Smart K9 Training - FARGO

18/11/2025

Hi Rocco!

This goofy guy has been in training for the last couple weeks to working on building his confidence and reactivity!

Rocco is only 7 months old and is already a pretty big guy so on top of working on his behavior issues, getting leash manners was also a huge goal!

It’s been super fun to watch him and his family work together the past few weeks and we are so excited to watch them tackle the world together!

06/11/2025

Hello Betty White!

This sweet, goofy, happy-go-lucky gal is here for daytraining! Betty is already quite a large girl at only 6 months old as she is mostly Great Pyrenees and her parents wanted to instill good manners and leash skills before she was full grown!

Betty has been a blast to work with and we can’t wait to watch her and her family tackle the world with their new skills!

04/11/2025

Charley, the smallest girl with the biggest personality!
Charley has joined us for training to learn some puppy foundations! She came to her eval as the smallest little munchkin, but such a bright future!

While she is with us we will primarily be focusing on confidence building, self- regulation skills, & foundations to obedience so once she is older, we have all the skills to complete big girl brain activities!!

She can be a little hesitant of new things, but over the few days she has been with us, boy has her confidence grown! We are excited to continue building that confidence & seeing where life takes her!

30/10/2025

Hazel supplied the cutest photo prop (blanket) for this cutie crew of frenchies here for daycare today!

🐾Hazel, Gertrude, Fitger🐾

30/10/2025

Hi Baylor!

Mr Baylor is a bit of a big chicken, he lacks confidence out in the world and is very suspicious with strangers, but deep down this guy is a big teddy bear!

Baylor has a nice foundation in obedience but struggles with his state of mind, which is our biggest focus while he’s in training!

It’s been super rewarding to watch him come out of his shell this week and can’t wait to see what the future holds!

28/10/2025

Hi Rip!

This guys is your typical, wonderful lab! He is outgoing, bubbly, goofy, & a big sweetheart!! He loves to hunt, could chase a ball FOREVER, & loves exploring!

During his training we are working on building an “off-switch” as again, Rip is your typical go go go boy! Teaching him some self - regulation skills, especially when in view of a toy, even when not being played with & how to take himself back down from 100-0 as he is great doing it the other way around!

He’s such a smart boy & a fast learner! He has been doing fantastic the past week & we know he will continue to do such amazing things!

22/10/2025

Little Man Reggie!
Reggie is a 10 month old puppy that is full of life & big emotions! His parents have big goals for his future, so they brought him in for some training to help get him closer to those goals!

While Reggie is with us, we are going to be focusing a lot on his state of mind in different environments as well as helping him learn self regulation skills! We will also be focusing on his leash manners & building strong engagement so he can tackle the world with confidence!

Reggie is one awesome little guy! We know his family will go on to have an amazing future together with him! We are excited to see where life takes him!

16/10/2025

A girls trip to !

Hazel and Roxie had a blast saying hi, practicing their skills and finding lots of sniffs!

11/10/2025

I’m sorry for the graphic images.. but this is why it’s so important to NOT purchase dogs from pet stores or online breeders where you can order right from the website.

Please do your research- these puppy mills are SMART and TRICKY. They know what you want to hear!! Pet stores will lie too. They only want money.

Please, the ONLY way to STOP these facilities is to STOP funding them!! Which means speaking up when a friend of family member is wanting to purchase a dog from a pet store or online breeders who have multiple breeds or litters year round.

As we reported to you a few weeks ago, Steve Kruse cancelled his license and a new person is now listed at his property with a new license number. This is a common tactic among problematic licensed facilities- cancel the license with the history of violations and open a new one for a clean slate. It makes it harder for the public to know who they are buying from and it makes sourcing laws wildly impossible to uphold.

That is exactly the reason why we shared the news but expressed concerns about the likelihood of him staying in business, even while we noticed other organizations claiming some weird victory. Instead we wait, we watch, and we keep researching. Puppy mills can't hide from our team and we won't stop until they are actually closed- not just 'cancelled'.

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/10/09/iowa-puppy-mill-gets-new-license-clearing-its-record-of-past-violations/

Big thanks to the Iowa Capital Dispatch for not only keeping this in the news, but for making sure their story is picked up by news stations across the state of Iowa!

04/10/2025

Email any questions and resumes to [email protected] 🐶

03/10/2025

Hi Daisy! 🌼

Miss Daisy is a 2 year old Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier who finds the world outside her home very big and scary!

The past two weeks have been a lot of relationship building and getting to know one another! Over the next several weeks we will be building her confidence, building neutrality with people and dogs, showing her she doesn’t need to react at everything and work on her obedience skills too!

We can’t wait to see this girl and her family tackle life together with training!

01/10/2025

Hi Roxie!

This silly goofball is here for training to work on channel her energy into productive behaviors! She is very easily excitable so we are showing her when the window is open for her craziness and when it’s time to collect those brain cells, like walking nicely on a leash, hanging out on a climb in a down!

She has been a blast to train so fair and we can wait to see where the next few weeks take us!