Corey is a terrible dog trainer and from my interactions with him over the couple of months that we worked together, I get the sense that he's a terrible person as well. Let me take you on a journey. You're young and naive, you adopted a dog during the pandemic. The rescue told you that she is a very chill dog. She is, in fact, not chill. She is under-socialized and fearful of everything. You look for a dog trainer. Without doing any research, you accept your neighbors recommendation of Corey Harden K9. It is the worst decision of your life. We set up our consultation meeting at our apartment because one of our issues was resource guarding of the space. Our just rescued 8-month old dog Sona is a Shepherd mix, very guardy so she barks at the door and at any sound in the hallway. Corey came in and literally kicked Sona. She was so afraid that she peed in the apartment. After a few minutes, Sona did get used to his presence and began to display more soft, curious behaviors like sniffing and going up to lick Corey. So as obviously insane as the situation was, we went ahead and booked Corey as our trainer. We were stupid and overwhelmed - this guy's a professional dog trainer and says all this is normal, who we were to disagree. (All this to say, don't judge me for staying with Corey as long as I did. I need to emphasize again that I was a real life moron and knew nothing about dogs at the time.) We mostly wanted to work with Corey on leash manners. Sona pulled relentlessly on her martingale to the point that she was choking herself, and she will pull through that anyway. It made walks deeply unpleasant. She was also leash reactive. At our next session, we met at Prospect Park for a walk. Corey immediately put her on a prong and popped her VERY hard on the collar. Sona yelped loudly. Thinking back, Corey is lucky that Sona is a sweet dog and did not redirect at him for that. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with communicating with your dog that there are things you want/don't want, but he consistently applied unnecessarily harsh corrections. He wanted us to start our training with Sona at the Nethermead at Prospect Park during off-leash hours. Anyone that's been there knows its quite chaotic, dogs everywhere! At this point, only a couple weeks after rescuing Sona, we have not had time to form a relationship with her. Yet he ONLY wanted us to work her off-leash at the Nethermead, where Sona would just ignore us and ignore food/toys to dart off with other dogs. Then he would harp on us for not working hard enough? Again, thinking back, this is a horrible and dangerous approach. We should have been on a long line, probably on one of those patches of grass off to the side of the main field so the other dogs were in sight but she still had enough distance to focus on us. A few sessions like this was enough to convince us that Sona was untrainable and that we were horrible dog parents. The entire process left us feeling so defeated, and of course, Sona's obedience and fear aggressive behaviors got worse throughout the entire time. During one of our training sessions at the Nethermead, a man was walking towards us to get through the field. Sona immediately rushed to him and started barking at home, ignoring our recall and we were unable to redirect her with play and food. Corey was literally there, he witnessed this behavior and with a straight face said "don't worry about that man, dogs have a sixth sense so they can tell when someone has a bad vibe." Um, does this sound logical to you? Does this sound like something a professional dog trainer would say? Anyway, we clearly never worked on desensitization or counter-conditioning for her fear of strangers because Corey was delusional and convinced us that Sona is a medium that can sense vibez. Of the few things we did right with Sona, crate training is the one I'm most grateful for. Absolutely no credit goes to Corey for this because we crate trained her before we started working with him. However, I can credit him for undoing all of our crate training effort because he encouraged us to crate her and BANG ON HER CRATE REALLY LOUDLY whenever she barked at the door. What was once a nice, cozy, safe place to relax became a really confrontational space. Once, he took Sona for a pack walk. He brought her back an hour later with four bloody paws, she needed booties and couldn't really walk for more than 10 minutes outside for several weeks until they healed. After using six or seven of our ten session package, we decided that we're done. We never communicated with him again, ignored all his messages, and didn't even ask for the remainder of our money back. In the time that he worked with Sona, she went from friendly but anxious to straight up aggressive. I wish I could go back in time to before I worked with Corey, I believe Sona wouldn't have developed severe behavior issues it it wasn't for him. Sona is doing great now, we got a real trainer and she's thriving. read more

After HITTING my 7 month old puppy, he was acting like it wasn't a big deal at all. We had to rush him to a hospital, since he injured his eye very badly. Corey promised that he will take care of all the hospital costs. After sending him the bill, he told us that he is willing to pay 1/4 of the amount. We told him that we won't accept that and that we would at least want a refund for the 5 sessions remaining. Haven't heard from his since. Terrible and a very scary experience. read more

Corey Harden k9 - Dog Walkers Near Me

Corey is a great trainer. If your puppy gets sick or it rains and you have to skip a session or two good luck with rescheduling with Corey. He is hard to get a hold of and is unresponsive to text messages. I paid for 10 sessions in advance and only received 6. So disappointed! read more

