DogWorx - Dog Training Savannah Savannah, Georgia

Our Dog Sadie was 15 months old and a real rescue (from a swamp) and generally a good dog and a fun dog but we realized a few screws needed to be tightened. Our search for an overnight training facility brought us to dogworx and Enrique's 6 week program. Sadie was a puppy on steroids, lots of energy and because she was a strafforfshireTerrier (pit bull) I can understand why people would be frightened by her aggressive friendliness. We needed to get that under control. End results from "boot camp" .... we met first at his training facility where we got a thorough review of the previous 6 weeks and learned her commands and more importantly the reasons behind them. Basically training us now! We then broke and reconvened in a downtown park in Savanah GA complete with many people , dogs and distractions. While we talked about what was next Enrique and Megan took Sadie's leash off and SHE JUST SAT THERE! We stepped aside, maybe 10 feet and she didn't budge, just sat and waited. Next my wife and i learned to walk her around people and learn her outdoor commands. Then (get this) we walked.up to the city Market, in Savanah GA, on July 3 (tours time) with people and dogs everywhere....oh....we did this without a leash on her! Through people! Past dogs! Sans leash! And she never left my side, in fact her head was at my knee...always! AMAZING! We went back to his studio, wrapped thing up and got instructed on our part, our Job, for the next 30 days. When she got home it was clear she didn't forget. It was fun to work in the back yard with her. She was her normal, happy self. It was hard to be firm with her. First night she was.loud in her crate so we hooked up with Meagan and Enrique on a video call for some reassuring instructions on things that "came up" and questions that we didn't think of earlier. Since the she hasn't made a sound at night, not a peep. I could go on forever but its best to say in was the best money I have spent. She becomes more fun every day. Do it people, beat thing for your dog

Our 2 year old dog, Bri, use to have some fearful, protective, aggressive behaviors when around other people/dogs. Even if we were just walking with her and passed someone, her hair would stand up, she would growl and lunge at the person. After 10 long weeks, we got Bri back and swear she is a new pup! Not only are we more comfortable taking Bri out in public, but she is also at ease. We couldn’t recommend Enrique, Meagan, and all of DogWorx staff more! Enrique was great at answering all of our questions and putting us at ease, by teaching us how to incorporate the training into every day life. We were extremely nervous at the take home lesson since we have two years of her bad behavior engrained in our brain. But after walking with Bri off leash in Savannah, with Enrique, we feel confident and trust Bri.

My dog was given back to me because of a downed tree on their property. They were supposed to have my dog for 8 weeks and this happened 3 weeks in. I was excited for a few days with my pup that I didn't expect. When I got her back she was 12 lbs down. She was a very healthy weight when she went in and nobody communicated anything with us about her weight loss. I took her to the vet and confirmed there were no parasites when I got her back and the vet was shocked that she lost that much weight in such a short time. She was dirty, terrified and was aggressive with my husband when he came home (something she had never done.) she did not return to training and I do not recommend them. Please research the certifications and licenses with any trainer you use and tour any facility your dog will be staying in.

Everyone knows a German Shepherd is one of the most common restricted breeds. I brought my dog to another trainer who informed me that he was not equipped to handle my dog's aggressive behaviors. I continued to do my research and was overjoyed when three people whom I spoke to recommended DogWorx. They said he worked WONDERS with their dogs. So I reached out, and booked the appointment. We met with Enrique during the pet interview, who was not swayed at all by my dog's obvious dislike for strangers. The application process was lengthy but extremely thorough and I had ZERO hesitations after seeing how professional this company was, especially with their health requirements for each dog they train. We were completely blown away by the transformation after the training had concluded. I am now able to take my GSD out in public places. The DogWorx team not only thoroughly trained our dog but took the time to train us on what we need to do to continue our dog's progress. They have been accommodating every step of the way, providing different tools (at no additional cost) to use to get the best results for our pup and what worked best for her. We are so grateful for the dedication the DogWorx team put towards helping our dog!

