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SoCal K9 Consulting

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My expertise is my professional dog education, experience, and positive reinforcement training methods! Since training my first client in the summer of 2020, I’ve conducted over 5,000 private training sessions! 🐾 I am a nine year military veteran, honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant, who worked as a Kennel Master, a 341st Patrol Dog Trainer, and a Dog Handler stationed in Texas, Germany, the Philippines, California, and Bahrain. 🐕 I graduated from all (three) military K9 schools and hold a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. I am organized, engaging, outgoing, and professional! I provide a thorough training recap with a customized program, in depth lesson plans for various basic obedience and behavioral commands, and equipment recommendations for anything used in our training sessions through my Amazon Shop currently on my website! 🐕‍🦺 There are hundreds if not thousands of dog trainers in Southern California and you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone as qualified as me. 🙌 Thank you for your consideration! 🙏
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Hired 290 times

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6 years in business

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2025

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2024

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2023

Services offered
Dog training package
Dog size

Extra Small (1 - 15 lbs)

Small (16 - 25 lbs)

Medium (26 - 40 lbs)

Large (41 - 70 lbs)

Dog training type

Private lessons

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Reviews

Customers rated this pro highly for professionalism, work quality, and responsiveness.

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Joanne C.

Oct 24, 2025

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My 7 month old dog has high anxiety and other issues. Walking on a leash was the biggest issue to tackle. After 1 lesson my pup was responding to heal, wait at crosswalks, Ok to go, and release to explore on a 6 foot lead. Not perfect but very close for a young anxious dog. She sits, stays, comes with treats and often with just verbal praise. We are still dealing with other issues but Toby really knows what he is doing. I am absolutely impressed.

Details: 0 - 6 months old • Medium (26 - 40 lbs) • Private lessons • Puppy training • Leash pulling • House training • Barking • Destructive behavior • My home, venue, etc.

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Jay C.

Jan 24, 2026

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Toby was punctual and very professional and honed in on the issues facing my emotional support animal and key areas to work on. A+

Details: 1 - 2 years old • Medium (26 - 40 lbs) • Private lessons • I'm flexible • House training • Crate training • My home, venue, etc.

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Leslie B.

Jun 11, 2026

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Toby has a great deal of experience working with dogs. I like his approach to training in that he believes in repetition with praise. Toby is also a very nice person!

Details: 0 - 6 months old • Medium (26 - 40 lbs) • Private lessons • Puppy training • Leash pulling • House training • Digging • Biting • Chewing • Destructive behavior • My home, venue, etc.

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Jimmy S.

Feb 2, 2025

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toby is such a professional at his craft truly loves the dogs he works with. my dog Thunder is always excited to work with him. he gives you a detailed program and this is very important since i'm training my dog to be my service dog to help me as a stroke survivor with left sided weakness. i would highly recommend toby as the trainer to go to for any dog training.

Details: 1 - 2 years old • Large (41 - 70 lbs) • I'm flexible • General obedience training • Crate training • At the pro’s location • My home, venue, etc.

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Tobias Anderson

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