K9 Driven

02/11/2024

I would like to personally take this opportunity to thank everyone who trusted me with their dog training needs over the last few years. It has truly been my pleasure to support you as you guide your dogs towards being great K9 citizens.

The relationship with a dog is about the purest you will find in life; Be Fair, Be Kind, Be Consistent - Always be their greatest advocate and keep guiding them so they can live their best lives. - The K9 Driven pages on IG and FB will close shortly and we will not be accepting new clients moving forward.

If any of my past clients wish to contact me I still have my other IG handle where you can message me if you need to reach me.

Otherwise I wish you all the very best. Thank you once again and farewell.

- Sincerely, K9 Neil G

01/27/2024

Final lesson with Flynn. Grateful for the opportunity to be trusted with his training. I have no doubt he will be an awesome family dog.

12/31/2023

I received this beautiful piece as a gift from client’s whose dog I trained. They bought it to support the local artisans when they visited the community. Thank you and .m1988 - I truly appreciate the gift.

It’s humbling to learn about a near extinct peoples; It offers perspective and encourages introspection about some of the more superficial issues we spend so much time debating.

I love learning about cultures and history so I looked up some information about the tribe that I thought I would share here:

🇨🇷The Maleku are an indigenous tribe living in Costa Rica in an area called ‘Maleku Indigenous Reserve of Guatuso’, a place located between the Arenal Volcano and the Nicaraguan border.

🇨🇷 The Maleku Indian Tribe is the smallest in Costa Rica with only 650 people left. They divide themselves into three different clans or communities: Palenque Margarita, El Sol, and Palenque Tonjibe.

🇨🇷 The Maleku speak Spanish as their first language but many of the elders also speak the Maleku language.  
Reforestation is an important part of the Maleku culture and important to the Costa Rican people as well.

🇨🇷 The Maleku economy relies mostly on tourism and the sales of their very original art. They spend their days farming the land, painting wooden masks and jícara, or gourd bowls, performing for tourists in their traditional palm clothing, or plantin

🇨🇷 They remained undiscovered until 1750, with the arrival of Spanish settlers.

12/24/2023

Of course Santa has a German Shepherd - That makes total sense!

12/18/2023

Sunday training with Kirsten, Shelly and Flynn -

12/18/2023

12/18/2023

Saturday training session with Max, Aaron and Pepe.

12/04/2023

Sunday training session with Murphy and Leilah at Home Depot - We paused for a little chat and I think we got on the same page! 😁 -

12/03/2023

Saturday training sessions with Pepe! Working on reactivity.

11/25/2023

Morning coffee with the crew.

11/25/2023

Saturday morning walk with and Luna

11/25/2023

Great afternoon of training with Aaron, Max and Pepe. - it was nice to have my buddy and my former K9 student Luna to help with the session.

11/19/2023

Sunday morning training session with Murphy and Leilah -

11/19/2023

Saturday training session with Max, Aaron and Pepe. -

11/11/2023

Saturday training session with Pepe. - Just a happy guy, love working with this big guy!

11/05/2023

Sunday morning training session with Murphy!

10/29/2023

A fall walk with my buddy and our German Shepherds. Gotta love it! -

10/23/2023

Sunday training session with Murphy! Leash skills was our focus today.