Dogworx helped us so much with our dog, Otto. They not only improved his quality of life but also made sure we learned everything we needed to know to continue to work with Otto. They gave Otto the ability to make better choices and to look to us for guidance in situations he would have historically been reactive. We Highly recommend dogworx!

My dog Piper was a bit of a handful before completing her training with Dogworx. Before training she was scared of everything, starting to become aggressive, very afraid of new people, especially children. After her training she was much more confidant, more attentive, and overall just a more behaved and manageable dog. Throughout the entire process Enrique and Megan were very responsive and helpful. Overall great experience for myself and my dog.

What can I say about DogWorx? All the best! When I was in high school, I did some dog training myself so when my previous dog needed training, I knew what to look for. Enrique and Meaghan are both unbelievably well versed in dealing with both problematic and non-problematic dogs. Furthermore, when we wanted to adopt a dog, we adopted Maggie, one of the dogs that was left with them as the original owners didn't want her back after training. Maggie is a Great Dane, and can be handful, but everywhere we go we get compliments on her behavior and how well she is trained. So, if you're looking to get your dog training, or even maybe adopt a dog that is trained, the DogWorx team is the go-to destination.

Dogworkx was fantastic. We have a 2 year old female Pitt/boxer rescue who was very reactive, specifically on leash towards dog/cats. We were always afraid to see other dogs while walking her and would make conscious efforts to avoid other dogs and most public places. Every time she threw one of her tantrum while we were out we’d feel so defeated coming home and honestly like horrible dog parents. Enrique and his team were very professional, knowledgeable, and flexible throughout the entire process. Enrique came for an initial evaluation and took the time to explain the problems he saw, and how he thought they could be solved. She then went away for the boarding section of the training for 5 weeks. And while it was hard not having her at home, it was more than worth it once we saw the results. She came back extremely well trained, attentive, and calm. Best of all, she was training to walk OFF LEASH! We never thought this was a possibility and are somewhat surprised but extremely grateful for it. After we got her back, we met the team in downtown savannah to practice walking off leash. It was amazing to experience the confidence, freedom, and new-found connection we have with her. The training was absolutely worth it. We are finally able to give our dog the life she deserves. Since ending the training we have walked and even jogged with her off- leash, been to Home Depot, downtown Savannah, and various spots around town. DogWorx provided us the tools needed to help guide her to be the best version of herself. In the beginning we had doubts letting her go just because she means the world to us and we didn’t want her to change into this dog that just takes orders and commands. But we had nothing to worry about! She still has her derpy loving personality we just have a mutual respect for each other now. Thanks Dogworkx for all your great work! Bee thanks you too!

After just 1 visit we could see a huge change in our dogs. They evaluated our dogs and gave an assessment based on the needs of both the pets and the owners. The progress has been amazing in our dogs. We would.us them again and recommend them for all of our pet owner friends.

Our lives have completely changed since Enrique and Megan worked with our dog, Bella. Bella is a senior dog who has had anxiety around people and other dogs her entire life. Although we hired 2 trainers to work with Bella, her behavior did not change. She was sweet and obedient at home with us, but aggressive toward strangers in public, other dogs, and guests in our house. It took several meetings for Bella to warm up to our friends, if she warmed up at all. Bella was with Enrique and Megan for 7 weeks, and returned a confident, obedient dog that looks to us for commands and direction. She's clearly a happier pup, and enjoys the structured training. We can take Bella everywhere, confidently, and she understands how she should behave around people. We never would have thought that we could take her to the farmer's market and out to lunch. We can have guests over to our house, and Bella is out, relaxing on place. Bella has found her zen. It has been a long road of structured training with Bella, and we are a happier family because of it. Thank you, Enrique and Megan!

Sent my dog here for board and train. Got him back underweight, dirty, over grown nails, and multiple open pressure wounds on his neck from an e collar being left on too long and too tight. Have had other people share their experiences of him punching dogs, spraying them in the face with a hose, leaving them crates all day in their feces, and abusing with e collars.

Enrique helped Perro to reach his potential and be the best dog he could be. Enrique was born with amazing talent.

