Beckman's Dog Training

We adopted our rescue three months ago and found ourselves with a really sweet dog but highly crazy leash reactive with dogs. We have a personal trainer, which we really like but none of his corrections really seemed to get through to our dog. Thinking he is super frustrated on leash and might need to just get around other dogs in a controlled situation we did not know what to do. Even though we were told by the rescue he was around other dogs without incident, we were very unsure what his intent was because he turns into Cujo when he sees dogs even from 100+ yards away. I've been following Beckman's videos on YouTube and really liked what I saw. The price for a private Fiesty Fido session is not cheap and we had to drive almost 2 hours to get to his facility in Ramona but I can say it was worth every penny. Joel's knowledge of dog behavior and professionalism is top notch. He does not waste your time and is very honest when assessing your dog and what needs to be done. We were able to find out that our dog is indeed a frustrated somewhat dominant dog and he growled at every dog when meeting through a fence but was able to be with 5 dogs unleashed and muzzled with no issue and then without a muzzle. He even played with one dog in particular. Unfortunately, we have a looong way to go with him as he was still crazy reactive and a jerk to Joel at the end of the session by being reactive to another dog while leashed and blowing off Joel when trying to get him to sit. We started Joel's advice the minute we got him in the car to leave. We are definitely going to go for another session in about a month. Thank you Joel and Beckman's Training crew for helping us and crazy Riff out.

Extremely disappointed. After watching his videos, I thought he would be very qualified to work with my young, aggressive dog. He used to train killer whales, so training my 70 lb dog should be quite manageable, right? After the short and costly consultation, and the staggering amount he quoted for a 1-week board and train, it was obvious that he didn't want to put the time and effort into training my challenging dog. Drove over an hour back home feeling hopeless and in tears.