Boise Dog Training Testimonials & Success Stories

Explore real-life results from Boise dog training testimonials at Valor K9 Academy. From puppy manners to obedience to behavior modification and service dogs, these success stories highlight the impact of our balanced, relationship-based training in the Boise Treasure Valley area. 

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“Valor K9 Academy has been the biggest blessing to our family and our puppy. Amy worked closely with our family's needs, wants, and lifestyle to help pick the best dog for our family.

“Valor K9 Academy has been the biggest blessing to our family and our puppy. Amy worked closely with our family’s needs, wants, and lifestyle to help pick the best dog for our family. With her vast knowledge of breeds and breeders, she helped us every step of the way. She worked closely with the breeder to hand select a puppy perfect for our family. Once we selected our breeder we got to work with the online puppy course. It covers everything you need to know about selecting, bringing home, and training your puppy in the best way possible. We did our homework and by the time our puppy was ready to come home we felt confident and prepared for our growing family. At 3 months old, we did the puppy head start board and train program to set the foundation of success. Amy housed and trained our puppy for 4 weeks and we cannot thank her enough. Our puppy is so well mannered, confident, eager to please, and the best possible family dog thanks to Amy. Her professionalism and passion for dog training truly shines brightly. We cannot recommend Valor K9 enough!”

-Michelle Sweet (Boise, Idaho)

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“Amy is amazing. She is so kind, fair and direct. She is training our service dog and us! We have been through a few trainers previously and she gets us and makes it easy to train.

“Amy is amazing! She is so kind, fair and direct. She is training our service dog and us! We have been through a few trainer previously and she gets us and makes it easy to train.”

-Jessica Bullwinkle (Eagle, Idaho)

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“I have had the amazing privilege to get to work with Valor K9 in donating service dogs. Amy has an amazing intuition about dogs and people! I appreciate how honest, supportive, and caring the Valor K9 team is!

“I have had the amazing privilege to get to work with Valor K9 in donating service dogs. Amy has an amazing intuition about dogs and people! She has helped match 7 of my dogs to the perfect families! Personally getting to see how well these dogs are all behaved after going through training from a young age has been amazing! I appreciate how honest, supportive, and caring the Valor K9 team is! I wouldn’t trust anyone else with my dogs!”

-Elianah Restrepo (Arlington, Washington)

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“I couldn’t be happier with my experience. My dog, Buddy, made so much progress and I got tons of photo and video updates throughout his board and train which put my mind at ease.

“I couldn’t be happier with my experience. My dog, Buddy, made so much progress and I got tons of photo and video updates throughout his board and train which put my mind at ease. Due to the training style and technique, Buddy is just a much easier dog in every way now. His improvements to his confidence, leash walking, listening, sit, stay, and just being OK with doing nothing has been incredible. I was also given a thorough follow-up plan which has been very helpful. I would highly recommend Valor to anyone with a dog.”

-Cache D. (Boise)

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“We recently did a Board & Train with our 10 month old Border Collie. The results have exceeded our expectations! Highly recommend Valor K9 Academy!

“We recently did a Board & Train with our 10 month old Border Collie, Millie. The results have exceeded our expectations. Millie’s obedience, manners and recall have done a 180. We are so happy to have a well trained dog! The owner, Amy, is beyond professional. She took Millie into her own care when a change of trainers was needed mid training. She went above and beyond. I could feel she really cared about Millie. Highly recommend Valor K9 Academy!”

-Meredith Carsley (McCall, Idaho)

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“I really can't say enough about how happy we are that we chose Valor K9 this go around of puppyhood! I wish I would've invested in this with our older dog.

“I really can't say enough about how happy we are that we chose Valor K9 this go around of puppyhood! Our trainer Samantha made it so easy to learn how to do things better & sensibly to have a better behaved, happier dog that is a total joy to be around. I wish I would've invested in this with our older dog as I know it would have saved us a lot of headaches, tears, messes & long term behaviors that are much harder to break now. Highly recommend them for any age dog!“

-Tara Hickman (Boise, Idaho)

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“I have taken both of my Goldens to Valor K9 Academy. One for group lessons in 2017 and the other for board and train this year. Love their approach to training.

“I have taken both of my Goldens to Valor K9 Academy. One for group lessons in 2017 and the other for board and train this year. Love their approach to training. Trainer Taya did a phenomenal job with my puppy!“

-Miriam (Seattle, Washington)

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“Meeting Amy in person was absolutely amazing and her knowledge base and expertise on everything we covered in the program and beyond is just so inspiring.

“My experience with Valor K9 Academy has been nothing short of spectacular. I am on my penultimate day of attending the shadow program this week and I have learned so much... Meeting Amy in person was absolutely amazing and her knowledge base and expertise on everything we covered in the program and beyond is just so inspiring. Not to mention, being able to work with her pack was simply so cool!... The information covered in the academic portion of the program as well as all the hands-on activities we got to do really solidified my love of dog training as well as cemented fundamental concepts I already knew and already apply when training my own dog. The other shadow students and I really had a nice vibe and we all worked well together! Our passion for dogs and dog training was just so beautiful to see and I definitely will say that it was not easy every day and it was tiring, but the value of this program and everything I’ve learned, be it dog training or embarking on my own introspective journey after each day ended, is such an inspiring experience and only amps up my love of dog training even more...“

-Loren and Newt (California)

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