Bark Busters Home Dog Training Greater LA

EXTREMELY Grateful to Kevin for helping me with my dogs!! So much help that they come to your house, and work with your specific living situation or neighborhood walk scenarios, that is a major help. I adopted a bonded pair of chihuahua-pug mixes from LA ASPCA, I thought I knew how to train dogs. I realized I was used to only large dogs as I only ever had labs and pits, and that I really needed small breed specific behavior training after trying for a few weeks by myself. One afternoon, when the dogs were barking and I was losing my mind and just gave up, I called the Bark Busters to save me and my incessantly barking dogs. IT WORKED / IS WORKING! Kevin has been giving me really good detailed training specifics, he is very knowledgeable and kind, and he's so good with the dogs. It's like they know to act right when he is around. Now I can enjoy my dogs just being good dogs, and no longer am at a loss for what to do when there's dog behavior issues, another huge help is being able to text Kevin videos if I'm unsure their play is too rough, or there are other behaviors I don't understand as they come up, I can just ask anytime. Thank you so much Kevin and Bark Busters!

We’ve been working with Kevin from Bark Busters Greater LA for almost a year now, and the difference in our dog Rover has been incredible. Rover has made huge improvements both at home and outside, and it’s been amazing to see his confidence and behavior transform. Kevin’s training techniques are simple, clear, and easy for our whole family to follow. What I love most is that Rover is genuinely happier—he understands how to better communicate with us, and he listens to our directions without stress. The monthly check-ins with Kevin have been invaluable for keeping us on track, celebrating progress, and continuing to build on Rover’s skills. We’re so grateful for Kevin’s guidance and highly recommend him to anyone looking for a trainer who truly cares and delivers lasting results!

We could not be more grateful for our trainer Kevin and our experience with Bark Busters! Kevin is an incredible trainer and we recommend/speak of him so highly our neighbor works with him now too! We were in search of training for our two young rescue dogs with very different personalities and needs. Our pitbull is very high energy/excitable and exhibited signs of possessiveness when we introduced her sibling. Our heeler mix is very shy, slow to trust others and nervous around other people and dogs. Both of our dogs had issues with reactivity and resource guarding. From the very first phone call, I felt a genuine care for our situation and liked that training was based more on an understanding/communication with your dog rather than techniques that were bribery, pain or fear based. We like to think Kevin trained us. It was really eye opening to understand the ‘whys’ behind our dogs’ specific behavior and how to communicate with them more effectively. Every time we work with Kevin, we work through a variety of training and exercises. He always listens through our concerns and provides feedback and guidance. If we had a recent specific incident or concern - he will try to work through the cause of those issues within the same session. He is incredibly present throughout our training and always makes himself available through text between sessions as well. We still have work to do but have seen vast improvement in the following: - We are able to do pack walks with minimal issues of pulling and reactivity (and techniques to minimize this when there are unexpected situations) - We have worked on front door training and dogs are able to settle before greeting guests; we are also working through deescalating reactivity towards unexpected visitors/the mailman - We have worked on implementing/respecting boundaries (personal boundaries such as doing things unintentionally on their time/demand and physical boundaries such as sitting and waiting at gates/doorways and not jumping on us/people) - We’ve worked through impulse control and resource guarding by becoming more confident ourselves and giving the dogs their own safe spaces (like their crates for their meals) Working with Kevin has helped bring our little family together and we honestly can’t thank him enough. My husband and I feel like a team working towards the same goals with guidance, direction and care. Our unit has gotten stronger and our dogs more confident, calm and closer than ever.