Dog Sitting in Thorndale

Jagger is very patient and understanding with my dog. My dog got trained and boarded several times. We had a great experience with lucky paw dog training.

I have been using Jagger to board my Zoey & Winnie on the recommendation of a friend, for a couple of years now & he does a fabulous job! First, he picks them up at my convenience & returns them as well. They absolutely love him & he seems to have a special knack with dogs. I understand that he’s also a trainer, though we haven’t used those services. I highly recommend him!

Jagger was awesome in assisting in trying a Farrell dog we adopted. His ability to train Maggie through positive reinforcement in our home served to not only benefit her but ourselves as well. I highly recommend his services in helping your dog adapt in a personalized manner. During each session, he asked what was important for us, and maintained each session with no agenda while always keeping my objective in mind.

My family is so happy to have met Jagger! We have three golden retrievers that have completed group classes led by Jagger, board and train, and continue boarding with Jagger today. Each of our retrievers have specific training goals and needs. Jagger has been diligent in helping us identify strengths in each dog, and in helping us work through some challenging behaviors. As a business owner, Jagger’s customer service is top notch. We are confident that our pups are in good hands with Jagger, as they are always happy to see him at pick up and adjust easily back to our routine at home upon drop off. He truly cares for our dogs like they’re his own!

I’m so glad to have found Jagger! I have a lovely dog I’ve been fostering who I couldn’t take on a recent trip. He provided a wonderful environment for her to hang out with him and to intersect with his while there. There was time for outdoor play, but there was indoor boarding. She was kenneled at night, but otherwise allowed to move about the home. During these hotter temps, that was really important to me. I will definitely be using his boarding service again.

Jagger did amazing with my high energy Newfoundland, Molly. She was resilient when I tried training her myself. She would sit, but wouldn’t stay or hold a sit for any means. She is a very large girl, so it was imperative to fix her jumping and counter surfing issues. I help run an animal rescue, and would highly recommend his services. He let me tour his home and sent me frequent updates and photos of my girl. I have complete confidence in his skills.

Jagger loves our furbabies, Moose and Scruffy and they return the love full heartedly. We do not and have not allow our boys to be under the care of other individuals without us present until they worked with Jagger around us and we saw the joy they had during their training sessions. They learned quickly and happily. They now go “joyfully “ for play and learning days. I would fully recommend Lucky Paws to anyone that wants their pets to learn with love not stress.

I had my very people reactive pitbull see jagger and it was my last hope for her being that I’ve tried everything after a month of training my Stella she is so much better around people and very happy being around people he turned her around to a whole new pup and I would highly recommend boarding and training with him!

Before I begin, I want to say that I was a student of Jagger’s (dog training); I learned from him and I trusted my animals with him and watched him work with them. I enjoyed seeing his passion for dogs. I am writing this review based on facts and not emotion, nor a ‘soured friendship’. I shared his home with him for about a year, and he expressed interest in working for my small business as a trainer. Before hiring him, I offered a probationary period where he would train two of my client’s dogs and I would train the other two. He had another job at this time but eagerly accepted, this was a two week board & train with basic obedience. Within days, I saw neglect: not letting them out for potty breaks, putting them back into soiled kennels, not feeding at the proper times or at all, and I witnessed compulsion in how he trained the dogs. Both were young and needed positive engagement to succeed, but he would roughly correct them, raise his voice, not offer food rewards, and ended up building a soured relationship with both dogs. I took over their care (feeding, bathroom breaks, free time, etc.) while he trained. I regret not taking them back completely, but they were progressing in training and by the end of the two weeks they could do their obedience but avoided eye contact, would break stays once he dropped the leash, and required being told ‘no’ a lot. This isn’t how I train, and could see he was not the right fit for my relationship-based business. After he started Lucky Paws, I had seen three of his personal dogs reach a weight I would deem emaciated, I have seen him carry a dog by the collar (no paws on the ground) across the house, I heard profanity towards the dogs nearly every day, I saw unopened food bags from clients days into the dog’s stay. Many days I didn’t see the dogs in his care at all. I was on the side of the house with access to the yards. He kept his dogs in kennels for 23 hours a day, he even lied to us once and said a puppy (under 16 weeks) had gone home but I could clearly see the puppy on our boarding cameras. It was being switched (picked up by its scruff/neck) from one kennel to another after it soiled itself. It would not be seen until he said they ‘dropped it off again’. But during those four days that he said it wasn’t there, we never saw it, we never heard it, but I could see it on the ring camera. I saved the footage. Separately, he forgot two client dogs outside and left the house. One was a Rottweiler in the middle of summer. I had to text him on both occasions. He would constantly forget his personal dogs outside. If and when he would take his dogs to the vet, their prescribed medication would sit on the counter untouched. I uprooted my life to move out of his home, ended my small business, left all of my clients and their pups, because I couldn’t stand his care towards the dogs anymore. I now am living in a friend’s basement 600 miles away and have no business. There’s no reason for me to leave this review except to warn others of his care. I hope this sparks change. This neglect happens when you don’t see him with your dogs. If you use his services, opt for private lessons instead of boarding, daycare, or a board and train.

Jagger was absolutely amazing with our Luna. She was an absolute shark that would not listen for fun before we took her to him and now she is everyone’s best friend… including our cats!