Fan of Brenda
I respect that everyone is entitled to their own opinion so I will only comment on my own personal experiences with Brenda Layfield.
I have used Branda's services for nearly 10 years. I have brought two dogs to Brenda for training as well as I have boarded my dogs with her when I've had to go out of town. While in her care I found the dogs to be well cared for and would not hesitiate to board them with Brenda again.
I have never seen shock collars being used during classes and have seen choke collars used by all different types of trainers, not only Brenda. On Brenda's suggestion we switched one of our dogs to a prong collar because she was hurting herself by pulling through every other type of collar (flat included)that we had tried. The prong is the ONLY collar our dog hasn't tried to pull through and before someone comments about it I would never do anything that would even remotely cause my dog pain!
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I took my dog to her and I am glad I did. my rottie was out of control and if I hadnt found brenda I would never have the dog I have today. my dog loves her and whines when he gets close to training classes. I also use a prong collar as to save my dog from vertabrae problems. it actually is better for them and it doesnt hurt them. I have never seen shock collars. people who talk about her that way have never been to her classes. if you were the least bit mean to your animal near brenda she would take your head off