Barbara is an outstanding dog trainer who uses only positive behavioural training methods. We have taken 8 dogs to her classes, over a 20 year period, and are always impressed. She constantly takes professional development classes from leading animal behaviourists, and brings that knowledge back to Regina. Our first experience with Barbara was with a set of private classes to help us to handle our (now long gone, alas) reactive border collie. She was a great dog, but struggled on walks and we needed help! With Barbara's assistance, we were able to resolve her issues and had years of wonderful, calm, and relaxing walks with our dogs. We have also had severely abused dogs in our home who needed special attention so they could function in the world. All of those dogs progressed from not being happy leaving the house to attending classes with other dogs and people around and being quite happy with it. With Barbara, you have to trust the process, and if you do you will see results. None of our current dogs really needs classes right now, but we still regularly take them (with a current hiatus due to Covid-19) because they all love going to classes at the Dog's Den, and we do actually learn new things all the time. One of my favourite successes at the Dog's Den is taking our blind and deaf dog to agility class: by the end of the course, our dog was hopping over jumps, clambering under things, weaving, and going through tunnels. Yes, she was doing it slowly, but she was doing it!