Board N Behave

I took my 4 year old male Aussie yesterday to Boardnbehave. Farren in just that one session I had with her showed me some things to watch for when working with my dog.
Farren took control of my Aussie that is having some issues. I look forward to more training with her. My dog is learning and so am I.

Our 7 month old Caviler came home after a two week board and train with Farren and we left the next day on a camping trip. I knew she could follow some important commands at Farren’s home, but could she do it with me in a new environment? She TOTALLY could! No jumping on strangers, she waited and recalled reasonably well for as puppy in a very stimulating environment, and she followed my lead. When we came home, the next day we set boundaries around the house; she understands and respects them! I’m so excited! This is our first dog and I’m not a big animal person so I’m a total novice and easily frustrated by «naughty» behavior. Farren was great about finding out what was important to me and making additional suggestions to make life with our new family member run smoothly. She made sure Tesla and I BOTH were trained, and was very patient with my inexperience and million questions. She is professional and passionate about her work. I’m so glad I found her!

Farren is amazing! My 10 month old GSD has been doing so much better with his reactivity after only two days with her. She knows what she is doing. I am convinced her enrichment program will help him tremendously! I highly recommend her! Her assistant is awesome too, very nice and seems to know what’s going on. I haven’t talked to her much, but she seems on it as well. I’m looking forward to having my pup spend a day a week with them!

Pharin is knowledgeable, caring, and kind. She took the needs of our whole family in to account and followed the course which suited us and our dogs.

The best place to take you dog for training. they are available any time you need them with questions or concerns. fantastic service!

I adopted a lab from Lab Rescue. I was referred to Farran for training. I needed help with leash reactivity and controlling my lab while walking. My lab would Unilocal at other dogs and wishes to play with them. Farran was helpful with giving me some strategies and worked with me how to handle my dog. I recommend one to one training as you learn how to work with the dog well. Thank you.

We are foster parents and volunteers for a lab rescue organization. Our first foster dog was in Farren’s care for nearly 6 months before our yellow lab came to stayed with us. Farren took the time to help us with this transition period, taught us how to address the dog’s issues, and how to properly use his special training collar. Farren clearly loves and looks after all the dogs under her care! Our foster dog has now found his forever home with a lovely, young couple, and this could not have happened without Farren’s help. This dog has come a long way, and he’s a truly, wonderful furry kiddo. Farren is very personable, professional, and down-​to-​earth dog behavioral specialist. We highly recommend her and will continue to use her services to help us again. Thank you, Farren, for everything you do!!! You are greatly appreciated.

I love this place and so do my fur babies. Farren is a great person and business owner. I have boarded my fur babies there twice now and she sends me pictures of them and they are always happy. And when I come to pick them up. I definitely recommend her.

During calendar year 2015, while I was President of Labrador Rescuers, we found Farren Mahone the owner of Board-​N-​Behave to be a great resource for a number of our dogs that had behavioral and socialization issues. Farren’s professionalism, knowledge, kind care and compassion resulted in great outcomes. I am taking my own adopted Lab, Declan to her at the end of the month for further work on his socialization issues. I recommend Farren most highly.

I brought my dog to her for the weekend, thought everything went well… My pup seemed extremely happy (and so was I) when I picked her up! I asked to book her again for another over nighter… and she told me to message her… I thought it was odd since I was standing in front of her asking to book it… I also indicated I would love a training session with my dog and she didn’t set that up either. I ended up sending her two messages, but she never did reply… If she didn’t want to watch my dog for what ever reason all she had to do was say she was booked up and full. I would never have known. Lol! But to tell me to message her and then not respond at all was an odd way of saying she doesn’t want my services. Very bizarre. But she honestly seems to know about dogs and from her other reviews, it seems she does a great job and it seems she really knows what she is doing. I just can’t give a 5 star for customer service like that.

We needed one night of pet boarding for our little family member, and Farren was super accommodating. We love the way she treated our little Bailey and will definitely be bringing her back when we had a future family excursions. Thank you Farren for your wonderful service, we look forward to having you watch Bailey again in the near future!

