Success Stories

We have a three-year-old miniature dominant poodle. He thinks he is king of our house!
With just three weeks of Brett's training, we have a different dog. He is calm when people come through the door instead of jumping all over them.
He waits for his commands. He was determined not to go to the down position and after this weeks training I have worked with him a little bit myself and it is a success!

My husband and I adopted a 2 1/2 year old Jackapoo, Val, at the beginning of covid. She came with some pretty bad leash reactivity. We tried 2 other trainers before Brett and saw little to no improvement. We have now been working with Brett for 2 weeks and it is night and day. We can now take her to the park and even out to eat and she is a calm dog. I can not thank Brett enough for literally changing our lives!

I don't often write reviews but every once in a rare while I encounter a person, product, or service so exceptional I feel I owe it to the world to get the word out. Brett is just such a find. He has an astonishingly profound understanding of what makes dogs tick and how to fix problems that no other trainers will touch. We have a rescue dog with big aggression issues and Brett got right to the core of the problem, explained everything to us in comprehensible, accessible terms and gave us exercises to use to break bad habits and teach new positive behaviors. If you have a dog, you owe it to them and yourself to seek out Brett and finally understand what real dog training is all about. Highly, unequivocally, and unreservedly recommended!

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Brett is fantastic - my dog improved greatly after one-on-one training and now we attend his monthly group class where my dog gets to socialize and continue practicing his learned behavioral skills.

This review is long overdue and I really don't know why I haven't posted sooner. I also want to say I could never have posted and I'm sure in reality it wouldn't make a huge difference, but the fact is this training is still positively impacting my family, so I thought about this once again and had to post. I was a client years back with an adopted pit bull from the shelter and a shih tzu. My pit bull was a young full grown dog and mouthing really bad, even snapping. Today my children feed my dog, he does not mouth at all, walks straight into his kennel, has order and coexists beautiful in our family. We had small children and training was important to us. To this day we are still using what Brett instilled in us, the pet owners. It really has a lot to do with our own behaviors. Thank you Brett! Your training is still appreciated years later.

My boyfriend found Brett online after searching tirelessly for a dog trainer that seemed passionate and also knowledgable. Brett was very straight forward even from the first conversation on the phone we knew what we were getting into. We bought the 5 sessions which is great because he comes to your home and included in the sessions are free yes FREE!! Saturday puppy training classes that he does in Griffith park with the rest of his clients and dogs. This is great because we were able to have a one on one during the week then take our dog Bronx to the park to reinforce what was previously taught. Now on to the training...initially our dog Bronx did not respond to walking on the leash as it was foreign to him being only 3 months. The first training session Bronx seemed a little stressed out trying to understand the concept of walking on the leash. But literally the next day I decided to try to put him on the leash and just walk down the street and instead we got all the way around the block! I was so impressed and Bronx was doing so well so fast!!! The next few sessions Brett focused on sit and down commands which Bronx has now mastered thanks to him! Brett was honestly a lifesaver and by teaching our puppy how to listen to us he really just made him more easy to love. I can't thank Brett enough for being patient, knowledgable, and passionate about what he does. It truly shows in his work! I would recommend him to anyone looking to train their pup or dog!

My 7-year-old dog and I have been working with Brett on and off as needed. We started him off as a puppy to teach him basic commands and place training. Brett helped us establish a strong foundation. More recently, I noticed that my dog was shaking and panting when my family was getting ready for the day. Brett came in and helped us understand his behavior. My dog's anxiety was taking over, so we worked on more place training throughout the day and corrected his excessive sniffing during walks. Brett was able to answer my questions over text and we even zoomed once before having an in-person session. Brett does a wonderful job explaining the dog's behavior and helps the pet parents correct it by setting up new habits. Dog training requires dedication, diligence and you have to get all family members on board. I would highly recommend The Dog Savant. His methods work.

I started seeing improvements in my dog's behavior after just one private session with Brett. The main issue I was having with my dog was his overexcitement, which translated to pulling on the leash, jumping up on people, being unable to relax when I was interacting with other people (i.e. getting coffee with a friend), etc. Brett taught me several techniques that quickly corrected many of these problems and also taught me to better understand my dog and his needs. It is clear that Brett is passionate about dog training and understands dogs well. He is also extremely professional and was always on time to our sessions, if not a few minutes early. I would highly recommend hiring him as a trainer.