Canine Cooperation

I met Katie Ricks a while back to help out training a rescue dog received from California. She helped greatly in taking in this dog and teaching it how to properly be around other dogs and how to behave properly with just basic obedience things (waiting to be let outside/​being able to put food in front of her with out her snatching it away/​sit-​stays/​leash work). She posts many many photos of the fantastic work she does and she is very respectful when it comes to giving advice and helping others with their dogs. Will def recommend Katie to anyone I know that needs help.

Katie Ashby is a very good trainer. She has helped me personally with my service animal. I have severe issues with going out into public places and she has gone above and beyond to meet me at different locations at different/​flexible times even. She has never been overly rough with any of my dogs (my service animal and emotional support dog). She has never tried to get me to train in a way I was uncomfortable and she would ALWAYS ask for permission before she took over the leash or tried any different methods of training (collars/​treats/​outings). Katie is very dedicated and educated when it comes to training service animals and even basic obedience in household pets. She is the first person I call to ask when I have a question and she is always willing to help.

I had a «training session» (I use the term loosely) with this trainer when she was passing through my state. There were a few items I wanted to work on with my 16 month old Service Dog in Training that was just starting her Public Access training. She was supposed to work with us for an hour. In total I think she only worked with us consistently 20 minutes. Within 5 minutes of working with my puppy, she put a prong collar on my pup (she had never worked in one before, but the trainer didn’t like the way she was acting in the head collar I had been working her in). The trainer corrected my puppy for sniffing the ground so hard that my dog shut down. It took me several minutes & lots of treats to get her to start acting slightly like herself again (my pup is a high energy, highly confident dog that had never shown any fear of anything before this «trainer» got a hold of her). After the «training session» she told other people that met up with us (we were suppose to go out to dinner & a movie or bowling afterwards for more training, but she canceled) that I ruined the outing by not listening to what she was telling me to do (basically she was telling me to give my dog harsh corrections for very slight infractions). I would never trust this woman with any dog, ever!

I was to be purchasing a fully trained Service Dog from Canine Cooperation. The Service Dog was a 1 year old greyhound mix. I was to pay Katie Ricks of Canine Cooperation $ 3000 for the dog. He was not even half as trained as I had been led to believe he was. He had some issues that I had already known about, but when I actually got him, I got to see to what extent the problems were. As a disabled person that 100% relies on the use of a fully trained Service Dog, it was a complete setback for me to have to do ALL of his training myself to work through many of those issues. If I had wanted an In Training Service Dog, I would have gone with getting a puppy like I had originally been going to do.Mrs. Ricks had assured me that he was fully trained and ready to «hit the ground running». I have facebook chat messages between her and I attesting to this. Yet, a fully trained Service Dog is not what I got.

Worst trainer ever. Uses prongs on dogs and yanks on them with no remorse when it damages the dogs skin and causes the dog to have to go to another trainer to fix the issues she caused.
She caused damage to my dogs neck and then told me I couldn’t prove she caused the damage to my dog. In other words she really doesn’t care that she abused my dog, punctured his skin with a prong. All she cared about was $$
Also boards dogs and keeps them locked in small crates all day and night.
If you love your dog avoid this place.