Welcome to Dedicated K9

Well Trained And Happy Dogs!

Who We Are

We Love Your Pet, Just as You Do!

Ever since I got my first puppy in April 2023, I really discovered my love for dog training and my desire to be a professional dog trainer. Since then, I have learned so much about dog training from many pro dog trainers and am currently taking a professional certification course from a multiple-time world champion dog trainer. I have experience training my family’s Aussie (pictured on the home page) in basic and advanced obedience, agility, and all sorts of tricks. He currently knows over 30 different tricks! He has earned his AKC Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced Trick Dog titles. I also have experience training ten other dogs or puppies. I do socialization with new and strange things, teach basic and advanced obedience commands, tricks, house rules, manners, invisible boundaries, loose leash walking skills, and, most importantly, how to play! I will teach you the value of play and how to engage in both competitive and non-competitive games with your dog.

Clear & Benefit-Focused

At Dedicated K9, I am dedicated to providing high-quality training for your dogs to get them well-trained, but more importantly, happy. During my training sessions with your dog, I prioritize and incorporate play as a major part of the training. This increases motivation and helps to bring out your dog’s instinctive play and prey drive, making the training fun for them. When a dog enjoys the training, they learn much faster and become much more dedicated to learning and doing their jobs. Using play allows us to simulate really high-stakes real-world scenarios to gain control of the dogs even when they are in their most crazy, high-drive state. This also helps the dog to enjoy the behavior itself. When this happens, it is called being self-reinforcing/rewarding. This makes the behavior much more reliable and persistent, which removes the reliance on using external motivation (e.g., food, toy, leash) to motivate the dog to do something. Of course, that is not always practical to achieve for some behaviors, but it certainly makes a difference in many of them, especially recall!