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Hi Danielle!  I wanted to tell you a bit about how your program worked for me.  My husband and I live on several hundred acres and we have FIVE dogs.  Four of them are Mastiffs and one is a Great Dane!  My family tells us that we have a zoo, but we have rescued all five of these dogs.  The mastiffs were bred by a careless individual who left them in crates for months and sometimes forgot to feed them and the Great Dane was also abused.  As they grew, we had some behavioral problems, such as jumping and not coming when we called them.   

Our Great Dane would destroy anything he could find if we left him home while we were gone.  One day we came home to a very large portion of our boundary fence shredded!  The fence was wooden and it was absolutely shredded.  It was difficult to deal with this and I began trying to train my dogs using clicker training.  While I could see some improvement, I’m afraid I was confusing them!  As I was out on the property and wanted them to do something, some days I wouldn’t have the clicker and it was just one huge mess.  Although I wanted to train them, I didn’t feel as if the clicker training was the right sort of thing for us.   

That’s when I started searching for something else.  Through that I found the SitStayFetch program and read about how great it was.  I wasn’t sure if it would work but it sounded better than the clicker training and I was desperate to help my dogs learn better behavior.  What really stood out with me was the fact that all the methods were positive and involved praise and rewards.  I am totally against punishing an animal – I mean, would you be excited to learn if someone was yelling at you or hitting you?  Anyway…the methods in SitStayFetch really worked and they worked QUICKLY!!!  Within just two days I could tell a difference.  After three weeks, I had my Great Dane completely trained and all but one of the Mastiffs trained.  My stubborn Mastiff, Mitchy took about a month and he was good to go!  I recommend SitStayFetch for anyone who needs help training their dogs.  It is amazing how quickly they learned and I am thrilled! 

We participate in activities with our local shelter as well.  Some of the dogs don’t get adopted because most people look for puppies.  We go weekly and walk and play with the older dogs and I used the SitStayFetch program on a couple of them!  When I showed the director their progress he was amazed and asked me to train the others!  It is great to see these older dogs doing tricks and displaying excellent behavior.  In fact, three of them got adopted simply because we showed potential owners the tricks!  Thanks again for helping me with my dogs and the dogs from the shelter.  It’s wonderful to know that a program like this exists.