To say Deanna changed our lives through training our dog (Karl - Golden Retriever) is an absolute understatement. There have been maybe a handful of times in my life that I've been absolutely blown away by the quality of work someone provided, and Deanna is easily the top of that list. For me personally, I was, without a doubt, a skeptic when it came to dog training in general. I was constantly saying, "We can do this on our own. It can't be that hard. It's not worth the money" towards everything that we looked at. It wasn't until my wife found Deanna that we decided to take a chance...and I honestly couldn't imagine what our life would like if we hadn't. To cut to the point, in about three weeks, Karl went from an absolute velociraptor, jumping on everyone, biting everything, to a well behaved young pup sitting at a dinner table with the family like he'd been doing it his whole life. What is more remarkable is Deanna's understanding of who Karl is at a level that allowed the training to occur, but in a way that was uniquely "Karl." Case in point, Karl would return when called but instead of sitting facing you like most dogs, he would sit between your legs facing out and then look up/backwards at you, tongue out, just happy to be there. Deanna takes the training a step further and also taught us how to communicate with Karl in a way that he understood. In these sessions, we learned that a lot of preconceived notions we had towards dog training weren't entirely accurate, and the effectiveness of changing the communication methods were astounding. All this to say, when you work with Deanna, you are meeting a friend for life. Unfortunately, we had to leave Hawaii a few years ago, but she has kept in contact with us ever since, and quite frankly, I'd fly back just to have my dog trained by Deanna.
