Kate B K9 Training

26/08/2024

I heard it is national dog day. So here is my OG, my best boy, my heart dog, the one who understood English, the smartest and also protective Wonder Boy. He’s the one that started this whole journey. The first dog I taught to roll over,catch a frisbee, open the fridge, play dead and all the basics. He did a master “ spin around” “ center” and recall before it was ever social media popular. I miss you everyday Wonderboy.

18/08/2024

What a great week with some new and old fur friends…and a turtle.

17/08/2024

I got to meet the cutest puppy today! Jax is a baby blue heeler and was just as good as I know heelers can be. This breed is my favorite because they are smart, loyal, tough,and funny.
The best thing about this puppy is that its parents have done their research on the breed and knew what they had to do to raise a good one. Then they took it one step further and had me come over to reassure them that they were doing everything right and give them tips for the future. If all owners were this responsible, there would not be shelters.

14/08/2024

Muzzle training should be for every dog, not just aggressive dogs. When Oliver broke his leg I was glad he was muzzle trained. He’s a dog that would never bite…but never say never. Pain is a understandable reason for a dog to bite, even the best dog like Oliver. In the emergency of him braking his leg, and rushing to the vet, I could say “muzzle him” and he was already trained to a muzzle.

13/08/2024

After almost 2 long years of exams, studying and a mentorship,I am officially CERTIFIED through Catch! Thank you for everyones support the past 2 years.

I am an R+ trainer which basically means I’m a nice cookie pusher. I don’t use punishment to teach a dog, I use a positive reward system that has been scientifically proven to be the better way to teach dogs and build a better relationship between dogs and handler. It makes sense. Pain causes fear. If you hit a child,or shock them they will be scared of you, not like you more and be more willing. Same goes for a dog.

03/08/2024

01/08/2024

Welcome to the K9 crew Sal!

05/07/2024

Let’s help find this beautiful dog a home.

Awoooooooooo!!!
Hope you all had a safe holiday yesterday!!

This gorgeous Husky Gal is still looking for someone to harmonize with! Her current foster needs to pass the leash in just 2 weeks! We are hoping to find her someone to sing her Husky songs with by then but a new foster will do as well!

Lana is around 2 years old, super smart, loves to talk and has a great sense of humor (as most with smarts, do!)

She has had some nice dog meets and play dates, loves kids (especially teens)! No cats though, they are too exciting and she does lose her brains over them! Hey, even the smart ones have their weaknesses!

Have more fun in life! ADOPT LANA! 🐶💓🤸🏾‍♂️

22/06/2024

Training is never as flawless as we make it seem. They are allowed to make mistakes, and so are we.

09/06/2024

“My dog likes Kate”. I hear this a lot and thats because I’m a cookie pusher.

07/06/2024

Don’t blame your dog for not speaking your language. Blame yourself for not speaking theirs.

31/05/2024

Bam Bam went in for all his boosters for the year so he can get groomed and play with friends. I can’t recommend Emancipet enough. I want to shout it from the roof top!
Multiple locations
Walk in for clinic, appointments for surgery
$17 vaccines
$89 cat spay/ neuter
$125 dog spay/neuter
$20 microchips
I have taken all my fosters (except Reed) and my own dogs and have only had good experiences.

I called Oliver’s vet today and they didn’t have a booster appointment for him untill September 😳 I asked if I could take him to the clinic and they said would put it on file. I’m going to save over $100 on vaccines on each dog.

Bam Bam got all the shots. It was under $100. But of course I left them a big donation because they are amazing, very little funding. Check them out.

30/05/2024

If I could take another dog I wouldn’t walk, I would run to get one of these guys out of the kennel.

30/05/2024

Me and some of the dogs I have had the pleasure to work with.

30/05/2024

Silo is working on helping me finish up my training certification. I needed to pick a dog to prove myself with and of course I picked Silo. The 7 commands we are working on are sit, down, stay, recall, recall with distraction,place, leave it. He has a few others programed as well. It was 9 pm. We were only working inside in a controlled environent. We will take this outside when its daytime. We will take it off property when hes ready.

14/05/2024

This little guy probably got the boot from his house for having extreme separation anxiety. Yes, this is not a super easy behavior to break but it’s not dangerous and it’s totally breakable. The best chance to never have this behavior come up, is to crate train your puppy, and leave it alone sometimes. Let your dog be alone. I promise, it will not kill them.

But here’s the situation with a very young dog under a year old, who clearly was not taught any of that. All they had to do was reach out to a trainer and do some research. So to whoever could not handle this behavior anymore and dumped their dog, just know I’m going to correct it.

This puppy definitely has some manners. He won’t jump on furniture, he’s chewing the right things, he is super friendly. Kid, friendly, cat friendly, dog friendly. But he cannot turn off his Barker. He barks at you if you are not looking at him. That was our game last night… lay down and be quiet and then you get my attention and a cookie. He figured that out after about 30 minutes. Luckily I have today off and I get the feeling we’re gonna be playing a lot of that game today.

