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At Klassic K9 we always strive to build the best relationship we can, not only WITH you and your dog, but BETWEEN you and your dog!

02/09/2025

Hi everyone!
I haven’t had access to this inbox for 3 days now, every time I go to open it it kicks me back into my personal inbox! I apologize to those I’ve left mid conversation! 🙃

An update for the upcoming months :
- all ONE ON ONES are temporarily on hold until our weather warms up, our gym training space is prioritized for the Ace’s daycare and boarding dogs while it’s so cold!

- BOARD AND TRAINS are currently fully booked for February and into March. We have ONE available spot end of March (start date 24th) for the minimum 2 or up to 4 weeks. After that we are booked up to the end of May 🙏

Thank you to all my clients! I’m a one woman show so sometimes responses take time, so thank you to everyone who sticks with me! Picture of our latest Board & Train Misha who just went home 🖤

01/29/2025

🔥 KIAIRA 🔥
Kiaira spent Christmas and into January with us for a board and train and we had a great few weeks together!
All of my board and train clients receive these voiceover training videos throughout their Dogs stay. I record our sessions from beginning to end and then explain what we are doing, how we are building it, what we are looking for or what we are trying to fix!

Her Mom really wanted us to build neutrality and work on reactivity to other dogs, so that was our primary focus. She arrived with some basic positions via food lure, and had been started on ecollar training.
Once we built beautiful soft leash manners, a fast and snappy sit/down and place, and complete neutrality to dogs we started to pair our e-collar to it all near the end, to solidify and proof what we had learned!

Kiaira is a moderate/high drive German Shepherd who really wants to please and with a little bit of impulse control and clear, effective communication is well on her way to becoming a model citizen 🖤
Thank you to her parents for trusting her to stay and learn with me!

12/30/2024

Sundays are for the dogs!

My girl Elektra 💃 13 months

12/18/2024

Our winter Board & Trains are in full swing!
December and January are currently full, now booking for February and March 2025!
Please reach out for more information 🙂

11/29/2024

✨Join us Monday, December 9th for E-COLLAR 101! ✨
We are super excited to have Steve from K9 Intel coming to Prince George and offering an informational evening where we talk all things E-COLLARS!

We will cover a variety of topics including but not limited to:
- Proper use of an e-collar
- Building engagement and activation
- How to teach common behaviors
- How to stop unwanted behaviors
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Competitive Obedience

This is a great opportunity to learn from one of the best IGP (Shutzhund) trainers in Canada. We are looking forward to providing proper education about how useful and valuable a well trained ecollar can be for not only sport dogs but pet dogs alike! 👌🏼

For more information please send us a message or email [email protected]
Payment required in full to hold your seat!

(Human night only, please leave your doggo’s at home!)

10/29/2024

I need your help! 👇🏼
Who would be interested in mini seminars? 🐾

These would be on a Saturday or Sunday and be 3-4 hours in length where we would “crash course” through specific topics.
Puppy 101, Loose Leash Walking, Reactivity….
If you’d be interested in a seminar, please comment below and let me know what type!
I’m hoping to put a few on this way versus long sets of classes and would like to know what my clients are looking for!

10/23/2024

We had a successful trial weekend last weekend at the Sturgeon Schutzhund club in Edmonton, Alberta!
“Audi” is my 18mos female GSD and she came home with her BH-VT after putting together a really pretty routine for me.
The BH is an obedience & temperament test needed in order to compete in the 3 phase sport of IGP (tracking, obedience and protection).
It consists of on and off leash heeling in a specific pattern as well as through a group of people, a sit and down in motion, a recall, and then a long down across the field while the second dog you share the field with performs their full routine.
The temperament test has them exposed to vehicles, bicycles, strangers and other dogs while in hand but also again while separated from their owner.
Can’t wait to trial in the spring for our IGP 1 in all 3 phases!

10/12/2024

T-7 days until I hit the trial field with my best Audi dog 💃 can’t believe we are here already! Thank you Stephen Kemick K9 Intel for giving me the opportunity to own and train this female, and for all the guidance thus far 🖤

10/07/2024

Post tracking conversations with K9 Intel 🖤

So much to share from this weekend!
For those who are sitting with messages in my inbox, I will be getting back to you today! Thanks for your patience

09/28/2024

📣 We have a BIG announcement we are excited to share! 📣

We’ve teamed up with the great crew at Ace's K-9 Care and are so excited to be working out of their top notch boarding facility for all my future BOARD AND TRAINS! 🐾

All board and trains will have their own private suite with attached outdoor run for the entirety of their stay while in for training. The attention to detail and way the staff cater to each individual dog and all their idiosyncrasies has always impressed me, so much so that they are the only kennel I’ll trust to watch my personal dogs and have always been my first recommendation for others!

Board and trains for the remainder of 2024 and going forward will all be worked out of Aces 💃 their rubber matted indoor gym makes training all year around a breeze if the weather is poor. If you’re already a regular daycare/boarding client of Aces, reach out! Let’s get your dog some training while they stay!

