Dog Training Academy of South Florida

This is an excellent choice and an awesome place to learn how to train your dog’s with positive re enforcement. All the trainers are excellent and they have classes from puppies to adults. I highly recommend.

Do not recommend. We signed up for the 8 obedience classes and it was a total waste of time and money. In each of the one hour sessions, we almost never even started the training/​dog interaction until we were 20 – 25 minutes into the class. The instructor would just waste time talking, typically about things unrelated to dogs or training.
I had a hard time even getting a hold of someone to sign up. No answer when I called and a very delayed response to emails. When I did get an email, it was a forwarded message that they’d sent to someone else. Totally unprofessional. Terrible way to run a business.
They have you fill out a questionnaire which asks what you hope to get out of the course, but no attention is paid to that. The classes are supposed to be limited to a certain number of dogs — but occasionally that limit was exceeded the limit, which made it cramped.
Go elsewhere — do not waste your time or money.

This is school is truly amazing. The owner and head trainer is world class. My dog went from bad to obedient in 30days using their technique. The rest of the staff is also amazing. Get your dog trained here it is way cheaper and better than those other places.

Extremely disappointed! Do not bother wasting your money. ZERO results!!! .In addition, I delt with a sick pet every night because they continued to feed my dog THEIR food, as opposed to his own, that THEY request you bring. They ask 5 areas you want them to train them on, joke… dog doesnt acknowledge one.
A wasted $ 500 plus a vet bill.

Ive been calling several times and no one answers the freakin phone, tried emailing, no response, its been about a week! Ok, someone finally called me back and left me a message, and then when I call back, no response again! That is not how you run a business! I mean, do you know theres something called a cell phone that is portable and you can carry it around with you anywhere and receive calls and check emails? You can even have your calls from your business forwarded to your cel phone! Hello!!! Sorry, I really wanted to go to you guys, everything looks awesome, but its seems like you dont want my business. :(

I have been training with Holly and the other trainers at DTASFL for several years. I started with my first dog Skye doing agility and rally. I have done numerous types of classes here. I have competed in AKC agility with Skye and have done well and titled with her because of my agility training with Holly. When I got my second sheltie I did puppy classes, puppy camp, obedience 1 and 2, and agility with her at DTASFL. The trainers are very knowledgeable. This is a positive reinforcement facility.

Wow… what a great facility and a great trainer. Holly is very nice and really good at what she does. My boxer just loved the boarding while he was trained. Like a changed dog… but in the good way.:) I had no problem reaching Holly nor finding the place but I heard that they just moved to this new unit which is like twice the size that the one before. Everything is brand new inside and the dogs have a large room to run. I am very satisfied and would recommend this place to anyone.

I have called numerous times to only get a call back days later then no follow up. I have left my name, number, and discussed prices with Holly. I told her I will call back in less then an hour to give her my credit card info and set up a date and when I called back, no pick up so I left a message. I called the next day, Friday, to see if I can get a hold of anyone. Again, left a message. Christine returned my phone call days later where I gave her my availability and she said Holly will contact me back. An hour later, Christine calls again to leave a message in response to my other voicemail. Had no recollection whatsoever that we just spoke. I was willing to pay for an in home trainer for my dog who has really bad anxiety and they do not seem interested in the business. No worries, glad I’m not wasting my money on a company with horrible business skills and has no interest in my dog.

This place is so unorganized. I have left many messages and they rarely get back to you. The classes are a little all over the place and the employees don’t seem to know what is going on. Holly may be a great dog trainer but it’s hard to get through all of the chaos to know. My dog has learned something’s from it. He listens slightly better. I just wish there was more organization involved for him and I!

Does this place really exist?
I called a few times and left messages and no one has returned my call?
Was impressed by the site and was even referred to check this place out?
Where are you guys?
I went there and there was no signs nothing ?
This is a questionable place at this point not even sure if this listing or this place is correct but when I called it seemed like it was such
Still no answer no replies so who knows if they don’t have time to reply then you probably don’t have time for business

Holly is so dedicated to her craft. She’s wonderful with the animals and would recommend her with no hesitation whatsoever ever. If you have any problems with your dog, I encourage you to stop by and see her.

