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    Arlo in training.

    Ricardo and team has done and are still doing an Amazing job working with Arlo and his training on resources guarding.

    Adam M.

    Writing as the foster parents to Steele. These views only reflect our experience and are not to be considered those of the rescue. TL;DR: Ricardo bailed on us twice for in person training at the last minute and was unprofessional in his communication. During board and train (B&T), Steele was unnecessarily made to wear a muzzle 24/7 despite never needing that ever before. Because of the discomfort and anxiety, he continuously tried to get the muzzle off causing abrasions on his snout. While CharlieBar did mention these to us on the 4th day of B&T, the pictures they sent us initially seemed to try to hide the issue. Even with the injuries, they did not want us to pull him for medical attention and had no plan to prevent the injuries from getting worse. Do not recommend them due to unprofessional and shady behavior. May have once been a good company, but feel they are greedy and overcommitted now. As background, we sought training for Steele due to a bite while being taken in as a stray by county, and due to resource guarding of food, toys, and dog beds. He is very loving once he starts to trust, but you can tell there are some habits from being a stray that need to be worked on. At home and on walks in our neighborhood, he does not have to wear a muzzle and is completely fine with other dogs, our cat, and people as long as you are patient and do not touch the items that are normal concerns for dogs with resource guarding. After his time on the streets, you can tell he just wants companionship and often comes up to you tail wagging and nuzzling your hand or arm to be pet. While we have fostered him relatively easily without any additional training beyond our basic abilities ("no", sit, taking treats gently, going into his crate on his own) we wanted to work on the resource guarding to help his future adopters transition more easily. We had heard about CharlieBar due to many recommendations and watching the videos posted on Facebook showed some amazing transformations. We initially were signed up for in person training however Ricardo bailed on us at the last second two separate times after making appointments. The first time he simply slept in too late and would not move anything around in his schedule to make the session work. We had gone through a lot of efforts moving our other dogs to family and friends' houses for the day so that Steele could have a focused training environment which made the flakey reason for canceling especially frustrating. However, we rescheduled three days later and were okay with it being less than a week. The day before he sent an odd text asking if we were still on for the following day even though we had sent nothing to him first and not given any indication that the rescheduled appointment wouldn't work. While we won't know if he ever intended to keep the appointment, that text seems to suggest not and the next day we were first asked to delay 30 minutes because "sh*t going on at facility" and then were canceled on again. While the situation did prove to be something that needed to be addressed, this should have been the sign not to eventually do B&T, for both working with someone who would communicate the cancelations the way they did and for the unprofessional attitude towards their own staff. The situation being addressed was a bite at the B&T and while that is a good reason to cancel, the tone towards his staff was disparaging, simply saying "girl got bit", "she is crying and stuff. Newbs..." and proceeded to send us a picture of his associate's injury. At this point we were done moving our schedules around to accommodate someone who didn't have their situation together and did not reschedule. [continued in pictures. Yelp uploading in order of file size and messing up text sequence, but pictures numbered for reference]

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    Alejandro S.

    I Have 1 yr old Shep that I needed help turning into a service dog , Rick did amazing things with Goku and made sure To give me updates everyday . He has been nothing short of an angel at home and in public ! Thanks Charliebar !

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    Joshua M.

    We brought our dog to Charlie Bar and we were very happy with the way they had attention to detail. They would keep us updated daily on the dogs progress as well as training pictures and all the pups having a great time playing with one another. Our dog got a bath before we picked him up and was very much so taken care of. I would highly recommend Ricardo and his company to anyone looking for obedience training. Oh and did I mention he makes house calls as well. Give them a call if you're in need of training.

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    Harley's training went extremely well and has turned into a very sweet obedient dog!!! Highly recommend!!

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    My dog was not himself after this training, feel like something weird is happening to the dogs for two whole weeks.

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    Rob, I am so sorry this took so long to get posted…read more(technical difficulties). Now, we still do not have full control over our boys yet, and I do stress yet) but it is MUCH better. The training we received from you was instrumental in helping us in keeping our two boys safe. Your training was not for them, but for us. Capone and Pawlie appear much happier now, much more responsive, and Jodi and I are much more confident in our abilities. When our boys started becoming aggressive with each other, it broke our hearts. We had so much happening in our lives, we had forgotten that we project on to our kids. Instead of having one step forward , three steps back, we are now four steps forward and one step back. We just know, now, that we have to be more diligent with them and remember they too are our children. Your guidance, and teaching, has helped us regain our lives, and feel that our kids are safe, and they have been playing together. We, as Mom and Dad, still stress and want to make sure they are always safe, but our lives are much calmer because of you and your teaching. I look forward to actually getting to the group classes, and seeing you soon! Thanks again! Shane Brough

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