Gilford's Golden Guardians

I don’t think I can express how highly I would recommend Gilford’s Golden Guardians for your service dog training! The owner and trainer Kaarla is so passionate and knowledgeable. She is able to adapt training to fit individual needs and troubleshoot the unexpected challenges that arise for clients. Her level of experience with a variety of clients shows in her ability to adapt to fit a need, get past a barrier, or come up with multiple new techniques to accomplish a task/skill! She listens to the needs that you are seeking to meet with a service dog but also listens to everything you say and identifies additional needs that she thinks could be a benefit that you have not thought of! I personally entered the training program for a service dog for my child after experiencing a traumatic event. From my first outreach to Kaarla, she recognized the importance of training a god for my child, she stayed in contact and guided me through each step to get started. She continued to go above and beyond through our training journey, even checking on how I was doing with the aftermath of the event I experienced. Kaarla became an additional family member during our time in training. I recommended her to anyone who even thinks about a service dog journey and some who haven’t thought about it, but I think they should!

Kaarl’s is a wonderful trainer and teacher and really cares about her clients and thier pets, and what a kind soul she is, and is amazing with handling when a medical condition does happen!! And she is amazing!!! I would recommend her to anybody!!

I observed Kaarla with a client and his puppy, and I was very impressed with not only her dog-training savvy, but also her commuication with the client, who was deaf. She was clear, cheerful, and patient (with dog and human alike). Excellent experience!

We got our Trixie girl from Kaarla, at Gilford's Golden Guardians. We immediately fell in love. Trixie is smart, loving, funny and eager to work for our family. Kaarla continues to work closely with our family to train Trixie for service and we couldn't be happier with the progress. We highly recommend Gilfords's Golden Guardians for service dog training!

Working with Gilford's Golden Guardians has been amazing for our family. Kaarla is very professional, and was very helpful in finding the best options for our son to obtain a service dog. Shadow is very well trained, and her continued support is amazing as well. I would highly recommend anybody interested in working with her!

I am incredibly grateful for the the opportunity that Kaarla offers. This has been a wonderful option for us to provide our family member with a service dog. Kaarla has consistently worked with us to have an individualized training experience. Her knowledge and experience of working with dogs and families is evident and it has been impressive to see her work in action. I appreciate all her kindness and support while guiding us through this process. I believe she has gone above and beyond to provide our family with support through this process. I highly recommend her services and I am thankful for them!

Gilford Golden Guardians has been an awesome experience for our family. Our Medical Alert Puppy Finley has been successfully working with Kaarla for the last 10 months! Kaarla is incredibly knowledgeable about the training process for Service/Medical alert dogs. She is kind, compassionate, flexible and persistent. Her patience when working with Seniors is also one of her strengths! We highly recommend Gilford Golden Guardians for training of your precious puppies! Thank you Gilford Golden Guardians & Kaarla!!💕

Our experience with Gildford's Golden Guardians has been absolutely amazing! Kaarla is a true professional with extensive knowledge and experience in training service dogs. Our family schedule was a bit chaotic over the last year but Kaarla was always so patient and accommodating. We can't thank her enough for everything she's done in training our service dog, Cali.