Lucky Paws Dog & Puppy Training

Jessi from Lucky Paws helped me tremendously with our Boxer Mix rescue puppy. She came to us at 5 months with some challenging behaviors that she had not outgrown during the earlier puppy stages. Jessi is calm, patient and persistent with dogs. Our puppy responded so well to her and the methods that she taught me. Jessi went above and beyond for our puppy and was extremely responsive to all questions all the time which was so helpful when I was stressed and frustrated. We used in home training and the board and train for 4 days at Heather’s home. Our puppy went from a terrible leash puller to a great loose leash walker. She is learning how to read cues from other dogs thanks to her time at board and train with several other dogs. Lucky Paws made our puppy much more enjoyable to have in our home. I would definitely recommend Lucky Paws.

Heather is a great person, and a great trainer. There’s no doubt about that. I just had way too many bad experiences with her business to give it a positive review. I really wanted to, but when your 6 week course takes around 12 weeks. you’re bound to get frustrated.
I started on Thursdays.
Week one went great. It was recall class.
Week two was Valentines day. I showed up to class and the people at Ruff Love had to tell me how there was no class. It’s not a national holiday. with notification though having no class is completely respectable. but no email, or heads up the week before?
Week 3 I had to wait till the next monday to start up at the South Minneapolis location because all the dogs from NE graduated. That week went well.
Week 4 comes around and it was recall class. which was the same class I took week one. so that was basically a wasted week.
I’m confusing myself now. it was quite the fiasco but wait theres more.
Once I finally made it to week 6 (the final class) we were at NE again. Week 5 at NE went good waited a couple weeks to get the right class for class 6 (loose leash walking). Got into the final class and guess what. It was recall class again. Loose leash walking apparently was the week before. I left pretty angry from that class. Luckily loose leash walking was happening at the South MPLS location that Monday. So I was FINALLY able to finish up.
Now I’m at TCOTC and things are going great.

You can’t ask for a better dog trainer who is thorough, down to earth, successful in getting you the relationship you want between you and your dog.

We have an 8^th month old Labrador puppy and have used Heather for both group training as well as some private training sessions.
In the group sessions, Heather does a great job of teaching the basic commands and emphasizes why doing things a particular way with a dog works. Even though it is a group setting she keeps her classes small so she can help everyone. She does a great job of providing realistic scenarios to help enforce the training, for example, food and toy distractions when doing a recall.
We have used private sessions to address some of the unique issues our dog was having. We are very pleased with how Heather really evaluates what the triggers were for some of these issues and strategized the best way to correct them. We also like how her training is focused more on ‘training’ the owner than the dog.

We have the best trainer in town here! It’s really worth every single penny to learn about how to be a better puppy owner.
Heather is the trainer and she gives out super handy information, there is at class work, and homework, and we have learned so much. Also took one of her workshop intensives that was a Recall Workshop.
As I have explored and been to many Dog/​puppy events/​play groups etc, I am most impressed with Lucky Paws training/​and we will continue to attend all the fine classes that are offered!