Venture Dog Training Austin

As a professional animal trainer and veterinary technician specialist in behavior, I am selective about who cares for my dogs. I have used Steven for several years. He is dependable, kind, and my dog is always eager to see him (and his dog)! Thank you for the wonderful care you have provided with your pet sitting services! I trust you to give my dogs the same level of care I provide them.

Steven at Venture Dog Training has been an incredible mentor and played a huge role in my growth as a professional dog trainer. He helped me tremendously by deepening my understanding of behavior, structure, and clear communication — not just teaching techniques, but teaching the “why” behind them. His guidance and high standards pushed me to grow in both confidence and skill, and his mentorship contributed greatly to me earning my certification. I’m truly grateful for his leadership and highly recommend him to anyone looking for knowledgeable, structured, results-driven training. Thank you, Steven!!

I hired Steven to help get my corgi Chihuahua mix dog with self control since we are expecting a baby in the family and my daughter moved in with her 2 cats. My dog, Oliver, had selective listening skills prior to training and would hyperventilate and bark constantly around the cats. With Steven’s guidance and consistent training approach we were able to get Oliver to listen, and now he can hang out with the cats without barking at all. At first, it didn’t seem like it was going to work, but with consistent training over a three month period were able to be successful.

Steven is phenomenal at what he does, and we cannot recommend his services and talents enough. We did a six-session course to help with our 75lb, 7-month old pup. Steven would give clear, actionable directives. He would help address behaviors that were important to us and that were important to our lifestyle. His guidance was specifically tailored to our dog and what was effective. He is also responsive to text when we have questions or need quick input. He clearly knows and understands dog behaviors well! We saw slow improvements in some behaviors, and fast improvements in others, all in the name of positive progress. He even met us in different locations to help meet the needs of the environments we wanted to be able to take our dog in. We've seen great success and behavior improvements

I really loved working with Steven! He was a kind, skilled and knowledgable teacher. I'm neurodivergent and can struggle with task switching between processing verbal in person instruction and actually training the dog, but I try to take in person classes as well as online ones because there's so many benefits to training in a controlled environment like a class. In spite of me having a generally harder time with in person instruction, Steven was very patient, encouraging and a joy to work with. He also was always very flexible if I wanted to do something a different way, and was even creative enough to come up with new solutions himself if I preferred training a skill in a different way, which I did not at all expect. I would not hesitate to take a class with Steven again.