Signed up for a July 25th 2026 session in austin, texas. Dog daddy canceled it. They refused to give a refund. They kept putting it off, putting it off for months. I finally had to turn it into my credit card company to get the refund. I have emails from dog daddy to prove it.
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Alesandra D.
September 2026
September 2026 — Buyer Beware
Dog Daddy is still selling German Shepherds, and unfortunately I learned the hard way what happens after you send the money.
I paid for a German Shepherd and was told the dog would come with specific documentation, including health-related documentation, hip information, and pedigree documentation. After payment, getting the promised paperwork became a constant struggle. Requests were repeatedly delayed, and I was given excuses instead of the documentation I was told I would receive.
I also never received the dog, yet Augusto transferred the AKC registration into my name without my consent. I contacted AKC directly to address the registration issue.
At this point, I have disputed the transaction with my bank because the dog and the documentation I paid for were not provided as agreed. I have kept the messages, payment records, and other documentation from the entire transaction.
If you are considering purchasing a dog from Dog Daddy, do your research and verify everything before sending money. Get the promised documentation in writing and independently verify the dog’s records before making a payment.
This is my personal experience and is based on documentation I have retained.
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Patricia B.
Dog Daddy is great
I have watched hundreds of dog training videos and most are rediculous garbage. Like supposedly teaching how to resolve reactivity and using a completely docile, unreactive puppy who is just perking their ears with curiosity to illustrate instead of a truly reactive dog. Like supposedly teaching how to make a dog stop pulling and none of it works. I've also tried many trainers and was appalled at the repetitive lack of knowledge, none of them able to address specific problems and instead ignoring them and teaching you how to make your dog sit when you have long since accomplished that. Or supposedly teaching how to resolve reactivity of a prey driven dog to deer using tame deer who stand still when it is their running that results in reactivity.
Recently Dog Daddy showed up on my tablet and I can't get enough. He does not display anything that could ever be construed as abuse or cruelty. His advice is loving and caring and accurate. It closely aligns with methods used by trainers of service dogs and printed material of their methods. IT WORKS. If you want to erase harmful blind spots in the treatment of your dog and establish a loving, trusting relationship, I recommend his program highly.
These abusive irrate reviews are fake. I assume they are plants by other trainers and traditional vets and private equity owned vet practices. They did the same to Dr. Lee and forced Utube to drop him. But he is back under a different name. Perhaps he took advice from people like me who encouraged him to lawyer up and fight back.
Same to Dog Daddy. His program is positive and gives great advice. I am a great believer in training pets. I always have, with and without trainers.
I don't care if it's A I and I don't care about this man's personal life. I am tuning in for sound, practical advice and that is exactly what he is delivering.
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Rv Life - Let Us Find You - Y.
NOBODY ELSE COULD TOUCH OUR DOG
Gaslighting (lying) is a sad case of a mental issue going on within those who spread hate because they dont like DD'S methods so they make up fabricated stories.
. I know for a fact that several dog trainers bashed this man & asked their minions to join in SMH (grow up). due to pure jealousy- SHAME making up false stores like this. I learned this man Augusto also goes to shelters & for FREE helps dogs on thr euthanized list, bless him.
We looked at how many dogs we saw in action that he saved, & at their afters & knew somethibg didnt sit right with us about all these people making up stories we found out later we're false.
So off I went.
I found the dog daddy on youtube, tictok FB & several other platforms when we were desperate to find the best trainers out there. Wow this guy SOME haters hate had close to 8 M followers SUCCESS) & after just watching a few of his training methods in action I knew he was the one.
Our dog wanted to kill babies, people & other dogs! No trainer would touch him! No trainer succeeded & told us they couldnt help! Our own vet wanted to put him down.
We were determined to get our dog help after spending thousands & getting nowhere!
DD just makes sense to me, the way he touches these dogs & shows them who's boss!, His videos showed us how he could turn a dog like mine into what we needed to get our dog the help he needed! I watch many more videos & NEVER saw anythng but sucess & a LEADER who knew what he was doing!!
Eventually he was coming to our area. We booked him. BEST DECISON WE EVER MADE!! He took full control of our dog that nobody else was able to touch. HE gave us the tools to teach our dog to become better, safer, & friendlier. NEVER did he take our extra money we offered to help his cause with rescues. He declined.
ALSO- To the poster who said he never showed up in Texas, thats interesting because thats the class we attended!🤔 & after going back & looking at his old post tours its the only time in 2025 he was there, nice try though . So sad to make up such a LIE!
TRUST PILOT THOSE PEOPLE ARE LYING ABOUT THIS MAN!
IF IT WASNT FOR AUGUSTO AKA DOG DADDY our dog would of ended up getting put down.
You cannot expect a dog trainer to not use some kind of dominance with these kinds of dogs wanting to kill others! All these other trainers were afraid of our dog, NOT THE DD! Our dog would never behave using jist a leash so yes we did go with a prong. PICK YOUR POISON- Killer dog or prong that ended up not being anything at all that we thought it would be. A quick pop, and he listened, obviously there'd more to it but his methods WORK!
I HIGHLY RECOMMENDED DOG DADDY 100% HE SAVED MY DOGS LIFE AND FOR THAT WE CANNOT SAY THANK YOU ENOUGH TO THIS SWEET MAN THAT HE IS.
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Teagan D.
He set up pre paid dog training in New…
He set up pre paid dog training in New York and Massachusettes then, cancelled with no notice or warning. He set up several Go fund me accounts under the guise of collecting money for a dog sanctuary but never built one and kept the money. He takes the money people give to him and buys TikTok gifts for random young men to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars instead of donating it licensed rescues. There is no record of him owning commercial property, a residence or a business location to train dogs at. He recently posted a video about living in a remote area with plans for him and his dogs to kill and eat wild life. Another video of him making calls to his followers family members telling them that their is a petition signed to remove their dogs to scare them. An elderly woman and her friend posted on a group chat that he took $5000 cash for a training session in Florida then cancelled the session and refused a refund and she said his friends were threatening her if she pursued the refund. He made a video stating he lives in a remote isolated area inside a storage room and quite frankly comes accross as very unreliable and untrustworthy.
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Green G.
This guy is NOT a dog trainer
This guy is NOT a dog trainer. He is not fit to be even called a human.
He knows he is wrong. He knows he knows nothing about dogs yet he abuses dogs for fame and money. Pure evil!
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Danielle T.
HE NEVER SHOWED IN HOUSTON
HE NEVER SHOWED IN HOUSTON, TX FOR THE DOG TRAINING EVENT IN MARCH 2025. HE POSTED ON FACEBOOK HIS TOUR DATES. I PAID $400.00 AND THE DAY OF SENDS AN EMAIL THAT HE IS CANCELLING AND WILL REACH BACK OUT TO RESCHEDULE ANOTHER TIME. NEVER HEARD BACK. DO NOT USE HIM. IT IS A SCAM.
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Love M.
He was kicked out of my home town for…
He was kicked out of my home town for hoarding and neglect. The house was decaying due to all of the feces. The amount of dead animals they found was shocking. He was allowing his dogs to eat goats alive. He is known to take money and literally run to cars, and speed off. He not only shuts dogs down, which is generally dangerous because the probably resurfaced (and usually the behavior is worse), but he is a deplorable excuse for a human being.