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Family K9 Dog Training

Expert Montreal dog trainer specializing in anxious, reactive and difficult dogs. for over 30 years! Training guaranteed for the life of your dog!

Family K9 Dog Training offers private in home training @ your home or board and train services as well. Celebrating over 25 years of helping owners and their K9 companions. Serving all of Montreal and surrounding areas. Custom training programs available for all your needs.

10/31/2026

Couldn’t resist. One photo. What a Hooligan.

10/28/2026

Progress update on Samson my recent separation anxiety case.
Here he is early in week two of his program.
He’s leading me to his crate.
The dog with separation anxiety is at the end of the flexi leash leading me down the stairs into his crate! Think about what that means. This is a very telling behavior.
I give him a Kong full of wet food when he goes in - the Kong just arrived from Amazon minutes earlier.
We’ve not been using Kongs or anything to pacify him in the crate because I wanted him to have clarity and to adapt first.
I leave the door open and in fact I go back and open it further by using a leash to tie it open.
I want the dog to reset his emotional base when he’s left alone. Not box him in.

We cannot simply stuff a dog into a crate & close the door faster than he can try to break out of jail and call that crate training.
We need to give him time as well as a clear path and process to adapt.
The most telling moment is when he finishes the food in his Kong you can hear him get frustrated and whine and then he stands up and his nose just tips outside the door frame of his crate and he looks around the room pauses, and then circles back down to settle again in his crate.
I was watching all this from another section of the house on my 360 camera app and I had the biggest smile on my face when he made that decision.
He’s been at it for about an hour and 45 minutes and we go outside and play.
He loves to play a game of tag and we chase each other around on the front lawn.
The fact that he can shift tight into play as soon as I engage him, tells the whole story about how he is processing emotionally.

He’s calm in the crate able to enjoy a treat able to remain in there with the door open able to make good decisions and able to play right after.

10/21/2026

**Repost - fixed glitch in video

The last trainer told this dog's owner to discourage him from following him around the house. It went as far as shouting at him to go away. To offer him food to go in his crate but he wouldn’t go in. To yell at him to stop barking in there. The dog would panic in the crate and attack the crate out of distress.

Apparently, that was supposed to help his separation anxiety.

It didn't.

Today was lesson one.
Total lesson time was 55 minutes.

We started with food, giving him the opportunity to think and discover the crate for himself. He had a moment of clarity and chose to go in without being prompted.

Next, a verbal cue. Leash on, then off. No food. He goes in and lies down, settling almost immediately.

Watch what happens at the end. We're sitting on the floor, playing, being silly, just hanging out. I tell him, "That's a lot of movement for one day," and he walks into his crate on his own.

I'm not claiming we've fixed his separation anxiety in one session. But this is a hell of a good start.

He's discovering a new way to relate to the crate and discovering strengths he didn't know he had.

We're building confidence and adaptability, not micromanaging behaviour that doesn't matter or move us forward.

Self-motivation. Self-discovery.

That's where we start.

10/18/2026

When Hooligan Sleeps
Time Stops

He's trained, run around the property, played tug, and now he's wrapped in a blanket, snoring like a freight train.

Two hours on the bike in the next room. Music blaring, stomping out sprints and a fan blowing. I unclipped my cleats, walked into the living room, and nothing.

Thank you for your patience during this difficult time.

10/16/2026

"She barks at everything." That's what her owners wrote on the intake form.
Lesson five with this young reactive Doberman.
Fifteen minutes before these photos, she was worried about getting onto the new place board. With a little guidance, three repetitions later, she was getting on by herself. No fuss, no drama. A dog being encouraged to find her confidence.
Dog after dog passed by with no reaction. (I love my phone's burst mode!)
Then another dog passed.
She noticed the approaching dog. I asked her owner to move a little to the side. As he stepped away, she shifted her attention to track his movement, while her ears tracked the other dog as it passed behind her, then turned to watch it leave.
No verbal cues. No commands. Not a word from us.
She never turned her body toward the dog or moved off the board. She knows she can reposition herself whenever she wants.
We're not trying to stop her from watching other dogs.
We're teaching her that she can watch without needing to
DO anything about it. You can see her tracking the dog behind her with her ears before turning her head to watch it walk away.
No micromanaging. No surprises.
A dog in training, making good choices.
Lesson five. And when I asked her owner how much work he'd been doing between lessons? He admitted, not much.
I gave him points for honesty and told him he'd got off easy with this one.

10/13/2026

Day 4 with Olivier.

A bit of a rough iPhone video, as this wasn’t planned or expected. But it was worth capturing.

