Calibrated K9

08/26/2024

Happy International Dog Day to my two partners in crime!

Here to many more adventures!🐾

Post a pic of how you and your pups are celebrating!

08/21/2024

Some fun from club tonight! Chris Williams Summer Northcutt Becky Caughron

07/17/2024

Happy 2nd to my sweet little goon!
I love this little dude and his silly, overly social approach to life, and love of bitework. Enjoy the deer leg, sweet boy!

07/12/2024

Sunrises and Batman ears with Axel.
Little dude rocked his second week of puppy imprinting and CRUSHED his first tracking lesson today!

07/04/2024

16 weeks old today, one week of training down…in a high drive malinois puppy.

06/07/2024

Mid Week Pupdate!

The Cicada-Invasion Crew 🦗

🐾Nova-Wrapping up week two of her five week program. This sweetie was recently adopted and has some leash reactivity issues, general anxiety and overthinking issues that we are working on.

🐾Calypso-Puppy Imprinting program graduate that is back for some B&R (Board and Review) while her fam is on vacation.

🐾Banjo-Finishing up week four of his five week program, learning the off leash life and building confidence through proper communication, structure and leadership.

🐾Roxy-Former B&T grad who is back for board and review while her family is away on vacation.

🐾Myrtle-Finishing up week two of her five week program. At 6 months old we are working general manners while currently learning leash skills, and will be moving to off leash competency starting next week!

🐾Tilly-Goes home tomorrow for the weekend after her first week of a five week program. We’ll be building confidence and learning proper communication with this firecracker, who has reactivity issues at home with her family.

🐾Sara-Recent five week B&T grad who is back for some board and review while her parents are out of town.

Amanda Kiefer Tiffany Cortazzo Greg Larson Jennie Ivey

04/23/2024

Big love to Tom for the shoutout from Down Under! 🇦🇺

Kato and I had the pleasure of spending some time with the man behind Origin K9 while training with the Air National Guard and other military and civilian first responder units, while taking part in National Guard Patriot Exercise 2024, in February! Kerry and Desi (also pictured) travelled a wee bit further than us (like many of the participants. They came all the way from Maine!), and were a total blast to train and kick it with for over a week.

More to come in the next week or so as I collect my thoughts and content for a blog post!

Tom…I still need to get an order in for a t-shirt, hat and tactical quick release lead…😬

⚠️⚠️Cherry Pop⚠️⚠️
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K9 handlers Ben and Kerry trialling our gear before their first Helo insertion during a SAR exercise in Mississippi!
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03/02/2024

Patriot Exercise 2024 🇺🇸

Highlights from a couple weeks ago hanging with a ton of rad people from Air Force National Guard Security Forces, in addition to other military, law enforcement and civilian units learning to conduct cohesive emergency response operations.

02/21/2024

We’ve been having a PHENOMENAL time over the last week integrating and supporting domestic operations training with National Guard Security Forces personnel and other military and civilian units from all over the country. Everyone has been exceptional to work with and an absolute pleasure to get to know. More to come once we get home and catch up on some sleep!

11/21/2023

Just got home from knocking out a last minute certification through NAPWDA for tracking, so that we can train in February with some REALLY cool dudes and their K9’s…

More to come on that later.

HUGE thanks to Summer, Adam and Nick for being willing to lay some tracks this weekend and help us get some extra nose time in. It takes a village and I’m grateful to have you all (and others) in mine.

The boy and I are taking it easy tonight, enjoying a deer leg on the back deck😋

11/08/2023

Bites at Night, in the Park after Dark 🐾

**twithyourdog
Chris Williams Summer Northcutt

10/13/2023

Lots of fuzzy faces around here this week!

