Dog Training Center of Chester County

Our dog is an AKC certified cane corso. We took a full class, following the trainers instructions and we could see our dogs behavior deteriorating from class to class. We took the 6 class behavior training 1 for puppies ( our dog was 5 months old when we started) and when we finished we got an email asking us to repeat the class. Two classes after we got another email asking us not to come back. They also suggested that there was something wrong psychologically with our dog and asked us to look into medicating him. At that time we were devastated with the news and we were really concerned with the situation we were in. We thought our dog was a lost cause and felt hopeless. That was a few months ago, we since started training with a new trainer and our dog is amazing. We made more progress in two classes with a trainer that had experience with the breed than in all the months we had at the DTCCC. We had to work really hard to get him to "un learn" the bad habits he had picked up at the Dog Training Center of Chester county. We never had to medicate him, and there's nothing wrong with our dog. Before signing up with them I had e-mailed them asking if they had any experience with the breed and they said that they had. I sincerely doubt that after seeing the way they dealt with my dog. There are some other reviews that say that they're not good trainers for working breeds and I agree with that. If you have sociable breeds that are easy to train I'm sure that the DTCCC will do a fine job, but if you have a working breed that needs a strong hand and firm leadership you'll do better looking for it somewhere else. With all of that said I want to make a note that our trainer, Scott, was amazing. He was extremely helpful and never made us feel un-welcomed. We could tell that he was making an honest effort to train our dog within the limitations of the class. After we got kicked out he continued to reach out to us and offered help. We never got a refund for the classes that we didn't take after they kicked us out.

I went with my mom and puppy to a class with no prior knowledge or experience just to try it out. I was incredibly excited beforehand, but by the end I was practically in tears. The "instructor" guy was extremely rude and hardly taught us a thing. We told him that we had no idea what we were doing and he yelled at my mom for very tiny mistake she made. My friend was there with her puppy who is the cousin of mine and he bashed her for everything she did and she almost walked out in tears. Know I understand showing can be a bit uptight sometimes but this was way over the top. If you have brand new people in your class you should sit them down and actually teach them the basics at least and not just throw them in. He was also very biased with the dogs we had golden retrievers and the way he acted made me feel like he hated them, but when he looked at this little sharpei puppy he was a different person. It was an overall terrible experience and I has made me very apprehensive about showing my dog.