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My wife and I are expecting our first child, our spoiled lab would bark and jump a lot etc. We decided to put her in Orlando 4 week program. We just got back from our 2 week visit and wow what a difference. I understand it will be a lot of at home work but at the moment I’ve seen vast improvement and very happy with the results. BISS! I release you from this post lol

I am happy to share my post training update. My now 1 year old German Shepherd is doing amazing. My once tiny pup is now 85−90lbs. Trust me when I say if you put in the time and do what Orlando tells you to do it does pay off a thousand fold. What I struggled with during the process was the focus on how Dex interacted with me more so than everyone else. Understanding if I didn’t get with the program when he was 20lbs he would not be manageable once full grown. While I certainly baby him more than my husband the commands are clear, I am not perfect but consistent enough to be effective (smile). The training is truly for us the dog owners. The dog is going to be a dog. The issue is whether or not we are going to be consistent over the long haul. So was it worth the money and time. Absolutely. It is an investment like anything else you have to put in the work, and there were evenings I didn’t want to do training and I saw the decline very fast.
Quick story, I was at Petsmart checking out with the Vet. A man came around the corner behind me fast and rather aggressive. Since I had my back to him, I had no clue. Dex, however, for the first time began barking like he was a full growth dog, hair from his tail to the top of his head was up, and he was ready to pounce. At this moment all the training came into play. I turned around to see what was happening, dropped my purse, and yelled «foose» so he would sit immediately, then «plots» to go down on his stomach. Because he was in a protective mode I had not seen before I was pleasantly surprised when he responded so fast (usually does it quickly only with husband). In short, I was proud of myself for using what I learned, and proud of him for alerting me to a potential situation. BTW the guy immediately turned around and left, Dex waited for me to release him, «BIS» and we went on about our business of shopping. The staff and others standing around were impressed (smile) with my control and Dex well because he is an awesome GSD. At that moment I knew the investment paid off because I now was able manage the situation… having real tools is everything BUT OMG you have to practice.

After eight months without incident, our dogs had the fight off all fights. I ended up with an injury requiring a few stitches and the worst dilemma for a dog owner — what to do next.
After consulting with Orlando about the situation, I made the decision to put the aggressive dog in training with him at a huge expense, but felt it was necessary to get to the root of the behavior.
Well, either he doesn’t have the level of expertise I thought he had our he just didn’t spend the time with the dog. I can’t get in to more detail as this matter may require legal action, but it turned out to be a huge waste of our money and nothing but justification on his part with the recommendation to give him more money for more training. Seriously?!
I left my initial review up so others can see how first impressions can be great, but everything changed once he got a big chunk of money.
And our dog? We’ve gone back to daily training and more extensive exercise routine and the two dogs are once again relaxed and playful.
We’ll be doing more socializing with the trainer we had great success with our first dog at Wiggles & Wags, Tammi the owner has decades of experience, competing, judging, working dogs, etc. Silly me for falling for a great first impression!

Orlando is a miracle worker! We adopted a small Chihuahua mix from the pound… she seemed sweet as can be in the kennel but turned into a monster the day after we brought her home. She barked like a maniac, was petrified of anyone coming into the home and we could not get her to calm down. If and when she did stop barking she would bark again if someone left the room and came back on… seemingly developing amnesia that the person had already been there. We took her to the vet and the vet recommended returning her to the pound based on the behavior she witnessed in the vet’s office. We had another trainer come over before Orlando that basically told us that it would be nearly impossible to train her and that it would never be possible to make her easy to live with. Luckily, whew heard about Orlando shortly after and calling him was the best decision ever. We ended up electing to do 2 weeks of boarding+training with him??? we were so impressed with the progress she’d made in the last few days before she was supposed to come and decided to have her stay with him for an additional week. Orlando did not try to sell us on the additional week, he even said that he thought we would be able to continue the training on our own. After she came back home from her 3 week stay, we had a handful of sessions with Orlando to fine tune our way of «communicating» with our dog so that we could continue to train her. The results Orlando achieved were so far beyond our expectations and we couldn’t be happier. It has now been 2 years since he trained her and friends are still commenting on how great she is. He is well worth the money!

Complete waste of money and Time. Our 2 Female dogs out of no where suddenly started fighting one week, so we searched for an animal behaviorist to come figure out the cause. The trainer (owner) came to our house and spent the entire time talking about our dogs training with sit, lay down, etc, I had to stop him half way through to ask when we were going to talk about the aggression, he said we would get to that, we never did. He charged us $ 100 dollars for 2 hours, and by the time he left he had not addressed anything we called him for. Seems like a scam company to me, who knows if he has even studied dog behavior or anything or the sort.