 Hi, my husband and I came from Canada. We drove over 22 hours to get here. The rationale for us making the trip was because we were having issues with our dog Jax. We had tried several different trainers in Canada from a behavioral consultant that we've been with for over six months to just really regular trainers that a lot of people would know of that I won't mention their names. As well as we traveled to Michigan to see a trainer as well and just didn't have any success with other trainers. We had an opportunity to stalk Richard online and follow him and watch a lot of his videos and so we thought that he was, well we came here assuming that he was our last resort with Jax and the training has been sensational. From day one, Jax reacted as we had assumed he would. He was a bit anxious around people but he went after Richard immediately and that same day Richard was able to help us understand what Jax was thinking and the psychology of what he was thinking and then help us understand how we could appropriately discipline him so that he can help correct himself and get better on his own. But the training with Richard is really a perfect balance of positive reinforcement as well as pressure so that Jax understands when he's doing something good he's going to get rewarded for that through the positive reinforcement and when he's doing something that is not appropriate he understands that it's not acceptable and there's a discipline associated with it. So it's been a great experience. We're very happy we came. We're leaving on a very positive note and we've got the tools we need to continue this when we get back home and hopefully Jax will continue to be a very happy camper because he's been very happy since he's been here and we expect that to continue when we get home so we are very thankful to Richard and very happy that we made the trip. We would not let people approach him if people came in with a couple of feet of him we were very careful we would pull him off to the side there was limited situations where we would let people try to pet him if ever and that was mostly limited to people that he knew we were even paranoid with our family members so not the two of us but my parents we were paranoid with my husband's father we were paranoid with he's got a dog walker that he's been with since he was young and we were paranoid with the dog walker so he was unpredictable he was like jack on hide really sweet and affectionate and then he would just turn and act crazy Jax could not be around anything that was fast moving so people walking quickly people running, skateboards, bikes kids were like a big no-no complete 360 in regards to his behavior around those things that used to drive him crazy so yesterday we had an opportunity to walk him through a crowd of people where there was a bike skateboard, there were kids running around he came like two inches away from a kid and he did not react and that would just not have happened historically we would have been in a lot of trouble we tried to walk through a crowd like that historically it would have been the koojoo effect guys and after you got that done I'm bringing everybody I can and if you feel safe, you feel anything too? jogger crazy ultimate crazy ultimate crazy his little temper tantrums that aren't that little they're like an active I think something's wrong with this dog I'm not sure but there's something mentally wrong or what's happened to him but yes, full blown crazy the vet there was telling you he should be put to sleep the vet told us that he's likely not fixable and he's only one, he just turned one recently and the advice they gave us was they said that as he gets older by the time he turns two or three he'll be at full maturity and that aggression will just become that much stronger and that much forceful and we should consider our options now as opposed to continuing to try to fix them especially since at home we had gone through four different trainers and had not seen success and in some cases some of the training that we went through had set us further back as opposed to putting us forward yeah, he was anxious and stuff and then over day you can see calm, yeah his face, his body, all that yeah, when we first when we first got here as soon as we got out of the car and we came anywhere near Richard or anywhere he was crying he was panting, he was licking his lips he was doing stressions he was still he was stalking I called him crazy eyes he had his crazy eyes or evil devil eyes he had his crazy evil devil eyes and now I don't have him on leash there are people that are running, walking, biking like feet away from me and he is just sitting here doing absolutely nothing except for being very calm and relaxed which would just not have happened historically no, frankly even I might have asked like three times, should I put him back on the leash do you think I should put him back on the leash because of the anxiety that I had from prior experiences with him built up to this particular point but he's been sensational and there's fitness equipment beside us as well and that would have just driven him crazy before because people are on ellipticals and doing various things that he just would not have tolerated before that would never happen, right he would go after Roy or the machine he would probably start off with the machine and then if he wasn't getting anywhere with the machine then it starts to go away if you want to, so have Roy that side, you that side you just hold him yeah, he's looking at her he's yawning, he's like, is it a nap time? yeah perfect now if you want let's switch to this one bottom, bike and machine that would have been a definite right like the skateboard, like attack and from an e-color training perspective it's been very gentle nothing that we've experienced has been anything that's been tortured to him it's been very gentle and very just corrective it's helping him understand how to deal with his own nerves before and we see that change regardless of being here in training sessions or even going back home to the place that we've rented and stayed, the first day we got here he sat outside and every noise he twitched and moved and couldn't relax at all, now when he's in the backyard the neighbor was pressure washing the windows and he would have lost his mind before and he slept through it so it's a massive difference for us we see a big difference in the e-color you're going to make him more anxious that's everybody's thought so when we tell him it's pacifier to calm him down and relax they go, that's impossible it's absolutely true we've noticed a difference and for him it's been a huge difference again you can just see it in his demeanor right now versus when we first got here there he goes he's out yeah I mean Roy you can comment as well but for us we would not hesitate without a doubt encouraging anybody to work with Richard it has been a very positive experience for us again this was our last option we didn't know what we were going to do and we came here saying if this doesn't work what are we going to do yeah because we were fearful of leaving him around anybody so if we went to work during the day we needed somebody to come and let him out and both of us work long hours and both of us travel for work so we need alternatives to just the two of us being around Jacks and we've been managing for months now with trying to schedule travel so that if one of us is traveling for work the other one is able to be at home with him for both of us and yeah that's not going to be the case any longer so for us this was it's life changing for us for sure and we fully encourage it and would fully recommend it and are very thankful to Richard and will continue to be thankful to Richard and Jacks will too Jack's like listen I should love the guy yeah now he does you know day one so why is this guy yeah why is this guy talking to me now he just doesn't care he's just like whatever I'm good to be honest he's excited yeah we get out of the car and he's wiggling his bum and he's excited to come over and see Richard I'll think that's a world beauty and I'll tell you what world beauty is I mean if everybody thinks that's good we had this dog that was going after so we got it back with the dogs we got it back with people there was somebody that wanted to say hi to him yesterday and he did not react he was just like okay you want to say hi that's fine you come and say hi and we wouldn't have been comfortable with that previously so yeah I would say that Richard's method works and Jacks is a totally new dog totally new dog Jacks is what we wanted we want to be comfortable we want to be at ease we don't want the headaches anymore and looking over his shoulder Richard's method really works