Wiggles-n-Wags Dog Training

This place is great, just took the «excited» class and looking forward to continuing with «manners» the magic is in you reinforcing everything learned at home. Love the teachers — they all are caring and honest with you, and if you listen and take it to heart you and your furbaby will benefit. Will be going back again for whatever they offer, as this place is special as are the instructors. I was not expecting any change in my fur kid, but WOW, even the tiny baby steps are awesome to watch happen. Again, do not go and think they can fix your dog, you have to make it happen at home with reinforcement of what you learned in class. Awesome place and would recommend to anyone serious about having a fun time while learning with their fur-​kid !

Signed up specifically for a reactive class for my dog. The staff presented themselves as «experts» with this. Come to find out if your dog is «too reactive», then they rather not help you. All of their training is based on food rewards. But what if you have a dog it is not food motivated?
What other methods then can you offer or have knowledge of? Each dog is different? So therefore, you may need to have a different approach instead of the same one for every dog in every class. So now they just don’t know how to help you. Then don’t call yourself experts.
Didn’t even give my dog a chance. Thanks for nothing.

Great dog training! Totally positive based training, lots of classes offered for both puppies and older dogs, basic obedience through agility and rally, therapy dogs, etc. you can find about any class here. Highly recommend their puppy class, it is a true socialization based class and your puppy will learn basic commands and also be introduced to people on crutches, in funny hats, making strange noises, etc. they also have a puppy social every weekend where puppies of the same size can play together in a controlled area. I observed several puppy classes before picking this facility. This is the best puppy class around and a very good overall training facility.

I love Wiggles & Wags! I am the «pet parent» of a shy, fearful 2– year old Golden. We’ve taken the «Fearful Dog» classes with Marcy (loved!) and are now taking the «Click Your Heels — Focus and Fun» class with Liz & Marie. The classes are small, the attention top notch! They are all about positive reinforcement and fun. I don’t live near the facility but it’s worth the 35 minute drive from our home in Oak Lawn. I don’t have a decent training facilities for this type of training near us (or decent trainers) and I’m happy to make the drive.

Wiggles-​N-​Wags taught me how to train my Akita three years ago and I still apply what I learned through them on a daily basis. They reminded me that every situation is a training opportunity and that training can be fun for me and my dogs. Positive training and reinforcement is the only way to have a great relationship with my dogs. It changes they way they think!
Sue V.

Not friendly! I brought my 4 month old puppy to the free puppy social. They advertise 4 months and younger can participate, but wouldn’t let us in because he was 4 months and 4 days old. Go to Bow Wow Playground down the street — they have much better program and trainers.

We registered our rescue, Tucker, for the Adolescent Manners class, and could not have been more pleased. Led by Julie and 2 assistants, Tuck received the training he needed which included basic commands, as well as more advanced training. We were asked to submit a behavior that we wished to work on with our dogs, and our last class period was spent addressing these concerns. At the end, our dogs graduated, complete with the playing of Pomp and Circumstance :). The facility wis large and clean, with more than enough area in which to work. I highly recommend Wiggles and Wags, and Julie!

My fiancé and I took the puppy preschool class here and it was awful! We should have just turned around and walked out when we were treated very rudely by the staff when we went in to sign up. This is our first puppy and she was only around 3 months old when we went in to sign up. The puppy preschool instructor was the staff member who was there at the time and she made us feel like unfit parents because we hadn’t taken our dog to get a fecal test yet. The class wasn’t starting for another week and we took her to get the fecal test that same day but she made a huge stink about it and made me feel horrible and really very belittled– she’s good at that.
As for the actual classes, I felt that we weren’t taken as seriously as some of the other couples there because we look younger but we are actually both pushing 30. I didn’t appreciate that. And the classes are garbage. It’s an hour long class and I would say you spend about 40 to 50 minutes of it sitting in a chair listening to this woman talk while desperately trying to keep your very young puppy still and quiet. It is absolutely ridiculous. The instructor continued to be belittling and a complete B. during one of the classes I really had to practice a lot of self control to keep myself from jacking her in the face! I was so upset with her rude comments that I literally bagan sweating. The assistant was very nice though, I wish she could have been the instructor.
Overall it was a pretty horrible experience, we didn’t even bother to go to the last 2 of 6 classes and didn’t even ask for a refund because that’s just how much I don’t want to have to deal with these people again! Horrible!

I have taken my two German Shepherds at different times to Wiggles-​n-​Wags and could not be any more pleased with the business. Julie is amazing and possess a vast amount of knowledge regarding training and animal behavior. The facility is large allowing ample room for each individual dog to work. They stress positive reinforcement training and tailor training to each individual dog’s needs, and offer a variety of different classes. Something for everyone! I have personally worked in the animals welfare field for 27 years and highly recommend Wiggles-​n-​Wags.

if you want to actually have communicatioin with the training location, good luck. They have voicemails you can’t leave messages. Emails they don’t respoind too.

Well, Went to Wiggles and Wags, so that my dog could get coaching on becoming a Therapy Dog. I was not impressed with the center at all! The place was dark with not enough lighting. The coach for this class was very disorganized and not friendly at all. There were only 6 people in class and she constanly walked away without saying where she was going. She was late for the class, did not know who paid and who did not. Her papers fell off her clipboard and flew all over the place. He did not have her props set up for the class and never once smiled at any of the people who paid for the class. I think the coach was flat out rude. Someone else should have given this class. My dog looked at her like what the hell lady, get your stuff together.
She gave bad instructions, and never even said goodbye to the people who attended the class. We have to go back on April 22^nd for the final class and I am hoping this woman is not giving the class! By my experience, I would never reccommend this place. It was our first time and they were not warm and welcoming!
This is a one star place!!!

I chose this training facility after an exhausted days-​long search on Unilocal.It’s hard to do a review of a business like this, because so much of your satisfaction and success is all up to you. However, there is a major component at all dog training facilities, and that is the trainer. Of you dog owners out there, have you ever been to a place and the trainer is just… whacked? I’ve had trainers like that. The last one was an agility class I signed up for, and the woman was like a drill sargeant. Practically screaming at us; and most of the owners had their noses in the air because they thought their dog was best or had so many certificates, etc. It was like a scene from Best in Show. Aren’t we supposed to be having fun here, people?
The above paragraph is to prepare you for my introduction of JULIE O. at Wiggles and Wags. She is the most down-​to-​earth, relaxed, funny, motivational kick-​ass dog trainer I have ever known. She is so fun to learn from and makes you feel like you can train your dog to do anything. My dog and I had a great outcome from her classes. I had it narrowed down to Wiggles and Wags and another place, so to help me decide, I wanted to watch a class at each place. Julie’s facility was the first one I went to. And only. It sealed the deal. She is the best!

I have been taking my almost 2 year old lab to Wiggles N Wags for about a year and a half. We started with Puppy class and then moved to agility about a year ago. Susan has worked with us to improve both the dogs skills and my skills. These have been great and fun classes under the instruction of Susan and we plan on taking them for a long time.