We've used Carol to train three of our family dogs. She is the best! She is attentive to the dog's needs and trains the family on how to care for the dogs and maintain the training at home. She is always available to us to answer questions or give additional help. Also, we are able to board our animals with her when traveling and they love to reconnect with her for a few days. Thanks Carol for helping us to enjoy our family pets!! read more

I am completely blown away by the progress Zeus has made over the last week and a half. Carol is AMAZING!!! Zeus arrived dog aggressive, cat aggressive, and unruly when walking on a leash and pulling hard. She had him a 13 days and the last 5 days of it I worked with her and him daily. He is no longer dog aggressive, he's doing much better with cats!! As far as his leash manners, he now walks beautifully, and is officially now a therapy dog in training!! Here's a quick clip of today at farm & home with my first time walking him purposely slowly with a cart. He's done so well so quickly, we're now working on becoming a therapy dog! If all goes as planned, we'll go take the therapy dog certification exam in October. Super proud of my boy, and so very thankful for Carol! read more

Carol is fantastic. I've sent two pups there and she has worked wonders with both of them. She does have her own way of doing things but they work. Dogs are not "constantly tugged on to the point of pain" -as was stated in another review; they are put on training chains which are used to give a correction when the dog exhibits an inappropriate behavior. Dogs are not people and cannot learn by a person just talking to them. They need a correction. Both my dogs absolutely adore Carol and get SO excited as soon as we pull into her drive. If she was cruel to them while they were there they certainly would not get so excited to see her when we pull up! She's a true animal lover who genuinely cares for these pups. If you want your dog actually TRAINED in an effective manner, call Carol. She's amazing. read more

Do not be fooled by the name, this is anything BUT a "Pup's Paradise" and more like a "Dog's Nightmare". The lady who runs the place is extremely rude, not only to the dogs, but to the owners as well. You have to keep your dog there for a week, and she charges you every time you want her to send a picture of your dog to you. She keeps the dogs (many were there) in cages without beds or blankets in them and the floors are made of concrete. Atleast the floors help keep the dogs cool(hopefully) because all there is are two floor fans, but that does not help at all because it has been 85-95 degrees here for the past two weeks. Now, on to the treatment of the dogs. Our dog is constantly being tugged on by the trainer, and I don't mean tugged on like you would if they are walking in the wrong direction, I mean tugged to the point that they yelp in pain. Also, she swats the dogs with rolled up newspapers. This is her bright idea of how to train a dog? Not to mention her screaming at the other dogs at the top of her lungs every minute you're there. Maybe this was how you would want to train a dog 50 years ago and for free from the comfort of your own home atleast. I mean, anyone can smack a dog with a newspaper, the whole point of paying hundreds of dollars for training is to have it be done in a manner in which your dog can learn to behave without being constantly scared it's going to be chocked by a leash or get smacked in the face. Like I said, not only is she rude to the dogs, but she treated me and my husband like we were the stupidest people in the world every time we asked her a question. Either that or she would completely lose her train of thought and act as if we didn't even ask her a question. On top of everything, her instructions are to keep her locked up in her cage in the garage for 2 hours every day. And we can't even let her sleep in our room, she has to be kept in her cage in the garage to sleep as well. We didn't spend hundreds of dollars to buy a prisoner for our home, we bought the dog for companionship and to fill a void in our hearts that we have had since our kids have gone away to college. Needless to say, we won't be following any of her outrageous instructions and will be taking our sweet little puppy (thankfully she didn't change too much while kept there) to a new trainer. My word of advice to you is, keep you money! This lady(Carroll if I remember correctly) is an absolute rip off! If it were up to me, I would have her pet training business taken away from her IMMEDIATELY. This has been an absolutely horrible experience. read more