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Have you or someone you know ever had a bad experience w a trainer? Know someone who should never be a trainer in the first place? Let's talk about it. Please note, this is NOT a thread to bash people, no naming names or anything please. I just am interested in hearing about your bad trainer experiences. I know the horse world has them, so the dog world must too.
I had one myself. When I was a new dog owner (had family dogs but this was my first dog of my own) I had a rather difficult to train dog w EXTREMELY SEVERE separation anxiety. My mom found a trainer for my boyfriend at the time and I to work w Kovsky, the dog; we mainly wanted to work on the separation anxiety but certainly some help on commands w this difficult dog couldn't hurt. I don't know how she found this trainer. The trainer came to house.
1. She told us to use a pinch collar for Kovsky, who pulled just slightly, not a lot. Totally unnecessary for him. Nary a word from Miss Trainer on actually TRAINING him not to pull.
2. For his separation anxiety, she told us to spray him in the eyes w vinegar every time he screamed in his crate. That did not work at all and we stopped doing it quickly as I found it pretty awful. No tips on keeping him from screaming constantly and destroying everything when we weren't there.
3. Kovsky hated her and was kind of scared of her right off the bat. Dogs can tell ya know. When she tried to walk him only 5' away from us his separation anxiety was so bad/he was so uncomfortable w her that he started thrashing around wildly and couldn't stay on his feet, he went to the ground and continued thrashing around until she let him run back to us.
She was in way over her head w him and wasn't a good trainer to start.
Literally the only useful thing I gleaned from her was to use "deck" as a down command so you can use "down" when you want them off furniture etc. I still use that to this day. I also train myself, and if I need help w future dogs will research THOROUGHLY before letting any trainer into my home.
What about you all? Any bad trainer horror stories?
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I had one myself. When I was a new dog owner (had family dogs but this was my first dog of my own) I had a rather difficult to train dog w EXTREMELY SEVERE separation anxiety. My mom found a trainer for my boyfriend at the time and I to work w Kovsky, the dog; we mainly wanted to work on the separation anxiety but certainly some help on commands w this difficult dog couldn't hurt. I don't know how she found this trainer. The trainer came to house.
1. She told us to use a pinch collar for Kovsky, who pulled just slightly, not a lot. Totally unnecessary for him. Nary a word from Miss Trainer on actually TRAINING him not to pull.
2. For his separation anxiety, she told us to spray him in the eyes w vinegar every time he screamed in his crate. That did not work at all and we stopped doing it quickly as I found it pretty awful. No tips on keeping him from screaming constantly and destroying everything when we weren't there.
3. Kovsky hated her and was kind of scared of her right off the bat. Dogs can tell ya know. When she tried to walk him only 5' away from us his separation anxiety was so bad/he was so uncomfortable w her that he started thrashing around wildly and couldn't stay on his feet, he went to the ground and continued thrashing around until she let him run back to us.
She was in way over her head w him and wasn't a good trainer to start.
Literally the only useful thing I gleaned from her was to use "deck" as a down command so you can use "down" when you want them off furniture etc. I still use that to this day. I also train myself, and if I need help w future dogs will research THOROUGHLY before letting any trainer into my home.
What about you all? Any bad trainer horror stories?
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