![]() They want every trainer to become certified to help increase the professionalism of this industry in the eyes of the public. You can rent DVDs and books to continue to learn without paying anything extra! Here they will slowly start to teach you how to read dog body language and develop yourself to become an experienced trainer who can work with aggressive or reactive dogs. You don't learn anything other than obedience there because you aren't allowed to take on aggression cases. This company encourages you to grow as a trainer and individual where the big box stores only want you to sell basic obedience classes. They also pay better than any other company I've worked for which is a great benefit. However, neither provided the same satisfaction as working here at AYP did. My past experience includes working at a large pet box store and another small dog daycare facility. I do hope that AYP can grow and change its ways, - more. The Trainers, Apprentices, and Care-Staff are all great people- like to play around and have a good laugh to make the job the tiniest bit better but everyone is overworked and stressed out all the time. The staff is the only saving grace, I say staff ONLY, as management is only friendly with you until you put your foot down and refuse to be treated poorly. Instead of having proper staff and different departments so that each job can be done efficiently and stress-free, they make their already over-worked trainers also do office-staff tasks (with no increase in your wage, mind you), and even if you consistently make quota any OTHER month, but have a single bad month out of that? Then you just aren't taking your job seriously. There is no communication between management and staff, and so no one knows what is going on half the time because of this, rules change without us being notified and then we get in trouble for not knowing them! You would probably think that their staff who have been there for years would be paid better at least right? wrong! Someone entering this job in the first week gets paid the same as someone who has been there five years! The lack of growth is really alarming. Within this place is a plethora of knowledge and natural talent that takes years and years to gain and how do they compensate for it? Barely anything!- plus no health care benefits. If you have any sort of extensive knowledge on Dog Training, Dog behavior, and how to properly care for a dog- then please do not waste your talents at AYP. This company did have a big turnover rate, and that's only because the standards of the - more. A manager will tell you want to do and you on your own to figure it out. The Trainers are nice and will help you along the way, and I mean only the trainer. You can say you issues many time and you might even get the "this is the first time I'm hearing about this", which mean the communication between employees is off even though the use a texting app to update info. I've seen trainers burnt out and even cry over dogs or even be overworked. If you good with time management this can be the place for you and you need to find a way to deal with the heavy stress. They're not health benefits here and they do take in human reactive cases but then do need to been seen by a private trainer before hand. When putting in you time off the recommend 60 days before but most times you can get you days off. I've seem people get hired full time and not handed a work shirt for weeks. Any sort of criticism towards management is an "attack" towards them so you need to be careful what you say and how you say it. ![]() ![]() On top of this you "extra money" comes from sales and you need to hit a $5,000 mark and only get %5 of that cut. By then you realize your behind on your day but you just need to "make it work". Some staff member or management just delegate while you rushing to do everything in the morning. The place can be pretty loud and stressful to most dogs. Day starts in by checking in dog and setting them up in group. ![]() I used to have love for working here but over time the company standards have really fallen.
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