@faithoverfear You wanna hear about a worse petco trainer? I was 13ish and going with my about 7ish year old heeler. The lady would take my dog each time to use as an example of a bad dog because she refused to listen to her. And with good reason. My dog would jump up to me if asked. Which was fine for me but not for her. We’d had an thing we’d do at the end where we’d swap dogs and work together with one of the others(there were small dogs but she’d always put me with the 100+ lbs dogs that would just drag me around the store while everyone else took pictures) but when I’d go back to my dog, she’d pull and jump in the air from the other person. Trainer didn’t like that so tied her to a post and made me walk up to her and away from her for the whole hour not talking to her or looking at her while she just freaked out trying to figure out what she was supposed to do(because I wasn’t even supposed to reward sitting, just do nothing). And the worse time….she pulled my dog into traffic. She was complaining that a dog should be able to listen to who ever has the leash in any situation and took my dog into the busy road and stood there while cars honked and drove around. She pulled hard away form that lady and the lady PUT HER FACE IN HER FACE and was yelling at her that she was doing bad!!! My dog had her ears pinned back and was glaring hard out of the side of her eye. She was ready for not just a snap but a full on attack because she was so uncomfortable. This was the only bad thing my dad saw with this trainer(cause it was the only time we went outside so he went with me), so he started staying around more during the training and she stopped picking on us. But still petco is the worst. I would say it was just that trainer but about 5 years ago I was there to shop. I was training a service dog at the time(now he’s just a pet because of this) so I was giving him commands, asking for sits at the ends of isles, just very basic things, and one of the worker came up to me and said I couldn’t train him in their store….. I was confused but figured maybe they think I’m trying to promote myself as a trainer and steal their business so just moved on. It made me a little anxious so my blood pressure and heart rate go up…well that’s what he’s tasked trained for and he started alerting me that I needed to sit down. The lady sees him altering(poking my leg while I said yes) and says we have to leave because we’re breaking store policy. I tell her he’s a service dog and he’s just working without me telling him anything and she said it didn’t matter. Only a petco certified trainer can train a dog while on the property…. I put all my stuff down and we left. I called petco corporate, got some heavy Indian accident dude who told me that’s right, that I can’t train my dog while at petco even if he’s a service dog. Called my husband to come get me because at this point I couldn’t drive safely anymore. He was going to sue them for kicking us out but I was way too worked up over it and it wanted it all dropped. Trying to take my dog with me anywhere now gives me too much anxiety because if a store for pets can kick us out, then everywhere else could as well. It’s not too much of a hindrance on my life, I just never leave my house anymore unless a human can go with me.