Titletown K9 Academy LLC

01/07/2025

Luca!!

20/06/2025

PT 1/2

Huge shout out to our girl Jade. Over the past year, we have been volunteering for a hospice patients. It has been so incredibly eye opening, humbling, and far more emotional than I expected.

Jade has an absolute gift in terms of sitting with folks and holding space for them.

Truly beautiful to watch her do her thing. So proud of the comfort, peace, smiles and hugs she is able to offer folks during their hospice journey.

PT 2/2

We apologize for any delays in emails, voicemail, or messages. Our phone provider had issues all last month and still trying to resolve the issue.

If you have not heard back from me, please attempt again. Hopefully, this issue will be resolved soon!

Appreciate you all!

Have a geat weekend.

12/06/2025

Welcome Luca 🐠

Luca will be with us for the next weeks working on some crate and separation anxiety as well as building upon his already solid foundational obedience.

Luca is available through WilsonHaus

In the short time I’ve been working with him, I can confidently say, this dude will make a GREAT addition to the right family.

He is such a laid back dog! Solid environmentals, does great with all the dogs that come through the center and has been really sweet with the kids during their interactions together.

He would be a GREAT fit for an active home. He loves his walks, hikes, and training rotations.

It has been super cool working with him! Very excited to see how he progresses during his stay.

If you would be interested in adopting or foster this fella, feel free to contact myself or directly and we’d love to speak with you.

Let’s go Luca!!

09/06/2025

Sharpening V Grinding

Just like with our dogs, a question we should ask prior to the training scenario is, “what’s the objective?”

Are we looking to extinguish a behavior? Refine or sharpen a behavior? Reinforce or correct?

So, what we need to remember, is that YOU are setting the scenario.

That run to the hardware store, you should be able to articulate what the goal is for the dog.

The run in the woods, same.

That fight club they disguise as a dog park, same.

It’s seems as if far too many folks are walking through life acting as if they got a 🦄 dog. The reality is, if your lucky, you might know someone who knows someone who had one.

As humans we have bastardized these animals so much. You see posts from “experts” telling you, don’t let your dogs out if it’s hot / cold. Don’t stress the dog, don’t correct them, don’t blah blah blah!

Reality is, if you’re active in a hot environment, get your dog training in the heat. Cold climate, shocker, same. Stressful work conditions for SAR dog / LEO / contracting work, perhaps a good idea to incorporate some stress in the training. Notice SOME heat, SOME cold, SOME stress!!

The grinding sessions or the sharpening sessions *should* have your mental or written down blue print of what / where your looking to take the scenario. That way, when it’s a “grind” the dog and you both KNOW that. Same for sharpening.

That way, when you’re sitting on the beach and the dog next to you is acting a damn fool, you AND your dog just keep chillin because you ironed that all out in training.

Beautiful thing about dogs is every day is a Monday and training session you can start over.

02/06/2025

‘Gotta get dirty, when your digging for gold.’

Spent the past week down is North Carolina with Outdoor Wellness Group rocking climbing, cave exploring, hiking, and everything in between.

It is NEVER lost on me when I ask people to trust me and ‘’take my advice” when it comes to their dogs.

One of, if not the greatest teachers for me, is always being in student status.

Being a pupil to these professional climbers and adventures was nothing short of HUMBLING.

Was challenged, afraid, surprised, and lifted up by the collective.

My hope is you ALL experience a fraction of that during our sessions.

Hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend and looking forward to being back in the office and implementing the lessons learned.

26/05/2025

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

To the men and women, mothers and fathers, sister and brothers who made the ultimate sacrifice with their life. We remember you, we HONOR you.

May your day be filled with laughter, great company, greats dogs, and moments of reflection in your hearts.

We remember them by LIVING for them.

Have a fantastic day, and may God bless this land!

17/05/2025

Thank you everyone who voted for us during this phase of the Best in the Bay!

It is incredibly humbling to have simply been nominated.

To all of you who have come through those doors, it is my most sincere privelage to be of service to you.

The obstacles, tears, stigmas, growth, successes, setbacks, awards and everything in between has truly been profound to witness!

These awards, nominations, and recognition is just as much YOURS as it will ever be mine.

Without you all, I am nothing.

Thank you for an incredible 2025 so far!

THANK YOU!

10/05/2025

Looking to spice up your summer training preparation. Look no farther!

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Best of luck to all participants!!

Excited to announce Titletown K9 Academy LLC as a sponsor! If you are looking for a dog trainer or know someone who is we cannot recommend Dan Alsteen enough. He has helped us transform our recent rescue. From session packages to Board and Train Dan offers it all.

02/05/2025

We have been nominated this year for Best in the Bay under Pet Training.

You are allowed to vote once a day, everyday for the duration of this phase.

Please consider voting for us. Have a great weekend!

Vote for the top nominees in each category and be entered to win a gift card!

04/04/2025

“True power is characterized by grace, sensitivity, inner quiet, and paradoxically, gentleness in the non competitive lives of even fierce competitors. We recognize that he has overcome personal ambition through sacrifice dedication to higher principle.”

Now, the tricky part. Communicate this parable, to an animal that doesn’t speak our language, the concept of being inside a house with running water and electricity makes about as much sense to them as if you’d never road public transportation and then find yourself at paddington station needing to get to a remote village hours outside of London.

Yeah, going to take a little bit of time, grace, enthusiasm, wrong turns, lost time, expenses, getting frustrated, hell even pi**ed off and everything else in between.

These photos are a CLEAR example of that. Same dog, same day, different “training scenarios.”

What’s changed?

Like us, when the dog is presented with its “triggers” or “stressors” they, brace yourself, might not look happy.

My response, who cares.

When I go to the DMV or the VA clinic for my appointments, I could look miserable and be grumpy and let the fact I dislike crowds, waiting, blah blah blah be a PERFECT excuse to be a sourpuss to everyone. And most folks do, and owners allow that from their animals.

We, by contrast do not. We will continue to do it, even if poorly, UNTIL the output increases, the desire increases, and THEN it will become automatic. It is a learned skill to acquire inner quiet. So teach them.

Have a great weekend folks! I love working with dude, he keeps me silly!! 😂😂🥰🥰

23/03/2025

Xadan

Has been a full couple of weeks with dogs while folks are on spring break and training with this dude.

In mass, we discussed the parable Jesus shared of the fig tree that spent 3 years in the garden and didn’t produce fruit. The gardener advised the owner to give him one more season to give it ‘plenty of attention’ and fertilize it before he cut it out.

When working with ‘behavior’ dogs or ‘red cases’ the first few sessions/ hours with the client, they share with me the financial investment, number of trainers they’ve gone through, and the like.

Some are told, “cut it out” aka put the dog down. Others told, it won’t produce.

Man, how many “teachers” and “leaders” have said similar things about folks who have gone on to build empires, business, and families.

The question is, did the dog receive the “special attention” it required?

It has been a labor of love and patience with this dude.

So impressed with his resilience and self resourcefulness.

He truly is a catahoula leopard dog.

Keep up the great work buddy.