2K9 Dog Training LLC

12/10/2024

The Walk Starts At The Door: Ensuring your dog is calm before starting the walk helps set the tone for a positive experience. Here are a few tips to help achieve that:

->Stay calm yourself: Dogs often pick up on their owner's energy, so staying relaxed will help your dog feel more at ease.
->Wait for a calm behavior: Before putting on the leash or opening the door, make sure your dog is sitting and remain in a calm state of mind...this teaches them that calmness leads to an enjoyable walk with their human.
->Use a command: You can use a specific command, like "sit" or "wait," to encourage calmness. Reward your dog for staying composed.
-> Slowly open the door: Avoid rushing out the door. Open it gradually while observing your dog’s behavior, making sure they remain calm before proceeding.

Starting the walk with a calm mindset helps ensure both you and your dog enjoy the outing without distractions, stress or anxiety....

12/01/2024

Lola, Myrtle, Peaches, and Chewie working together on impulse control and duration work. This type of training helps dogs learn how to resist immediate urges and maintain focus or calmness over extended periods...

11/27/2024

Peaches, a beloved 2K9 Dog Training family member, is in need of a new home after her owner sadly passed away. At 3 years old, Peaches completed our Board and Train program in July, and she's ready to continue thriving with a loving family. As a part of her adoption, 2K9 will provide a lesson to help transfer her skills to her new owners! Peaches is a sweet girl who loves affection, going on walks, and spending time with her family! If you or someone you know are able to proved this spunky girl a loving home, please reach out to us!

11/19/2024

Introducing "Place" to 6 month old Pomeranian, Chewie, on day #2 of his 3 week Pro Board and Train....

11/18/2024

Building language with new board and train student Chewie....

10/21/2024

The relationship always comes first....

10/17/2024

🐾 New Student 🐾

Seven month old Persephone (left) will be joining 2K9 for private lessons and board and train to work on Leash Manners, Basic Obedience, and Socialization. Her brother Odysseus completed our board and train a couple of years ago. Persephone has reminded the family of how far Odysseus has come with training and want to get her up to speed. We're excited to get started with this sweet pup 🐶 and her family!! 💚🐾...

10/17/2024

🐾 New Student 🐾

Let's give a warm welcome to our new Pro Board and Train student, Lola, a 1 year old Staffie mix. She will be joining us next month to work on her Basic On and Off Leash Obedience, Puppy Manners, and Proper Socialization. We are so excited to work with Lola and her family!! Welcome to 2K9 Guys!!!...

10/07/2024

10/05/2024

Out and about with the board and trains on this beautiful day. We worked on proofing commands and neutrality training amongst real world 🌎 distractions. They all did amazing! So proud of these guys!!!...

09/27/2024

Structure, Routine, and Consistency! ✌💚🐶...

09/23/2024

Teaching the Pack - The Art of Doing Nothing!

Four board and trains (Amara, Finney, Breezy, and Rocco) with four totally different personalities, temperaments, and in training for various reasons are ALL capable of working together and learning how to coexist peacefully.

Note: some of these guys pictured here have a history of biting other dogs and biting other dogs and people. Some are here for general obedience, proper socialization, and building impulse control around real world distractions....

09/22/2024

** New Student **

Big welcome to NEW ALL⭐STAR Board and Train student Amara. Amara's family are repeat clients...we worked with their late dog, Grady, over 9 years ago. With so many training options in the area we are beyond grateful 🙏 the Hall Family decided to come back to 2K9 Dog Training for our services 💚! THANK YOU for your loyalty and your continued support over the years. We will take good care of Amara just like we did with Grady and treat her like she was our own. Stay tuned for updates on this sweet girl!...

09/20/2024

Board and trains Finney and Breezy working together on improving their impulse control around distractions....

09/16/2024

Awesome lesson yesterday with Paxton and his family at a local Home Depot. We threw some serious challenges at these guys and the entire team stepped up and CRUSHED IT!!! Great job guys!!! Keep up the good work and please let us know if you need anything!!! Happy Training!!! 😊🙏🐶...

08/18/2024

08/09/2024

In a day and age when we have access to an incredible abundance of quality information as well as superior tools and talented trainers, and yet we have more dogs and owners struggling than ever… one should be inclined to ask an obvious question.

Like: “Why?”

The answer isn’t difficult to find.

Regardless of the resources available, if the mindset of those who have this access is one that is crippled by societal programming pushing us all to view weak and enabling behavior as virtuous, sophisticated, and healthy, and eschew accountability and leadership as unkind, unfair, and unsavory—then all the resources in the world will be for naught.

Which is why I’m always talking about mindset first. You’ll never find the resources, nor behave in a fashion that will actually help you and your dog as long as you believe that these “other” resources and this “other” behavior is detrimental or un-good.

For we only find that which we’re willing to see. And at the moment, an enormous portion of society is absolutely unwilling to see, never mind actually embrace, the reality staring back at them from their highly dysfunctional dogs that are the byproduct of their highly dysfunctional relationship, which are the byproduct of their highly dysfunctional mindsets, which are the byproduct of our highly dysfunctional societal programming.

All the resources in the world mean nothing if the minds that could use them have determined them invalid.

07/28/2024

So true!

One of the very best things an owner can get out of high quality training is a clear insight as to what their dogs are truly capable of.

Great trainers can leverage the right tools, training, and mindset to find answers that many owners would otherwise not find on their own. And even though it’s only a piece of the solution—knowing what is and isn’t possible—is an awfully important piece.

Once an owner sees what is possible, then it is up to them (with the guidance of their trainer) to become the equal of their goals and challenges with their dog. This almost always includes immense amounts of mental, emotional, and physical effort. Skills have to be learned, new ways of thinking and acting have to be developed, and lifestyle needs to be adjusted.

Of course this is a tall order. In the same way that most everyone would love to be in great shape, be financially abundant, and have great relationships with friends and family… these accomplishment all require great effort, great sacrifice, and longterm discipline and commitment.

And because we all know how us humans are wired—instant gratification with longterm costs almost always beat out delayed gratification with longterm benefits—we find most humans know precisely what’s needed, but find that cost simply too high to pay.

So when we proclaim how much we desire to transform our dogs and their behavior, it’s best, if we want to avoid appearing foolish and hypocritical, that we first examine how much of ourselves and our behavior that we’re truly willing to transform.

Said another way, don’t complain about the results you didn’t get from the actions you didn’t take. The results are waiting for you, but only come when you’ve become their equal. ❤️