|

WE TRAIN ALL BREEDS
TRAINING
Our training techniques help build the right foundation between
the handler and dog. We do not use food, or compulsive training
techniques. We educate the dog owner with the handler’s
skills and tools necessary to meet every need without stress.
Our foundation teaches your dog to stay close to you along
with building a bond and confidence. The techniques teach
your dog when to go to work and when he/she is done working
while having fun.
We offer multiple classes for all training levels and needs.
All dogs that enter our training programs are “temperament
tested” to ensure you and your pet utilize the correct
system.
I will not trick you with so called "quick fix"
training methods or speed training. It took a long time to
create the behavior and will take time to permanently correct
it. Training is work and the reward is a BALANCE BETWEEN OWNER
AND DOG.
Normally I do not go to the pet owner's home to obedience
train their dog. I have found that there are too many unplanned
distractions in the home. All phases of my initial training
plan for distractions in a controlled manner. This method
insures that we can address the controlled distractions. Training
is supposed to be fun. Having a stranger handle a dog on its
property often puts the dog in avoidance or defense. Neither
situation is fun for the dog. This is similar to me coming
to your home and taking over your children. This puts a big
question mark in the dogs mind adding more confusion. For
the best results, go to your trainer’s facility.
Behavioral issues are different from Obedience Training. Don’t
waste your money on so called fast fixes for problems that
have been building in your dog for a long period of time.
Training is work. When performed correctly, it is worth the
effort.
PUPPY PROGRAM (PUPPY KINDERGARTEN)Raising
your puppy the right way starts as soon as you bring him/her
home. Our Puppy Kindergarten course is a private class,
which is done in our facility. Your family and puppy get one
on one time with your trainer.
Our puppy program is designed to help pet owners start a
foundation with their dogs as well as; confidence building,
house breaking tips, recall, chewing behaviors, jumping, proper
correction techniques, how to approach your new puppy, socializing
your dog with people and other dogs, and nutrition. Owners
will attend class every week for one hour over a four-week
period or every 2 weeks until the puppy reaches 4 or 5 months
of age. We also offer new dog owners an opportunity
to purchase puppy supplies at discounted cost. All
puppies are welcome.
EVALUATIONS
For pet owners with dogs older than 5 months, including middle
age and senior dogs, we offer an evaluation to give you a
better understanding of how to raise your new family member.
Much of what is covered in the Puppy Program
is discussed here along with allowing your dog the opportunity
to think. This visit also allows us the opportunity to understand
your pet so we can assist you on the path of building a bond
with an obedient partner. Evaluations typical take 1 to 2
hours. All dogs welcome. All ages over 5 months welcome.
FOUNDATON
PROGRAM
For pet owners with dogs older than 5 months, including middle
age and senior dogs, we offer a Foundation Program to give
you a better understanding of how to raise your new family
member. This is a 4 week private course that
will help handlers gain the knowledge and some handler skills
to educate their dog on whom the pack leaders are. We will
cover the current issues and how to avoid future problems.
This program was designed for handlers that do not need formal
obedience but do need to gain control over their dog. As with
all of our courses, we teach you how to build a bond and gain
mental control over your dog. No food or compulsion training.
All dogs welcome. All ages over 5 months welcome.
ON-LEASH OBEDIENCE PROGRAM
USA K9’s On-Leash Obedience Program is a 6 week
private course that meets for one hour a week. Each
lesson consists of you, your dog, and your trainer. Your trainer
will set the foundation in your dog. Explanations will be
given after the foundation is set. The course is designed
to teach your dog a series of commands while giving you a
mini handler’s course. Our goal is to have our clients
gain the knowledge and skills to continue the foundation that
will lead to an obedient pet without creating stress in their
dog. The request between you and your dog will be made clear
and will help form a partnership and trust. Your dog is given
the opportunity to think and make decisions based on praise
and simple corrections. At the discretion of the trainer,
students will be given the opportunity to work their dog in
town for the last class. Proper training equipment will be
discussed in the course and may be purchased through USA K9.
All dogs are welcome.
ADVANCED DISTRACTION PROGRAM
Creating a foundation by building a bond and teaching your
dog the obedience commands are the beginning steps to raising
an obedient dog. The next step is to introduce distraction
training. This course is a 4 week private course
that meets for one hour a week. Each lesson consists of you,
your dog, and your trainer. You and your pet will be working
in public areas including a strip mall, in town, local pet
stores, and near dog runs. You will put your dog to work and
learn how to create different scenarios and distractions to
keep you and your dog educated. This is a great course for
handlers that want to gain confidence in training and socializing
their dog in public. All dogs are welcome.
