Common Ground Dog Training

Henry is a rescue- I had not had a dog in many years and felt ill equipped to help Henry adjust to his new life. I needed someone to teach me how to best work with him and "tweak" some inappropriate behaviors. I was hesitant at first because Henry is fearful of new people; but he took to Linda right away. She has a very calming presence. I was new to clicker training, but was impressed with how well it works. Linda's methods work-any "failures" Henry has is due to my lack of consistency-. I know Linda refers to herself as a dog trainer; but really, she trained me! :)

I feel really bad leaving bad reviews but this has been something that has been bothering me ever since I worked with Linda. I hired her based off of her perfect 5 star reviews and felt mislead. The moment she arrived, she was very pushy about using the clicker training and forced it on me which I did not feel comfortable using. She would arrive late and/or cancel last minute. We also wasted a lot of time going over basic commands that my dog knows, I understand we need to know basic before we can move on, but definitely did not need to take as much time as we did with that as she already knew them. Some of the words that I used with my dog wasn't acceptable to her as command words, so she wanted to reteach my dog the same commands with new words (also time waster). She was hired to work on my dog's fear aggression. After our 4 sessions, NOTHING changed. I ended up having to hire a new trainer who was ACTUALLY certified in everything and my dog has shown such a positive change! I ended up paying Linda my 4 sessions in advance and after our first session, I already knew I didn't wanted to continue but she did not refund me. This is just all from my experience and till this day, I'm still bothered by it.