Winnie-Dutch Shepherd
Woodrow-Belgian Malinois
Dashni-Blue Heeler
Tofu-Pyrenees
Linus-Pit x
Finley-Golden
Striker-Anatolian Shepherd/Malinois
Axle-German Shepherd
Sophie-Golden Doodle
Church-Rottweiler
Hazel-Mini Australian Shepherd

Chris Williams Lisa Parker Blue Goose Vineyards Luke Ritter Kelly Ritter Richard Gamble Sarah Gamble

10/12/2023

When your favorite clients (other than the rest of you) and all around great people Richard Gamble and Sarah Gamble bring you a fantastic (ballistic…hehehe) tip…it’s a great way to start the day!

Thank you!!!❤️

09/22/2023

Axle-9 months, 100 pounds and the sweetest, most classically derpy shepherd pup ever.

Very handsome in person, doesn’t know what to do with his face when there’s a camera around 📸 🤷🏻‍♂️

Happy Friday!

Luke Ritter Kelly Ritter

09/21/2023

Happy Fall, y’all!

08/25/2023

Look at those baby faces, Chris Williams 🤣

I always know but don’t really think about the end of August being the anniversary of leaving the corporate life for greener, steeper, less structured pastures, but didn’t realize that today is the day until this popped up.

Cheers, Homie 🍻

Monster shoutout to ma boy Ben Landkammer and Calibrated K9 - Today he took the brave leap of going full time with his dog training business in Knoxville, Tenn. For all you dog owners/dog enthusiasts (our all you awesome Crooked Creek Ranch folks) - if you know of anyone looking for a quality trainer in the Knoxville area be sure to checkout Calibrated K9. Have had the privilege of knowing Ben for a long time and have enjoyed watching him become a very talented dog man. Cheers buddy, time to work some dogs! 👊

07/28/2023

Lincoln the Golden Doodle and some of the ladies!


🐾 Lincoln goes home today having completed his on and off leash program, and is showing off some solid impulse control around the yard nuggets!

07/14/2023

Friday Pupdate!

The Sweet Summer Cicada Sounds crew!

Duke 🐾 Bernie Doodle - Week 2 of Puppy Imprinting
Willow 🐾 Golden x - Refined K9 graduate!
Lincoln 🐾 Golden Doodle - Week 3 of Refined K9 program
Zoe 🐾 German Shepherd - Refined K9 graduate!
Striker 🐾 Malinois/Anatolian Shepherd - Puppy Imprinting graduate!
Coda 🐾 German Shepherd - Puppy Imprinting graduate!
Murphy 🐾 Black Lab x - Refined K9 graduate!

07/13/2023

Striker the Malinois/Anatolian shepherd free ranging with a bunch of off leash chickens…or something like that😬

This sweet girl wraps up her puppy imprinting program today, and has been a lot of fun to have around on and off the last few months! See you soon for some board and review, Striker!

07/12/2023

Organic, locally sourced, grass fed, free range, hand picked wild blackberry trackin’ snacks!

06/10/2023

Friday Pup-Date!

The Summer Kick-Off Crew!

Pete 🐾 Cane Corso
Maddie 🐾 Golden Retriever
Bianco🐾 Pit
Asher🐾 Pit
Junia🐾 Pit
Boomer🐾 Standard Poodle
Rocco🐾 Dane x
Belle🐾 Weimaraner
Whiskey🐾 Weimaraner
Dolly🐾 Doberman

06/08/2023

Introducing Mr. January of the Calibrated K9 Decoy Calendar!

Sorry ladies, Joe is taken…

06/01/2023

Tracking Club:

Watch for the album drop Summer of ‘23🐾

**twithyourdog

05/18/2023

“Something, something about if you aren’t bleeding in training…”

Here we are licking our wounds from bushwhacking the thick S***, waiting on and to find us…

04/26/2023

We’ll be running at 10 am, 5/27. Anyone want to hang?! Let’s get a big group together, cheer each other on and make a day of it!

04/25/2023

Shout out to Cierra for the homemade mead, and a very overdue thank you to Richard and Sarah for my favorite tumbler…because it’s ginormous.

