Summit K9 Training

25/07/2025

🐾 Summit Skills Club – This Wednesday! 🐾

Calling all current and past Summit K9 clients! 🎉
Join us for our next Summit Skills Club, a fun, low-cost class designed exclusively for our Summit K9 community.

Note: This class is free for our Board & Train program graduates!

🗓 When: Wednesday, July 30th
🕕 Time: 6:15pm – 7:15pm
📍 Where: Summit K9 Training Facility

This is your chance to:
✅ Maintain your dog's training progress
✅ Get new and creative ideas for how to challenge your dog
✅ Troubleshoot any lingering challenges in a judgement-free zone with guidance from our trainers
✅ Connect with fellow dog lovers from the Summit K9 community
✅ Get some structured practice time in a supportive environment

Whether you're looking to sharpen obedience, work through distractions, address specific issues, or just hang with folks who get it—this club is for you!

Sign up today through your ProPet profile to reserve your spot. We hope to see you and your pups there!

15/07/2025

Puppy fever is in full swing at daycare lately—and we’re not mad about it! 🐾

If you’ve got a young pup at home, now is the perfect time to build social skills, confidence, and calm behavior in new environments.

✅ Join our Puppy Socialization Class to give your dog a strong foundation
🐶 Or get started with Enrichment Daycare, where structured play meets skill-building

Let’s set your pup up for a lifetime of success—before bad habits have a chance to start!

11/07/2025

Happy Friday, everyone! 🐾

After a short break for a deep clean of our facilities, Summit K9 will be back to normal hours starting Monday, July 14th. We can't wait to have the building full of your pups again!

✨ Don’t forget to submit your daycare requests on ProPet to reserve your dog’s spot. Kennels can fill up quickly!

We’re also kicking off an exciting lineup of group classes over the next couple of weeks, including:

🐶 Puppy Socialization
🐾 Mastering the Leash: Walk Without Worry!
🚀 Bombproof Base Training: Level II
🎯 Controlled Chaos: Games and Skills to Build a Better Dog

Want to learn more? Visit summitk9training.com or reach out directly—we’re happy to help you choose the perfect class for you and your pup.

We hope to see you soon! 💙

25/06/2025

📣 Heads up! We’ll be closed for daycare & boarding 7/6–7/12 so our team can rest, reset, and do some deep cleaning & updates! ✨🐾

Training & classes are still ON! 🐶

We’ll be back 7/14 ready to roll!

20/04/2025

Do any of these sound familiar?
👋"My puppy pulls on the leash like crazy!"
👋"Get down--stop jumping on them!"
👋"Why does my puppy only listen to me when they want to?"
👋"No, get off the counter (sofa, chair, table, etc.)!"

If so, our Puppy Head Start class is for you! This 6-week class goes beyond the basics like "sit," or "stay," to introduce the real-life skills needed long-term success, like:
-Impulse control
-Attention around distractions
-Clear communication

This class is designed to strengthen the bond between you and your puppy by working together, and helping them develop the foundations needed for great manners and lasting obedience—no matter what the world throws your way. Join us May 1 to start exploring the skills that can make every day together a little smoother!

📅 Starts May 1
🐾 For puppies under 8 months
🌐 Learn more and register: www.summitk9training.com/groupclasses

07/04/2025

‼️ With summer just around the corner, there’s no better time to enhance your leash skills and enjoy stress-free walks with your dog. Whether you are a beginner or experienced handler, this class will transform leash walking into a rewarding experience. Get ready to make every outing with your pup, enjoyable and productive! 🐕

This class is for you if you want to:
🐾 Minimize leash pulling, lagging behind, and getting distracted
🐾 Build a stronger communication system through the leash
🐾 Learn techniques and strategies to get your dog to stay by your side
🐾 Develop a better mindset and confidence in your dog
🐾 Walk stress-free in time for the good weather!

