Flatline K9 LLC

10/10/2024

Max and Duke got to go on a training field trip today and they both did great! They were loved on and practiced their skills at the Regional Office of Education High School Career fair at the Williamson County Pavilion! There were around 1000 high school students in attendance. We had the opportunity to talk to the students about dog training, running a business and a few of them even tried on the bite suits! *Faces are covered for privacy of the high school students.

02/10/2024

Meet Duke! He’s here for our advanced obedience course. We can’t wait to train with him and watch him as he progresses through the program!

01/10/2024

Today we went and spoke with some of the students in Shawnee Community College Criminal Justice Program and did a demo with K9 Ryker. We even had a couple brave students who decided to put on the jacket and take a bite!

27/09/2024

Travis finally bit the bullet and had knee surgery this morning. He’s been putting it off and working through pain for a long time! Came out of surgery well and is being forced to take it easy for a couple days!! He’s not super happy about that part! 😂.

20/09/2024

Who else works this weekend?!?!

19/09/2024

Travis recently taught at the K9 Cop Conference in Nashville, TN and had a vendor booth set up as well. It was great to teach and interact with so many other officers and a great opportunity for networking! If you ever get the chance to attend one of these conferences you should definitely go!

12/09/2024

Day 2 of the K9 Cop Magazine Conference in Nashville TN. Taught Trauma in Working Dogs class the past two days. Having a great time hanging out with K9 Handlers from all over the world!

09/08/2024

Hands-on dog training with some classroom sessions for you and your K-9 partner.

31/07/2024

It is important to remember that our dogs can over heat really quickly in this weather. Even a short walk outside for a dog that it is not used to these temperatures can quickly overheat them. Dogs do not sweat like humans do so the majority of their cooling comes from their mouths. If your dog is outside its important that they have continuous access to fresh water and shade. Try to keep your walks short and during the early morning or late evening when the temperatures aren't as hot.

Things to look for in your dog when they begin to overheat are:
Rapid breathing, mouth open wide and eyes appearing squinted, tongue flattening out and hanging out of the mouth, and shade seeking. Dogs that are getting too hot will even seek the shade of your shadow to help cool them down.

When your dog begins to overheat you want to act quickly. Remove them from the environment into a cool place. Give them fresh water to drink and if you have the ability, immerse them in water. If you don't have the ability to immerse them spraying them with a hose with cool water will help them to cool as well.

25/07/2024

A little over halfway through our first working dog academy. This team is really coming together and gonna do great things back home in Nevada!

11/07/2024

Hi everyone! My name is Amira. I am staying at Flatline K9 for a while because my owners think I need some training. I overheard my trainers say that I am the most bougie dog they have ever had come through their program. Can you believe this? I mean because I don't like dog food and refuse to eat anything but rotisserie chicken? Or because I like to eat in my trainers bed instead of eating in my crate? Or do they think this because I prefer them to hand feed me instead of eating out of a bowl like the rest of the dogs? I am a beautiful princess and I only eat an entire rotisserie chicken per day regardless of the tricks they pull to get me to eat dog food. When I got here I was super scared and fearful of everyone and other dogs. I am not nearly as scared as I used to be and I have a lot more confidence now. The trainers think they have done something special but I only changed my behavior because I wanted to but I guess I will just let them keep thinking its because of their training.

25/06/2024

Introducing: Travis Hicks
CLASS: Emergency Medical Care for Working K9s
EMAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: flatlinek9.com
PHONE: (618) 202-0181

Travis Hicks has taught numerous courses based on K9 TECC standards at Police K-9 Magazine and K-9 Cop Magazine conferences, as well as Military Working Dog Magazine conferences at locations throughout the country.

Come join us and Travis at the K-9 Street Survival School in Paducah, KY on October 14th-18th! We only have 100 spots available for you and your K-9. We have 12 top notch K-9 instructors teaching ,assisted by several decoys. We will have two certifying judges from National Narcotic Detector Dog Association (NNDDA) and Drugbeat here to certify or recertify you and your dog if you need to.

Visit our website:
https://k9streetsurvivalschool.com

Or click here to register!
https://www.policek9magazine.com/k9sss/

21/06/2024

Make plans to come check out the K9 Street Survival School in Paducah KY this fall. Honored to be asked to be an instructor at this first ever event. Gonna be a great time and great training!

You are definitely going to want to bring your K-9 and yourself to this hands on K-9 training school in Paducah, Kentucky October 14-18-2024

>>> Register today! https://k9streetsurvivalschool.com/

14/06/2024

We will be hosting our inaugural working dog academy course beginning on July 8. We have entered into a contract with Storey County Nevada to provide them with a fully trained single purpose Police Dog. They have chosen Ace, a labrador retriever to be their newest K9 officer. Ace is currently undergoing training at our facility in the areas of narcotics detection, tracking, and article search. Ace's new handler will be attending a four week handler course at our facility beginning on July 8. We could not be more excited for this opportunity! There are a lot of exciting things happening at Flatline K9, make sure to hit the like button or share this post so you don't miss any of our future updates!

12/06/2024

We are happy to announce that we are finally almost done with our business expansion! What was supposed to take 6-8 months has taken two years. It has been a long two years with a lot of early mornings and late nights. A lot of hard work, sweat, tears, and blood. We have missed family functions, ball games, and holidays. We have both continued working our other jobs while trying to run the business and complete this building project. But after two years, a couple of hospital stays for high blood pressure, multiple meniscus tears in both knees, and having a divorce attorney on speed dial lol, we have almost achieved our goal. We have a couple little things to finish up but we are able to use the facility now. Within the next couple of weeks we will be completely done and can start working on living our dream of being full time dog trainers. To all of our clients that have been so great when we've needed a little extra time with your dogs, we thank you. For all of our clients who have reached out and it took us a little longer to get back to you than it should have, we thank you. We truly strive to do the best we can do for all of clients and their dogs. Without you guys none of this would be possible and we thank each and every one of you who have trusted us and given us a chance to help your dogs become more obedient members of your family. As we finish things up over the next couple of weeks, we will be posting some pics of the process and then have pictures of the end result. Again thank you to everyone for your patience. We only have a couple of spots open for training in July, so if you would like your dog to be one of the first to go through training in our new facility get in touch with us and let us get you on the schedule. We also have some openings for August. Make sure to hit that like button so you can follow along with us and share this post to help us get the word out.

15/03/2024

Congratulations to Officer Routon from the Storey County Nevada Sheriffs Department! Officer Routon won a full day K9 Emergency Medical Course for his Department. We will be customizing the course to fit the needs of his Department to provide them with the best education possible to treat their dogs in a variety of emergency situations. Congratulations to Officer Routon and we can’t wait to come to Storey County!

13/03/2024

We will be doing a facebook live at 330 Las Vegas time so 530 at home while Travis teaches “Trauma in Working Dogs”. Feel free to join and watch the class and maybe learn some tips on treating your dog during an emergency! Kirsten will be monitoring any comments and answering questions during the broadcast so feel free to interact with us! See you all LIVE in an hour and a half!