I never write bad reviews, but I had a very unprofessional experience with Corey that deems attention. I signed up to train my dog for 8 sessions with him. After the 6th session, Corey offered to board my dog while I was planning to go out of town in a couple weeks. Corey unfortunately became unresponsive to all calls/texts starting three days before my trip, and I had a chaotic time trying to find an alternative to boarding my dog. It was very shocking given that he provided reliability and consistency before this incident, and months later I still have not received any follow-up. I also still have two sessions left with him that I paid for. I have never experienced such sudden unprofessionalism from a trainer. read more

Corey is a pro. Our dog was having some fear-related issues with leash walking on the city streets, as well as some anxiety about moving to our new apartment. In one session Corey was able to identify the problem, develop a framework to address it, and teach us the skills to keep practicing on our own. He is non-judgemental and no-nonsense. Highly recommend! read more

Corey has been helping me with my shepherd Odin since he was 6mos. I always get compliments on his training and whether we are working on tricks or behavior Corey always has some little gem of knowledge or thinks fast on his feet and Odin and I are off to the races once again. You will get results! read more

Corey Harden is a dedicated, skilled dog trainer--well actually he trains the dog's people as much as the dog. I learned how much dog training is about the relationship with the dog's carers.He has lots of strategies and is a very skilled diagnostician. And you can tell he cares about dogs even though he avows that they often make bad decisions if left on their own! read more

I've worked with Corey ever since my dog was about 1 years old. While my goldendoodle was already pretty well trained, working with Corey helped create better habits and better behavior. We even worked on agility training which he absolutely love. Though my dog no longer train with Corey on a regular basis, my dog always runs up to him at the park which excitement and love. Corey is intuitive with dogs and humans. You'll learn quickly working with Corey that it's while yes it's training your dog, but more so its training the owner :) Any behavioral issues to date, I always consult Corey and he is happy to give insight. read more

I very seldom write negative reviews. This review is on the lack of professionalism of Corey Harden. We have a 14 week pup who we wanted to get trained. Our neighbor suggested we use Corey's service. We were skeptical as he had no paperwork- insurance, contracts etc. however, we decided to give him a go. We were traveling and solidified a meeting day and time for on boarding. It was Friday Nov 22nd at 7:30pm. My husband and I both rushed to our house to ensure we were on time to meet with him. At 7:26pm (4mins before meeting time), we receive a call from Corey stating that he will not be coming because he has no space for our pup. You can imagine the devastation as we had stopped all search in anticipation of having him board and train our pup. He seemed to think there was nothing wrong with calling a client 4 mins before an appointment to say I can't DO IT!.. willing to give another opportunity, we decided to board our pup with our veterinarian and arranged for Corey to pick him up on Dec 2 when he said his schedule opened up. We spoke to him letting him know we had placed his name down and all was set for the pick up. On Dec 1 we reached out to Corey as we realized we hadn't heard from him in regards to terms, conditions, payments etc. On The morning of Dec 2, we receive a response in text, saying : I didn't hear from you so we took on another client!... We got on the phone with him and asked why wouldn't you contact us to request payment and follow up when all arrangements were made. Corey seemed absolutely oblivious to this lack of professionalism. Totally explains why there is a lack of paperwork. Can you believe the unprofessionalism! A business who cancels and who does no follow ups. Absolute disregard for clients. Save yourself the trouble, time and money! read more

Corey has been working with me and my husband and our small Chihuahua mix dog Logan for a bit over one month. Logan is a smart and trainable but fierce dog whose bite is much stronger than he looks, and is fear-reactive on leash and toward puppies. He has a very strong hunting drive and has run off from us while off-leash many times. This is our 4th round of training, and the first one through which we have seen not only measurable improvement in Logan's behavior but growth in our relationship with him and a deeper understanding of him and his needs. What we immediately loved about working with Corey is not only did he take our small fierce dog seriously, but he also emphasized bonding and communication will him as much as correcting his behavior. Corey worked within our comfort zone, made me feel heard and comfortable expressing my concerns, gave a space for stress release, and helped us find a way to correct Logan using only correction tactics with which we felt comfortable. Today Corey told us something that will stick with me forever and could not feel more accurate: "your relationship with your dog is the most honest one you will ever have." We cannot recommend Corey enough - we have already referred people to him who have now themselves had the privilege to work with him and see their relationships with their dogs grow under his guidance. Corey is flexible and generous with his time and deserves more praise and payment than he would ever ask for. read more