Canine Solutions

Our recently adopted dog has separation and socialisation issues and had Jo at a home visit to provide her advice and knowledge. The visit was definitely beneficial over and above what we'd been trying to reading online.Our dog is now also attending their daycare which is working out well, he comes home happy and tired. After a very nervous arrival for his first visit, he was excited to arrive on his second visit.Note that this review was written after 2 visits to the daycare.

Canine Solutions has helped get our little pup more confident and obedient. They also gave him his first groom and he came home so silky and smelling great. Really personable staff and genuine dog lovers.

Hi attended puppy preschool 20 years ago with my first dog woth Jo at a vet practice on Khandallah. Now several puppies later I am still taking my fur babies to Jo and daughter Hope now based in Upper Hutt. Puppies love the socialisation of getting together each week and the guidance and personalised training tips are priceless.

Personally wouldn't recommend the training classes. The environment is loud, very distracting for the dogs and not conducive to learning and we honestly came away from every class feeling downtrodden and frustrated. As someone else has said in another review the back to back classes mean you're in and out with very little personal interaction and our specific concerns were not asked about or corrected during the classes. I'd really expect a lot more for the high price, when other much more personal classes are available elsewhere for a fraction of the cost (which we are now enrolled in). In saying that, our pup has improved a lot in her lead walking during the basic obedience class, but we believe that's really due to our diligence with homework and practice rather than advice we learned from the class (as they told us to do things we were already doing). Lead walking takes practice and time to build success with increasing distractions and we felt like this course doesn't allow for that. We're going to stick to celebrating our pup's progress at her own pace going forward at a more realistically paced training class elsewhere.

Business changed from post-paid to pre-paid day care concessions (fine, I understand), but failed to remind customers if they had run out of pre-paid concessions and then randomly sent invoices (automated ones, the super in-personable ones you get from a computer). This caused confusion when they changed their pricing halfway through and their system couldn't handle me paying for the unpaid sessions at the new price, and it's resulted in an ongoing saga of being blamed that I haven't paid for two trips even though I've OVERPAID for them.For the price you pay (premium compared to others), it is an unorganised mess. I hate to know what the dogs deal with on a daily basis we don't see.Wont be back, and wont be recommending.

Great place to take your doggo for either training or for doggy day care, even for tiny ones like we have (Chihuahua x foxy), Jo has loads of knowledge and her team are really great too, couldn't recommend Canine solutions enough :D

Avoid this place. The dogs spend half the day crammed in cages in the back on the van and then get whacked with sticks when they start playing in the tiny area at the day care. This place either needs new ownership or needs to be shut down completely.

Do not waste your money at this place. My dog attended for almost 2 years in an attempt to socialise him to other dogs. For this whole time we got “perfect” report cards, but he has not learnt a single thing about being with other dogs.I imagine they just throw all the dogs in the area, without reducing energy levels and teaching meaningful skills for meeting other dogs.I’m having to start again, because this business is a money making shortcut.

Wow puppy and obedience school was awesome - 10/10Jo and Hope were lovely and gave us the confidence and skills to train a very happy and mostly obedient (few things to still practice!!) dog!