Martin Richling Q&A
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Petsmart trainers are taught through watching videos, short practice sessions, and lessons with others that were previously taught with these same methods. Most people on this board will agree that PetsSmart trainers are typically very inexperienced.
After you worked at Petsmart, did you try to apprentice a more professional positive trainer?
After you worked at Petsmart, did you try to apprentice a more professional positive trainer?
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I have trained police dogs for over 20 years...very successfully I might add. Not a dog that I have owned or that I have trained, has had bad behavior.
I could list my qualifications on paper which are very impressive to people who look for that stuff. But i am sticking to the "principles" of training here.
I have trained literally (no exaggeration) thousands (not hundreds) thousands of civilians with their pets. Not one of these folks ever told me that the methods i use did not work on their dogs.
I could list my qualifications on paper which are very impressive to people who look for that stuff. But i am sticking to the "principles" of training here.
I have trained literally (no exaggeration) thousands (not hundreds) thousands of civilians with their pets. Not one of these folks ever told me that the methods i use did not work on their dogs.
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No...I take no pleasure at all in having to physically correct a dog. But I do know that that is what the dog needs. It is like a father who takes no pleasure in spanking his son: but his love for his son compels him to do what his son needs.
I was, and I still am, a K-9 officer who does work for many clients and city agencies. For security reasons I cannot tell who they are, but when I went to Petsmart it was on a dare from other police K-9 trainers to see how long I could last there. And I made the Petsmart store on Hurstbourne lane in Louisville Kentucky the most successful store in their history USING MY METHODS for 6 months until they vice-president found out and fired me.
The highlight of my dog training career: being fired from Petsmart. But the hundreds of HAPPY people I trained then begged me to open my own place...so I did. And Richling K-9 was born. Never have I been so busy with civilians as I am now training their pooches!
I was, and I still am, a K-9 officer who does work for many clients and city agencies. For security reasons I cannot tell who they are, but when I went to Petsmart it was on a dare from other police K-9 trainers to see how long I could last there. And I made the Petsmart store on Hurstbourne lane in Louisville Kentucky the most successful store in their history USING MY METHODS for 6 months until they vice-president found out and fired me.
The highlight of my dog training career: being fired from Petsmart. But the hundreds of HAPPY people I trained then begged me to open my own place...so I did. And Richling K-9 was born. Never have I been so busy with civilians as I am now training their pooches!
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I work in rescue. Have you ever looked into the eyes of a dog that has been beaten, abused, nearly starved to death, and so badly neglected it is covered in ticks and fleas, infested in internal parasites? Have you ever seen that? Ever looked into the eyes of an animal that has EVERY reason to hate humans, especially its owner, but it still loves. It can still wag its tail, lick your face.
Your clients dogs still love their owners because dogs are FAR from being the "inferior" species.
That is how I explain that.
Your clients dogs still love their owners because dogs are FAR from being the "inferior" species.
That is how I explain that.
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