Bark Busters Reviews and Customer Testimonials

Baxter was such an anxious boy who was also quite stubborn. He also loves to run away which is how he ended up a rescue dog and being adopted by us. Baxter has made incredible progress since starting the training program with Mark at Bark Busters South Island. Baxter’s potential was always there, and this experience has truly brought out the best in him. Our training sessions are enjoyable and our walks have become so much more pleasant. Baxter is now no longer pulling on the lead, he comes back when called (most times) and is also able to have fun on walks OFF the lead with confidence that he will come back. Thank you, Mark - you are amazing!

Herbie responded very well to the training and we were given lots of resources to refer back to in the future.

Absolutely brilliant experience, Mark knows what he's talking about. saw results immediately

We had a very productive session with Mark and put all the information to practical use on a walk outside with the dogs which was very helpful. It was good to see everything covered in the lesson time and put into practice. The dogs are less pushy and more responsive.

I have an energetic 6-month-old Jack Russell named Gem who is full of life. The biggest challenge has been managing her misbehaviors, especially her aggression towards our older dog Pearl. I’ve only just started on my Bark Busters training with Gem, and I am already seeing huge changes. Mark has shown me clear ways to correct Gem’s behaviours, and every day she’s improving. She’s such a smart little dog, and I’m slowly learning how to adjust to what she needs from me as her owner. What I appreciate most is how Mark made training very easy to follow, yet enjoyable. I love getting to bond with Gem while we practice, and I’m so grateful for his help in bringing out the best in her. Thanks Mark

Thank you for helping us to be better leaders for our dog. We took away some awesome tools to help on our journey. He seems to be responding well already. Ngā mihi

We recently adopted a 3month old springer spaniel and had no idea what we got ourselves into, we searched Murihiku (Southland or Tail end of the land) for a trainer to help us get started and we found Mark from Bark Busters NZ. His communication with us from first contact was impeccable and we knew we wanted to work with BBNZ because of that. Great communication and prompt. Rusty the Springer Spaniel reacted so well to our first meeting with Mark, all three of us were taught some great things, and we are putting them in place. Feeding time is now my favourite time of the day where rusty sits and waits to be told "free" Its eating time buddy. We recommend Bark Busters and we are only a week out from our first session already seeing huge improvements, we are looking forward to a refresher in a few weeks. To learn new things as a pack!

It has only been a few days since Mark came to see us, and the changes have been instant. Mark explained our 5months old puppy’s behaviour and gave us valuable management strategies to correct behaviour and to more importantly reassure our anxious little girl. While there is still work to do, we feel a lot more comfortable and doing an early intervention like this will no doubt save us plenty of trouble later on.

Mark taught us a completely different way of how to let our dog know what kind of behavior is acceptable or not acceptable. He is also learning that he is not the boss! Having recently moved to a retirement village villa we needed Guiness to be better behaved es[pecially around barking issues.

Mark from Bark Busters provided heaps of reading to get is started before we even met him, which was very informative. He spent quite a long time with us initially which was great so we developed a trust his methods were the way forward for our very reactive rescue young huntaway girl. We've had good improvement walking on the lead and reactivity towards wheels on prams etc. has lessened a lot. Reactivity towards dogs when she's on lead is still huge and we're practicing our exercises hoping for gradual improvement with time. It's been very stressful for us, we're in our 60's so definitely don't handle the aggression well, Especially the pulling and lunging at dogs. We've had 2 sessions so far, we may need a few more to gain confidence in dealing with the reactivity and recall training to follow. Overall, a good start with Mark, he's very professional and kind.

Mark from South Island Bark Busters is phenomenal! He’s patient but takes no S**t ! I already feel so much more confident (and supported) from just our first session. I personally think one-on-one training is so much more effective so I’m stoked to have been referred by a friend to Mark for my anxious growing Boxer Rocco.

Mark was amazing at explaining everything, reasoning why we needed to change and how. We were totally shocked at how quickly our dog has responded and the improvement in the first couple of days has been awesome. Originally called Mark for an incident involving our Beefy a Staffordshire Bull Terrier getting very dominant and over baring with another dog. Council involved.