North K9 is based in West Yorkshire offering companion dog training, dog sport training, & one-to-on
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North K9 are based in Huddersfield and focus on providing positive, safe, fun, and consistent dog training with qualified instructors. We offer companion dog training, specialist dog sport training and also offer one-to-one consultations and bespoke training packages in dog behaviour and socialisation
Today Blitz and I were at the GSDL Tracking championships, it was a brilliant day 🥳
We came away with 92 points, missing an article which is a loss of 7, Blitz tracked really well and I’m so proud of her, we finished in 4th place 🤩
Here’s her being goofy with her medal and then crashed at home after a special dinner 🥰🐾
Preparing for a world championships is a big task, with many component parts
We focus heavily on fitness and wellbeing both physically and mentally, Blitz is heading towards peak fitness now and it’s a balancing act, she can have some big emotions at this stage 😂😎
Hydrotherapy, specifically the underwater treadmill is a firm fixture in our weekly routine, she can do up to 15 mins which is the maximum for any dog, she works on an incline and changes paces through walk and trot 💪🏻
Most importantly……she LOVES it 🇬🇧🇭🇷💜
Claire and Blitz, Team GB 🇬🇧 heading to Croatia in around 4 weeks!!
I’m so excited, and so proud of my dog, 2 years on a row we made the team 💪🏻💜
I’ll be posting some of our final prep over the next few weeks 🇬🇧🇭🇷
Day 1 of Lost Dog Tracking L1 with Cumbria Canine Services 🥳🥳💪🏻💪🏻🐾🐾
Lost Dog Tracking Level 1 is underway North K9 Training awesome so far
Yey 🥳 we are now officially a member of UK rural skills and can start getting our courses accredited 🐾🐾
We'd like to welcome new member North K9 Training North K9 Training
Claire is away teaching L1 Lost dog tracking in Surrey, what a wonderful group of dogs and handlers 💜🐾
We are super excited to be running our foundation agility course in September!
We don’t run this course very often, it’s the entry to our competitive agility group, this course gives you the foundation skills to go onto equipment 🤩
Don’t miss your space 🐾🐾
What is agility? Agility is a fast-paced dog sport where a dog and handler work as a team to tackle a course of agility equipment. Dogs have fun accelerating through tunnels, over jumps, and around weave poles, but it takes clear, accurate information from a handler to ensure their dog completes all...
🤩🤩 Throwback Thursday 🤩🤩
It’s been a while since we did this one!! Here’s Mavis Hound, who was the cutest lil button 😍😍
Let’s see your throwbacks to puppyhood or when you first adopted your dog 💎🐾🥰
What a superb day, thank you Ash Confident Canine Coaching Academy for hosting me 🐾💜🐾💜
Very excited to be heading here tomorrow for Introduction to lost dog workshop 🐾🤩🥳
New agility foundation for September 🥳🥳
🚀 26th September 2024
🚀 4 week course covering the foundation skills needed to progress into agility classes
🚀 £100 per dog and handler team
🚀 Large indoor venue Huddersfield
🚀 Dogs must be social to attend
Very very limited spaces, don’t walk, run……….
What is agility? Agility is a fast-paced dog sport where a dog and handler work as a team to tackle a course of agility equipment. Dogs have fun accelerating through tunnels, over jumps, and around weave poles, but it takes clear, accurate information from a handler to ensure their dog completes all...
⭐️⭐️ Hosting Workshops, courses and Seminars ⭐️⭐️
If you are thinking of hosting me to teach at your venue or speak/teach at your conference, I have opened my 2025 diary and it’s filling up quickly 🙌
I offer the following courses…..
💎 Introduction to Lost dog tracking 1 day
💎 Lost dog tracking, levels 1,2 and 3
💎 Lost dog theory seminars, lost dog behaviour and what to do if you loose your dog
💎 CPD for tracking teams (online and on person)
💎 Tracking for sport and companion dogs
💎 Obedience for competition
💎 Accept and Respect relationship course (brand new for 2025)
A little about me 😎
I have owned Northk9 for 12 years, and co-own scent and track uk with my good friend and colleague Jemma. I’ve been training dogs for almost 20 years and have invested everything into developing my career and my dogs
I train and run the largest team of lost dog tracking dogs in the UK and Channel Islands, currently operating with 25operational dogs across the country, with more coming through my specialist bespoke training programme
With my current dog squad, I train and compete at National level and international level in the sport of IGP with Blitz, my Malinios, and we have been selected to represent team GB at the FCI world championships for the second year running, we are heading to Croatia 🇭🇷 in September 🇬🇧
Blitz and I were part of the Northern inter regional obedience team for crufts 2023, gaining 2nd place in our class. 🥳
Mavis is my operational lost dog tracking dog and we have travelled the UK finding missing dogs. ❤️🔥
Havoc is my now retired sport dog, we trained and trialled in IGP 😎
My passions are obedience and tracking in all its forms, I adore high drive working dogs and helping channel their drives into something suitable and fulfilling 🤩
Get in touch for further details
📱 what’s app 07939 061007
📧 [email protected]
🙋🏻♀️ I have a question 🙋🏻♀️
I’m thinking about recording some short courses and webinars to be available for people to buy at any time from the website
What would people like?
