New Website!

Welcome to our new website! We appreciate your patience as we switch to a new group class and boot camp admin system. If you have any questions or need help, please email us at office@thek9coach.com.

COVID Safety Alert

Fully vaccinated clients and staff are recommended to but not required to wear masks as long as everyone can maintain a social distance of 6 feet. If clients or staff cannot maintain a social distance of 6 feet, then masks will be required. If you are not fully vaccinated, you MUST wear a mask at all time. We are allowing two adults per class registration to attend our in-person group classes. Alternatively, we are also allowing one adult parent/guardian to attend with one child, age 12 or up. No children under 12 years old may attend in-person group classes at this time. All our facilities are equipped with Wifi and you are welcome to Zoom, Facetime, or otherwise virtually connect with other family at home during class time.

Group Classes

Basic Obedience & Manners Classes

Puppy Training & Socialization

This class is for puppies 7 to 16 weeks old at the start of class. Class covers puppy obedience, self control, building a relationship together, biting, chewing, jumping, socialization, and more!

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Level 1 Obedience - Foundation Skills

This class is the perfect starting point for group class training for dogs over 4 months old. We'll teach you how to train your dog, and you'll learn to teach the basics.. from sit to come to stay, and much more!

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Level 1.5 Obedience (Optional) - I'm So Excited: Impulse Control

This class is all about owner accountability, awareness, and follow-through! We are going to help you with your exuberant dog, and teach you and your dog management and follow-thru!

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Level 2 Obedience - Real Life Skills

This class builds on your Level 1 Obedience or Basic Boot Camp Program skills. We'll use increasingly challenging distractions and realistic training scenarios to help perfect the behaviors you've already learned with your dog, as well as learn new behaviors such as heeling with attention!

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Level 3 Obedience - Advanced Obedience (Outdoors) - Seasonal (Spring-Summer)

Hit the town to visit various dog friendly venues to work on your obedience skills and public manners! We'll visit patios, stores, outdoor events, and more.

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Level 3 Obedience - Advanced Obedience (Indoors) - Seasonal (Fall-Winter)

Sharpen your obedience skills! We will spend time both at our facility and out on the town to visit various dog friendly (indoor) venues to work on you and your dog's obedience skills and public manners.

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Door Greeting & Not Jumping

This class addresses not jumping on guests at the door, spontaneous neighbor visits in the yard, encountering people on walks, jumping on the kids, and more!

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Leash Walking

If walking your dog seems like a chore, this is the class for you. Learn to have your dog walk at your side without pulling or lagging behind. We'll meet at our facility and at local lakes/parks.

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Holiday Manners - Seasonal (Fall)

This seasonal class, offered in the fall and early winter, covers all the skills you need to tackle the holidays! We will cover door greeting, begging for food, counter surfing, and more!

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Recalls (Coming When Called) - Seasonal (Spring-Fall)

This class is designed to help you achieve a reliable recall even at a distance and with distractions. Your dog will have a blast at our fully-fenced one acre outdoor training facility! Offered Spring to Fall.

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Behavior Modification Classes

Dog to Dog Socialization for REACTIVE Dogs

Learn how to comfortably introduce your dog to another dog. Class dogs will have good social experiences with other dogs, and you'll gain the skills you need to handle your dog around other dogs.

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Dog to Human Socialization for REACTIVE Dogs

This class is for dogs that can react towards unfamiliar people (non-family members), even though at other times, like outside the home, they may act quite shy or nervous around strangers.

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Leash Aggression - Seasonal (Spring-Fall)

This class is for dogs that lunge, bark, growl, or otherwise act crazy when they see another dog while on their leashed walks. Three class sessions are held indoors, and three are held at a local park or lake.

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Confidence Building for Shy Dogs

This class is for dogs that are shy and afraid of other dogs, people, noises, etc. Dogs enrolled in this class should choose to *retreat* instead of *react* at their triggers.

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Advanced Classes

AKC Canine Good Citizen

This class will spend three sessions working on the test items of the AKC's Canine Good Citizen test, and on the 4th week of class a CGC Evaluator will test all the dogs.

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Rally Obedience

Rally is a fun and exciting team sport for dogs and their handlers! Teams navigate a course with numbered signs indicating different exercises to perform. Rally is great for relationship building!

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Therapy Dog Training

This class covers the skills and knowledge you'll need as a therapy dog team. We do a lot of role playing of different visiting situations, and do mock evaluations to practice for the real one.

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Therapy Dog Evaluation

This is the final step towards becoming a registered therapy dog team with Helping and Healing Paws. We recommend having completed our Therapy Dog group class prior to taking the test.

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Fun & Sports Classes

Just Tricks

Impress your family and friends with what you and your dog can do! This class goes over a variety of tricks from sit pretty, to wave, to roll over, and more!

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Agility for Fun!

Fun, invigorating, and a great way to exercise your dog. Agility for Fun is all about teamwork and having a good time with your pup. This is not a competition prep course.

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Agility 2

Take your Agility for Fun skills to the next level with Agility 2! We'll run harder courses, play more games, and learn new handling skills to keep you and your dog having fun while playing agility!

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Lure Coursing - Seasonal (Spring-Fall)

Run run RUUUNNNN is the name of this game! Dogs take turns in our fully fenced Sport Park to chase the artificial lure around a set course. This is great activity to exercise your dog in a safe and fun way!

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Scent Work

This activity is great for all dogs of all activity levels! Dogs learn to sniff out and indicate a specific scent that has been hidden. This game is great for rainy days and sunny days alike!

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Disc Dog

This class covers the basics of disc dog (frisbee dog) including Toss & Catch and Freestyle! Teams will learn and practice a basic freestyle routine, as well as sharpen their skills in other disc games.

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Treibball - Seasonal (Spring-Fall)

Urban herding for all dogs! Dogs learn to move an exercise ball around the field and into the set goal area. Owner and dog have to work together to make this happen!

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Baby & Kid Programs

Your Dog and New Baby Group Class (Preparing for Baby!)

If you are expecting, now is the time to prepare your dog! Let us help you with a structured class, giving you a little to do each week to prepare you and your dog for life with baby.

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