Marine Corps Dog Training

BEWARE– STAY AWAY FROM ABE AND MARINE CORP DOG TRAINING. This man was paid over $ 2000 for two dogs for his 2 week boot camp. My dogs had aggression issues which Abe said he could take care of no problem. Upon return there was no change what so ever. He stated he would be over in a few days to go over the training. 2 weeks later he finally came out and stayed for about 15 minutes. From July until Jan I have attempted to have him come out over a dozen times and he has failed to show. At this point I need a full refund as he did not provide any services. The worst dog trainer I have ever used. Also when my dogs returned from this boot camp they both had worms which required a trip to the vet and medication to clear. Stay away from this man at all costs.

We hired Abe to train our 2 dogs. We agreed on 10 sessions at $ 1000 with payment upfront. In our mind, 10 sessions were supposed to be once a week approximately 1 hr each time (which is $ 100 per session). Unfortunately each session lasted no longer than 25 minutes and between July and November we only had 6 sessions. There were many cancellations along the way. In the beginning we didn’t think much of it– things come up (house floods, son gets hurt, grandmother passes away). However when he started cancelling due to inclement weather or the possibility of rain, we started questioning a lot of his dog training practices. Abe Mashal calls himself a positive reinforcement dog trainer. During our 6 sessions, he reiterated that the human needs to show dominance. While leash walking, if the dog is not submissive, we were supposed to yank on the chain. At one point he suggested we get a choke collar for our rescue dog. He did not believe in rewarding good behavior with treats. Those are not positive reinforcement techniques. I am thankful that nothing serious happened to our dogs, however I have recently read many other reviews and spoke to people that have sent their dogs away to his bootcamp and the dogs have come back in less than perfect condition. Unfortunately we are the ones that got burned and our dogs lost out on 5 months of good dog training.

This man is a scam artist, I sent my one year old German Shepard mix to his two week training program for $ 1500. Ranger (my dog) was showing signs of aggression towards people as well as other dogs, and Abe said he would have no problem fixing this. I got Ranger back and he was dirty, malnourished, dehydrated, his nails were extremely overgrown, and his skin condition that we manage with medication had gotten completely out of control. Minutes after Abe dropped ranger off, he tried to viciously attack a jogger going past my house, as well as going after the very first dog he saw on the street. He was skittish and acted scared, flinching away from sudden movements. I’ve had this dog since he was five weeks old and he is my baby. It breaks my heart that he was treated so badly that he was nervous around ME for the couple days after he returned. Since coming home he has bitten two people, one of them almost called the police. I blame these problems entirely on Abe. Do not trust this man with your dog.

We hired Abe Mashal to train my two dogs. He continuously cancelled and sometimes didn’t show up at all. He never finished training our dogs, and we were out a lot of money.
What a rip off.