What would be useful to you?
Please let me know in the comments ⬇️
Lazy Sundays 😍 Although we have been out tracking, but now Havoc is a pretzel 🥨 💜
Senior dogs can still do lots of things, we just need to adapt for them 🐾💜🐾💜
Cone and join us for scent ops 🥳🐾
My podcast with Nick Benger is out today, we talk about allsorts but mostly IGP dog sport and lost dog tracking, hope you enjoy 🐾🐾
Here’s a link to our lost dog page 😍
https://www.facebook.com/share/mexEShYhWa5N2JtN/?mibextid=K35XfP
A must watch, there’s a lot of false and out dated info on this 🐾
It’s been a crazy wonderful week here at NorthK9!
I spent 2 days training with my blitz as we start to prep for the FCI world championships in September, we had a great time and it’s always good spending dedicated time with my dogs 🥰
We headed them to Puppy School conference where I was delighted to teach introduction to lost dog tracking, I’ve met some great people and so many brilliant dogs 🤩
What an awesome few days!! I’ll be travelling home later today so admin catch ups will be tomorrow 🥳🐾
How was your weekend? Let me know ⬇️ ☀️🐾
Blitzy baby tracking on dirt today 🐾🐾💎🔥
🚀🚀 Diary 2025 is now…..OPEN 🚀🚀
I am excited to be opening up my 2025 diary for bookings, if you’d like to host me for any of the following courses please get in touch 🤩
💎 Introduction to lost dog tracking
💎 Bespoke Lost Dog Tracking courses
💎 Lost Dog Tracking CPD days
💎 Obedience Clinics
💎 Accept and Respect relationship course (new for next year)
📧 [email protected]
☎️ WhatsApp 07939 061007
Calling all puppy people 🤩 this confidence building workshop is fantastic, don’t miss out on your space 🌟🌟
https://www.facebook.com/share/LyHYV3n9NZRgixqX/?mibextid=WC7FNe
Come and join us for our Puppy Power confidence workshop, in Milnsbridge, Huddersfield. Run by experienced and qualified instructors, Jemma from Ruffmutz and Leanne from North K9 training, this workshop will take a look at some all important puppy foundations, as well as some fun activities you can....
I could burst with pride 🐾💜🐾💜
❤️🔥 Scent Camp 2024, That’s a wrap ❤️🔥
Where to start!! Jemma and Claire have a vision to create an event where dog people can get together to train, try new activities, enjoy their dog for several days without interruption and enjoy some social time with other like minded people, this is the second year of running scent camp and it’s been better than we could’ve imagined 😍
More than double the number of handlers from last year, guest instructors, theory sessions and an extra day…..we had dogs of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds and they have all been super stars 🌟
People came from all over the UK!
We would like to extend our thanks to each and everyone of our participants and spectators for being amazing and throwing yourselves into learning 🎉
Thank you to The Venue Huddersfield for the excellent food, venue and hospitality 🤩
Thank you to Diane from KONG for her fun and informative talk on a Friday, Kelsey from Poochandponies photography for her amazing work, Zoe from Fit-Pet Physio and Leanne from for their sessions on Saturday and to Kat from Canine Detection Solutions for her sessions today 👊🏻🥳😍
We will shortly be announcing the dates for 2025 do you can save them! We will be recovering for the next couple of days 😂😂
Over and out
Jemma and Claire ❤️🔥🐾❤️🔥🐾
I am out of office the next few days because it’s Scent Camp weekend with Scent and Track UK 🎉🎉
3 days of scent related fun, I can’t wait 🤩🤩
Meet Bean 😍😍
Bean has just started her ultimate puppy package (along with her human 😂)
She is doing fabulous with her toilet training, sleep and resting and her good drive is brilliant 🤩
We started teaching her a few foundation behaviours, that we will extend over the next few weeks and months
With such young puppies, whist we do teach things a lot of what we focus on is actually teaching them to learn and helping them to feel safe and secure with their person at the centre of that 🥰
Our friends over at Ruffmutz have an amazing deal on for the next 24 hours!
dog training RuffMutz Offering one-to-one dog & puppy training sessions and behaviour consultations within Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and surrounding areas. Find Out More Dog Training & Behaviour Jemma Whitford Puppy Classes, Star awards, workshops and more See more and book Here.. out Ruffmutz D...
