2K9 Dog Training LLC

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. ❤️

07/24/2024

Facts!!! 💯💯💯

Like the spoiled, bratty child who has been allowed to behave like a tiny tantrum throwing tyrant for years on end, who is then expected to forget all they’ve learned (and become) and behave like a little prince when a special occasion that the parents determine demands decorum and the most polite of manners… this is precisely the same way so many canine brats, tyrants, and at the furthest end, monsters… are created, and is also precisely the same ludicrous thought process which expects them to behave otherwise.

The owner who allows daily chaos, rule-bending, disrespect, and “minor behavioral episodes” should expect their furry chickens to eventually come home to roost.

There’s a reason that smart and effective trainers harp on and on about the immense value of learning to see the seemingly small moments of daily life/behavior/rules as anything but.

These “small” moments (and the way we respond to them) either teach and mold our dogs to understand the exacting standards and expectations we have for their behavior—and pull them in that positive direction, creating healthy attitude/demeanor/patterns—or they pull them in the other direction.

Either way, the dog you get isn’t formed when the chips are down and everything is on the line. The dog you get is formed by the countless chips you’ve stacked—knowingly or unknowingly—over countless tiny moments that were anything but tiny to your dog.
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The Good Dog Way: Love Them By Leading Them Volumes 1&2 are available in paperback, kindle, or audiobook via Amazon/Audible.

www.thegooddogway.com

07/16/2024

I couldn't have asked for a better birthday! Got to see some good friends...shared some good food, drinks and laughs together. Yesterday (my bday) I was able to spend some time with my family ❤ and my brother from another mother We went to check out the Air and Space Museum. We had so much fun walking around seeing all the cool planes! The highlight for my special day was definitely seeing Logan light up with pure joy and excitement when he saw all the 🛩🚀 Later on that evening we met up with Ashley's family for dinner at and dessert (homemade cookie cake with frosting and fresh fruit) at home. 😋🍛

Cheers to 44 and another year 🍻🍹🚀🛩🥨🍹⚽️🧧

To Good Health and Happiness To ALL....

07/06/2024

Peaceful Coexistence ✌🐾💚...