09/19/2024

🐕 RAW DOG FOOD! 🐕
We headed for another pick up of our Dogs Choice raw food! We have room on this load for more then just what our regulars ordered so will open up some space to the public.

ALL BOXES ARE PREORDER AND MUST BE PREPAID please! ( I will no longer hold food waiting for payment). Will be returning home this weekend.

All boxes are 40lbs and come in 2lb tubes

Beef/bison blend- $3 per lb ($120/box)
w/ veggies $3.20 per lb ($128 a box)

Chicken - $3 per lb ($120/box) w/ veggie $3.20 per lb ($128/box)

Beef Chicken - $120/box

Bison - $4 per lb ($160/box)

Pork - $3 per lb ($120/box)

Turkey- $3 per lb ($120/box) w/ veggie $3.20 per lb ($128/box)

Tripe - $3 per lb ($120/box)

Pure salmon (1lb) - $3.50 per lb ($140/box)

Whole Herring - $3.50 per lb (10lb bag/$35, 30lb box/$105)

09/16/2024

Reminiscing about our August seminar… and counting down the weeks until our October dates! 👇🏼
We have TWO working spaces available for our next weekend booked with Steve of K9 Intel October 4th/5th/6th in Prince George!🔥
All dogs/handlers welcome! While we focus primarily on building our dogs for the sport of IGP (Shutzhund; tracking, obedience and protection) we welcome all dog’s and their handlers to come give it a try… come to learn skills of man tracking, or further their obedience if not interested in the sport as a whole!
Send me a PM if you have any questions 💃

08/28/2024

Livestock Guardian breeds - will be aloof, not overly people friendly, and yes will bark all night because it’s their GENETICS JOB to defend their property and wander their perimeter (which is why they NEED perimeters). It’s literally hardwired into them. They do not have great listening skills because they aren’t bred to serve PEOPLE but to serve their livestock. Now cross those on a breed that’s bred to do the opposite? Like a GSD? Or a Border Collie? What a genetic disaster. And a very common cross I see in client dogs desperate for help.

Border Collies / Australian Shepherds / Herding breeds - yes they will chase your kids. Yes they will chase anything that moves, fast. They also move, fast, and will use their teeth to encourage whatever it is they are chasing to move the direction they want it to. They feed off energy and will amplify the environment they are given. They will also amplify themselves uncontrollably if not given the mental stimulation they need. I didn’t say physical, I said MENTAL. These dogs need mental stimulation more then they need physical stimulation. You can have an extremely fit BC that will still chase your kids or destroy your house if it’s not mentally stimulated. Certain genetics can be nervy, a little wiggy, which can leave you with a nervous or timid dog if you don’t raise it properly or pay attention to its lineage. Cross these breeds on each other and you can often get a complete genetic malfunction leaving you with a dog that needs to be drugged to simply exist in the world.

German Shepherds / Belgian Malinois / Bear Dogs etc - these dogs are also herding breeds but with a hefty dose of natural protection instinct which usually bares its ugly teeth in the form of reactivity. They also like to chase and eliminate anything that moves, fast, but with even more teeth and twice the size behind them. These dogs are one person dogs, exist to please their handlers and generally have a natural stranger danger type personality. These dog’s WILL bite, attack, lunge etc out fear, frustration, or flat out “I will F you up“ confidence (but it’s usually one of the first two). They also feed off energy and will amplify the environment they are given. They will also amplify themselves uncontrollably if not given the mental stimulation they need.

Huskies / Malamutes - friendly but lack any real desire to cooperate, generally. They are in it for themselves and will decide when and where they want to listen and for how long. While they are pretty to look at their buttholes aren’t all that pretty when all they are doing is running away from you because they hold more value in their environment compared to you. Yes they are vocal, especially when happy, sad, mad, frustrated, scared…. Now cross them with any of the above breeds and don’t complain when you get a dog that’s genetically confused on how it wants to coexist with you and just yells in the process.

Labs / Retrievers -bred to go alllll damn day in the field, but are most commonly asked to be a suburban house pet. They will bounce off the end of their leash anytime they see something that makes them happy because EVERYTHING makes them happy but they don’t know impulse control so they bulldoze your guests, rip the leash out of your hands, jump up and lick.lab crosses are seen as the “safe choice” because they are generally a friendly, happy go lucky breed but they need just as much structure and training as any of the other working dogs.

The list goes on, and on, and on, and on. A cross doesn’t mean you get the best of both worlds. If I’m honest, you often get the worst. Clients come to me with dogs that are riding the struggle bus because they are a genetic disaster and are at war with themselves because they are crosses of breeds that are so opposite of one another it doesn’t even know it’s a dog. Sometimes you can’t out train genetics. And that’s what so many people want me to do. A purebred can be just as difficult if it’s been selectively bred for high drive precise work (working line German Shepherd vs Show Line for example) and you’re not fulfilling it’s needs and it’s stuck finding its own outlets.