Come and join us for our Puppy Power confidence workshop, in Milnsbridge, Huddersfield.
Run by experienced and qualified instructors, Jemma from Ruffmutz and Leanne from North K9 training, this workshop will take a look at some all important puppy foundations, as well as some fun activities you can do with your pup to help build confiedence for the big wide world.
🐾 June 13th 6.30pm
🐾 Milnsbridge , Huddersfield
🐾 £45 Per space
limited spaces so don’t miss out!
Suitable for fully vaccinated puppies 6 Months old and under
I am away teaching for the next days Berkshire Dog Training
We are all checked in our lovely hotel, dogs walked and fed premium quality food…….this is my dinner 👊🏻😂😂
New class💥💥
Star awards has a new format!🤘
We know everyone is busy trying to fit everything in, and sometimes a 4 week course is difficult to commit to, so we have decided to run our popular Star Awards progression scheme, as a monthly drop in group..
You can still work towards individual levels if you prefer, and we will run assessment nights, or you can join in this Monthly session which will be run as a mixed level advanced class.
🐾 Progress your foundation skills, like lead walking and stays
🐾 learn new skills like clicker training,shaping and tricks
🐾Take a look at some dog sports foundations
each month will be a different focus, come along and join us!
This class is run by experienced and supportive instructors from Ruffmutz Training & Behaviour and North K9 Training
This is an advanced class,open to anyone dogs who have already attended group foundation classes , or who have already started on either our Star Awards scheme, or the Dragonfly Good dog scheme. Please let us know your dogs previous training level at the time of booking.
Dogs must be comfortable working in an indoor group environment with other dogs to attend this class.
Next session May 23rd 7pm, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield
£25 Per space
Book via the website
Anyone else 😂😂🥰🥰
Field Lane, Farnley Tyas
Huddersfield
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Blitzy baby tracking on dirt today 🐾🐾💎🔥
I have had this wonderful montage made of Blitz this weekend at the FCI qualifier trial, I hope you enjoy it, she is fantastic my little dog, she tried her heart out for me 💜❤️🔥💜❤️🔥 Credit for this beautiful video goes to Callum Richards media who I can’t thank enough, for competitors to have these wonderful keepsakes is just 👌 💥👊🏻
Diesel celebrating a hard track this afternoon with his favourite ball 🥎
Blitz having a minute after a long and fairly challenging track this afternoon, track was 700 paces and 2 articles 💥🧨🤩🥰 FCI prep 🇸🇮🇬🇧😎
I’m away teaching at scent and science this weekend (more on this in another post later, it is epic! ) but Blitz and I have training we need to do, so even though this weekend is very busy, I’ve made time in every day to train her and the other 2 dogs 💪🏻 Here we are practicing dumbbells 👌💥 Make plans, not excuses 😎 #malinois #dumbbells #retrieve #obedience xx #igp #fciworldchampionships #slovinia
Here’s a little snippet of Mavis Hound tracking. Mavis Hound is my lost dog tracking dog (and many other things) and she is fabulous 🤩 Here she is on a training track, in a public woodland so there’s lots of scent discrimination for her to do. I edited this clip from a larger video as you can see her behaviour changes and directional choices well. Enjoy 😎 #trackingdog #lurcher #houndlife #searchdog
Little bit of jumping practice with Blitzy Baby. In IGP obedience there are 3 retrieve exercises, flat retrieve, retrieve over the 1M hurdle and retrieve over A-Frame This is the hurdle exercise, I needed to set her up about 1/2 a pace further back for a better extension on the out jump, otherwise it’s a nice exercise, it’s also in her top 3 favourite things to do 😂😂 Blitz absolutely loves training obedience, she would do it hours a day if she could, she loves all the exercises but her favourites are all 3 of the retrieves and the send away, all the running and jumping 😂🥳🤩 #obedience #dumbells #retrieve #jumpingdog #igp #igpdog #malinois #bestdog
