Training Services

Helping Both Ends of the Leash

WELCOME HOME PUPPY

For Puppies Ages 8 weeks to 6 Months In-Home Private Lessons

Welcome Home Puppy Training consists of private, in-home lessons that provide you with the knowledge and tools necessary in raising a happy, well-mannered puppy.

Training includes housebreaking, crate training, leash walking, leadership training, socialization, and more.

It is time to invest in your and your puppies future!

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LOYAL CANINE

For Dogs Ages 5 Months to Senior Group and Private Lessons

Loyal is a 5 week dog educational program that provides essential obedience training for the family dog. You will learn to execute useful, everyday commands to which your dog will reliably respond. We teach you to train your dog!

Offered in both Group or Private.

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ADVANCED CANINE

Prerequisite: Completion of Loyal Canine or pass on our basic obedience test

Advanced Canine is a 5 week, second-level of dog education that covers realistic, off-leash training at increased distances, time intervals, and distractions, which allow you to assert full control of your dog.

Offered in both Group or Private.

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WORKSHOPS (Spring/Summer/Fall)

Jumping Clinic

Does your dog jump all over your guests when coming into your home? Does your dog jump on you when coming home? Then this workshop is for you! Understanding why dogs jump up for greeting and how to get rid of that pesky behavior!

Kids and Dogs Clinic

Raising kids and dogs can be a challenge! Full of ups and downs, with moments of frustration and discouragement. Kids and dogs class is designed to help the bond between your child and their new found fur friend, teaching boundaries and fun training tools along the way.

This class is designed for kids to be the main handlers, with adult supervision close by.

BE A TREE

The Be a Tree program is a dog bite prevention seminar program for school-age children. This program focuses on fun and interactive activities to teach children how to read dog body language and how to act safely around both their own dog and strange dogs.

THERAPY TEAM EVALUATIONS

DK9C is very excited to start this next chapter for Della's K9 Connection with Therapy Dog classes and evaluations! It has been a great privilege to learn from like minded trainers/evaluators.

Are you wanting to become a Pet Therapy Team?

Are you wanting evaluations completed at your facility?

Are you wanting to help spread the love that you have for your canine and help others?

If you are wanting more in-depth information please click the button below.

MORE INFORMATION AND HELPFUL LINKS FOR PET PARTNERS SITE

More Information On DK9C Workshops

Jumping Clinic

Topics Covered:

Teaching manners at the door and greeting new people
Understanding jumping behaviors and learn how to deal with them
Teaching place and understanding how it works
What to do when company comes over if they do not like dogs .....and more!!!

Costs: $30.00/person with dog OR $10.00 each per spectator

This workshop is 1 hour.

Date : TBA

Kids and Dogs Clinic

This class is designed for kids to be the main handlers, with adult supervision close by.

Class format:

Teaching kids not to be chew toys
Decrease jumping behaviors
Bonding with come when called training exercises
Training sits and eye contact
Proper food bowl exercises eliminating caution puppies while eating
Training kids for basic puppy information such as: keeping kids items off the floor for puppies to chew on, bedroom door must be closed and be like a tree program.
Teaching kids how to pet and approach a dog properly
Games at the end of every class such as musical chairs with their dogs, puppy kisses and so much more.
All classes are with the dog and child.
This class is a 1 1/2 hour training class with a 10 minutes break (for potty for the dogs)
Class size is limited to 6 dogs.

Cost for this 1 1/2 hour training class is $45.00

Date : TBA

BE A TREE

Dog Bite Prevention Education

Children learn to read dog body language and how to act safely around dogs by looking at large format photographs and by playing interactive games. The Be a Tree program is unique in its use of several different teaching strategies, its focus on physical activity and its emphasis on positive messages. Instead of telling children “don’t do this and don’t do that”, the Be a Tree program empowers them with the knowledge they need to make safe decisions based on the body language and the actions of the dog and the situation at hand. The central message of the program is “Be a Tree” (stand still and quiet and don’t look at the dog) if a strange dog approaches or any dog is causing concern or becoming too frisky.

For More Information here are a couple links for you to check out:

https://www.dk9c.com/dog-and-children-safety

https://doggonesafe.com/About

https://doggonesafe.com/Be-A-Tree

https://www.albertaanimalhealthsource.ca/content/dog-bite-prevention

Pet Partner

pet therapy classes and evaluations

Pet Partners’ mission is to improve human health and well-being through the human-animal bond.

Pet Partners, formerly known as the Delta Society, is the national leader in demonstrating and promoting the health and wellness benefits of animal-assisted interventions. Since the organization’s inception in 1977, the science proving these benefits has become indisputable. With more than 13,000 registered teams making more than 3 million visits annually, Pet Partners serves as the nation’s most prestigious nonprofit registering handlers of multiple species as volunteer teams. Pet Partners teams visit with patients in recovery, people with intellectual disabilities, seniors living with Alzheimer’s, students, veterans with PTSD, and those approaching end of life, improving human health and well-being through the human-animal bond. With the recent release of its Standards of Practice for Animal-Assisted Interventions and international expansion, Pet Partners is globally recognized as the industry gold standard.

Interested in Therapy Team Work

Here are some great links for more information:

WHO WE ARE

https://petpartners.org/about-us/who-we-are/

HOW OUR PROGRAMS ARE DIFFERENT

https://petpartners.org/about-us/our-programs-different/

BECOME A PET PARTNER ADVOCATE

https://petpartners.org/act/advocacy/

HOW TO START VOLUNTEERING (USA & CANADA)

https://petpartners.org/volunteer/volunteer-with-pet-partners/

Della Burkitt has completed and passed all of her online and person to person evaluation (Completed at Gas City Dog Club with Pet Partners by Tedd Rosenfeld, Program Manager) to become a Pet Partners Pet Therapy Team Evaluator. This is super excited to start this next chapter for Della's K9 Connection with Therapy Dog classes and evaluations!

If you interested in learning more of what this program is about please check out Pet Partners website!