04/20/2023

Some quick highlights from the last few weeks of tracking and bite clubs. We’re pretty serious about having fun 😆

Summer Northcutt Chris Williams Casey MarkowskiRobyn Mski Joe LaVallee

04/19/2023

It’s been a while since a PupDate, so here’s a little photo dump of recent students🐾 Lots of puppy programs lately!

Baron - Malinois - Second phase of puppy program
Maddie - Golden Retriever - First phase of puppy program
Maggie - Black Lab - Refined K9 program
Rocco - Dane x - First phase of puppy program
Dakota - German Shepherd - First phase of puppy program - working towards service dog
Linus - Pit x - First phase of puppy program
Boomer - Poodle - First phase of puppy program
Nala - German Shepherd - Refined K9 program
Striker - Malinois/Anatolian Shepherd x - First phase of puppy program

04/06/2023

Hey all…

Had a rough interaction tonight at tracking club. While Kato, my boy, was tracking.

I’m not one to s**t post or bring drama to the internet…look at my entire personal and business Facebook accounts…I hate drama. And there’s way more than enough of it in the dog world. Rant over…

While tracking tonight, an off leash dog came from about 100 yards away, beelining it to us as soon as he saw us (Kato was tracking-nose down, on a tracking lead, not paying attention to the dog or the dog’s owner because…he was working) and bit him on the rear flank. At least 2 puncture wounds. He didn’t retaliate. I know that sounds crazy…

The owner was yelling, worthlessly, at her dog the entire encounter. He latched on and she was ineffectual.

“Omg I’m so sorry, I don’t know what to say. He was attacked at a dog park before, blah blah blah.” This isn’t the first time this dog has attacked, and the dog park statement was all I need to know about his ‘Why’.

“Ma’am, this the the search and rescue K9 for the team that augments operations in the Smokies.” I actually said at least twice that I apologize for my tone, as I’m a bit keyed up. “There are leash laws for a reason, and your dog should never be off leash again. Much less in city limits.”

“He was just pooping.”

“And? You have no control over him.”

“We’ve never seen another dog here before.”

“This is a public park in a neighborhood in city limits with leash laws, and I highly doubt that. There are leash laws for a reason, and your dog attacked without any provocation. He was 100 yards away from you on the other side of the tennis court while you were sitting in your van.”

Then she left.

Please, please, please…

DO. NOT. GO TO. DOG. PARKS.

Please, please, please…

DO. NOT. ’MEET’. OTHER. DOGS. (Who you don’t know and who most likely or are obviously not under strict control).

My boy took damage tonight for no good reason, and should’ve retaliated (I’m equally proud and upset (as a martial artist and concealed carrier) that he didn’t meet force with force.

Rant zone: skip if you so desire, because…drama…

If you can’t trust your dogs in public, PLEASE seek out a professional trainer. Or, don’t put the dogs that people have invested time and money in at risk simply because you won’t put the investment into yours. And really-this is a MASSIVE soap box for me-DO NOT GO TO DOG PARKS. PERIOD. OR MEET OTHER DOGS THAT YOU DON’T KNOW OR AREN’T UNDER CONTROL. Nothing good happens there even if all the interactions are positive. In that case you’re only TRAINING your dog that all other dogs in public are way more fun than you, and that you have far less value. At worst, and as is very common, you’ll teach your dogs that other dogs are a threat to their lives, and as such should be attacked. Thus creating dog aggression, as my boy was on the receiving end of tonight. While working.

There are absolutely PHENOMENAL dog owners out there who understand the commitment to PROPER training, and then there are those who wing it and put other dogs and people at risk. I don’t care who you go to for training as long as they have solid reviews and are a Balanced trainer. Read reviews. Interview them. Ask all the questions. Get their vibe. Whatever. Vet them as you would a surgeon.

Deep breath...

Pic from 20 minutes before the incident with Winnie, a bite and tracking club member…

I apologize for the late night, unnecessary drama.

Ben and Kato

12/25/2022

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! (AKA malinois puppies are nearly impossible to photograph…)