If you want a cross, google BOTH/ALL the evident breeds it consists of and decide if you want to train through any possible discrepancies in those.

If you want a purebred, research the Breeders and figure out what BOTH parents are like. Just because it’s purebred doesn’t mean it’s WELL BRED.

08/24/2024

Thankful for these 3 young dogs and everything they give me every time we step out on the field! Another K9 Intel seminar in the books 💃 these 3 are my personal dogs, GSD Audi (18mos) Malinois puppies Elektra (9mos) and Epic (9mos)

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🔥 KIAIRA 🔥 Kiaira spent Christmas and into January with us for a board and train and we had a great few weeks together! All of my board and train clients receive these voiceover training videos throughout their Dogs stay. I record our sessions from beginning to end and then explain what we are doing, how we are building it, what we are looking for or what we are trying to fix! Her Mom really wanted us to build neutrality and work on reactivity to other dogs, so that was our primary focus. She arrived with some basic positions via food lure, and had been started on ecollar training. Once we built beautiful soft leash manners, a fast and snappy sit/down and place, and complete neutrality to dogs we started to pair our e-collar to it all near the end, to solidify and proof what we had learned! Kiaira is a moderate/high drive German Shepherd who really wants to please and with a little bit of impulse control and clear, effective communication is well on her way to becoming a model citizen 🖤 Thank you to her parents for trusting her to stay and learn with me!

Sundays are for the dogs! #notadogclub My girl Elektra 💃 13 months

Reminiscing about our August seminar… and counting down the weeks until our October dates! 👇🏼 We have TWO working spaces available for our next weekend booked with Steve of K9 Intel October 4th/5th/6th in Prince George!🔥 All dogs/handlers welcome! While we focus primarily on building our dogs for the sport of IGP (Shutzhund; tracking, obedience and protection) we welcome all dog’s and their handlers to come give it a try… come to learn skills of man tracking, or further their obedience if not interested in the sport as a whole! Send me a PM if you have any questions 💃 #notadogclub

Countdown is on!

Our August K9 Intel seminar is right around the corner! We had a 3 day working spot come available last minute, if you’d like to come hang out with a fun group of handlers and trainers and learn about the sport of IGP, or even if you’re just interested in high level tracking/obedience training, shoot us a message! All breeds/skill levels welcome 🙂

Audi - Obedience

🗝️ Neutrality to the environment 🗝️ This is a huge missing piece in all aspects of dog training. It’s a key ingredient in a reliable recall, respectful leash manners… truthfully any and all public obedience skills. If your dog is more stimulated by their environment than you, why would they choose walking politely with you, or coming back to you over exploring said environment? If your dog holds such high value in greeting strangers, other dogs or running after something they find interesting, you’re going to run into issues in every aspect of your training. Bella here is coming to the end of her month long stay with us. Here she demonstrates complete environmental neutrality while we hang out in Home Depot on a busy morning. We worked hard on this this month, as well as loose leash walking, crate training, recall and general public confidence 🖤 she’s a very happy go lucky, friendly dog that wanted to hop out of the vehicle and take off to explore, greet everyone she came across and think before coming when called 😉 while we aren’t perfect yet, we’ve installed some very key components to help her go home and continue to progress successfully with her mom!

Puppy Class Final Class!

Thank you to everyone and their pups for joining us over the last 6 weeks for Puppy 101! We took our new skills to the streets tonight for last class, and while we were missing two of our friends, the ones that came to Home Depot put on their best behavior! It’s always good when the last class in a public setting is anticlimactic 😂🙌🏼 We walked up and down the isles past strangers and even saw other dogs. They climbed on the wood piles, rode some empty carts, took a stroll through the garden center and finished it off with a group chat before heading out into the parking lot for our goodbyes. Thank you friends and happy walking!

K9 Intel - Stephen Kemick seminars of 2024!

We are so thankful Steve continues to come back and help foster our training abilities. For those of us in sport his support is invaluable, and also for those who just want to learn some formal obedience (and now tracking!) skills as well. We only have TWO working spots left for our April seminar (April 26th,27th and 28th) and also have a few working spaces left for the following June (28th,29th and 30th) seminar. Please PM us to book your spot or if you have any questions! Auditing is also an option for those who would like to come see what it’s all about. These seminars include training in all 3 phases of the sport IGP (tracking, obedience and protection) but can be adjusted to nearly any dog at any level of training 😊

We are super excited for our second 2024 K9 Intel seminar that kicks off next week! Working spots are FULL but we have auditing space available! Training in all 3 IGP (Shutzhund) phases: TRACKING - OBEDIENCE - PROTECTION Friday March 22nd - Sunday March 24th Auditing- $50 a day, $125 for the whole weekend Please PM us if you are interested in coming to hang out and watch some super cool dogs and their handlers work! 👇🏼 (video from last seminar!)

Baby Wren working hard to practice her new loose leash skills in Home Depot this morning!