Testimonials from Our Clients

The following are true testimonials from our grateful clients.
They'll be glad to be a reference upon request.

We adopted Brien at 9 weeks old and he was the cutest thing we'd ever seen. His cuteness often clouded our judgement of things that he did. We usually laughed it off to him being a clumsy puppy. As the weeks turned into months we realized that Brien needed some training so we tried a group obedience class. While there Brien mastered "play," and ended up not graduating. We still laughed it off to him "just being a Lab." As he grew, the jumping on people and the counters, the pulling, the devouring his food, and the constantly biting our other dog's ankles wasn't so cute anymore. We knew Brien needed an overnight Boot Camp. While in the dog park one day I saw the sign for Metrolina K9 and decided to check to it out.

We are so grateful that we found Randy, and he was able to get Brien under control. Brien is a completely different dog now. He is amazing. He comes when called, stays, waits, waits during feeding times, goes to his bed when told, heels, and doesn't jump anymore. Since Brien has been "polite," we have also seen Miller, our older Lab, enjoy and want his play time with Brien.

I don't know what we would have done without "The Whisperer" aka Randy. We would recommend him to anyone and everyone! Thank you for giving us a well-behaved dog! We truly appreciate it!

Thanks!

Jessica Martinelli
Graduate of Level I Boot Camp
Brien's Page »

I can only imagine what mess I would have been in if I hadn't called Randy from Metrolina K9. My Rotti (Tubbs) as a puppy was a handful, very powerful and pretty much got his way with everyone in the house. He is now 175lbs, and I can't even imagine what life would be like if he wasn't trained at your boot camp.

Thanks again for everything, and we especially love that you call us for get-togethers every so often so groups of your students can get together - that's so fun!!! We always switch dogs because they all learned the same way! Very cool to see in a hike or dog park!

Keep it up Randy, we're so glad we found you!

The Devlins
Owners of Tubbs, Graduate of Level I and II Boot Camp
Tubbs's Page »

Hi Randy:

Thank you so much for your work with Emmit. His confidence is growing each day and it has been such a benefit to both Emmit and I to start off on the good foot that we did with you.

Kelly Lawrence
Owner of Emmit, Graduate of Level I Obedience
Emmit's Page »

We adopted Dakota a little more than a year ago. We do not know what her history is other than she was found in January 2009 in a park tied to a tree in the rain. We believe by her behavior, that she was abused and not properly socialized. She is fearful of strangers and other dogs. We moved back from New York back to Charlotte, NC and heard about Randy Clift from a neighborhood dog walker who had seen him work with other problem dogs. We sent Dakota to boot camp. She came back a changed dog. She has learned to look to us for direction and not act out on her own. She does not pull (much) on walks and has learned to come to us when called. We continue to work with Randy on her dog fear and have taken her to dog parks to work with her on leash to teach her that other dogs can be fun. Dakota is much calmer around strangers and we have now taught our friends and family how to approach her so that the meeting is a positive experience with little to no anxiety for either party. Randy taught her patience around her food – she has to wait to be fed and then back off of her dish several times during the feeding period to help her with her food possession issues and eating too fast.

Randy is someone that I trust completely with Dakota and I have sent her to two boot camps at this stage. While there is no quick fix to the issues that Dakota has, no one up until this point has made the progress that Randy has had with her. Besides, Dakota loves him. You can tell by the way she runs to him whenever he comes into the picture. My husband and I would highly recommend Randy and Metrolinak9 to help you with your dog issues.

Faith, Tim and Dakota
Dakota - Graduate of Level I and II Boot Camp
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