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Originally Posted by yorkiepaws  When Laya was a puppy we did two classes at petsmart. One trainer was awesome, and the other one was a joke. I was a nervous wreck having laya in with big dogs. She was the only small dog in the class. She was way smaller than the other dogs. But most of the training is done with leads on and I just refused the play part where they all get to play and mingle at the end of class. Even the trainer told me to just pick her up because she was just too small and she was afraid she would get sat on. We learned a lot from the one trainer and not much at all from the other. |
Same here. A couple of years ago, I had a dachshund puppy. Signed him up for a puppy training class. The trainer was great. Had JoJo doing the usual commands, loose leash walking, etc. When I signed Gidget up for a class, I was so excited. The first class was fine and so was the second. By the third lesson, she was taking the ones who had missed the first lessons and giving them a "makeup" lesson while she told the rest of us what to do and then spent the rest of the time doing "catch up" with the others. When she wasn't doing that, she was talking about her dog (which she had with her in the classes) and talking about her boyfriend and the house they were building. I complained to the store manager and he said I wasn't the first one to complain. She was transferred to another PetSmart. Hope she did a better job there.