Optional: Owners may substitute an Advanced
Obedience/Milling session as a class. Pleas visit our Advanced
Obedience/Milling Program for more information on working
your dog on our K9 treadmill.
ADVANCED OBEDIENCE/MILLING PROGRAM
Our state of the art dog powered treadmill is a great way
to build confidence, endurance and focus. Milling is a great
way to exhaust excessive and nervous energy along with mentally
challenging your pet. We use out treadmill to build endurance
for dogs that, compete in agility, tracking, protection work,
building overall confidence and strength.
We do not use our mill to condition dogs for fighting. Any
inclination of owners training for dog fighting will result
in an immediate dismissal of all services along with filing
a report with the proper authorities.
Our Advanced Obedience/Milling Program is a 4 week
private course that meets for one hour a week. The
dog and handler team will further tune their skills around
the neighborhood as we look for common occurrences and challenges
encountered on daily walk. The dog and handler team will be
working along with one of our dogs as a distraction for 30
minuets. We will spend the following 30 minuets introducing
the treadmill. Here, your dog will build confidence, strength
and mental focus. Dog and handler team must complete the On-leash
Obedience program to attend this class. All dogs
are welcome.
ON/OFF-LEASH ADVANCED OBEDIENCE PROGRAM
Once your pet has displayed a clear understanding and consistent
movement on leash, they may attend the ON/Off-leash Advanced
Obedience Program. This is an 6 week program
that will meet once a week for 6 weeks. The course is available
for group lessons and private lessons. You and your dog will
perform the commands learned during the On-leash Program.
Group drills, agility, introductions to other pets and people
are some of the tasks your pet will be exposed to. The course
is designed to help owners further improve their handler skills.
All dogs are welcome.
AKC's Canine Good Citizen® (CGC)
Therapy
Dog International (TDI)
Testing
& Programs
As an AKC
CGC
and TDI
evaluator we offer Canine
Good Citizen & Therapy
Dog Testing.
The Canine
Good Citizen (CGC) Program is a two-part program that
stresses responsible pet ownership for owners and basic good
manners for dogs. All dogs that pass the required CGC
test may receive a CGC
certificate from the American Kennel Club.
Therapy Dogs
International, Inc. (TDI) is a volunteer group organized
to provide qualified handlers and their therapy dogs for visitations
to institutions, facilities, and any other place where therapy
dogs are needed. TDI
is a non-profit organization. There is no charge for visitations.
All funds are derived from associate membership dues. Donations
or bequests are welcome. The primary objective of the TDI
dog and handler is to provide comfort and companionship by
sharing the dog with the patients in hospitals, nursing homes
and other institutions and wherever else the therapy dog is
needed. This is done in a way that increases emotional well
being, promotes healing, and improves the quality of life
for the people being visited and the staff that cares for
these people.
We currently visit Broadlawn Manor nursing and assisted living
facility with Arko as part of the pet therapy program for
alzheimers and elderly patients. This is a great location
with a wonderful staff that welcomes dog to visit. Please
contact us if your dog is certified and would like to visit
this location.
ON-LEASH
OBEDIENCE CGC/TDI PROGRAM
Our On-Leash Obedience Program is our 6 week On-leash
obedience program which has been modified to help handlers
gain the knowledge and handler skill to pass the CGC
and or TDI
test. The CGC&
TDI test
will be given at the end of this course.
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION PROGRAM
Most behavior issues do not happen overnight. They usually
start with something that handlers view as ok or cute. The
issues grow in time and are not noticed until something drastic
happens. Not having clarity and bad handler skill between
the dog and owner can create nervous, skittish, and out of
control dogs along with different levels of aggression. Our
behavior modification course is a 6-week private course that
meets one hour a week for 6 weeks. Handlers are tough how
rebuild the foundation and establish dominance without fighting
the dog. This program concentrates on rebuilding the dogs
and handlers mind to understand whom the pack leaders are
while building a bond. We focus on basic handler skills to
help revert unwanted behaviors. After establishing clarity
in the dog, we revisit the issues that were created by the
owners. Don’t waste your money on so called fast fixes
for problems that have been building in your dog for a long
period of time. Training is work. When performed correctly,
it is worth the effort. All dogs are welcome.
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION/IN-HOUSE
OBEDIENCE PROGRAM
USA K9’s Behavior Modification Program enables your
dog to live at our facility for 30 days. Your dog will be
taken through our On-Leash
Obedience Program and worked in different indoor and outdoor
environments. The trainer will access the behavior of the
dog and make the necessary modifications to correct unwanted
behavior by education. This program works well with individuals
that have a busy schedule and don’t want their dog growing
up to be unmanageable, for dogs that are currently unmanageable,
or dogs with social issues. Dogs entering this program must
be a minimum of 4 months old. The program will be followed
up with our On-Leash Obedience Program.