This place definitely gets 5 stars. We’ve been taking our 6 ½ month old puppy there since she was 10 weeks old and we’ve always been happy with the training, boarding and puppy/​teen camp. Our experience with all of the trainers has been really great. They are all really good at what they do and I like all of their personalities a lot. They work really hard to train the dogs but they work even harder at trying to make the owners understand that without us doing things the right way and staying vigilant, the hour class with the dog means nothing. I’ve watched them be really polite and patient with some of the most ridiculous people that probably shouldn’t own a pet in the first place haha… anyways, I have no doubt in my mind that this business will succeed. Our dog is loved by all because she is trained well and without dtasfl I highly doubt that would be the case.

I’ve taken all four of my dogs to DTASFL. From basic obedience to advanced agility and animal acting, there’s a class for every dog at every level. Each trainer is incredibly knowledgeable and dedicated to positive based training. I’ve never had a bad experience here.

We have had the pleasure of taking classes/​training with all the trainers at the school between our two dogs. In classes ranging from puppy classes (when we first got our dogs) to Obedience, Rally, Agility, Animal Actors and other fun/​specialty classes we have found the trainers to be friendly, knowledgeable and patient. One of the most important pieces for me… the guarantee of positive based training. No quick fix advise that may stop a problem on the short end but create a much bigger problem in the long run.
Thank you to Holly, Christine, Kat, and Tanya for making every class we take enjoyable, fun for us as well as the dogs, and educational. Looking forward to many more years and many more classes together.

The fact that it is an indoor, air-​conditioned facility is a huge bonus, but it is the variety of classes and positive reinforcement training that I really appreciate. Where else can you and your dog participate in agility, flyball, obedience, rally, tricks, animal actor… yep, train your dog to prepare for a photo shoot or teach them to be a canine actor, how cool is that.

We took our 12-​week-​old puppy to DTASF with high hopes. He is not our first dog, and we recognized right away that he had some challenging problem behaviors, especially when it came to other dogs. Barking hysterically at the sight of any dog (which was ongoing from age 9 weeks when we got him) and humping constantly were just some of the issues. From the very first puppy class my husband called to tell me how uncomfortable he was. I figured he was overreacting and embarrassed since our puppy had caused a bit of a ruckus in the class. After a few hundred dollars, a week of «puppy camp» and a couple more classes we finally realized that the trainers there really had nothing to offer us.
We also had this vague, strange feeling that some of the trainers just plain didn’t like our dog (or us) and a couple of them were actually quite rude to us. I had a very uncomfortable interaction with one of the trainers while picking up our dog from puppy camp. When I arrived, there was one other lady picking up her puppy. The contrast between how I was treated and how the other client was treated confirmed my feelings that something was off. First off the trainer who was there got my dog’s name wrong, then she immediately handed me my puppy and rudely told me that his collar was too tight and needed to be loosened. I knew this was not the case since we keep his collar loose, and I immediately slipped my entire hand and palm into the collar with room to spare and showed her. She relented and admitted that it wasn’t too tight but «she just kept thinking it was tight all day, for some reason.» The next words out of her mouth were asking me when we are going to get him neutered and telling me that he humped one of the other dogs all day. I assured her that we would be getting him neutered as soon as he is 16 weeks old, and that was pretty much the end of our conversation. I wasn’t sure what to do since she hadn’t given back his bag with food/​treats/​etc, so I stood there for 10 awkward minutes while she totally ignored me and sat on the floor with the other puppy and talked to her owner like they were best friends. Finally I asked if I needed to bring more food the next day, or what, and she said no and I left. It was awkward and I felt that she did not like my puppy and did not like me.
Ultimately we decided to find a different training facility. Once we switched to a new place the difference was immediate. I really wanted to like DTASF, I really did, but the half-​hour drive to the new place has been the best choice for our puppy.
The only person that we had positive experiences with was Kat. She was very nice and actually offered some helpful advice for our pup.
We have had a much better experience at A Dog’s Best Friend.

An indoor training facility is a major factor when you leave in South Florida. Not only for the air conditioning but so you can still train when it rains… which is a lot. Tons of classes all taught with positive training methods; obedience, agility, flyball, pet therapy just to name a few. Also, classes are purchased as packages which can be used on classes at any time, so you if normally come to Rally on Wednesday’s at 8:00, but then one week you are busy, no worries, just come Sunday at 3:00 instead, or try out the animal actor class instead! Once you fill out the paperwork (and provide the usual proof of vaccinations), and attend a free orientation, you can go online and sign up for classes on your computer at home.