Get Pawsitive Dog Training

We met Sarah at Rancho Coastal Humane Society when we took an orientation class to volunteer with the rescues at the facility. We have an adorable Bichon that we adopted 7 months ago, and he is the perfect dog except for one major thing… peeing in the house! We have a doggie door, he gets walks every day, he gets a lot of attention as my husband and I are both retired. I’ve had dogs all of my life and always thought I had a pretty good handle on training, however we were both getting so frustrated about what to do with our Tucker boy. We finally bit the bullet and called Sarah for a training session. All I can say is WOW! She is absolutely amazing and in 1 hour she gave us so much information and gave us ways to train Tucker that absolutely made sense. It’s been almost 3 weeks and he has made us proud parents… not once has he lifted his leg in the house. Woohoo! We are thrilled. Our only regret is that we waited so long to call her. I am confident that any behavioral issues can be corrected when you use her method of training. Everything is definitely very pawsitive. We have another rescue that we were training to be a therapy dog and we used a different trainer. While we accomplished what we wanted, in retrospect, it took 6 1 hour sessions and her method of training was so much more difficult than Sarah’s teaching. I wish we had known Sarah 2 years ago when we were training Bella. I give Sarah 5 «paws up». Can’t recommend her enough.

I can’t express enough how fortunate we feel that we found Sarah and had her come to our home and work with us on helping with our dog’s behavior! We have a deaf French bulldog who has some serious anxiety issues which had worsened with the arrival of a new puppy. We really didn’t know if this was ever going to work. Sarah came over and basically showed us that many of the things that we thought could possibly help our dogs was actually probably making things worse. She has really changed our thinking on how we need to go about getting the good behaviors out of our dogs. After just being at our house for 15 minutes, we already noticed a difference in the reactions of our stressed out Frenchie. She showed us how to calm him and what to look for from him as signs that he is really trying to relax. It was amazing. I have always felt that my Wife and I were pretty good at raising our dogs but having Sarah come over and open up a whole new mindset to our training is really going to benefit our dogs and us!!! We have used a few trainers before this but were never satisfied that we were really were learning anything ourselves or helping our dogs to the extent of which we would have expected. For the first time we really feel like we hit the jackpot! I would recommend Sarah to anyone looking for help with their dog (s). She is extremely friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. We went from being very discouraged with our training of our dogs to very optimistic within a couple of hours. She showed us how our dogs could act with the correct approach.
…and the greatest thing about this whole experience is that she uses 100% positive reinforcement!!! I didn’t think this was possible until I actually saw it and then it all made sense.
We will definitely be staying in touch with Sarah and using her in the future with our dogs. She will be the top name on our list when we are asked to refer a trainer.

Sarah was recommended to me by Rancho Coastal Humane Society. I foster dogs for them. I found my dog whisperer when I had a wild. little mixed dog impossible on leash. He was about 3 and had never been walked. Sarah worked with me and within a couple of weeks he calmed down and was a changed dog. No harsh words, pronged collars– just love and patience and reward. Sarah really cares and understands what a dog feels and how to fix the problem. I recommend her highly. Whatever your problem (and especially older rescues that may have been abused or never trained) Sarah can help. She is special and will make your dog with interaction on your part, a wonderful companion and family member!!!

Sarah does a great Job of working with each dog and handler individually. She adjusts her style to the client and is obviously passionate about what she does.

Sarah came to my home and helped me work through some specific behavioral issues I was having with my sweet Kona. With her expert guidance, we’ve been making great strides! Kona and I understand each other much better thanks to Sarah!
We give her 5 «woofs»! :-)