Real Life Dog Training

Kevin Salem from dogsecrets.com killed our dog and will not give back our money for training or the cost of our dog.His website says he doesnt use any choke chains but the vet said that the bruise on our poor dog's neck is clearly from being hung.

He kept saying to look at all the dogs' faces on his website and look at his own dogs and that's why we went with him and we are now so sorry. Our poor dog just needed obedience. Not a pit bull but just labradoodle.

My kids are crying day and night and all because of our poor decision. Please, please watch out for this monster.

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Your a liar !

I completely concur with reports of this sort of behavior from Kevin Salem. My sister dated his brother and when they broke up Kevin Salem got involved and was obscenely abusive towards her and threatened to hurt her and she also has threatening messages from him on FB. One thing to be sure of he is definitely sexist towards women and physically violent as a man.

This is letter is just not true. I have used Kevin for all of my dogs and he was amazing.

How do I know it is not true..... If you know Kevin you know he is not a little man at all, but quite tall and gentle.

Just my thoughts. Sorry Kevin that there are people out there who are such liars.

One thing in life I have learned is that with this many negative reviews, and all the positive ones being from Sacramento is fishy to me and I don't do fishy. No disrespect to Kevin or KAWAIN but I am not ***.

:) well, be careful w/ that guy, he is a gangster who only wants to make an easy money out of other people's pocket. He's looking for innocent dog owners who know nothing about him. Be careful!

These reviews are mostly posted here as a smear campaign.

If you truly knew Kevin and his approach, you'd clearly see that he is very kind to dogs. That being said, he is firm if and when needed, but never harsh or abusive. I would not give him a brown penny if he was.

Although my dog was very mean towards our guests, he still didn't need his *** kicked.

And in regards to tools, he LETS YOU choose what works best for your dog.

Use Kevin; if you can afford it. It will cost you more but worth it.

I never saw what Kevin used with my dog as he took her away and returned her without my seeing one bit of training, but from talking to others he uses positive punishment at the very least, generally choke or prong collars. And he definitely used his hands and that alpha roll thing with my dog right in front of me.

Since this incident, I've spoken to other dog trainers and went to observe their training (Kevin would not allow me to...they're "secrets" after all). The ones who speak like Kevin use punishment based methods.

Instead of more of the same, I've been working with a trainer who is rooted in positive reinforcement (and yes, even "cookies"!) and my girl is improving by leaps and bounds. She has a ways to go yet, but she's starting to act like her old self.

Dude, I saw you use a shock collar on a very little dog.

Just read Kevins web page. Personally my view point to anyone who throws positive reinforcement under the bus must not use it themselves.

So whats left? Positive punishment? Negative punishment? Negative reinforcement?

Which one is it? Oh and also why does this Kevin guy have people praise the dogs, as I recall that is positive reinforcement, no different than using a treat.

So Kevin dont be so harsh on others training techniques when it look as though you use the same. However from the story I read here it seems like you might be mixing in a couple of the less desired techniques.

Your male dogs name is "Daisy"? HAHAHAHAHAHA

I bet you do this to all of the dogs who come to you. Other people I've talked have mentioned never seeing where you board our dogs. And you haven't been training for 22 years. You're not old enough for that. Nice try.

I don't know who you think I am, but you're wrong. I'm not giving my real name out on the internet. Trying to pretend this review is fake isn't going to help you. Instead of addressing the issue you pretend it's written by someone else who is just out to get you? Nice try. Maybe you wouldn't get lousy reviews if you didn't abuse dogs and if you treated their owners better.

Something to think about.

This is pretty detail review. So you can't say that you are being Jane Doe so I won't sue you, since people sue each other regardless.

Won't you take those pictures of your abused dog and take me to small claims. And if you are the one that I met at the gas station, then there you go. I know who you are. hahaha...It's ok Michelle Osborne. It's ok. I know you are making this fake review to hurt me. But ultimately, people will learn the truth about me. I wouldn't be in business if I was someone who hates dogs, hates people, hates my image and I just can't wait to drop dead.

I am very blessed to work in a field that I absolutely love. I still haven't got sick of working with dogs and dog owners. It's been 22 years and I am still going strong. :-)

I will leave you Jane Doe to Karma.

Sandy I'm very sorry to hear about your ex (and if he's as monstrous as you claim, I'm glad he's your ex! Yikes!).

I, however, am not him. And I can assure you that Kevin did indeed do this to my dog.

I do remember seeing Baron's site when I was looking for a new behaviorist and reading what you wrote makes me glad I didn't go to him.

He sounds frightening and maybe in that case I would have had to worry about MY safety as well as my dog's. I hope people know about what kind of person he is!

This posting is clearly written by my ex David Baron. There is a lot of bad blood between these two. But Kevin is a sweetheart. He actually taught Dave everything he knows.

Dave is a monster and used to rape me and beat me up and the police never took me seriously since there was no bruises on my body.

He used to hold me down and *** with me against my will. His real name is William David Baron.

I still have nightmares thinking about him and haven't been able to get one brown cent of spouse support from this monster.

That man sounds like a nightmare! He needs to be reported to the ASPCA for animal cruelty. People like him need to be incarcerated and then 'trained' like he's 'trained' those poor animals.