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I love this company. I made a couple of purchases by error. The refund was was quick and esay. I also have needed to changed subscriptions and after a quick email, and within 24 hours later the changes was made.

I have a disability, which means I need to adapt the games, the team gives so much support and tips. They believe in finding solutions, having an open mind.

Also the community is amazing, I have made some great friendships. Everyone just wants to work on solutions and don't focus on the problem.

If you want to focus on your dog's problems, this isn't for you! BUT if you want results, and you want to have a great dog this is for you!

If you are disabled and you are focused on what you can't do, this isn't for you. BUT if you want a community to work with you and find ways to play the games. This community will help you on that journey.

I haven't even mentioned the REAL LIFE results they get! GAME BASED TRAINING WORKS!

Need help to get started, sign up to Sexier Then A Squirrel and find a local Pro Dog Trainer.

I have had my rescue dog Chalky since 29 September last year. I had a problem with pulling on the lead but playing the games and having biscuits in my pocket and he knows that I have them. The next part of training was he was very reactive to other dogs last month he got tangled in another dogs lead and landed on top of the other dog. He met this dog again today and went up and sniffed him then look to me for biscuit.WOO WOO Next is recalling

Best products I’ve ever used on my dogs. I trust their research and know that what I read is real. Delivery to Canada is quick as well. I order many of the products and 3 months supply. Some I have subscription with.
Don't hesitate.

absoluteDOGS is most definitely the know all go to source for dog owners. Very responsive and a wealth of knowledge that help all of us pet parents bring out the pets in our pet companions.

I have been with Absolute Dogs since 2020 and joined the Training Academy/Games Club and then added on Agility Academy paying £30 and £10 each month for them.
Having found the videos and live teaching sessions very annoying and expensive I have rarely accessed the training courses.
This week I tried to cancel my subscriptions but there is nowhere to do this via my account online with them. I emailed them but have had 2 auto replies saying they are too busy to respond right now. I have seen other people make the same comment. I tried to cancel the payments before the December remittances are taken but discovered I could not do this via my online banking as they are not direct debits or standing orders. The payments are set up as 'continuous payments' and the only way to stop them is either by Absolute Dogs stopping taking the money or by the bank stopping any payments to this company.
BE WARNED.....YOU DO NOT HAVE CONTROL OVER YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OR MONEY.

Do your research on this company and their main director, Lauren Langman, before you decide to spend your money on them. I would love to elaborate more but the company has been having negative reviews that mention their recent scandal removed, as well as blocking and deleting any negative reviews and comments on social media. Is a company that works so hard to remove any criticism really a company you want to spend money on?

I purchased two physical books having had some success with the ‘sexier than a squirrel’ course during lockdown. Planned to use these and re-use the course for our new dog. Ordered the books around Black Friday, they still haven’t arrived. I’ve contacted via email, first couple of times I had replies assuring me that the warehouse team were working as fast as they could to get them out to me. Still no books. Now no reply.
I have also found that I no longer have access to the Facebook group which was sold as lifetime access for support, with the online course. I’ve been told they have moved to a new platform, but no idea how to access this.
It feels to me that content is endlessly recycled, they willingly take your money but you don’t get a lot from them. Marketing plays on your FOMO, don’t get conned by this company.
Looking at the other 1 star reviews this is a really unethical company, they harp on about rescue dogs, but apparently have their own puppy farm. Seems like they just want your money.

Fantastic company
Very knowledgeable and supportive with all my questions and training concerns
Thank you

At the risk of sounding overly dramatic, I believe Absolute Dogs saved my relationship with my dog. Concept-based training is perfect for Catahoula Leopard Dogs who always think they have a better idea. My fear-reactive girl was basically housebound before we found AD, which is not good for a high-drive adolescent dog. We now go on long, stress-free walks and compete in dog sports. The instructors are very knowledgeable, personable, and inspiring. The company has a support staff second to none who promptly and professionally respond to all kinds of issues. Games work. I have recommended AD to several people and will continue to do so.

Amazing learning, support and crazy amount of resources to make dog training fun and enjoyable!

The knowledge and skills I have learnt through Absolute Dogs is far above what I was hoping for. As a dog trainer I love sharing this with clients and opening their eyes to Games Based Training.

I have been following AD a few months now I first joined there STAS program 25 days of playing games every day and wow it’s changed my relationship with Ollie,

I have now joined Games club the Netflix of dog training and can’t wait to deep dive more into our relationship

I’ve learned so much from Lauren. Her positive outlook, absolute love for dogs and games based training approach has been a game changer! I feel more confident and and loving with my dogs and they are happier for it!

May 5’th I paid £650 for a one year full membership of Club. November 3’rd Absolute dogs decided to cancel my subscription, with no warning, so I only had 6months acess. Took them 3 months and a lot of e-mails to finaly give me a 50%refund, and now they have the nerve to call it “a gesture of goodwill”…oh the irony. I am so dissapointed, but it is libarating to turn my back to their Cult.

Honesty and refunds all a complete myth. Breaking the Equality Act 2010 with regard to meeting the needs of disability. Steer clear if you want to keep regard of others and for yourself.

absoluteDOGS is a life saver for so many people around the world transforming their relationship with their dogs based on kind, reward based training. I’m so impressed with the help available by the team.

I was a member of Absolute Dogs as one of their Pro Dog Trainers from 2019 to 2023, and left in October after being repeatedly disappointed by decisions taken by both upper level management and regular staff members.

