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Amazing. Amazing results! Our dog is totally obidient . He stays in place, heels while walking, comes back when called. Chris is a great trainer who made our dog obeying all our commands on the first day out. Money well spent! Thank you Chris. Pure magic. I don’t know how it is possible! I would recommend extremely strongly - sign up your dog , you will be surprised how much your dog will learn. It totally exceeded my expectations.

I took my fun loving, one year, 3 month old puppy Gracie to see Chris and his team for the 21 Day Board and Train Program, and I am OVER THE MOON happy with the results! She had the normal puppy behaviors including zooming across all furniture, jumping up on people she greeted in and out of the home, and pulling constantly on the leash. Chris and his team helped make outings and even home life more enjoyable with this training. It was a night and day difference, and all my friends and family can attest to this!! You can truly see how much the team at Asheville Dog Academy cares for dogs and their ability to enjoy life to the fullest through this training. It relieves stress and uncertainty for both owner and dog. Chris has been there to answer all of my questions before, during, and after the process and provides 100% customer satisfaction. This process includes training the owners as well, and they have made me more comfortable in my abilities with our follow up sessions. I would recommend Asheville Dog Academy to anyone and everyone and honestly cannot say enough about how grateful I am to them!!

We rescued our dog in hopes of being able to take him almost everywhere with us and enjoy his company. He was a great dog from the beginning; however he needed some leash, stay, and place work. We found Asheville Dog Academy and decided to put Chance in the program. Chris and his team have a true love for the dogs and we could see that immediately. We picked him up almost a week ago from the 21 Day Board and Train program and have been so overjoyed with the results. I have had him out two days hiking and have been very pleased with him. We can all actually enjoy our time out. Chris and his team are great and 100% dedicated to your pups success. Thank you Asheville Dog Academy.

We have been amazed with results of the 21 day board and train program, hold on for a long review and the story of our pup. When our beloved German Shepard passed away from old age last year we decided to get another dog, a 6 month old golden retriever...meet Sampson! We were admittedly not prepared for the energy he brought into our household! We have two young kids (2 and 4) and while he was really sweet with them he was very rambunctious, mouthy, jumpy (especially at the door), and had really bad leash manners. He would also run away if given the opportunity. As he grew quickly to 80lbs he got very hard to handle and life inside the house was stressful. Releasing his energy was difficult since he was so bad on the leash...he would bite through harnesses, tug of war on the leash, jump and bite us, he even flipped our stroller with the kids in it. We are very active outside and my dream of a well mannered off leash dog seemed very distant, we couldn't even walk in the neighborhood! We met with other trainers and just weren't making progress, with a temporary move to Oregon coming up we were actually considering re-homing him. There was a dog in our neighborhood that had great manners who we watched walk on and off leash each morning, I finally stopped and talked briefly with his owner and found out he had been to the Asheville Dog Academy with Chris and the team. After talking with Chris we decided to sign up for the 21 day board and train, at this time Sampson was 10 months old. Luckily Chris was able to accommodate our schedule and get Sampson in quickly so we could be prepared for the move. During the 3 weeks Chris provided excellent communication with pictures each day and a few videos, what we saw was incredible. Chris also provided a great video series to prepare us for the hand-off as well. When the time came to pick up Mr. Sampson we were amazed at the change, we saw a strong recall, loose leash walking and healing, the ability to stay in place when commanded, and his jumping and nipping was almost non existent. It has been a little over a month since we picked him up and we have been working with Sampson daily to solidify training and help with generalization. Chris has been very supportive, answering any of my questions and meeting several times to help with my technique. Sampson is absolutely amazing now, it has been a game changer for our family, everyone is much happier. Sampson will stay in his place while the kids eat dinner or snack on the floor. He has a really nice loose leash heel and loves walking every day, we have even transitioned to off leash heeling both walking and riding bikes!! His off leash manners have been excellent he is now allowed to roam a bit in our driveway, front yard, and explore in the woods and creeks without fear of him running away. He is still the same pup with tons of energy but he has the ability to control it and will listen to us. We are truly impressed and others have noticed as well with many compliments on his behavior and disbelief at his age. We highly recommend the program, our expectations were exceeded!

We had an amazing time with Chris for our pup!! Our dog came in super crazy, and after training, our dog is so much more calm, happy and patient! It is truly like 2 different dogs and we are so grateful!! Awesome experience all around!!

We have a 1 year old , very active husky As you can imagine she was a handful! while very smart, she had a mind of her own and with a new born baby at home we were getting over our heads trying to take her out for walks while also pushing a stroller or carrying the baby. Every time we passed by another dog she would get so excited and pull. She will pull most of the time, which made walks very tiresome and draining for us, to the point where we didn't want to take her for walks! Which as you can imagine made things worse. We are soooo happy with the results. She is a totally different dog now. So much more calm. Always listens to her commands. She comes when called. Doesn’t pull on a leash. Doesn't go after other dogs or squirrels or birds. At home she is very calm And we can trust she will stay in place when instructed. We are even able to let her have supervised off leash play time and know she will come When called. We are so happy and confident in her training that we are comfortable taking her out in public to restaurants, parks, hiking and anywhere really. We highly recommend Asheville Dog academy!