Good Dogs are trained

I hired the owner/operator, Jim Leske, for a seven week training course, and found him to be bizarre, angry, unable to train my dog, dangerous and worst of all - in my opinion, abusive towards my dog. Here is a verbatim excerpt of the reasons I cited in the email that terminated Leske: "Sunday, December 20th - When you were unable after 20 minutes to get my dog to assume a "down" position you gruffly grabbed his collar and tried to force his head to the ground whilst you were lumbering over him, provoking him to growl at you. Your anger and frustration at my dog was palpable, and needless to say unprofessional. Sunday, December 13th - Without warning you approached my dog from a distance, who was sitting politely with me, rushing at him at a brisk walk, almost a run, again towering over him, grabbing his face in your hands and bending over suddenly to put your face dangerously close to his face. You did all of this without warning, without telling me what you were doing, without any advance warning, and my dog came very close to biting you in the face. These are two separate, consecutive instances in which your irresponsible, unpredictable actions directly caused my dog to be aggressive towards you - in the moments preceding both incidents my dog was quiet, submissive and polite before your provocations. Whether these bizarre actions were caused by general incompetence or by lawsuit-seeking I have no idea, but any rational person would deem you a danger to myself and my dog at this point." Unsurprisingly, he makes you pay upfront and then refuses to issue a refund. Luckily his services are so insanely cheap I lost very little money. By his own admission, he has no qualifications to train dogs and has spent most of his life working as a bar/nightclub employee. He has no titled dogs, and in my observation his own dog doesn't mind him at all. Also, a word of caution to anyone that contacts him for "riding lessons." These "lessons" are simply you paying extra to have a weird man who dresses like a zookeeper (he must think it helps his non-existent credibility) accompany you on a rental string. The fact that he calls this "riding lessons" is, in my opinion as a 30 year owner/exhibitor of horses, completely fraudulent.