Pro K9 Academy

I have to start this off with saying that this doesn’t really belong in just San Francisco, since they travel up and down the California coast, but I live here, so this is where I’m putting the review.
I have a very mischievous little pup (well kind of a pup) who is probably one of the most stubborn dogs you’ll ever meet. I was in over my head trying to train her since nothing I was doing, nor the classes I took her to seemed to do any good. She has a mind of her own and blatantly refused to listen to me or do what I wanted her to do. Because of this, I started looking for professional help, and that’s when I found the Pro K9 Academy.
Susan and Ken (the trainers) are absolutely wonderful people, and I have to say they did an amazing job on my little girl. They took her for what was supposed to be two weeks of training. They do this in their own home, and travel back and forth between northern and southern California in order to help as many dogs and their owners as they can. Because my little one is, as I said, one of the most stubborn dogs in the world (Susan even told me that herself), they kept her for an additional week of training with no cost to me. I had a trip planned right around the time I was supposed to pick her up from training, so they offered to board her for me while I was gone so they could reinforce her training, which I greatly appreciated since I knew she would’ve lost everything she learned if I had to put her into boarding elsewhere.
When I was finally able to pick her up, they discounted her boarding fee because she was with them for such a long time! They spent a couple hours with me, teaching me everything I needed to learn in order to ensure that her training stuck, and because their training is guaranteed, I can give them a call whenever I have a problem! They even gave me a call to check in on her and see how she was doing a couple days after I came to get her!
Now she is by no means the perfect dog just yet (that goes back to her stubborn nature), and is still trying to test me to see what she can get away with (I’ve only had her back for less than a week now), but I see vast improvement in how she was prior to her training. She still has issues I need to work on with her, but she now walks next to me nicely, sits and stays when I tell her to, and will listen when I tell her not to do something even though I know she doesn’t really want to. I know without the help of Susan and Ken, she would never have gotten to this point, and for that I am very thankful.
My suggestion, if you have a wildly out of control dog like I did, and you can afford personalized training (it is a wee bit expensive, but think about how much money you’ll be saving in the long term and how much happier you’ll be), I’d definitely suggest the Pro K9 Academy as an option for you.