Kent K9 Training Center

08/18/2025

Thank you Asher Roman Media for the video production!
We appreciate everyone who let us video you that weekend!

What is Schutzhund?Schutzhund is life. No, but really. Its a passion, a way of life, of living and competing with the highest level trained dogs.We call it t...

08/15/2025

When you have a good dog + good training you can make great progress!

Jax is here for his formal hunting work. People underestimate the importance of formal fetch training. Your dog can love to retrieve but it doesnt mean they are a reliable retriever.
Try putting something in your dogs mouth and telling it to hold it and you'll see how fast things fall apart! Teaching a Hold and then a Fetch is valuable.

Learning the skills to be a hunting dog is important to set them up for their first successful hunt.
Jax here will be a skilled partner!
Check out how he made progress from day 1 not wanting to hold at all and fighting me, to day 12 doing a full retrieve.
He still has 4 weeks with us left.

08/11/2025

Looking for an insane working dog for hunt tests, high level obedience or detection? This is an amazing opportunity.

Due to some life circumstances, I have made the extremely hard decision to offer our outstanding female Reva as available.
Looking for a working home where this girl can thrive. She will stay until she finds the perfect fit.

She will thrive in:
Hunt tests/field trials
High level obedience
Detection work or sport
She would also make a great hunting companion for duck hunters or upland hunters.

Trained to seasoned/senior level.
Has a JH and WCI. Will go for WCX in September if still here.
Extreme drive dog. She will run through anything for to complete the retrieve.
Despite the high drive, she will settle well and has a good off switch in the house.
All business when its work time and won't stop until youre done.
Can do 120-150yrd land blinds.
Upland work is great.
Big water entries and powerful swimmer.
Shes completed almost all of land basics and water work is going well. Shes done water T and swim by. Handles on the way back if needed, casts into the water. Angle entries and exits.
Casts well, crisp whistle sits.

NO VICES like vocalizing, creeping etc. Quiet in the holding blinds, quiet on the honor mat.

Trained obedience foundation for CKC rally and obedience. Extremely naturally engaged and obsessed with working with the handler. This is a very rare trait and Ive never seen a dog so eager to work for the handler.

She is in heat Aug 2025
Will be sold with breeding rights.
Health testing is done.
She has Pennhip done (excellent results, L-0.24 R-0.27)
OFA prelims on elbows (normal) and hips (good)
Embark panel clear.
Eyes were also clear.

Shes a one in a million female talent wise, with a stacked pedigree to back it up.

Pedigree: Labrador retriever Pedigree of Richibucto River's Chasin' The Dark Side JH WCI https://share.google/oAhjaWKYG7aB3fXpa

Its hard to let her go but I have way too much on the go and I know this girl can be a top level dog with the handler to put the time in.

Price will go up with training.

Pm for details.
Asking xx,###

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08/05/2025

Jax is one of 2 dogs here for Hunting Retriever Foundation program. He is learning all the skills necessary to be a valuable hunting partner for his owner.
Investing in your hunting dog so that they have the knowledge and skill of whats expected of them will always be worth it!
The biggest complaints I hear with untrained dogs are:
"They go get the duck but won't bring it back to me"
"They grab it but then switch for a different one and that one gets away"
"They go to get it but wont pick it up"
Or
"They won't go in the water or if its tough conditions and I have to go myself"

These aren't fun and aren't why you bring a dog.
Get those birds and get them delivered to yur hand!

07/10/2025

Duke came for a lesson tonight to start his ecollar foundations right! He will be completely off leash trained for recall in another session!
He had a lot of fun and got to play with his mom.
Correctly introducing an ecollar can ensure the dog understands exactly what they should do and is not afraid or confused. Puppies and dogs should have fun during the training process! Ecollar also should be one of quality (Dogtra or Educator) and not cheap garbage.
In order to train it in a fun way, a quality collar is a must, and a good ecollar trainer!
Here at Kent K9 we specialize in ecollar foundations for dogs!
To fully tap into the potential ecollars give as a tool for off leash communication, one must have a positive foundation!

07/09/2025

Thank you PrestoStitch for the hats!
If you'd like one hit us up! We have no more pink already but will put in another order!
We have steel blue, teal and red available still

07/08/2025

What’s the most random dog fact you know?

07/02/2025

Hope everyone had a great Canada Day holiday!

Rosco is here for a few weeks of training! Working on his issues and cleaning up his obedience, getting him off leash trained for the recall.

Sorry our page has been quiet for the past month! We are so busy.
After the IGP trial at the end of May, we did a retriever trial with our Labradors on the first weekend of June. Koska got her Junior Hunter title.

We then hosted a 5 day seminar the following weekend for our IGP members on tracking with a world renowned coach from Europe.

We have also been trying to complete the many big projects that we have to finish this season around the farm and property before winter.

For this reason, I have been neglecting my email a bit. I am really sorry if you weren't answered.
With the constant messages we get, I sometimes have to put aside special time to answer them all at once or else I'd be stuck on my phone all day. Sometimes one gets missed!

Its also why we never answer phone calls. We just don't have the time to talk, as much as we'd like to. We had to set boundaries. So we keep our phones on silent and often not even on us during the day.
Its not that we dont want to hear from you. We just need to put our mental health above the business because we will have nothing left to give, especially to the dogs in our care who need us the most.

We also have our little baby who just turned 1, and she also takes a tremendous amount of time.

We appreciate everyone's patience and please dont hesitate to reach out again. Please note that because of our baby, we are only taking on new applications for:

Puppy/young dog training
Obedience and off leash recall
Hunting retriever foundation
Sport dog obedience
IGP foundations

We are only offering board & train to new clients at this time. Private lessons are reserved for existing clients.

We will post any board & train availabilities here on this page.

To our current clients or past board & train clients: please never hesitate to reach out should you need help. We will always fit you in.

To new clients: We are currently booked until September but if an opening comes up we can post it here or you can get on our wait list by submitting an application :)

Thanks everyone!

06/01/2025

Super weekend at the PEI Schutzhund Club Regional Championship.
2 of our students trialed and were successful! Christen and Anna earned their BH and Crystal and Nash earned their UPr1 (Obedience level 1) title! Their routines were so beautiful and they have worked so hard over the past couple years to get here.
Shane and Hilda got their IGP2! Huge congrats!
And Brittany and Boxey were not successful getting the IGP1 because Boxey did not out on the protection. But its how it goes in this sport!
This is not a sport we do because its easy. We do it because its so challenging and takes everything you have. You don't always pass as it has the highest fail rate of any dog sport, and that's ok.
Now on to the next trial!

05/14/2025

Momma Koska getting back in shape

05/13/2025

Working dogs has just been constant lately!

We have been seriously neglecting our messages so Im sorry about that!

Between the board & train dogs, and training 4 of our own dogs for some big competitions coming up... Oh and the baby 😅 its been pretty steady!
We also just finished raising a litter of pups and hosting a big seminar.

The Regional Schutzhund Championships is coming up at end of May in PEI for the 2 Shepherds.

Then some Hunt Tests after that for the 2 Labs.

We are fully booked until the fall for training but taking a cancelation list.

05/13/2025

Bauer the 5 month old Shepherd is here getting his basic obedience and off leash basics program! He was definitely a HUGE handful and needed training!
So glad his owners chose to send him so young, because later might have been too late for this strong willed guy! He has a ton of drive and loves to train.