We took a dog training classes Fridays at 5:30 PM- 6:30 PM with Lisa.
This woman Lisa is just a very mean person. Lisa insulted everyone's dog in the group (4) the first day, telling us our dogs could stand to lose 3-5 lbs, two of us in the group rescued our dogs recently from the shelter and we're bad owners.
She literally pointed each dog out as she stood in the middle room saying to couple 1,"your dog fat and has no energy, Couple 2 (us) your dog is overweight and motivated by food, Couple 3 (father /son) you were told not to feed your dog the day of class, however, you did not follow instructions and your dog could lose 4, and couple 4 (mother/ daughter) your dog could stand to lose 4lbs."
Keep in mind Lisa is not a veterinarian, she is a dog trainer.
The following week Lisa again told the class, "you need to cut back food to your dogs". Again around the room asking each family how we feed our pets as she stood in front of the door. Telling the class that seeing a dog's ribs are a good thing according to her vet.
So, it sounds like our dogs should have lost weight within a week prior to class.
As we were learning command training for our pets, if you made an error Lisa drew attain to it, scolding you as a child.
The poor couple next to us, Lisa commented about the gentleman's name and how he needs a name she can pronounce and what language is that and then laughing The wife quiet and happy had her fair share of humiliation. When Lisa told the young lady to use our dog for training because hers was not responsive, the young lady complied. As the lady began to follow instruction, she made mistakes as we all did, however, Lisa scolded her loudly,"WHAT ARE YOU DOING WRONG? WHAT ARE YOU DOING WRONG? WHAT ARE YOU DOING WRONG? WHAT ARE YOU DOING WRONG? TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE DOING WRONG!
The young lady froze. "TELL ME WHAT YOU DID WRONG!" The young lady began to speak but instead tried again. It was so hard to witness that because you knew the young lady was so embarrassed.
I simply could do no right either and Lisa let us all hear that. So, as she continued to scold me in front of the class, I handed my treats to my partner, Lisa said, "No, do it again!" I said, "No, I'm good, all done here." Lisa told me, "Do it again!" I tried and failed. I do not like being scolded for failing to execute it perfectly. I once again handed my treats off again, she said, "No, we are going to do it again." I finally just handed off my treats. My partner did the same errors I did and she said, "Good job." I responded,"Really?"
The next family she tells them, "just do this at home since she won't stop barking because she is scared." Did you feed her today before class?" He replied, "I did not, I was at work." Lisa asks, "Did someone else feed her at home?" He replied, "Yes, I don't know I was at work."
Lisa says, "If you want this to work you need to not feed her." "Your dog is not motivated by food." He just nodded his head and tried to train his dog.
The next victims of Lisa's verbal slaughter. Lisa, asks, "Did you feed your dog today?" The lady sheepishly says something. Lisa says, "I can't hear you." "If you are not going to follow the rule I gave you not to feed your dog the day of class, then why come here and waste your time?"
Wow, that was super harsh and humiliating as Lisa moves away from her.
"You need treats that will motivate, go buy these treats, " says Lisa.
Another training exercise Lisa wants to demonstrate to us "how it feels to have someone put their hand above your head" approaching each one of us in the class. The young lady next to me goes first, "You don't like it do you?" says Lisa. The young lady says nothing.
My turn. Lisa places her hand above me and says, "you don't like it do you?" I said,"doesn't bother me." Lisa replies loudly, "She wants to punch my face!" "I see it" "Go ahead. I'm giving you a free pass to punch me in the face." I asked, "What are you talking about." Lisa moves on to my partner asking if he liked it, he just laughed.
There are more examples of terrible communications from Lisa, but enough said.
I did contact the store's assistant manager or who claimed to be the store's assisting manager and she suggested refunding all of us the money paid for class and to continue taking the class if we wished, she said she was going to write the complaint and justify the refund and submit it to Josh the store manager.
I had not heard from Josh despite the many calls I made to the store and left messages for a return call.
Today October 28th, 2017 Josh called me and with an attitude asked what I wanted as he had me on speaker phone. I explained the whole situation of the behavoir an attitude of Lisa, he made no apologies. I asked, "what are you going to do to resolve this problem?" I said, "Lisa never apologized either.
Josh said, "If you don't like her why did you continue to come to class." I asked, "Really? It's my fault?" Yes! You're not going to apologize? Josh, "no." read more