‼️ CLASS BEGINS APRIL 27TH

📍 Location: The Summit K9 Facility @ 1555 Brooks Ave, Rochester, NY

❓ How to register?

1. Scan the QR code or go to summitk9.propetware.com.
2. Select "Book Now" to sign in or create an account.
3. Click on BOOK NOW and select Group Class Reservations.
4. Add your dog and select Mastering the Leash: Walk Without Worry.
5. Select your dog again and go down to reservation summary, hit continue and fill out the rest of the information!

*Dog vaccination records are required for this class which can be uploaded to the propet account.

06/03/2025

Tonight's cutest detection dog award goes to Alli 😍

02/03/2025

🐕Continue to grow your dog's skills by joining us for our Level II Bombproof Base Training Class! 🐕

This course is for those who have successfully completed basic obedience training and are eager to take their skills to the level.

Take this class if you want a dog that:
⚡️ Wants to work for you!
⚡️ Listens reliably to your cues!
⚡️ Can focus and respond in distracting environments!
⚡️ Can go for productive, stress-free adventures outside of the home with you and your family!

During this class, we will focus on strengthening your dog's foundational skills while also working on proofing and generalizing your commands for real-world applications. Join us to enhance your bond with your dog and ensure they are well-prepared for various environments and scenarios!

Visit summitk9training.com to learn more and register!

Summit K9 Training provides a customized training experience for dogs and owners of all ages and experience levels. Whether seeking puppy classes, obedience classes, or specialized training, we'll create the perfect program to meet your goals and tackle problem behaviors.

01/03/2025

Such a lovely Friday morning with some of our advanced dogs/handlers participating in our Elevated Obedience class! We can't wait for warmer, longer days for more fun public excursions 🪻🏙️ ❤️

26/02/2025

Straight from the horse's (dog's?) mouth!

A huge thank you to all of our current and past customers who have taken the time to leave us a review on google. We are so grateful for the opportunity to work with such lovely humans and dogs alike! 🐾

Had a great experience with SK9? Let us know!
Follow the link to leave us a google review: https://g.page/r/CdAkYF8nJG9QEAE/review

26/02/2025

🐶 Lay the foundations for a lifetime of strong social skills with your puppy by enrolling in the Summit K9 Puppy Socialization course! 🐶

This class will help you lay the ground work for strong social skills and neutrality in public spaces. Though this class will cover dog-dog social, the curriculum will extend to building healthy social interactions with humans and common distractions present in public spaces. Through this course, dog owners will learn how to balance neutrality with interaction, to create a dog that maintains a calm, healthy mind set in the presence of humans and dogs, paving the way for confident interactions.

By taking this class, you will create a strong foundation in neutrality and safe exposure to strangers and other dogs!

Open to dogs of all breeds and sizes under 1 year old.

Visit summitk9training.com to learn more and register 🐾

Summit K9 Training provides a customized training experience for dogs and owners of all ages and experience levels. Whether seeking puppy classes, obedience classes, or specialized training, we'll create the perfect program to meet your goals and tackle problem behaviors.

11/07/2024

Don't miss the next run of Puppy Headstart - beginning next Thursday!

🐕The July/August class will run on Thursdays at 6:30pm 🐕

This is not your average puppy class. While owners will learn to teach their dogs key obedience skills, the larger focus of this class is to teach owners the foundations of canine learning that empower them to address new problems as they develop and build new skills in the future. Through this class, dog owners will learn to create a dog that will not only follow commands, but enthusiastically look to their handler for direction!

By taking this class, you will create a strong foundation in communication and training that will empower you to build new behaviors and address potential problems long after you have completed this course.​

This is the class for you if you want a dog that:
🌟listens to your commands.
🌟can settle and relax on cue.
🌟comes when you call them.
🌟walks nicely on a leash.
🌟relaxes during grooming and nail trims.
🌟is properly socialized to new people, dogs, and other distractions.
🌟has a well rounded skill set that prevents problems before they start!

Visit summitk9training.com/groupclasses to learn more and register!