Titletown K9 Academy LLC

10/23/2025

I heard an Orthodox Priest talk about how he explains God to folks. He mentioned many times, we find ourselves trying to describe who he is. He suggested, to start with who he is NOT. It is mind blowing to me that I’ve been doing this for over 11 years. By statistics, I am an expert. Do I feel like one? 😂😂 hell no! The amount of time and financial investment in workshops, seminars, courses, and mentorship’s I’ve been through over the past decade have taught me many many things.One of which is, what do you got for me? We don’t like thinking in terms of transaction. However, reality is, everything you do in life is transactional. With the dogs and with people you don’t need to bring A LOT however, you do need to bring something. Just like the parable of the widows offering. You MUST give in this game!For those who give their smallest efforts in our sessions, I can only hope I express clearly to you the levels of respect I have for you. Many, are the words of people who “know better” and will give you their objections to every suggestion you give them. But when it comes time for them to give………..Let us all remember to be clear with who and what we are NOT in this life.Have a great rest of your week, I love you all!

09/16/2025

Congratulations to our ⭐️ Rocky!

This group has been an absolute pleasure to work with. Such an amazing and versatile breed of dog. Swiss mountain dog, dude has just as much heart and he does muscle.

In time, the brain will catch up! 😂

So amazing getting the privilege the entire team transform as they go through the “process.”

I specify process intentionally because that’s what it is.

Your dog reflects back at you the foundation of how well you showed them the task your asking them to perform.

These folks and this pup had an absolutely contagious spirit about them and desire to master the basics.

Sky is the limit for this crew!

Congrats Rocky!!!

09/09/2025

🕯️❤️‍🔥🐾

We have had feelings of mixed emotions watching our follower count soar over these past couple of days. 🥹

Our hearts are so full. ❤️🐾 Thank you so much for seeing our vision and believing in our mission to make a difference one candle at a time.

After volunteering in rescue for years, seeing how much rescues give to the dogs, and how much volunteers put into every day work with rescue events, fostering, meet and greets and everything else behind the scenes - the work is not easy. It’s exhausting, infuriating, yet so wholesome and rewarding.

There are 6 hours till the giveaway officially ends this evening. If you haven’t already follow the steps below for your chace to win. ❤️🐾 * please comment on the original post*

Winners will get:

✨ Two wax melts of your choice OR
🕯️ One 8.5 oz candle from our Fall Collection!

How to enter:

1️⃣ Invite your friends to follow our page
2️⃣ Comment “Done” when finished
3️⃣ (Optional) For an extra entry, comment your favorite scent from our collections past and present!

🌟 The more people we reach, the bigger impact we can make in rescue. 🐾❤️

🗓️ Giveaway ends Tuesday September 9th at 6pm. Winners will be announced Wednesday September 10th!

👉 How to invite your friends — just hit the “•••” menu at the top of the page and tap “Invite Friends”.

❤️ Chelsea and Jake

08/28/2025

“Unrest urges action”

It is not lost on me that terms such as punishment, correction, or aversives in training do not typically get shown in a positive sense.

HOWEVER, when used correctly, more often than not, are a major component of unlocking sections of the dogs brain and advancing your training.

I will typically explain to clients, “every corner you decide to round for your dog, you have to really ask yourself the honest question of, will the real world round it too?”

Of course we are not advocating stressing the dog for the sake of stressing it or putting it in situations where the dog does NOT understand the stimuli.

What I am saying though is, if we can, through properly exposing your dog to stress, allowing it to use its inherit ability to escape pressure BY DOING SOMETHING, then we do not run the risk of making dogs think everywhere they go the world is going to be filled with soft and round corners.

Goals JUST outside of our reach are what we are after. Build enough confidence and competence in training and then stretch, just a little. Build at that new location and then stretch for a little more and so on and so on.

Stretching not tearing.

08/25/2025

Luca is STILL available.

This sweet dude will be a great hiking, camping, swimming, or lounging buddy for a wide range of families or activity levels.

Luca is a very sweet, biddable, and motivated dog to work with.

Loves learning new tasks and would make a great companion or project dog to dabble with agility or therapy work with.

Super versatile dog, clean head and very social.

Let’s get this dude a home!

08/13/2025

We will be out of the office until Monday August 18th.

All emails, calls, and texts will be returned as soon as I can.

Thank you all in advance!

Have a great week.

08/12/2025

So incredibly grateful to be of service to so many of you.

The tears, the hugs, the laughs, the frustration, the reps, the reps, the reps, the reps, the reps, the reps…….its worth it for you all.

The best part is watching YOU with your dog execute and perform in the real world.

The sterile training center is great and NEEDED but, just like your training wheels, *should* eventually come off.

Why should? Well, there are people who are over 20years old have their parents call and set up job interviews. There are folks who do poorly on the test and they object to the teacher….its not fair they say.

And those folks, in their world, they’re not wrong.

You can’t want something for someone MORE than they want it.

The greatest shift I get to witness is when the person becomes the handler and their dog recognizes it. The 11 years I’ve been doing this, that has NEVER not been inspiring to witness.

You ALL are so incredibl to work with, thank your for this honor.

Have a great week!

08/08/2025

Luca is AVAILABLE!!❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

If your looking for a trail hiking, couch snuggling, and love bug of dog, look no further.

Luca is honesty a 🦄!

If interested in this sweet dude, please reach out!

07/29/2025

🍤Gumbo🍤

Gumbo has officially left the building!

Very happy with his progress during his stay. Did we “fix” him? No.

Do we promise we would “fix” him? No.

What we’ve done over the past 3 weeks is teach the dog and HANDLERS skills to set them up for success.

This is a game of reps!! Of course he looks good with the trainer, he’s suppose to!

My goal is to get the handlers confidence and competence level with him to a level where they can be an active and social family with him.

His board and train portion may be over HOWEVER, the training is FAR from over!

All the dogs who come through the board and train have follow on sessions to A.) continue their progress and B.) continue to provide the owners the skills, resources, and skills so THEY can have success.

Goal is and always will be to train myself out of a job.

This families dedication to working with their rescue dog is nothing short of beautiful! He definitely found a great home!

Keep up the great work team!

07/27/2025

🚨Thank You!!🚨

We were featured in the top finalist for this year’s Best in the Bay 2025.

We did not secure another first place finish this year.

I am beyond grateful for all of you who took the time to vote and who have been supporting us over the years!

Congratulations to all the finalists!

Again, thank you all! Thank you for your support, commitment, and dedication to the training and to the dog!

Grateful for all of you!

❤️‍🔥🙏🏼❤️‍🔥

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

07/18/2025

🔥Gumbo🍤

This little fella will be with us for the next few weeks working on his foundational obedience as well as impulse control.

He has a very active and social family so, we are really working on showcasing to this dog socializing ≠ engagement.

What do I mean?

The way I describe it to folks is like this, when your kids go to a party, do you WANT them engaging in recreational drugs? Most likely not.

So….whah then?

We have to showcase, through connection and REPETITION, that just because you are in the presence of something doesn’t mean you have to engage something.

This little fella has loads of drive and loves being challenged. And is also a super SOFT dog. Very nervy, translation: reactive.

So, lots of dancing with two left feet to start however, yesterday he has his first session with his owners since being here and they ALL did absolutely amazing!

I can work with effort ALL day long!

Really looking forward to his decompression here and learning new skills to have a great time with this family!

Let’s go little buddy!

07/01/2025

Luca!!