Obedience trainer spends class harshly criticizing dogs and their owners, gets schooled by a puppy with zero respect for authority: 'She was shocked speechless'

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Isabella Penn
Oct 25, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

My own puppy was a total A+ student in obedience school. She could sit, stay, and shake like a little genius. But the moment she got home, she would act like she had total amnesia. She'd look at me like, "Sit? Never heard of it." So when I came across this story, I felt deeply seen.

One dog owner shared their hilarious experience taking their puppy to an obedience class run by a woman with the personality of a Marine drill sergeant. During the first session, she berated every owner like they should have never even gotten a dog in the first place.

By the next class, she ordered everyone to bring high-value treats. The teacher mocked the owner for bringing the wrong treats and smugly pulled out her own stash. Luckily, this pup wasn't going to let its owner be treated like that, so its next move left the entire class erupting in laughter while the teacher stood there, fish-mouthed and furious.

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  • That was the day the puppy flunked obedience school but earned straight A’s in comedic timing. Turns out, not even the strictest trainer can boss around a determined dog with good taste.

  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/
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  • "Why my puppy flunked out of obedience school"

    Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - Several years ago I got a puppy and signed him up for puppy kindergarten obedience classes.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - The teacher turned out to be an extremely dominating woman with a loud, nasal voice and the personality of a Marine drill sergeant.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - She devoted the first lesson to harshly criticizing everything we did and at the end of the class we all slunk out feeling like complete idiots who couldn't even be trusted with the care of a goldfish.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - For the second class, we were told to bring treats for training and to be sure our puppies were hungry.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - I brought treats my puppy loved at home, but he was so excited to be around the other pups that he wouldn't eat any of them.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - As a result, he wasn't very motivated to learn the commands we were supposed to be training our puppies to obey.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - The teacher noticed and rudely berated me at some length for bringing the "wrong" treats. She then took some treats out of her fanny pack and proclaimed that "all dogs love these." She held one out and smirked triumphantly when my pup took it in his mouth- only to be gobsmacked a few seconds later when he spat it out in her foot.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - She was shocked speechless and her mouth kept opening and closing like a fish as she struggled to find something to say.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - I completely lost it and laughed until my sides hurt. Several of my classmates joined in.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - That's how my puppy flunked out of obedience school. I subsequently took him to a different class with a nice, very professional teacher and now my dog is well behaved adult.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - Funnies thing my dog ever did!
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  • Puppy tax

    Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - krysdrez What irks me is, people don't do puppy school because their puppy is well behaved! They go to learn to behave!
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - My pup was a NIGHTMARE in school. I feel she passed because I knew the trainer haha! That being said, she was the best dog, so loyal and eager to be a good girl!
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - humanityrus My puppy won a little fuzzy blanket for doing well in obedience class. She then ate the blanket.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - nadrae I just don't understand why some people work in the job they are in... i know jobs are hard to get but why would you even apply if you don't like the population you are serving?
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - Ok_Moon_ My friend told me his (unruly) dog was "invited back to obedience school." You and I both know he flunked out.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - North-Elderberry2380 You gotta find the right trainer jeez. Im a dog trainer and have seen some of the worst people become trainers who are just looking to be powerful and feel like they are superior and God. Im happy it all worked out so nicely in the end
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - Imaginary-Ad5001 Our pup at the time was a very rambling Australian Shepherd. Puppy school was stressful. He, or was it us, his owners, once got a detention. Oops.
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  • Leading-Knowledge712 https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatizeThemBack/comments/1ocfe2f/why_my_puppy_flunked_out_of_obedience_school/ - RideOrThigh2 Pups are gonna pup, ya know?
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