What do you do if you chose a dog trainer and you find out their sugar coated words hide training methods you don’t want to use on your dog?
You be an advocate for your dog… that’s what.
Stand up for your dog. Tell them you don’t want to train your dog that way, and ask what other methods they know. There are a hundred ways to train a dog. If they are any kind of trainer they will be able to ease up or get tougher (ethically) on your dog…
If they say their training only uses something like a stim collar, which is just a pretty word for a shock collar, #fightme, and you decide you don’t want to use it, give them the chance to adjust. If they can’t, then check your contract.
Here is where you need to be an advocate for your dog… If they can’t or won’t adjust…. WALK… We all learn expensive lessons somewhere in life. I sure wish someone had told me I could walk the first time I saw a trainer be mean to my dog. I was frozen. I hated that this was the only way to train her… turns out that wasn’t true. Boy, if I could go back….
People call me to ask about their trainer’s methods all the time! No question is a bad question when it comes to the safety/health/mind of your dog. I would ALWAYS rather someone ask me a question rather than learn later that they shouldn’t have done something. Some of my toughest cases are when we have to euthanize because a dog has been pushed too hard.
#417pitgirl
