Wow...Where to begin?
Training seemed to start off fine but at the very beginning was immediately told how my german shepherd puppy (2 mos. at the time) was quite skiddish and would probably never be able to be trained to be a protection dog.
Not quite if at all what I wanted to hear as an introduction to wanting to start off with wanting to train my dog to have good habits.
As life would have it, I had to seek what I thought was a trustworthy choice, especially to keep what training she had with Joon to be consistent, to leave my dog with Joon while recovering from 2 different medical procedures, at two different times, each had the duration of a year.
During one of her long boarding stays with him, I had requested for him to drop her off to be groomed at my regular groomer. I was informed that when she was dropped off, her demeanor was so different from her usual spirited self. Instead, she was sooo subdued with her tail tucked under the whole time as though she was very fearful. Hmmm.. I signed up for confidence building not trauma building.
The second time I left her was the final straw because when I picked her up after another long stay because I was recovering from an accident, she was extremely thin, the prong collar was left on & he said he had to use the electric collar because she was restless during the evening. When she is restless, her BASIC need is usually to relieve herself or she's hungry.
With me, she will usually grab one of her squeaky toys to alert me of her needs. Once any of those needs are satisfied, she quiet & will relax on her bed. I believed being with Joon she would have excellent, caring, consistent training & any effort beyond that I would have been willing to pay for.
When I picked her up the second & LAST time, not only did she look emaciated but I was shocked to discover abrasions and blood residues on her neck!!!:( :( :( She must have had the daylights shocked out of her!!!
WOW!!! Some training! Honestly I also thought by leaving her there, she would've had some quality socialization. She's been banned from a local pet store
because an unsupervised kid ran up to her & other than lunging, that was it (she was leashed) while my back was turned to pay for my pet supplies.
Needless to say, in all good conscience and negative experience, I CANNOT recommend Joon Kim as a dog trainer.
It took me this long to share my review because its really disappointing when trust is betrayed and my pet trusted me to leave her with Joon to be properly cared for.
I cant even get myself to give a rating because the negative option is not there. By hurting my pet, he hurt and offended me.
The single star rating was required in order to submit the review. For that reason and only that reason, I gave the one star review. read more