Who is the best dog trainer in Wasilla, AK?
Brett Endes, The Dog Savant, trains Wasilla dogs in your own home. 30 years of experience, more than 20,000 dogs trained, and a specialty in the aggression and reactivity cases other trainers decline. Programs run $295 for the initial 90 minute workshop up to $1,995. Call or text (907) 203-0788.
What kinds of dog training does Brett Endes do in Wasilla?
Puppy training, basic and advanced obedience, leash training, separation anxiety, and aggression and reactivity, all one to one in your own Wasilla home rather than in a class. Aggression and reactivity are the specialty and the cases other trainers decline. Every program includes lifetime phone, text and email support. Call or text (907) 203-0788.
Serving Wasilla
Dog training in Wasilla, in your home
Wasilla is the center of Brett's Mat-Su work. Big yards, working households, and a lot of dogs that never got a foundation. He trains in your home and on the streets you actually walk, building obedience that holds up around kids, visitors, and other dogs.
Brett Endes specializes in aggression, separation anxiety, leash pulling, puppy foundation, and rescue rehabilitation. Whether you live in a downtown high rise, a suburban home, or a Mat-Su Valley ranch, Brett trains your dog in the actual environment it lives.
Wasilla specifics
What training a dog in Wasilla actually involves
Wasilla changed hands for animal control on 2026-07-01. The city no longer runs it, the Mat-Su Borough does, under Borough Title 24, and most advice online has not caught up. What has not changed is the dog reality: bigger lots, working households, loose neighborhood dogs, and a lot of dogs that never got a foundation.
Who sets the dog rules in Wasilla?
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Title 24, since 2026-07-01
What are the leash rules in Wasilla?
Borough Title 24 is now the operative animal code inside Wasilla city limits. The city's own notice reads that beginning July 1, 2026 all animal control and regulation will be handled by the Mat-Su Borough. City park rules are still the city's: animals must be on a leash or under restraint and feces removed, under Wasilla Municipal Code Chapter 12.24.
Where can a dog be off leash in Wasilla?
Lake Lucile Dog Park is a City of Wasilla park. City park hours are 8 am to 10 pm unless posted otherwise.
What Wasilla does to a dog
- Large unfenced lots where a dog gets freedom long before it has a recall
- Loose and roaming dogs, which is how leash reactivity and dog to dog aggression start here
- Long driveways and rural roads where a bolting dog meets traffic
- An animal control authority that changed on 2026-07-01, so the advice most owners were given is out of date
Where Wasilla dogs actually go
- Lake Lucile Dog Park
- The city's dedicated dog park, and the sane first venue for a dog still learning to hold attention around others. It is also where a dog with no recall gets exposed in front of an audience, which is why Brett would rather build the attention before you go than repair a bad session afterwards.
- Wasilla city parks generally
- Over 240 acres inside the city limits, all under the city park rule that animals be leashed or under restraint with waste removed. Animal enforcement is the Borough's now, but the park rule is still the city's, so two different authorities apply on the same afternoon.
- The Borough shelter near Palmer
- Since the July transfer, a loose or missing dog in Wasilla is a Borough matter handled out of the shelter on E. Chanlyut Circle in Palmer, not something that starts with the Wasilla Police Department.
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If you are dealing with reactivity, anxiety, or control issues, the first step is a simple phone evaluation so we can map out a clear plan. Real world results, permanent change, 30 years of doing this for families and their dogs, now in Anchorage.
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