Dog Gone Problems

David is one of the most humble people I’ve ever met. I love his energy and I can see how he helps so many dogs throughout his career. Seriously, an amazing person — I highly recommend knowing him through yourself, your family, and your pets.

David has been very helpful with my puppy Tesla. She has already started being more respectful, listening to me more, and chewing on things less — and that is after 2 days of changes. After the first training session, my puppy was also overwhelmed (we changed a few too many things for her according to David) and started barking when I left unfortunately (she had rarely barked prior). People in my apartment building weren’t happy. David acknowledged that we may have changed too many things at the same time. However, after that initial session, David has been more than available over text, phone and even in person for extended periods of time to help properly train her to not bark. We are working to get her to not bark and David has been checking in on progress every day. Thanks David!

We really enjoyed working with David. His insights were right on target. We have been working for a week on modifying our behaviors with Charlie and Blue, and have already started to see some changes. We still have a way to go with Blue to stop his aggressive reactions toward other dogs on our walks, but we are committed to making him a more peaceful dog. I highly recommend David and Dog Gone Problems for your dog behavior issues, be prepared to take a look at your own behavior with your dog.

Thank you Dog Gone Problems! We have finally resolved an issue that we have been putting up with for years! Otherwise a calm dog, Bailey, would bark and run his paws raw around the pool if my children were in the water. David got the whole family involved in the training and we have also addressed other issues such as begging for food. I was in awe when I would witness other people’s well trained dogs, but I’m confident our dog is well on his way. David gave us a plan (verbal and written), he clearly explained why the dog was behaving a certain way and how we could change it, and he continues to follow up with us. David has a true talent and love for his work. it shows in every aspect of his business.

David — in three hours — was able to completely change the way we communicate with our 2 year old Australian shepherd, Bowser. Bowser had developed really bad habits. He would charge the door at every sound, bark relentlessly at anyone entering the house — even friends who come over everyday. Walking him on a leash was a nightmare — he lunged, pulled, barked non-​stop, tried to attack skateboarders. We were at a loss and found David on the internet. He came over and within minutes taught us what WE had been doing wrong. We did some easy exercises with Bowser and instantly saw a whole new calm dog. We took the best walk of our life and he even passed a cat without reacting. Since then, we have practiced the exercises David taught us and are so happy — and so is Bowser. Cannot recommend David enough!

David really help my husband and I with our Italian Greyhound Boxer mix puppy. Her name is Rosie and she had horrible separation anxiety and we couldn’t even leave her 5 mins without barking/​crying. But with the tool David gave us she learned in no time to be more comfortable staying home alone! Which made us so happy so we could go back to have date night again !! Thanks again David! We highly recommend him!!!

WOW!!! So totally awesome to be connected with David so he could show myself and my boyfriend what seems to be all the keys to unlock all the behavior problems we’ve been having with our Carolina/​German shepherd mix Sonny. What a relief to find a trainer that works directly with your dogs specific issues and shows you how to correct behaviors with simple steps that are easy to do on a daily basis — no problem. Plus one of the BEST parts about it, is he does it all in one session!!! WONDERFUL! I had no idea that was even possible. Also if you have any more questions or forget a step he showed you, he is very accessible and easy to get in touch with for more info. However, we found it very easy to retain all the info we learned from our session, since you practice it with him.
I had what seemed like fifty questions and concerns about how to correct Sonny’s leash pulling, jumping on people, endlessly barking when he hears a knock at the door, stealing shoes and burying them in the yard, laying on the furniture, begging, sniffing peoples food, chewing on things that aren’t his toys, also more behavior issues of trusting people — to not run away, calm his energy down when around a lot of people, to listen when we give him commands and to make him understand that my boyfriend and I are the leaders and he is the follower — not the opposite. Thrilled that he could show us how to create a happy pet/​owner relationship.
We can now communicate to Sonny using our body language, a few simple commands, and eye contact or lack of eye contact. It’s only been 5 days since we saw David last week and Sonny has already shown a big improvement in his bad habits.
David showed how to use a Martingale collar and short leash to correct is leash pulling which miraculously worked, just by giving a quick tug on the leash when he starts to charge ahead, sniff, look for cats, squirrels ect. and mark his territory. This was especially exciting since walking can now be fun for Sonny and for us.
I have to say that it was so nice that David comes to your house to work with you. Such a big help to have him there to see Sonny in his environment. The fact that David arrives and addresses every single issue that you have meant a lot to us. The session ends after you and he feel content and confident that your getting the hang of it. I was thrilled to have learned so much and feel totally equipped to steer Sonny in the right direction now. Also David is a super nice person! I found myself cracking up several times in our session because he has a great sense of humor some hilarious ways of explaining things about dogs!
He is absolutely the best dog behaviorist!!! David’s expertise and knowledge really impressed us! We are SUPER happy with the results and will tell everyone we know with dogs that could benefit from this so they can get the same wonderful results!

Amazing!!! I’m so thrilled to have found such a competent, informed educator to help with my Lab mix Bear. He gets so excited when people come over that we used to have to put him in another room so he didn’t jump up on our guests.
David showed us how to communicate to bear that we wanted him to stay away from the door using only our body language. When a friend came over to practice knocking on our door (something that would normally result in a ten minute barking freak out), we were able to get Bear to stop barking almost immediately and to sit down a few feet away waiting for us to give him permission to meet the guest. That had never happened before and the best part was how quick and easy it was.
I was a little skeptical when I saw the website say David can stop most dog issues in only one session, but I understand why he is able to do that now. By communicating with the dog in a way it understands and rewarding the behaviors we want, it was sooooo easy. He even stopped Bear’s stealing of shoes by showing me how to claim them.
David is such a sweetheart. He didn’t make me feel like a failure as a dog owner, but instead showed me how to build a healthier pet/​owner relationship so that we are both happier in our roles.
I learned so much from our session. David is so knowledgable and you can tell he truly loves what he does. I could not be happier or sing his praises any louder!!!