Adolescent Dogs Reviews - adolescentdogs.com

Thank you Adolescent Dogs for the fantastic service we have received. Our family adolescent Cocker Spaniel spent 3 weeks with one of the Adolescent Residential Trainers. He lived in the trainer’s house with her other dogs, cat and family.

She has done a fantastic job, caring for him wonderfully and progressing his training. As asked, we had specified some areas of training we were having difficulty with. She has an amazing understanding of dogs and was able to assess his needs and pin point what training he really needed during his stay.

We received lots of updates with photos and reports of what he had been doing and his progress with training. During this time, I subscribed to the Adolescent Dogs Training Academy and have been able to look at lots of videos to help me and my family. We have also received a 2 hour handover training lesson at pick up from the trainer, with specific training videos of our dog to help us further when at home. The handover and training videos have been amazing for all the family.

We have been able to implement the training advice and have been able to ask questions and received helpful advice since our dog returned which has been great.

We have learnt a lot more about our dog as a result of his time with this trainer. I thoroughly recommend Adolescent Dogs Residential Training to anyone who needs a bit of extra help with training their dog. Thank you!

Really pleased with my experience with Adolescent Dogs. My 4 years old cavalier king charles spaniel went to in total 12 weeks of assistance dog training, over the course of 6 months with a trainer Petra who has been absolutely incredible. She sent plenty of great pictures, took him for daily adventures, and livedI had a really positive experience with Adolescent Dogs. My 4-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel received 12 weeks of assistance dog training over 6 months with an incredible trainer named Petra. She sent plenty of great pictures, took him for daily adventures, and ensured he lived his best life. The training was successful, and at the same time, I felt he had the best time living with her. I would definitely recommend Petra to anyone. his best life. The training was succesful but at the same time I felt he has the best time living with her. Would recommend Petra to anyone.

The owners have been supportive in sorting out all the official forms and have provided assistance with all bureaucratic matters.

After being members of Adolescent Dogs in their Owner Trained Assistance Dog programme, we decided to send Hazel for residential training. It was a really hard decision - our daughter was dreading being apart from her dog, and we were worried about how she would be treated, whether she would cope with training, and how much they would really be able to do with her.

The residential training completely exceeded our expectations. We got really clear information prior to her stay. A lovely introductory email from the head trainer, linking in Hazel's residential trainer, which told us what to expect, what to send, and what information we could expect during her stay. We were also given a very detailed questionnaire, which explored our dog's current behaviour, diet, and training needs. We were able to choose several 'priority areas' for training, and were able to specify the sort of environments we wanted Hazel to be exposed to.

We met our trainer in a local park, where she met Hazel, chatted through our training priorities, and promised to look after her. We were added to a WhatsApp group and we got regular messages, photos, and videos. Our trainer was very attentive to existing cues we used, so that she was continuing the training we had started and building on it.

When Hazel finished her stay, our trainer met with us in a local park again, demonstrated all the skills that Hazel had learned, then let us practice them. We walked into the nearby town centre so we could do some lead walking around people and dogs.

Hazel is so much more focused when she's walking with us now. She has a stronger association with her equipment cues, too. We were so encouraged by our trainer's feedback about her and the next steps we should be taking in her assistance dog journey. We know that our trainer will be available to support us if we need it.

We would wholeheartedly recommend Adolescent Dogs for residential stays.

We would definitely recommend! Our dog had a great time and we did not need to worry about him while we were away. Our house was left spotless too! Many thanks!

The Pet Sitters went above and beyond to ensure Blue was well looked after whilst we were on holiday. They sent photos and videos of him and our cat every day. They even did some amazing gardening work, cleaning and training for Blue. They then took time to handover care/training advice on our return. We were confident that Blue was in safe hands and would definitely book again. Very friendly and approachable and professional. Everything was exactly how we left it on our return but cleaner! Highly recommend this service. Thank you!!

We had an 9 day pet sit in May 2024 of our (almost) 4 year old large dog Digby.

We love Digby to bits, have spent a lot of our own time training him from when he was rescued and he prefers familiarity of his own home; so it was important we had in-house pet-sitting from people comfortable with larger dogs and that could maintain the training we do.

The pet sit was very professional with a pre-sit meet up to meet our dog, visiting our house, and an opportunity for everyone to ask any questions.

During the pet sit, Adolescent dogs trainers were fantastic: seeing to our dogs training needs, daily well being (walks, food and supplements) and keeping company with lots of cuddles.

Any anxiety we had leaving our dog was gone given the level of care and constant communication with daily updates, photos and videos.

Better yet we came back to a lovely clean house, swept, hoovered and the bins emptied!

We highly recommend *****

My assistance dog in training, Oscar, has just come home from a 4 week residential training stay with adolescent dogs! His trainer is absolutely amazing she, kept me updated all the way with pictures, videos and email updates, she even made sure he got his Easter egg on Easter Sunday! She is also there to support me now that Oscar has come home, which is great! Oscar has come along so much during his stay, he is now much more responsive to his name and to the cues that I give him. Walking Oscar is now a much more pleasurable experience as he is not trying to pull towards every dog and person that we pass! Oscar has done really well with learning and progressing tasks to mitigate my disability which will really help me with every day life and Oscar enjoys the tasks and completes them with a wagging tail! Thank you so much to adolescent dogs and to Oscar’s trainer!

Was there an angel in our house or was it adolescent dogs? We knew everything would go smoothly when we met our adolescent dogs house sitter before our trip, and received many happy doggy snaps while away. We returned to a spotless house and a happy dog performing new skills (putting his toys in a box!!), a descaled kettle and many other thoughtful gestures. Our dog looked around for our sitter for a while after they left and he had clearly been cared for, enjoyed and loved. Thank you.

Thank you for recommending the lovely lady and her husband who came to stay to look after our two young and lively dogs. It certainly made for a relaxing holiday for us and we enjoyed getting regular WhatsApp messages and photos of them out and about as well as a video of some of the training they did with them to assist with better lead walking. The dogs were relaxed and happy when we got back and the house was immaculate. As an added bonus the taps in the bathroom had been repaired which was a lovely surprise.

We sent our 3 month old puppy for 2 weeks, he was a keen learner but as a very busy household we struggled with time. She took Dexter and fine tuned what he already knew and taught him so much more! He had lead issues and wouldn't stay calm if we had visitors.

I can't thank her and her family any more for what they do. He cane back and my kids were so happy, they can enjoy him more without the nipping! We drove 3.5 hours for the help and was worth it! Thank you again.