Oriole Dog Training Club

I love this club You don't have to be a member and it's still insanely cheap. You go to class once a week.And they tell you what you need to work on and you practice it in class. I love that you're in the ring with your puppy or dog and you're with other owners and you're all learning together. I love that.It's an easy registration that you do online. Then show up on the day of. Everyone is so friendly and all the teachers are wonderful and patient. My weimaraner loves it.

Run by mostly indifferent high handed white women. That bully people of color by isolating them for doing things they themselves do. Classes often have reactive dangerous dogs that often run loose and are never dismissed. Often times these dogs belong to instructors and even the current President of the club. The only benefit I’ve found to being a member is getting to socialize my dogs. I don’t look to this club to actually learn anything. I first became a member 11 years ago. I can count the number of black members that I’ve met on one hand. I’m starting to believe this is intentional. I’m a middle aged mathematician and senior healthcare researcher that again has been a member for over a decade. Yet whenever I interact with the aforementioned crowd they ask if I’m new and make statements that indicate that they believe they im a college aged girl with my first performance puppy. People that I’ve volunteered with or entered along side in trails for years. These same people in leadership never ask my name or even acknowledge my existence when passing me in the halls outside of class. That is OTDC for a person of color.