Jeremy G
3 years ago
The reason for this one star review is for a couple of reasons. My wife and I have owned dogs our entire lives. We decided to contact Sam Ivey due to my wife and I adopted a Great Dane and wanted some extra help with training our puppy. ... See More
The reason for this one star review is for a couple of reasons. My wife and I have owned dogs our entire lives. We decided to contact Sam Ivey due to my wife and I adopted a Great Dane and wanted some extra help with training our puppy. We have two other dogs in our house at the time also. After starting training with Ryann, we noticed our dogs started to fear us when we tried to correct them.
When our puppy first started to learn spot training at the hands of Ryann, he tried to jump away from Ryann when she forced him into “down” position. Our puppy was trying to get away from Ryann so badly, on a pincher collar, I had to stop the training due to fear of my dog getting hurt. When I contacted the owner Sam himself, I was insulted and basically told that I overreacted due to severing in the military and going to Iraq. At that point, I stepped out and allowed my wife and children to continue without me.
When we explained to Ryann that we did not want to use a E-Collar (shock collar), we wanted to explore other options, Ryann basically told us that there was nothing she could do. They are fear and punishment based training - HER WORDS. Ryann stated that she could already see the aggression in our dog and “it’s only going to get worse.” The only person our dog has growled at, is Ryann! When we asked why other trainers don’t use E-Collars, her answer “because they don’t know what they are doing”. We have taken our puppy to numerous stores and around a ton of people with no issues whatsoever. After holding our stance that we did not want to use the E-Collar, Ryann basically quit on us.
When I tried to connect Sam over this, I felt that I was treated like our business and opinion didn’t matter. Just because we are not the type to use fear and pain to train our dogs, they are the professionals and their opinions and recommendations are the only ones that matter. It is their training and no other way.
So, if you want your dog to obey you based on fear, then Sam Ivy is the company you want. I regret ever calling them and making that initial appointment. While our dogs have learned spot, leash controls and boundary, it’s going to take time to get them back towards their happy selves.
After I left this review on Facebook, the owner of the company then decided to attack my wife and I like he has done with other customers that left a negative review of his company. Posted below are screen shots of him attacking us Social Media. If i could I would attach the video showing how his trainer mistreated our 6 month puppy (at the time).