Farren helped our foster pup immensely! We had her for about a month, during which she exhibited significant food aggression, to the point that she attacked one of our other dogs, biting her multiple times on the face. After being with Farren for less than a week, and then with us following through on Farren’s training recommendations, we have had NO MORE incidents of food aggression. Farren additionally made suggestions which helped our foster pup with her separation anxiety and with her over-​bonding to one of our kiddos. She asked for a lot of information about the dog in advance of the her showing up to training, which was great! We felt like she truly cared about the well being of our foster, and her work with her and follow-​up recommendations were spot on. I feel like she really saved this puppy from what could have been a very disastrous path towards extreme food aggression and resource guarding. Thank you, Farren!!!

Farren has done wonders with our foster dog. We had been fostering him for 6 months, and noticed he had extreme leash reactivity to other dogs. Poor guy had never been socialized and was very anxious and overly excited around other dogs, which unfortunately made him less adoptable. He was placed with Farren and she got his reactivity down to almost nothing within one week. He became a much more confident dog and one that connects well to his handler. Farren is an excellent resource for «problem» (misunderstood) dogs. Highly recommend!

Farren has done such an amazing job with our puppy Gunner. We were EXTREMELY surprised when our dog had shown real change in his personality and obedience towards us after just one week of working with Farren. Three weeks into it we have a completely different dog walking around our house and we can’t be more thankful. Farren has by far proven to us that she would make it her life to do anything to train our dog to his fullest potential. I would recommend her to anyone looking to just have a dog sitter for a day or for anyone looking to turn their dog into a valuable part of the family. We couldn’t be more happy with Board N Behave!

Farren Mahone came highly recommended by other dog professionals as well as our local animal shelter. I have worked closely with Farren for over two years with three dogs for training, grooming and boarding. I regularly use her services for my hyper boxer/​pit bull mix for training and day boarding. After having a great deal of contact with her, I fully understand the high recommendation.
Farren is absolutely fantastic — professional, prompt, courteous and reasonably priced. She has a no nonsense yet compassionate approach to dog training. Entirely dedicated to her profession and to the success of her trainee dogs, I have never met a more effective dog trainer. My pit mix — Buddy — is quite energetic and dominant, and other trainers felt that training him to be less aggressive was impossible. Thankfully, I began working with Farren. In addition to working with Buddy, Farren also worked extensively with me, teaching me how to be an effective owner. Buddy and I now routinely walk together in pubic, and he is a nice, polite dog in public.
Farren has my highest recommendation.
Mark Johnson
Canyon Lake, CA

Farren is amazing with dogs. She can handle everything from basic obedience to very complex behavior issues. Farren also does amazing work with local rescue groups and should be considered for any of your training needs.

Our dog had a traumatic experience in her first home and has had a very difficult time with separation anxiety since we adopted her. On short notice, Farren took the time to learn and discuss our dog’s issues, then spent additional time getting to know us and our dog. She then accepted our dog for boarding for a week. She kept us informed of how our dog was doing and we were relieved to know all was well. We are very happy with Farren and her capability to care for our dog while we were away. We heartily recommend her services.

We left our puppy with Farren for four nights and I couldn’t be happier. We did a meet and greet before dropping her off which was great, to make sure she fit in with the environment. Farren LOVES what she does and it shows, which made me excited and trust her 100%. She sent pictures periodically which I loved. She’s very reasonably priced and very close to where we live. Will definitely be bringing Leia for day boarding to play and overnight boarding whenever we go on vacation. Definitely recommend her!

Our team at RescueWorks! continue to be impressed, not only with Farren’s endless devotion & compassion with one of our more challenging dogs, but her creative methods to reach our special girl. Because of Board N Behave, our dog is now ready for adoption and a new life. Thank you & Bless you Farren!!!

Farren has a true passion for pets and people. She helps people and pets have the best and most rewarding relationship. In addition to training and behavior, she offers boarding as well. This is her passion, and it shows in her work! You will love working with Farren at Board N Behave!