I was fostering and wanting to adopt a 6 year old female Westie with some aggression and anxiety issues. She was coming to me from a Westie Rescue League. She had been owned by an older couple and lost her family. Then was bounced around a bit before ending up in rescue. Others had given me little hope and I was very disheartened. Enrique came to our home to do an eval on her and spent well over an hour teaching me how to help her. His expertise was obvious and his teaching methods calm and gentle but also firm enough, combined with positive reinforcement. Enrique was able to make progress in just one lesson with both the dog and I. Also, I appreciated his honesty in telling me that he didnt think she needed to go live with him for training. He gave me an honest eval, hope for a future for our pup, and tools to reach our goals!! I would absolutely recommend DogWorx!!!

My homeowners insurance was going to drop me unless I got my Doberman AKC CGC certified. Enrique met me and was an absolute pleasure and professional. Made it such a smooth process and extremely accommodating! Extremely knowledgeable. Would recommend to any and everyone! Any future dogs will be going to Dogworx only! Best of the Best!

Thanks to DogWorx, our dog just passed his Canine Good Citizen test and is walking off leash in public with confidence. Before going to training, he showed a lot of aggression towards other dogs and people, but now he walks past them with ease. Thanks DogWorx, you guys are the best!!!

I first contacted Dogworx for agression problems and let me first start off with saying that I was EXTREMELY sceptical. I had reservations about every aspect of this training. I didn't like the idea of having her in a crate, not letting her sleep in the bed, using an e-collar on her, using a prong collar on her, and I especially did not like the idea of her being away from us for 8 weeks! After a long talk with the owner of the company, Enrique, I was convinced that it was worth a shot. After numerous at home trainings, and her being away for 7 weeks I am very happy to say that my pup, Chevy, is happy at home again with a much better attitude. She listens very well, she is not aggressive when she sees other animals, I am able to walk her off leash in the middle of Savannah's city market without a worry in the world! And although she is still in her 30 day probationary period I cant wait to snuggle with her on the bed again!!! I went from worrying about Chevy having to be put down to not having a worry in the world. To any person who is skeptical about using Dogworx, from one skeptic to another, Enrique and his team are the real deal. I highly recommend Dogworx to anyone needing training, or aggression therapy.

Great dog trainers! Very good experience with our dog. Very nice people to work with.

I got a a full grown Great Dane as my first dog. He had aggression toward other dogs and was anxious and fearful in a lot of places. I took him to two trainers before Dogworx and we weren't making much progress. Meagan and Enrique worked with him for 7 weeks. When I got him back he could be walked almost anywhere. I had to get over some anxiety of walking him and it took multiple training sessions for me to be successful working with him. Anytime I struggled, Meagan and Enrique would respond right a way and they'd set up another training session. They never left me hanging and are truly committed to seeing the training at boarding transfer to the Owner. I would recommend anyone to take their dog to Dogworx.

Had a friend pay to get her dog trained and she paid over $3,000 and then this company refused to train her dog but keep her money. I’ve also read online that this has happened to several people. The one she paid was out of Georgia so just beware who you’re giving tour money too and do tour research first!

My dog came back 10x better than expected! I can’t even put into words how grateful I am they were able to give my puppy the best start in life! Thank you guys for everything!!!!

We contacted them back in October to get our puppy into their class. They charge you $80 to come out and do an assessment and we agreed to that. He texted me a couple hours before the assessment where I had gotten off work early to cancel and we rescheduled. A couple hours before the next one he texted me again and wasn't going to make it so we rescheduled the third time. At the third assessment no one texted called or showed up at all! The owner Enrique blamed an assistant for not showing up. After the fourth assessment we agreed to do the program and paid ahead of time. The total cost was $3,300 and after paying $3000 I forgot about the last payment. We scheduled our first of two appointments you have to do before the program and drove all the way down to Savannah Georgia in the rain and did our first appointment. After that appointment his assistant said they would reach out to us to schedule the second one. I reached out to them recently to find out why I haven't been contacted for the appointment and they informed me that they didn't think I was a good fit for the company and they were going to be keeping my money. After arguing he agreed to give me 40% back and they were going to keep $1800 of our money without doing the program. The owner Henrique admitted to me that he has to do this all the time and kicks people out of the program without giving them a refund meeting this guy is out there collecting thousands of dollars from people and never training their dogs.

