After our first 4 classes, we can't say enough good things about the North Idaho School of Dog…read moreObedience now in 2025. The business has undergone recent changes and is now run capably by Joy Jones who provides excellent services. Joy turned around our puppy problems and now we can go places.

I took my Black Lab puppy here to get some training here for a six week course. It was adequate…read moreenough, but I felt that the groups were too large (about 20-25) and that the owner/main trainer had her three "favorites" that she spent most of her time with. If I decided to continue my boys training, I would definitely try another place.

Grace, of Doglink Training does a wonderful job and I'd highly recommend her for your dog training…read moreneeds. She is knowledgeable and personable with both you and your dog and her training approaches are awesome. Your dog will learn quickly, you will learn quickly; in my specific case I adopted a 6 year old German Shepherd he loves his training time with her. Grace has helped spark some additional bonding/understanding with my dog and I, building confidence in both of us.

Grace is working with us currently with our new Sheltie pup. She is very knowledgeable and…read morecustomizes her style to our dogs' personality. I could not recommend her more highly.

Excellent experience with our 10 month old American Bulldog! Wyatt is our third AB from the same…read moreline, but he was more stubborn and physically stronger than the past ones. Aaron and Amy did an excellent job understanding what we needed/wanted out of him. The board and train program was not only effective, but Wyatt was treated like family while with Aaron. His recall off leash, place bed, and manners are excellent. Highly recommend!

Valor K9 Academy is the best around. Our whole family benefited from the private lessons and group…read morelessons. Without the skills that we learned from Valor K9 Academy we would not have the four family pets and one livestock guardian dog that we have.

We've been working with Darcey, Rick and Kim since July and have had an absolutely wonderful…read moreexperience with them! They are extremely knowledgeable and honest in their approach. We adore the two pups that we now have in our family and words cannot express the depth of appreciation we have for their kindness, generosity, and drive to help us succeed. They know their stuff. We have learned so much and appreciate their honest approach in "training us" to uphold the training our pups are receiving because training an animal is not like sending it off to school and hoping for the best, it's a team approach with the whole family involved. I have no doubts we'll have the best dogs (we already get so many compliments, and I'm convinced an entire store has now fallen in love with our pups from their daily walks).

I had an amazing experience with Darcy before I purchased my puppy Asani from her. She has…read morecontinued to have amazing communication even after my baby came home. I couldn't have asked for a better more caring breeder. I was super impressed with the care of her adult dogs and puppies as well. Thank you Darcy for what you do

Don't believe the tag-line "Trained or You Don't Pay" / GUARANTEED Training Results" on the…read moretraindontcomplain.com website as it's a total sham. We paid Jim Sosler over $1600 to get help with our dog who had a recent aggression issue and after 2 months of personal sessions at our house his command obedience had hardly progressed and was continually non-compliant for Jim. Jim became increasingly frustrated and proceeded to blame my husband for not doing the 'homework' commands when in fact he was. The last session at our home Jim offered to give us a refund but I wanted to give it one last shot at an alternate venue that wasn't our home. My husband showed up late due to direction miscommunication and when the lesson didn't go well again he suggested splitting the difference of the refund with Jim. He also went on to let Jim know the accusatory emails he sent blaming my husband for lack of progress (totally unprofessional) wasn't appreciated. Once Jim heard that he retorted we'd "have to take him to small claims court to get our money back and he'd subpoena our dog as proof". I officially terminated our training arrangement via email and requested a refund of what I thought was a more than reasonable request --- less hours spent + fuel costs --- to which I have never gotten an acknowledgment.

I wish I would have seen Yelp before I hired Jim. I am having the same issues as everyone else…read morehere. I am now preparing my small claims case in bonner country. If anyone has been to court with similar issues on not training your dog and them blaming it on you please contact me at charliedeltapj@gmail.com If you are going to file a claim against him you can contact me and I will share what the courts say in my case and post here.

GeeGee has been training my dogs since 2021. I can not recommend her enough. She is very…read moreunderstanding about every unique dog, situation, and owner. She is caring and thoughtful about her approach to training and assisting in the dog's successfulness. I have watched her help dogs grow their confidence and become good k9 citizens. I have also gotten the pleasure of watching the owners of these dogs step up and take ownership of their dogs behaviors. My dogs are better because of her (still spoiled but better). My dogs loved going to "school".

Gee Gee is a phenomenal trainer. Originally a Seattle based trainer, I have had both my Husky and…read moreLabrador Retriever trained by her for the last few years. She takes the time to educate on understanding the dogs' cues and helped build a better bond between my dogs and I. i highly recommend Gee Gee for dog training!

Love, love, love this place!! Such big space for all the dogs to play in. They have so many sizes…read morekennels for overnight stays and both our dogs can be in one unit. They are very aware of our dogs personalities and more than once we've come in and our dog was up in the front office with the employees. They said she was acting anxious so they took her away from the other dogs for a few hours. They also have a large separate space for an optional "enrichment activity" during lunch time. If you sign you dog up for it then they have fun obstacle course, hide and seek etc for your dog to do for an hour. In addition to the small dog, large dog play areas there is also the Zen Den for older dogs or ones that need a mellower place. Each of the three areas have a outside door so they can play outside on turf. In the summer they have kiddie pools for the dogs to keep cool. We like that they are open 12 hours a day so when we go skiing on a Sunday we have time to enjoy family time and still get back to collect our dogs. We love Dawn, Katie, Gin, and how much they care and know our dogs. It's a large facility and room for them all.

We are out of town visitors and our dog was at this kennel for day care. When we arrived we were…read moretold that our dog was given to someone else. We were never called and notified. There are mistakes made but we should have been notified. The stress is unbelievable. Needless to say we will not return. Don't leave your family treasure unless they can explain their policy of identifying your dog from someone elses.

Duncan did great w groomer. He can get spooked but was just fine. Very pleased. Plus we went over…read morecouple time for nail trim. Got right in !! Thank you

My dogs use to hate going to the Groomers...they now love it!! Starling gives the perfect amount of…read moresnuggles to make my pup feel comfortable. She listens to my requests & executes them flawlessly. What really hooked me (besides the outstanding professionalism, care & love) was she was honest! My pups first visit he had a lot of matting, and she called me & we developed a plan. Now his coat is beautiful & he's on the perfect spa schedule.