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Will Thomas Dog Whisperer- What a wonderful and talented soul ! I noticed changes in my dog the very same day that he came out. He explained exactly what I needed to do and why. How heartwarming to hear that my dog was misbehaving because he loves me and he's worried about me! 💜💖🐕 Thank you Will !

Venus Desselle

Amazing trainer! I inherited an aggressive three year old Belgian Malinois. I have eight other dogs and all different breeds. I raised certain breeds that are supposedly aggressive but not true at all. They grew up to be respectful and sociable dogs. Unfortunately this poor guy is confused and so was I. Two months in my home and he’s thinks he runs the house. I wasn’t sure if my drill sergeant personality dosed with lots of love and affection will work on this dog. The dog taught me a valuable lesson that not all dogs are the same when it comes to training. Will opened my eyes and made me realize I had to dedicate more time to walking him and more. He has soooo much knowledge and experience it blew my mind. Keep in mind other trainers I spoke to before speaking with Will told me to get rid of him or put him down because he will get worse. Well they were wrong. I noticed walking him did immediately make a difference on how he was acting at night towards his area and the other dogs. Little by little he will change and so will I. It’s consistency, understanding, patience, and love that will get us to a good place. God too but I think he’s letting us work out dog differences on our own cause we got. Thank you so much Will.

William Cairo

We got a Yellow Lab puppy on Wednesday, and Will was at our house Thursday afternoon teaching us how to train him. Great insights - gave us drills that we can use to get him to fit in to the family. We have three other older dogs and he helped us with them as well. All of the drills he gave us are actionable and immediately applicable. Our puppy is doing great, is almost completely potty trained, is doing very well on the leash, and is on his way to being a perfect little gentleman. The drills we were taught are fantastic, and led to a lot of "Oh wow" moments as we realized that we were handling our older dogs totally wrong, and accidentally reinforcing some bad behaviors. Thank you for the great insights, Will!

Tracy Flew

It was a big decision for me to engage a dog whisperer for training. I spent time researching my options and settled on Will Thomas. I remember the morning of our appointment walking my dog and saying out loud “There is no way this dog can be trained to follow me rather than pulling me willy-nilly wherever he chooses!”
But it turns out it is completely possible to train him to do this and many other surprising things by teaching me how to communicate my leadership to him.
And shocking is too mild a word for the results my Golden Retriever 1 year old and I have experienced, flabbergasted might be a little closer to describing it.
The very first thing I noticed was that my dog Seven relaxed in a way I truly never imagined. It is not that he lacks energy in any way😁, it is that he is now moving to ‘off duty’ and trusting my lead. It’s amazing, he sleeps deeper, barks less, relaxes much more quickly, and yes, EVEN follows me on a walk rather than pulls.
All aspects of the training are critical, but in my opinion the most important and fun training tool we were shown is the backpack for my dog. Not only does it make him the cutest and most handsome dog on the block, but it is very satisfying to see how different he is when I put it on him. It’s like he stands up straight and says ‘I have a job’. We both really love it, and when we come home from a backpack walk he is noticeably tired.
Thank you Will for changing life for me and Seven. I’m excited about the many good years ahead of us with this dog who is delightful because he trusts his place in the pack.

Great American Radio (Wildfire Productions)

Will Thomas is a fraud. He uses a cookie cutter program for every dog regardless of the dog’s history or personality. He has no knowledge or experience with dog psychology. He is entirely self-taught & all the credentials he boasts about are false. We hired him to help our new German Shepherd large puppy get along with our cats. She is very well behaved and doesn't need any training. She just needs to stop trying to eat the cats. He said he could help & boasted about his success with helping dogs overcome small animal aggression. Our Shepherd has very bad PTSD but Mr "Dog Whisperer" didn't care to hear her backstory. In fact, he didn’t want to know anything about her personality or behavior. He came out to our house, wanted to warm up with a few non-cat related training exercises so he could observe her behavior b4 introducing the cats. When he had no choice but to bring in the cats, he saw her reaction, told us to by a muzzle & keep them separated. Then he took our $ and ran. He never once attempted to work with her. The training exercises he left with us were boring and abusive to our fur baby. Shepherd's need to be engaged not ignored. We religiously did his training exercises & followed all of his advice for several days until Lady turned on us. Then, we stopped. Will offers "Life time support" at "his leisure." He'd had absolutely no suggestions for us while he was here plus Lady reacted sooo negatively to his "training". He called once to follow up the day he came out, we were all so exhausted & hadn't had a chance to see how things were going & we told him so but he never bothered to check in with us again. Even though he knew he had not even come close to doing what we hired him to do, he didn’t offer any sort of game plan for introducing our cats, except to keep doing what we had been doing b4 he came out there. We might as well have literally flushed the $3000 he charges down the toilet & saved the frustration & time wasted on his stupid training exercises. We ended up buying a $40 shock collar off Amazon, put it on her, have not even shocked her. Just the bell chills her out. After 2 days, she's getting along great with our cats and able to roam the house freely. They are even starting to play together.

Danielle Palmieri

My husband and I hired Will in November 2017 for our German Shepherd puppy. Will came to our home and spent over 2 hours with us, educating us and showing us techniques to help train our puppy. He even involved our two young children, it was a family training. The drills and techniques we learned truly worked. I am a firm believer in hands free training, a technique used to help keep your dog with you and bond with you. The other drills, such as the claiming drill, is amazing. It helped us to quickly establish boundaries for our pup.

Another thing about Will, he has a life long commitment to us and our dogs. I leave a message and he calls back right away, ready w advice and praise for us. I remember a time when I called and left a message, I was despondent, thinking I was doing everything wrong. Will was able to call me back at that perfect moment and reassured me I was doing a good job and reminded me of how far we have come. He made me feel better about the whole situation.

I recommend Will to anyone who needs a trainer for an established family fur-baby or a new puppy coming into the home. He helps make a huge difference.

Barbara Cook

It has been two weeks since we met Will, the changes in our dog are AMAZING! Will has helped us reach a higher level of communication, a way of communicating that our dog actually understands! The drills have increased our bond and trust together, something I expect every dog owner desires. If you have a new puppy at home or some challenges with your current dog, don't hesitate, call Will.

christi vila

We have a 4 1/2 month male miniature poodle pup . He's super sweet natured and yet, also has displaying increasing assertiveness , challenging and testing us. He's just been 'tuning us out' with the basic puppy training that we'd learned and been practicing with him. . Our daily life was puppy , puppy and more puppy as we tried traditional puppy training techniques to help settle him into our family. Frustration was mounting, big time ! And both of us felt like we had hit a wall, and were getting nowhere. So - I come across Will's website, and reading it through I was really curious , and perked my interest. I gave him a call. He spent a lot of time with me on the phone call, no pressure to use his services either. We just talked about our pup and about how confident he was that we could turn around our little fella and get him settled down into our 'pack' !
We are now just 5 days into our new way of training with him, and he is already balancing out, he's so much more calm, and he's now attentive to us ! He responded this way , immediately on the afternoon spent with Will and has continued progressing these past 5 days with the drills and techniques that Will taught us. It's quite amazing ! We have now been taught how to communicate with him as he'd expect in his dog pack. Will's teachings are all done with calm and kindness, and have immediately developed respect from the puppy towards us . We're happy, he's happy ! We highly recommend Will to anyone with puppy or dog behavior issues. And, in hind-sight, it would be best to have Will on-board as soon as puppy comes into your home ! Save yourself some frustration. The earlier, the better for both dog as well as owners. I give him 5 stars !