The Dan Gentile Dog Training Center

For now 1 star. Reached out about having my pup trained. It has been three weeks and I have not heard anything back. Not even an acknowledgement of receiving our email. If that's is any indication of their services.... I would not want to leave the care in the hands of these people. Update. We did finally get in contact. Unfortunately we had already made other arrangements. We understand places are busy and short staffed. It was still nice to get a response. Thank you.

Never even boarded my dog here i was going to but just after knowing people who have some good but most mainly bad. Without this info im all for most type training i believe prong collars could be used as an helpful aid in some situations but if you were to put my dog on a prong collar and not ask me before hand. Tell me when i pick her up. That im not ok with at all good thing i saw everyone saying they had no idea you used them until the end and than reading so many horror stories im so disappointed thay animals are being treated like this and that my mom and dad used to be friends with this guy dan ... i apparently met him when i was younger... i was looking to board my crazy silly wild 8month old pit while i went to florida in october. Hence how i got here. I cant even think of even risking the possibility of something bad happening to my MJ... too many similar bad reviews all so similar they must actual have some truth. Im sure some people get good experience but too much to risk and id ask no one if the love their pet leave them with someone who has reviews like this so much abuse so sad to read. Grew up in howell my whole life this was first boarding place i thought of since my parents were pretty close to dan years ago prob like 20. And i know for a fact my dad met him threw bars and drugs so that may explain all the years of abuse on these animals. Dont know much of him now people may change but it is info that may be helpful especially if still using. Just so upset that i thought of leaving my baby here i had to write something so no one makes this mistake... hopefully this message gets to more people... maybe tiktok or insta needs a viral video if anyone has pics or vidios of the abuse. Or this and all horrid comments in a video . We can all work to put something together to end this abuse that there is no doubt happening

I thought now would be a good time to write an honest review since having the great experience we had elsewhere to compare it too. Back in 2020, we sent our rescue dog to training at Dan gentile training facility. We voiced over and over that our dog was dog reactive. Well long story short, we pick him up from the facility and literally on his way out to the car the trainer is having a hard time controlling our dog because he is reacting to the owners dogs. We were told the owners dogs were “meant to be reactive” because they are dogs used for protection. We gave them the benefit of the doubt. After a few weeks noticing our dog acting exactly the same as when we dropped him off, we were able to bring him back in to be shown some training techniques to implement. The trainer was extremely rude and condescending, she brought our dog into the kennel with the prong collar and showed us that he can be calm around other dogs by giving the most forceful tug to his prong collar to the point he yelped. She then said “it didn’t hurt him”. I was sick to my stomach. We left there & all I could think about was what probably had gone on while he was there for 2 weeks & that I would not be following through with that kind of cruel training. Fast forward to the past couple weeks, we picked our dog up from another training facility. We had such an amazing experience at this other facility, the trainers and employees were so kind. The training was completely positive and not forceful whatsoever. My dog actually enjoyed being there and you could see it in his demeanor. My dog is now no longe reactive to other dogs and we are so impressed with the training and kindness he received being at this other facility. Do not drop your dog off at Dan gentile dog training. Dan Gentile dog training is a disgrace and should honestly be shut down for the way they “train dogs”. I will never forgive myself for trusting these people with my dog.