In July, the directors of the company were implicated in a dog welfare scandal, and one of the directors admitted to it in a (since deleted) facebook post and said she would step away. Members of the community were aghast, understandably so, and had a lot of questions. All of these questions were ignored, and most of them deleted. People were removed from facebook groups (which were contractually part of the service they had paid for!), with little warning. It took over 2 weeks for the company to have any kind of official response, and the general shape of the response was "The implicated director will step down, stop asking questions".

Many of us were dissatisfied with this, but chose to give the remaining staff and directors the benefit of the doubt. This did not work out well for us. Service did not return to normal, and things (such as facebook lives) that we were promised were not delivered. People continued to be censored and silenced.

In late october, it was announced that the previously disgraced director would be making her big return at their annual conference, Super Trainer Live. It was also announced that the other director would be "stepping back". In this instance, stepping back actually meant resigning from all Absolute Dogs related business. I, along with many others, was incredibly upset by this.

To be crystal clear, I personally have lost business as a dog trainer because of my affiliation with Absolute Dogs. People are aware of what has happened (it was an open secret in the dog agility world for years before this). I have had to stop using materials I paid thousands of pounds for, remove any mention of Absolute Dogs from all of my promotional materials and website, and have had to release a statement explaining that I am no longer affiliated with AD in order for people to begin to trust me as a dog trainer again.

I asked terminate my membership and to receive a refund and was assured that it would be processed quickly. After 2 weeks, I had to ask again, then again a week later. I was not refunded from August as I requested (even though I had a very reasonable argument that the services I paid for weren't delivered). I was also removed from all of the facebook groups (even though I should have had lifetime access to them per the terms of purchase).

I am very unhappy with the way that I was treated, with the way that this has affected by business (and continues to affect my business). I have hundreds of hours of work ahead of me to replace resources that I paid an awful lot of money for.

I have been left with an incredibly bitter taste in my mouth over the handling of this whole affair.

Absolute Dogs have demonstrated that they consider the welfare of dogs, and the welfare of their clients to be unimportant to them.

I would not now, nor will I ever again recommend Absolute Dogs to anybody.

Fantastic company. So kind and courteous. As a dog lover/owner there is so much helpful information but at the heart of it all is having fun.

Too much money in your bank account?
There's a game for that!

I bought many courses and PDT. I chose to do PDT simply because AD had a good reputation, it was over the pandemic thus a project to keep busy with, they were popular and seemed a sensible decision. As a pre existing dog trainer I was shocked by the sheer amount of fluff throughout the course. Far too much reliance on creating loyal followers than actually giving folk an education about dog training.

I found the old school nilif approach ( you must learn to earn type approach ) , nicely packaged as " ditch the dish" as something I could never get on board with. The games were good, but eventually they become just endlessly recycled.

I bought a "scentwork course" that was nothing more than a workshop recording, but nothing they advertise is clear- deliberately so. Instead relying on FOMO marketing.

Then it's publicly admitted Lauren got " carried away" with breeding many dogs shall we say.

Personally not something I appreciate my business being associated with. Something that when I expressed I was removed from groups I had paid for as part of courses, and had courses removed.

Their techniques of deprivation of walks / exercise and having to earn bits of food often create dogs with complex issues .

Don't fall for the fomo marketing. Look carefully into what you get, and the ethics of all parties involved before parting with your cash or creating a dog with worse issues.

Purchased a couple of courses several years ago because I thought Tom Mitchell is a veterinarian and Lauren Langman is a top agility trainer so they must know their stuff. Eventually the company started using MLM tactics. Fair play, I thought. They're taking the opportunity to grow the company. I only found out later that loads of their course material is from other well established trainers (and costly self-help gurus) who they never gave credit to. Eventually many of us grew suspicious that they were grooming members to follow a cultish mentality but we were too nervous to speak out. The more savvy ones got out by 2019 but Tom and Lauren were still able to sucker people in especially because of the lockdown when everyone got dogs and was home on social media (to be fair, some of their training advice works but it's really training advice re-hashed from other trainers). It was like a perfect storm for absoluteDogs and the upsell was relentless.

Fast forward to July 2023 when public allegations were made that Lauren was a puppy farmer and Tom was also implicated as a complicit party since some of the litters had his kennel affix. So now we have a former Captain of Team GB Agility and a practicing veterinarian involved in sordid activities that totally contradict what their public personas were all about. Even more damning were puppy buyers and former "volunteers" and fellow Games Club/Training Academy, PDT, PDT Geek, PDT Genius, PDT Club, etc. members who have provided evidence to those who aren't blinkered by the cult. If you dared voice any sort of doubt, asked for transparency or clarification, or questioned their ethics or business model or treatment of customers in their Facebook groups, your comment was deleted and you were removed from their groups that you paid to be in. Talk about mismanagement. Many of us have asked for refunds since we are not getting what was advertised to us and what we paid for. The entire situation of how they handled things is a travesty. It is an abuse of trust. The hypocrisy of teaching students about relationship training and preaching animal welfare while they got carried away with 'overbreeding' (as Lauren put it) is vile.

This is my experience and the experience of many others. I regret having recommended absoluteDogs to people in the past because no one in their right mind could look at the evidence brought forth and think it's all been a mistake or 'trial by social media'. It is shameful. And like many, I've been waiting for weeks to hear back from their ASK team.

Also, try not to be fooled by some of the recent favorable reviews. I recognize some of the names that wrote them. There have been many new recent hires and a lot of the reviews were written by people who work for the company or are related to people working for the company.