This is a very common behavior problem. So if your dog is having trouble with separation anxiety, please do some research or reach out to a trainer. They can give you the tools to help your dog get over this. You have every right to be able to go to the store or drop your kid off at school without Alexa sending you notifications that your dog is barking and She’s going to play 30 minutes of music (yes my Alexa system is set for that)

Keep your dog. The shelters are full. The rescues are full and financially pressed. If your dog has a problem, ask for help, do some research and ask questions. Put in the dedication you promised you would at the beginning. You got the dog to be your companion. If it’s a bad companion, that can be fixed. Figure out how to make it work. Don’t dump your problem on another human. There is support out there to help you keep your dog.

Wonderboy 2005- 2020. 15.5 years together. More moves then I can count. Multiple states. Through college. Through all my relationships. Through my marriage, birth of my daughter, and divorce. Through starting my own business and having to close it to move back home. Through job changes and life changes. Through loosing my father. He was there for all of it and he was worth every single moment.

If at 20 years old I could keep the dog till I was 35 year old, so can you. So many times I could have made the excuse to not keep the dog. But guess what? I kept the dog.

09/05/2024

Recalls take practice. Start in your hallways,then your backyard, then your front yard, then your side yard, then your neighbors yard, then you moms yard, then and maybe then you can try a fenced in park (no dog parks) and if they pass all those tests then put a long line on and test it out in the world. High reward treat EVERY TIME. Fetch is a great way to naturally start a recall. You need to be the focus point. Make sure you can, for example, call your herding dog away from rouge herding livestock. Or just keep your dog on a line. My dogs are trained to recall incase my kid leaves a door open and they don’t respect the threshold and get loose.

Last week I saw a guy whose dog got loose. That dog did not have a recall. That dog was clearly used to being chased by this man. That dog thought it was the most fun game in the whole world. I wanted to yell “run from your dog and make him chase you” but I try to mind my business and they were not in a dangerous situation. Don’t teach your dog to run away from you by accident. Never chase your dog if you want a good recall. Remember, they do not understand when it is for fun verse when they are loose in a real world situation. If you want to play Chase with your dog, make sure they are always chasing you

08/05/2024

Let’s talk about dogs and kids.
We have been told our entire lives that dogs are man’s best friend. Just that saying alone humanizes dogs. So, we get a puppy or dog and bring it into our house, with our family, and then set human expectations for that canine. It’s just unfair and sets the dog up for failure without training and boundaries in place.

We first have to be completely aware that we are housing a different species that speaks a different language and uses their noses and mouths to navigate the world.

For kids to live safely and peacefully with dogs there needs to be rules. Some good basic rules for the kids are
1. Don’t touch the dog when they are eating or chewing on a bone
2. Don’t touch the dogs when they are sleeping or escaping to their safe space
3. No climbing on the dog
4. No roughhouse play with the dog
5. A common phrase in my house is “where is your energy level kid”?
6. NEVER pet strange dogs, there is no benefit. But always risk of a bite.

Your dog also must have some training and impulse control. Some good rules for dogs around kids are
1. No jumping
2. Only allowed on furniture when invited
3. No resource guarding food/toys/furniture/people
4. Great bite inhibition- being cautious of what they put their mouth on
5. Knowing their safe space, like a crate, and utilizing it for alone time

08/05/2024

Hi, I’m Kate! Welcome to the doghouse. I have loved and studied dogs for as long as I can remember. I was the kid who brought home strays, and wouldn’t let my parents take them to the pound. I didn’t know then, but I was fostering dogs, and finding them homes.

I am a professional equestrian with a bachelors degree in equine business management. I have spent the last 20+ years training horses, and riders. Horses and dogs go together like peanut butter and jelly. For the past 20 years I have had an Australian cattle dog as my sidekick. I currently have a Corgi and an Australian Cattle dog and a Aussie Sheppard.

In 2022 I started officially fostering shelter dogs from ACCT Philly, the only open intake animal shelter in Philadelphia. My first foster, Shelly, had severe separation anxiety like I have never seen before with any of my dogs. This sparked a fire with my desire to get into dog training and behavior analysis, and modification. Every dog that I have fostered has come with a colorful arrangement of behavior issues. My spark turned into a bon fire, and I started volunteering at the shelter to walk dogs so I had access to more dogs with problems that could use some help.

I decided to take this onto a professional level and started researching how to become a certified trainer in January 2023. Even though I have been training dogs for decades, I want to do this the right way with proper education as well as real life experience.

I am certified through the pro program at CATCH, a canine trainers academy.

If you are looking for your dog to be happier and more functional in society, I can help. If you have a dog with a behavior that is disrupting your life, we can change that together. If you are looking for a dog to join your family and do not know where to begin, I can set you up for success. It’s never too late and you CAN teach an old dog new tricks.