neighbor works with him now too!
PermalinkWe were in search of training for our two young rescue dogs with very different personalities and needs. Our pitbull is very high energy/excitable and exhibited signs of possessiveness when we introduced her sibling. Our heeler mix is very shy, slow to trust others and nervous around other people and dogs. Both of our dogs had issues with reactivity and resource guarding.
From the very first phone call, I felt a genuine care for our situation and liked that training was based more on an understanding/communication with your dog rather than techniques that were bribery, pain or fear based.
We like to think Kevin trained us. It was really eye opening to understand the ‘whys’ behind our dogs’ specific behavior and how to communicate with them more effectively.
Every time we work with Kevin, we work through a variety of training and exercises. He always listens through our concerns and provides feedback and guidance. If we had a recent specific incident or concern - he will try to work through the cause of those issues within the same session. He is incredibly present throughout our training and always makes himself available through text between sessions as well.
We still have work to do but have seen vast improvement in the following:
- We are able to do pack walks with minimal issues of pulling and reactivity (and techniques to minimize this when there are unexpected situations)
- We have worked on front door training and dogs are able to settle before greeting guests; we are also working through deescalating reactivity towards unexpected visitors/the mailman
- We have worked on implementing/respecting boundaries (personal boundaries such as doing things unintentionally on their time/demand and physical boundaries such as sitting and waiting at gates/doorways and not jumping on us/people)
- We’ve worked through impulse control and resource guarding by becoming more confident ourselves and giving the dogs their own safe spaces (like their crates for their meals)
Working with Kevin has helped bring our little family together and we honestly can’t thank him enough. My husband and I feel like a team working towards the same goals with guidance, direction and care. Our unit has gotten stronger and our dogs more confident, calm and closer than ever.
Jenny G.
12 months ago
— Leesburg, VA
Mark is amazing. Call him, you won’t regret it. We have a new rescue, Gunner, that is about a year old who came into our home and decided he was the boss. As lifelong dog owners, we just couldn’t get him to stop his nipping, jumping, and overall dominant excitedness. It was overwhelming.
PermalinkAfter our 3 hour first visit, our pup was fully submissive to us, listening amazing, and refused to nip or jump at all. I write this the next morning after we slept in our bed without the dog for the first time since he came home.
We couldn’t be happier with the transformation, and Gunner is so relaxed now that he doesn’t feel like he needs to run the place. Thank you Mark!
Janet & Rick B.
12 months ago
— Hobe Sound, FL
A very positive experience!!
PermalinkDebbie
12 months ago
— Boston North
Kayla from Bark Buster came to our house and was amazing to work with. She is very knowledgeable and taught us so much, we already see an improvement after 1 day.
PermalinkLuis
12 months ago
— South Saint Paul, MN
Omar is an Amazing Trainer – Highly Recommend!
PermalinkWorking with Omar has been such a great experience! We had worked with Bark Busters before and learned the basics, but Omar has shown us new, more effective, and less aggressive ways to make corrections. He really took the time to understand the issues we’re having with our two reactive dogs and came up with a training plan that’s easy to follow and actually works.
What I really appreciate about Omar is how patient he is—not just with our dogs, but with us as we learn these new methods. He walks us through everything step by step and helps us practice until we get it right. On top of that, he’s super personable and fun to be around, which makes the whole process even better.
If you’re looking for a trainer who truly knows what they’re doing and makes the experience enjoyable, I can’t recommend Omar enough!
Best Regards,
Omar
Isabelle S. .
12 months ago
— Meriden, CT
Michael is a dog whisperer!!! Our 2 year old mini bernedoodle Luna struggled with separation anxiety, reactivity, and leash pulling. She’s not a food motivated dog, so previous dog trainers could only help her do some tricks with food as a reward, but they didn’t address her overall behavior with that training method. Michael’s method of using the way dogs instinctually communicate is like magic! After just 10 minutes of training, Luna was acting like a completely different dog. She stopped doing behaviors she had been struggling with for 2 years in such a short period of time. Michael taught us how to be the leaders and how to help us set healthy boundaries that are good for us and for Luna. We don’t even need commands such as “come” or “look” for recall anymore after Michael taught us how to use our tone and body language to communicate with Luna. I’ve already been raving about this to anyone who will listen, and I can’t recommend his services enough!!
PermalinkLeticia P.
12 months ago
— Mission Viejo, CA
Josh was great, saw immediate improvement within the 1st hour. Can't wait to use what I learned as soon as possible.
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