Enrique and his team were great from the beginning. We were more than excited to send our Shepard to them for training. Unfortunately due to family related issues we had to pull our dog from the program. Enrique was very understanding. Our deposit was nonrefundable, which we understood seeing how we had our first 2 appointments and some equipment. He made the refund process easy and quick.

What can't we say about dogworx. 3 months ago our dog went to board and train with Enrique and the team for dog reactivity and he excelled, did great and we even saw his progress and walked with him on the busiest day in Savannah, st …

If I could give more than 5 stars I SO would !!! Dogworx team has been nothing but great to My pup Marlo & I. I thought it was going to be extremely difficult to train my pup, but Enrique showed me different!! It doesn't matter what type of dog as long as you listen to everything he says & shows you, YOU WILL SEE A DIFFERENCE!! my puppy is now on the right path to be a gentleman and I owe it all to his training & coaching us. Not only does your dog get trained but you get some life lessons out of as well !! I will forever be thankful for Enrique & Dogworx. Thank you guys SO much????????

Enrique and his team are very passionate and intelligent in their field. It was a pleasure to see the end result. I was truly impressed with their ability to relay the information to my wife as i am not the best teacher. She felt very comfortable during and after without my presence in knowing what when and how to control the dog. The highly recommend!

Everything from happy leash walking, to separation anxiety and off-leash recalls, DogWorkz does it all! I now have all of the tools I need to keep both me and my dog, happy and balanced. I am very grateful to have found DogWorkz and I highly recommend them.

This guy claims to train your dog and then passes off to another trainer, also will not feed, water or let your dog(s) out to potty for extended lengths of time and leaves them in filthy crates whoxt during 2x10 minute "training" sessions. Uses fear and pain to train.

I spent a lot of time researching dog trainers for one of my dogs and I thought I had found a great place- I was wrong. I sent Winston to Dogworx for about 6 weeks. When he came home, he was insanely skinny. I knew he would lose weight but this was scary! I had also sent him with certain things I really needed them to work on with Winston and none of those were addressed. When I asked about it, the answer was, "well he didn't do any of those things with us" Seriously??? He also is now terrified of all loud noises (wasn't like that before) and scarfs his food down as if he is scared he won't be getting any more today. All these things really make me wonder how they "trained" my dog. The worst thing to me is that he still does not listen that well to me. He pulls on the leash, still runs away (even in the e-collar!), barks and growls at people, dogs and children among many other things DogWorx was supposed to work on. He ran away from me just 3 days ago and he's been home for a couple months now. I will say, when I had my session to bring Winston home, he listened to them pretty well, that never transferred over to me at my own home. I have been working with him and while yes, he is a little better, not good enough for the money I spent. I truly feel as if DogWorx was an absolute waste of my money and it is very expensive. I would not recommend them to anyone. Also, feel like I should mention that they never once checked back in with me to see how Winston is doing after he came home. If you are in the Savannah area, I would suggest looking elsewhere

I don’t even know where to start. I am SO PLEASED!! DogWorx went above and beyond to train my sweet Daffy! I was so hesitant to leave her at a training facility for so long. They definitely met and went above all my expectations! Daffy has only been home for 2 days and she is doing amazing! Thank you guys so much for looking after her and putting up with me. We hope to see you guys soon and keep in touch. I know this training is going to provide me with the best life possible with my Daffy. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! DogWorx you Rock!!!

I would highly recommend DogWorx! The changes I have seen in my Aussie are nothing short of amazing! I thoroughly enjoy taking him places now and am confident in his ability to behave in public. I get complimented all the time on my well trained dog! :) Enrique and Meagan were incredibly patient in "training" me in the commands and expectations they instilled in Rocko. They truly saved my relationship with my dog.