Primal Canine Twin Cities

I was very skeptical when I brought my dog in because he has been so hyper since being a pup. Every time I had company he would jump on them and I’d have to put him in the back yard. Walking him down the street was a workout to say the least. I can honestly say that after 3 months of training I truly started to see a huge difference in Rocko my Pit/​Beagle mix. I was finally able to get him to sit for a long period of time in one place. He learned not to try and take food out of my hand before I could put it down, and best of all I can walk him down the street with him on my side instead of trying to pull me. I actually enjoy going home and working on the things he learns at PC. I’m hoping sometime this year to get him into protection training, Maybe in the summer! Thanks guys, you are great!

My husband and I have been taking our Shiba Inu, Beckham, to Primal Canine for over a year now, and we get compliments on how well behaved and social he is both with humans and other dogs. Mind you, Shiba Inu’s are known for their fiery personality and independent spirit, so we took his dog training very seriously and wanted to find the perfect place for our pup. Taylor was our appointed dog trainer, and I cannot thank her enough for all the effort and heart she put into Beckham. She not only trained Beckham, but she taught my husband and I how to train Beckham, so his behavior both at Primal Canine and at home were consistent. We worked with Beckham with personal training 1:1 for a solid 10 months every single week, and after all that training, we currently have the most well behaved TEENAGE shiba inu! The bond we’ve formed is what I am most thankful for and I have to hand it to Taylor for helping us with the training process. Beckham also attended MyFitPet 1−2x a week on top of his 1:1’s and Brandon was awesome with Beckham! Beckham always had a smile on his face when we came to pick him up! There is no other place I’d recommend for your dog training!

I adopted a dog who had selective aggression. Lobster would bite me whenever I attempted to correct him, crate him, pull on his collar to divert him from doing something he wasn’t supposed or generally put him in a position where he felt submissive. At one point Lobster actually attacked me and bit me several times. I feared I wasn’t going to be able to keep him… but thanks to Brandon and Taylor and putting Lobster into their board and train program, I am able to keep Lobster. He no longer tries to bite me, he no longer resists corrections, redirections, he recalls off leash, doesn’t pull while walking, he heels and has stopped taking off running when off leash. It’s been the most amazing turn around. Lobster is happy, calm and no longer challenges me in my own home. I fully recommend Primal Canines services for any issues you may have with your dog. Thanks for everything guys!

I have been taking my dog to Primal Canine in San Jose since he was 5 months old, he is now almost 3. We miss them dearly being at Twin Cities, but so happy for Brandon and Taylor! The Twin Cities are lucky to have these two. He and Taylor worked wonders for my boy Ozzy who has health issues and sever separation anxiety. Brandon & Taylor were nothing but patient and informative when it came to training my boy! I would give 10 stars if I could!

My wife and I inquired about a Board & Train Plus Group/​Single sessions program for our 6 month old yellow lab pup Murphy.
We had just found out that we were having a baby, so training Murphy was on a priority list.
Murphy’s an energetic little puppy that needed a lot of work and there was no way we’d feel comfortable her being around a new baby come June.
She was none stop jumping on visitors when they came into our home; pulling extremely hard on her leash while on walks, barking in her crate while company was over, playing too rough with our older pitbull, getting into everything, wasn’t listening at all., etc, you know the story.
Those were our main concerns/​requirements when looking for a trainer; to try to help fix these issues.
We had a previous trainer for my pitbull puppy (now 3 years old), and ended up having a great experience.
That trainer doesn’t live by us now so we decided to try Primal Canine.
I was initially concerned because the protocol for them was to pay everything up front ($ 2500), and then see results afterwards.
I bust my butt for the money I make, so it’s hard for me to just fork over that kind of money without seeing results first.
I was reassured multiple times that we would be satisfied and that we have nothing to worry about.
As a compromise, Primal Canine agreed to accept just the Board & Train portion first (an upfront $ 1500), so at the end of that my wife and I could see some results before forking over yet another $ 1000 for the remaining program.
Emphasis on seeing results before paying more money.
So the next day we provided Murphy’s crate, her food, her blanket, a toy, and shipped our lil pup off for 17 long days.
A couple days into the training, and after asking how Murphy was doing, I received approx. 3 pictures and a video of just Murph playing with other dogs; playing that’s it.
The only actual «training» I got to see was a 10 second training video of her «leash training» in which she duplicated the same actions as if she was walking with me.
Whatever, part of the process I guess huh?
Although I did received a couple «she’s smart,» and «she’s doing good» texts as well; a little pump up for old dad right.
When the wife and I finally went to go pick Murphy up from her 17 day training period, we were expecting some «results,» remember?
Not 1 sit, or down, or stay, or any kind of commands were given to show us how she had progressed; matter of fact Murphy had jumped on the trainer at that moment and he didn’t react at all.
We were told, specifically, to «just bring her home and allow her to get acclimated and calmed down from being excited to being home again».
Whatever, you don’t tell McDonalds how to make a McMuffin do you, so fine, I’ll still go with the process.
Plus, their Unilocal looked impeccable, so who am I to question their dog training method.
The first day she came home, she had massive diarrhea.
My wife and I had to wake up a minimum of 3 times a night/​early morning to let her out because the poor thing was so bad.
I’m guessing they didn’t give her her own food.
Maybe you can’t point fingers for something like that huh, can’t really prove it anyways.
Besides that first day.
We waited a couple hours, then a day, then 2 days, then 3, and 4, and never, I mean ever, NOT once was there any resemblance of training done to my dog.
She was jumping on everyone non-​stop still, still pulling on her leash, barking in her crate, playing too rough, didn’t listen to any commands.
But the most important part about this entire experience was not the lack of training; it was the sores we found on Murphy’s front elbows.
I was pissed, I was more than pissed, I was fuming.
You want to take my money, jip me out of my hard earned money, whatever I’ve been a sucker before I’ll deal with it; but Murphy was neglected enough to where she got sores.
I couldn’t believe it.
Then the funniest thing happened, I received a text from the trainer that «trained» Murphy, asking when we wanted to start the single/​group classes, and when I declined and told him my issues, he then proceeded to tell me the remaining $ 1000 was not negotiable regardless if we do the single/​group classes or not.
You can’t make this stuff up.
I almost lost it and came thru the phone line.
Needless to say I didn’t pay another dime.
Oh I forgot to mention, they gave us back someone else’s worn out crate as opposed to our new one we just bought. But at this point it doesn’t really matter does it.
But you know what’s more frustrating than sending your new puppy off to boot camp for 17 days, paying $ 1500 upfront for training, receiving her back not trained, finding sores on her, dealing with newly formed diarrhea, not getting your own brand new crate back, and then having someone ask you for more money ?
It was the response I received from the owner.
It was like pointing a finger at us like we don’t know what we’re doing.