Plus, I thought, WTF can my dogs learn from a dinky chain store training class? I was desperate, the muzzle I had just purchased seemed like a cruel defeat, but I was able to sign up both dogs for 6 week puppy class with Maritza for $ 240.
At first I was skeptical, since Maritza told me that «as long as they work for food, they can be in my class». Maritza paid me no mind and did a field test on them, even bringing out her own dog to test Samba for aggression. I told her I didn’t want to be a bother, since she was working, but that the veterinarian had no hope for Samba and I didn’t want my dogs disrupting her class. I saw an ad for their dog training classes near the check out and asked one of the associates if my dogs would be too loco for them. I walked over to my local Petsmart, this place, with them to buy a muzzle for the crazy one - I was that desperate.
#PETSMART MUZZLE PROFESSIONAL#
I dedicated my summer to readjusting and training them myself, and although I did a lot of research, practiced, and have the best veterinarians for professional consultation, I was at my wit’s end because I knew that we weren’t making as much progress as we should, but I wasn’t ready to spend hundreds of dollars superfluously to dope up my dogs as a solution for their poor socialization and complete absence of training in their abused past life. The mellow little guy, Mambo, had just as many social issues, he was insecure and fearful of dogs. I knew what I signed up for, knowing that my two doggies had been through a lot, but it gave me pause to take a dog whom I had only known for 4 weeks, and was still adjusting to his forever home, to a $ 400/consultation behaviorist who would put him on a dog dose of Prozac for probably much more expensive than Prozac and marketed as Reconcile. Samba was so nuts, that the veterinarian I take them to at UIUC suggested immediately that we see a behaviorist and put him on meds. Mambo is mellow, but fearful, and Samba was defensively fearful - barking, lunging, snapping, etc. Recently, I took the plunge and committed to adopting two adolescent rescue dog brothers - Mambo and Samba, 15 and 22 lb Chihuahuas mixed with rat terrier or pinscher. I never really had pets, with the exception of fostering a stray for a few weeks some years ago and cat sitting. I have been here a handful of times in past years and my experience was always forgettable. This long review is specifically for their dog trainer, Maritza, who completely changed our lives for the better. Just stay away from this location if possible. The store is not really clean, but that’s because dogs pee on counter corners while their owners wait to be served too. The employees are somewhat limited in knowledge, which tells me either they have a bad manager or they are not paid enough or both. Thirty minutes ( 30!) waiting to get this stupid piece of paper to buy from them… and then have them not have it in stock was ridiculous. It was just cat food, and I had the RX and ALL the info. Questions and more waiting made me feel like I was asking for Sudafed and was going to go home and make meth immediately. Employee couldn’t figure out and or wasn’t capable enough to get the info into their computer. It is unacceptable to have to stand and wait for a prescription card when the prescription was faxed over, and everything was in order.
#PETSMART MUZZLE HOW TO#
THE WORST After having my vet fax over a food RX, I had to wait and wait and wait for the people at the Banfield counter to figure out how to make a freaking RX card.
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