Mid-Atlantic Dog Training

It has been almost 9 months since we completed our training with Tom at Mid-Atlantic Dog Training. We had adopted our rescue dog (Tiga) about a year earlier, and she had started adopting some more aggressive behaviors that we found concerning. After working with Tom, we saw a radical improvement - to quote a friend of ours "Tiga went from being the worst behaved dog I knew to the best behaved dog" and "she has a standing invitation over to our house". One of the things that we really appreciated is how much Tom emphasized working with us, in addition to Tiga. He pointed out that Tiga learns from our behaviors, and follows our lead, so if we didn't change things, anything he did would be short lived. Nine months out, and Tiga is much more comfortable and relaxed - and so are we! We highly recommend Tom to anyone considering working with him (and have recommended him to several of our friends).

Tom was very helpful with training our two dogs, one middle age and one younger, and his price was also very reasonable especially with only a small increase for our extra dog. We otherwise would not have thought to train our older dog as his behavior was relatively less problematic, but he really ended up benefitting too. Tom provided useful reading materials and also plenty of his time, and it was very convenient and helpful that he travels to us for in and around home training where it's most useful and effective.

I wish I could give Tom more than 5 stars, his training saved our dog Waffles and our family. We got our dog, Waffles, when she was a puppy. She got injured at 6 months old and had to have surgery, the recovery took about four months total. After the surgery and recovery we noticed some problem behaviors that we needed to address: she pulled constantly on the leash, she would sometimes get protective of me and growl at other dogs if they approached, she barked at all our neighbors, jumped on our friends to greet them, and the worst part was she started to jump all over us and biting our clothes like we were dogs to play with (this happened everyday to the point we would wear clothes we didn't care about). We reached out to Tom because we had friends who used him in the past and had good results. We had one meeting where he explained all of his background and how he got started dog training. We were already impressed. After the first session Waffles was not barking at our neighbors, she walked very well on leash, and she would stay in her "place" instead of roaming the house. IT WAS AMAZING. I actually cried when I was sitting outside with her and my neighbor came out who she always barked at, she looked at my and sat instead. I will never forget that moment. Tom's training wasn't easy but it was effective. We are better dog owners because of him and we are so thankful. He saved our dog Waffles and our little family. I highly recommend using him if you think you and your dog could benefit from this type of training!

We completed training with Tom a couple of months ago and we are so happy that we went with him and with the progress of our dog, Bonnie. Bonnie was about 6-7 months old when we started and she had a lot of issues with pulling on the leash when she was excited to see other dogs and with reliably following commands inside and outside of the house. Since the training, Bonnie has been great with loose leash walking and we are proud of her behavior around other people and her obedience. There are still things to work on, as training is always ongoing, but we are now confident we have to the tools to work with her. The training asks a lot of you because a majority of the training involves how you interact with the dog and the proper way to interact with the dog, but the results are well worth it. I highly recommend Tom and his training!

We had to train our reactive 20 month old G doodle to be more secure and calm. Tom persevered with us, and, although it took several months we got to where we wanted to be. Initially we had misgivings about various approaches but they really helped his training overall. They really helped his heeling, and Tom reassured us at every step. He also pointed us to readings that also informed us. Thanks Tom.