Blitz and I are preparing for the FCI-IGP world championships in September, we will be representing Team GB 🇬🇧 I am going to share some of our prep work here, to push myself really to show my own dogs more (I can struggle with that) This is a little snippet of our track this morning, there was no wind or even a breeze, the ground has been cut and baled 1/2 days previously and is very dry, she indicates a food pot ☀️☀️ It’s very hard handling the dog and filming 🙈 🐾 #igp #fci #malinois #tracking #trackingdog
🌟 Last Space Remaining 🌟 We only have one space left for our obedience clinics, so if you’re looking to spice up your send-away, polish your heel work or teach a retrieve…….grab it fast 🥳 💥 22nd June 💥 12-4pm 💥 2 working slots per dog and handler team 💥 Small groups and 1-2-1 coaching https://northk9.co.uk/product/obedience-clinic-22nd-june/
Management for everyday life 🐾🐾
Relationship and motivation 🐾
❗️ Let’s talk recall ❗️ The thing everyone wants, and the thing that a lot of people don’t reliably have from their dog. Recall isn’t always easy to get locked in, it requires consistent steps and often management until the dog fully understands and has the right motivation We also often hear that certain breeds “don’t have recall” here’s a video of Mavis hound to dispel that myth 🔥 🏎️ Take a look at our recall package and get in touch https://northk9.co.uk/product/recall-training-package/ 📧 [email protected] ☎️ what’s app 07939 061007
Live Q&A🐾
Little afternoon training session with Blitz, here she is practicing positions, we also did heel work 💥 The session in total was probably 15 mins, she practiced things she knows well, she was fed most of her dinner through this session and got the rest with the others after, training sessions don’t need to be long…..they need to be successful 💥💪🏻🥳
👌 Foundations 👌 Havoc started learning to track when he was 7 weeks old, the second day he was home with me, I spent the first year of his life building the foundations, teaching him this skill. Here he is today, tracking a 100 paces, he is retired now and only tracks very occasionally, but you can see he still has the skill The lesson here applies to anything you teach, teach it well and spend time on good solid foundations, they’ll stay with you and your dog for life 👌❤️🔥
All the admin is up to date, all messages have been replied to, and we are officially closed until January 🎄😴 We will respond to all messages, calls and emails on our return. It’s not just the humans here who need a rest…..here’s squad dog Mavis Hound getting the holidays off to a great start 😴💜
📢 Last Space Remaining 📢 We have 1 space left on our Lost dog tracking L1 course in June! This will likely be the last L1 here on home turf in West Yorkshire this year 😳 🟣 15/16/17th June 🟣 Huddersfield 🟣 £300 per space, 50% deposit required at time of booking 🟣 10am- 4pm theory in the morning, practical in the afternoon 🟣 Tea, coffee and lunch provided 📧 www.northk9.co.uk #searchdog #dutchshepherd #trackingdog #tracking #lostdogtracking
🎉 CLICKER TRAINING MINI WORKSHOP 🎉 We are offering a 1 hour clicker workshop on 18th March at 7pm Clicker training is useful for so many things including confidence building, trick training, indication work, hold training, place training and so much more 🤩 This workshop is suitable for people who have never done any clicker work and people who do it but would like to learn something new or improve a skill Video is Blitz, who loves the clicker 🥰 🔥 Friday 18th March 🔥 7-8pm 🔥 £35 per space 🔥 spaces limited, message us here or via the website to grab your space
👌 Competitive Obedience 👌 I’m not sure if you know 🙈😂 but I love teaching competitive obedience, and I want you all to enjoy it and get the best from the classes I’ve put together this class structure, it will run on a 6 week rolling plan, so you know what you will be training each class. Each class is suitable for dogs from beginner level to advanced Classes will be £25 per class, or you can book them in blocks of 6 for £125, saving £25 🥳 Start time is 10am at our Farnley Tyas Venue 🤩 Week 1 - 15th Jan: Heelwork Week 2 - 29th Jan: Postions and stays Week 3- 12th Feb: All things Retrieve Week 4- 26th Feb: Front present and Recall Week 5 - 26th March: Send away and Downs Week 6 - 9th April: Handler skills I’m so excited🥳😎🤩 Booking your space is essential www.Northk9.co.uk
Happy Hounds / Pooch Playground
Happy Hounds Huddersfield/Pooch Playground
