About Paws Up Training

Training based in West Valley City

Paws Up Training is a dog training business based in West Valley City that trains dogs across Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Tooele counties. Trainer Kota has been training dogs since 2017, with a background in enrichment and group classes, private lessons and board and train programs, and has fostered and trained dogs for rescue organizations. She is a graduate of Bart and Michael Bellon's NePoPo Silver School, holds accreditations from the Canine-Human Relationship Institute and Joel Silverman Dog Training, has been a member of the International Association of Canine Professionals since 2019, and is an AKC Canine Good Citizen evaluator.

Programs

Paws Up offers board and train, private lessons and boarding. The focus is empowering owners and strengthening the relationship between owners and their dogs, with the goal of keeping dogs in their homes.

What owners say

One client wrote that Kota taught their Pomeranian to be comfortable in the crate, which led to potty training, and that the dog "had zero recall" before and is now "almost perfect with her recall."