After considering several different dog training options in the Denver area, my wife and I settled on Koru K9 to train our two young dogs, a 9-month male Alaskan Malamute and 1.5-year female Cardigan Welsh Corgi. We definitely recommend Koru K9 for anybody unsure of which professional trainers to go through.
Our dogs, especially the Malamute, were close to impossible to walk around our neighborhood without them pulling on the leash and wanting to say hi and explore everything they saw. They both also had very unreliable and inconsistent sit/down-stay commands.
After the 3-week board and train through Koru and our paired trainer, TJ, we have been able to have such better communication and obedience with our dogs. They look at us frequently on the walk, stay by our side/at our heel, and have amazing sit/down-stays.
We are finally able to have much more structure around the house and keep our dogs on place for extended periods of time while we’re eating or needing to tend to other things. Their ability to go on the treadmill was a wonderful treat when there’s bad weather and we aren’t able to walk them outside.
We sent our 100lb Alaskan Malamute in for an extra session of Advanced Obedience as a still intact 1.5-year old so that we could have even better communication with him in our everyday lives since he was getting a bit too big and dominant on walks as he encountered barking dogs behind fences. He is now e-collar trained and this provides us with a much more reliable way to communicate with him.
The weekly video updates that we received from TJ were very clear and helped explain and detail the training techniques so that we were able to get our own sort of training to be ready for the dogs’ return from the board-and-train. The return home in-person session ensured we understood the various commands and communication. TJ answered all of the questions we had and we stay in good communication with him today as our young dogs grow older and we feel comfortable asking him anything that comes to mind.