Stephanie Magee

Review of Ameripet, Inc.

I sent my 1 yr old here a few days a week for seve...

I sent my 1 yr old here a few days a week for several months. He always came home worn out at the end of the day, which I liked. I worked hard to properly socialize and train him as a pup because we re training to be a therapy dog team. So when he started going, he was well socialized and I hoped this place would help continuing his socialization with other dogs. As he continued to go, he started to become more and more reactive toward other dogs while on walks and out adventuring. Within a matter of two weeks, it got to the point where he was lunging and practically attacking every dog we passed on a walk. I took him to a trainer for this strange, out of nowhere behavior. The trainer evaluated him and determined that it was a fear response and most likely caused by bullying at daycare since he was never attacked or anything while he was with me. The only other place it could have happened was at daycare. It has taken us months to counter train this fear out of him. It has caused a huge setback in our therapy dog training and our quality of life since I couldn t take him in public for months.
I ll never send another dog to daycare. I started doing research and found that this is a common occurrence when dogs go to daycare that has larger play groups and fewer people supervising.