Equidus K9

05/11/2024

📣Everyone welcome Mike to the Equidus K9 family! This fun loving, excitable lab is always go, go, go! He is here to learn some impulse control and better leash walking, so he can live life to the fullest with his owners! We're excited to help you and get you to be the best boy we know you can be 💕

31/10/2024

🎃 Have a happy and safe Halloween everyone! 🍬

Check out our super fun Halloween photoshoot! 🤩

25/10/2024

👑Everyone welcome our current dog in training Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, "Mia" (from the Princess Diaries). She is in for learning how to be the proper princess Genovia. Her mom would like proper greetings and to walk like a princess on leash. We are excited to be working with her for the next three weeks!

04/10/2024

🐾Everyone welcome Goose into the Equidus K9 family!🐾

He's a lab who LOVES any kind of attention. He is learning basic obedience and how to play nicely with people.

03/10/2024

Petco got a double dose of cuteness today with Nash and Harper! These siblings are working on being chill around dogs and humans, and they crushed it. 🐾

02/10/2024

Sometimes we train cows too! 🐮

Millie wants to remind everyone to start desensitising your dogs to their Halloween costumes! This way our dogs can look adorable all Halloween! 🎃

26/09/2024

25/08/2024

🥳 Let's congratulate Warren and Muppet on their PDC (Protection Dog Certification) in PSA! 🎉

Their hard work paid off this Saturday at Love City's PSA trial. This hard working team definitely deserves a round of applause.

Now on to the PSA 1's!

21/08/2024

Today is a great weather for confidence building in the park! Ms. Leia is a shy girl who came to us for public access work and socialization.

She's putting in a brave face as she overcomes these obstacles. Keep up the great work Leia! 💪

07/08/2024

🐾Everyone welcome Tucker to the Equidus K9 family🐾

Tucker has come to us to work on impulse control. He becomes overstimulated pretty fast and reacts to both people and dogs. Tucker is also learning to work through his anxiety. He is already doing well for his first few days away from home.

Keep up the great work Tucker!

02/08/2024

🐾 Say hello to Chester, the latest member of the Equidus K9 family! 🐾

This little ball of energy is enthusiastic about everything and everyone. He's learning on improving his recall, drop, leave it, and greeting skills.

31/07/2024

🐾Rosie, welcome to the Equidus K9 training family🐾

This sweetheart loves attention and is in our board and train program to work on impulse control while on walks, in the house, and while greeting people!

26/07/2024

🎉 Introducing Trainer Nina🎉

Nina has had a love of training dogs and working with animals since she was a kid. Growing up in the horse country of Southeastern PennsylvaniaI where she had a menagerie of pets; family dogs, hunting dogs, chickens, ducks, rabbits, cats, and horses.
From teaching the 15yo border collie mix her family had as a kid to shake and proving you can teach old dogs new tricks; to helping her dad work his Golden Retriever gun dog and Britney field dog before the hunting seasons started and later working her Malinois in tracking, detection, obedience, protection, agility and bike-joring. She has been training professionally for almost 10 years. In 2019, she attended Tarheel Canine Training’s six month trainer program. On top of training dogs Nina has worked with horses and other farm animals for close to 20years.
She has also volunteered for numerous animal rescues, her favorite being a thoroughbred rescue in Maryland that retrains thoroughbreds as regular riding horse and breed ambassadors and a few Malinois and german shepherd breed rescues. Nina’s background in dog training consists of obedience (basic, advanced, and sport), detection/nose work, reactivity, and fear aggression. She loves helping owners build better relationships with their dogs and showing them their dog's full potential!

In her spare time, you can find her participating in personal protection, detention/scent work, frisbee and hiking/riding/playing with her horse (Bucky), German Shepherd (Auggie) and Belgian Malinois (Ziva and Lucifer) and helping out at the horse rescue.

24/07/2024

🎉 Introducing Trainer Ashley🎉

Ashley has had a love of training dog since she was a kid. Her specific love of dog behavior & psychology came when she started working as a kennel technician. Wanting to learn more about learning theory & behavior she got a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of Central Florida. She has been training professionally for almost 10 years. On top of training for pet dogs, Ashley has trained performace work for animals (cats, birds, rats, and dogs) for a contract company out of SeaWorld for their shows. She has also volunteered for numerous animal rescues, her favorite being a wolf rescue in Orlando. Ashley's background in training consists of obedience (basic, advanced, and sport), animal trick training/performance, reactivity, resources guarding, and fear aggression. She loves helping owners build better relationships with their dogs and showing them their dog's full potential!

In her spare time, you can find her participating in personal protection, barn hunt/scent work, and hiking/foraging with her Husky (Kylo), German Shepherd (Momo) and Belgian Malinois (Ronan).

22/07/2024

🎉 Introducing Owner and Trainer Warren 🎉

Warren started his professional dog training career in 1996. He studied at West Virginia Canine College and and graduated as a master professional trainer.
After graduation, he got a job at Kimbertal Kennels as a trainer dealing with aggressive dogs.

He worked there until he started training for himself.
He started becoming active in dog sports in N.A.P.D which led him to PSA and IGP. Warren has titled many dogs and worked with top names in the sports. He has been a certified decoy in both PSA and IGP. While currently, he is certified in WDA and as a police k9 decoy.

He has rescued aggressive dogs and rehabbed them to be placed in forever homes. Currently he is training his personal dog Muppet and hoping to trial this year. When enjoying his time off he is relaxing with his rescued retired K9 Axxel.

19/07/2024

🎉 Exciting posts to come!

MEET THE TRAINERS

Prepare to meet the experts behind our success! Our trainers will be showcased next week (7/22) on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Don't miss it!

18/07/2024

This brother and sister duo also made appearances on the Tuesday training session meet up.

🐾Everyone meet, Liam and Laney! 🐾
Both are in for reactivity and the beginning of e-collar work. As siblings tend to do, they like to feed off of each other while on walks. With training are on the way to becoming better mannered while on walks!

17/07/2024

Who was the cutie in the back of Legend's picture out in the pet store yesterday? 😍

It's Magnolia! 🌸 This cutie is in for basic obedience and introduction to the e-collar. She showed off her loose leash walking skills and set a positive example for Legend. Great job, Magnolia!