I had a very aggressive, out-of-control Pomeranian who was becoming quite a handful by the time he was 15 months old. He was biting and drawing blood, he was barking all the time and if I opened the door he would run away and we couldn’t catch him. He would dominate the furniture and he would attack us if we tried to sit down or move him. At nine months old and 7lbs, my dog attacked the groomer and the groomer told me he could never come back again.
He could not be trusted around children and my parents were urging me to put him up for adoption. A friend of mine referred me to Stacy at Westchester K-9 last December. I sent the dog for the initial three weeks. After two weeks, Kerrie (Head trainer at the time) had made progress but she highly recommended training the dog on a vibrating collar so that he didn’t fall back into his bad habits when he came back home.
I agreed to the training and left the dog an additional week for the remote collar training. In retrospect, I wish I had done the collar training on day one.
I am happy to say that my Pomeranian is now reformed and a really sweet dog. He is still the same dominant dog but the K-9 training and the collar training really changed our lives. The collar has given us the ability to calm and control the dog in a split second – it is similar to a vibrating phone, not electric shock. I was so please with the training that I sent the dog back a couple months later for remote recall training with the collar. Now I board him at K-9 when I travel. He knows them so well, he is happy to be there and I am relieved to have a place I do not need to worry about him.
Tracy
Greenwich, CT.