After twenty years of living without a dog in our home, my wife finally convinced me to purchase…read moreone. We decided on a 1 year old male Morkie named Charlie. Charlie's previous owner informed us that she felt guilty locking him up in a cage daily while going to work. Since my wife and I are retired, we felt that we wouldn't have to lock Charlie in a cage.
Charlie is a great little dog and has a wonderful disposition with people. However, he would lunge to the end of his leash, barking and growling at every dog he saw, more so with large dogs. Three times while my wife was walking him, Charlie had to defend his 14 lbs self from some very large dogs that had gotten away from their owners.
We knew very little about training a dog. We didn't have a clue how to fix our boy. Therefore, we decided to seek help from a professional trainer, to fix these behavioral issues.
I decided to watch some YOUTUBE videos in hopes they would help me fix Charlie's problems. But all of the suggestions I accumulated from those videos didn't work for us with Charlie.
This is when we decided to find a professional trainer. After countless hours of discussing Charlie's issues with our close friends and relatives, nobody could provide us with the information needed to resolve Charlie's problems. Everything we tried simply didn't work. We spent over a month on the internet, discussing our dog's behavior issues with numerous dog training schools. None had the behavior training course needed to fix our dog.
We consulted all our local pet stores and discovered they only offered a basic 5 command obedience training course, the same course offered by the dog training schools we contacted online.
After all our research, we finally decided that we would need a dog behavior specialist, an expert that could indeed fix all the behavior issues Charlie had developed.
At this point, we also realized that we didn't want the typical pet store group class type training they all offered. We realized that it would only make Charlie worse being around so many dogs there. So, we decided to purchase ONE-ON-ONE training, which would be best for our dog.
After spending days on the internet, researching all of the dog training schools we could find, we finally found the Ohio State K9 College. Their website provided all of the information we needed to be confident Charlie would be properly trained with their ONE-ON-ONE type training. In fact, their website explained things that no other trainer had even brought to our attention. Including, many things that I didn't even think to ask any trainer about. After reading their site, I completed their required ON-LINE-TEST to demonstrate that I had read and understood all the information about their school. The following day, I was contacted by the owner of the school Joey Byas and we started discussing what I wanted for training. That call lasted about 90 minutes, in which Joey explained that he does not use choke, spike, or shock collar or hurt a dog in any way, unlike other schools do with adult dogs that I contacted.
I set an appointment and took Charlie in for the required 2 hours obedience training evaluation for the TOTAL CONTROL course I desired, and another hour for Joey to type up all of my dog's behavior and socialization issues he currently saw in Charlie. Joey's written estimate is very through and covered all of the courses and details that would be needed to fix all of my dog's issues correctly and permanently.
While going through this evaluation, I realized that Joey was also testing my ability to follow his instructions, during the evaluation of Charlie. Joey explained that he has been training dog's and their owner's for over 40+ years, using his 100% voice control training, and that he is a "Master Trainer."
Joey agreed to train Charlie and to also train me, and we started our first class, which began by Joey demonstrating (hands-on) how he fixes separation anxiety. Joey had it fixed in less than 5 minutes, and in another 10 minutes he had Charlie fixed for ME (even when we left alone in his cage) and haven't had any more separation anxiety with Charlie since.
Then, we began with our first obedience training class. By the end of the class I could see a big change in how Charlie was behaving and responding to MY commands.
After each of our weekly training class, Joey provided me with written instruction on how to fix my dog's behavior issues, and how to properly work with his obedience training between our weekly classes. We also discussed a lot about dog psychology, involving the proper ways to train Charlie and most importantly to train ME.
Charlie has been performing the commands we teach him each class, on the very 1st command given. In fact, he is so good now that he performs every command ON and OFF leash (inside and outside)
I highly recommend that you contact Joey Byas for all your dog training needs.
John Ward