All dogs are welcome.
It’s important to know your dog needs a minimum of
one week to get acclimated to its new environment. Programs
that are under 3 weeks usually involve cruel and unnecessary
training techniques. Shocking, kicking, and other forms of
abuse are used to force dogs to submit or change. This can
drive dogs to be overly submissive and or become overly aggressive.
This is NOT how we do our behavior modification. We give
your dog time to adjust to its new environment. Your dog is
educated and given the opportunity to think. Your dog will
be taught in a way that is more natural him /her.
“We don’t fight your dog, we educate
your dog.”
K9 PROTECTION
Regardless of breed and pedigree, not all dogs will perform
this work. Therefore we request you have us evaluate your
dog before entering this program. Properly trained protection
dogs have a solid unchanging personality. Your dog will become
a safe and effective security partner for your home and family.
Introduction
To Developing A personal Protection Dog.
This is a developmental training program designed to work
a young dogs prey/play mode. We introduce them to the techniques
that develop a safe and pleasurable personal protection dog.
This course is offered to puppies that are approximately 6
months of age and young adult dogs.
This is a 6-week course that meets once a week
for 1 hours in length and is designed as a group class.
This course is
only offered at the HVK9
facility on Sundays. Course Price: $1400
HVK9 PROTECTION LEVEL I
Level I starts the foundation of building your dog for protection
work. The owner and dog will attend a 12-session class that
meets for approximately one to 1 hour. The owner will learn
safety and how to handle a dog on leash. At the same time,
we will build the dogs drive and teach them how to bite with
confidence. The dogs are taught to guard, bite on command,
handler aggression and are taught an out command and friend
command. We do not put dogs into defense or chain and whip
them to get them to bite the agitator. This is a “real
life situation” course. Dogs are taught to bite arms,
legs, chest etc. The bad guy won’t bring or use a sleeve
on your dog. Some dogs only bite when they see the training
sleeve. You want to create a controlled dog that will bite
anything any ware. This is not a sport type course.
This is a 12-week course that meets once a week for duration
of 1 hour. Added equipment is optional. We provide the necessary
equipment for the protection work. You must have a solid obedience
foundation. We will evaluate your dog free for this training.
This course is only offered
at the HVK9 facility
on Sundays. Course Price: $2800
HVK9 PROTECTION LEVEL II
For level ll protection, we cover level I and continue working
on distance apprehension; build the dog on hidden sleeves,
and performing searches for the agitator. We will work on
protection scenarios and have the dog return to the owner,
and out the dog before making the attack. Dogs will learn
not to chase the agitator unless you command him to do so.
Level I techniques will be enhanced to create a stringer protection
dog. The dog will remain social to outsiders and work only
when necessary. This is business for your dog, not personal.
Dogs are turned on and off like a light switch.
The owner and dog will attend a 6-session class that meets
for approximately one to 1 hour. You must complete the level
I protection course to enter Level II.
This course is only offered
at the HVK9 facility
on Sundays. Course Price: $1800
HVK9 PROTECTION LEVEL III
At level lll protection, we cover level I and ll continue
working on distance apprehension, hidden sleeves, searches,
protection scenarios and get into body suit work. The added
training techniques are in home invasion protection. The dogs
will attack intruders in your home and stay in your house
to protect you and your family. This is an extensive course
developed for he home owner who wants the added security only
a well bred and well trained dog can provide. We will come
to your home and stage a break in to test the dog’s
reaction to an intruder. Your dog will remain safe with others
and still protect you when needed.
The owner and dog will attend a 6-session class
that meets for approximately one to 1 hour. You must complete
the level I and II protection course to enter Level III.
This course is
only offered at the HVK9
facility on Sundays. Course Price: $1800 Plus travel time.
HVK9 PROTECTION LEVEL I, II, III, TUNE UP
To prevent your dog from getting stale, we recommend having
your dog worked a minimum of once every 4 to 5 weeks. We offer
tune up courses for all levels. Tune up classes are 1 or 2
hours.
This course is only offered
at the HVK9 facility
on Sundays.
HVK9
Tracking Course
This is a 6-week one hour a week course designed to teach
your dogs the techniques of a passive track with positive
reward at the end of the track. Tracking Harnesses are required.
This course is only offered
at the HVK9 facility
on Sundays. Course Price $625 Plus the cost
of your harness and long line. BASIC OBEDIENCE IS
NOT REQUIRED FOR THIS CLASS.
PROGRAMS ARE TAILORED TO YOUR NEEDS
- Home & Business Security
- Home Protection
- Business Protection
- Vehicle Protection
|