The neighbour’s dog ran onto the property barking, and we paused our work.

Olivier is a nervous dog who shut down during previous training. Here, he remained calm, checked in with me from time to time, and needed very little direction.

He doesn’t need to fight or flee. He can take in what’s happening, remain composed, and look to me for direction when needed.

At the end, I tell him « Viens » (come), and we walk away to resume our work.

Three days earlier, with no outside stimulation, he pulled me off my feet trying to get back into the house.

That’s meaningful progress, and I was very proud of him.

4e journée d’entraînement avec Olivier.

Une vidéo iPhone un peu brouillonne, puisque la situation était imprévue. Mais ça valait la peine de la capturer.

Le chien du voisin est entré sur le terrain en aboyant. Nous avons mis notre travail sur pause.

Olivier est un chien nerveux qui s’était refermé lors de ses entraînements précédents. Ici, il est resté calme, a vérifié auprès de moi à quelques reprises et a eu besoin de très peu de directives.

Il n’a pas besoin de se battre ni de fuir. Il peut observer la situation, rester posé et se référer à moi au besoin.

À la fin, je lui dis « Viens », et nous repartons travailler.

Trois jours plus tôt, sans aucune stimulation extérieure, il m’avait fait perdre pied en essayant de rentrer dans la maison.

C’est un progrès significatif, et j’étais vraiment fière de lui.

10/13/2026

CONTEXT MATTERS.
How long could you stand in line at Starbucks with someone behind you making obnoxious noises, poking you in the shoulder and invading your space before you finally snapped?
When you do snap - remove all of that context and say,
"He has an anger management problem or needs to be medicated." Isolating your response doesn't tell the while story.
Dogs are often judged the same way.
People focus on the growl, snap or bite while ignoring everything that happened beforehand.
Was the dog stressed or overwhelmed? Was he trying to move away? Were his warnings ignored? Was the environment simply too much for him?
That doesn't make the behaviour acceptable. It means the context matters.
Know your dog. Know his limitations. Pay attention when he tells you he's had enough, and don't put him in situations where you're asking him to cope with more than he can handle.
Sometimes the answer isn't more training.
Sometimes the answer is smarter guidance.
Be fair to the dog. It's more productive in every

10/09/2026

I’m in my late 50s now and have been self-employed since my early 20s. Along the way, there have been people who took the time to offer me a bit of encouragement when I needed it. I’ve never forgotten that.
For the past several months, I’ve regularly seen a young man working at a local Starbucks. He’s always pleasant, smiling, and clearly takes pride in doing his job well.
One evening, while he was mopping the floor near closing time, I stopped to talk with him. I told him something that I genuinely believe: the work ethic and attitude he brings to an ordinary job are qualities that will serve him well in whatever he chooses to pursue.
We talked about school, his goal of becoming an engineer, and the fact that someone had discouraged him from pursuing it. I was careful not to presume I knew his circumstances or had all the answers. But I did tell him that people will always have opinions about what you should or shouldn't do with your life. Listen, consider what they have to say, but don't let someone else's opinion make the decision for you.
If it's something you want, work hard and give yourself a fair chance to achieve it.
A little while later, I left a positive review for the Starbucks and mentioned him specifically. He saw it and thanked me.
Today, I stopped in for a coffee with my wife. He waved hello, disappeared into the back, and came out with a bag of coffee for me as a gift.
I was genuinely touched.
Not just by the gift, but by the thought behind it. A few conversations, a little encouragement, and the recognition of someone doing his best with what he's been given. Apparently, it had meant something to him, too.
You never really know what effect a few words might have on someone who's still figuring things out. There's no need to make a grand gesture of it, and there's certainly no need to expect anything in return.
I just remember the people who encouraged me when I was starting out, and I think it's worth passing that along when the opportunity presents itself.
Sometimes, you get a little reminder that the smallest things can matter.
And sometimes, that reminder comes in a bag of coffee.

10/09/2026

He’s always waiting at the door when I get back from a ride.

10/05/2026

(His owners reply is in the comments) I don't do many puppy classes anymore.
After decades of training, most of my work is with dogs who need specialized help — difficult cases, complicated behaviour, owners who have often tried several approaches before coming to me.
But I still make room for the right puppy owners.

Because what you do early matters.
Larry is a young Great Dane, and today was only his second class.
In one week, he's adapting to his crate, ringing his bells to go outside, learning to sit voluntarily because he's discovered that good things follow, and beginning to understand leave it.
Today he left a hot dog bun on the floor while picking up treats sitting right beside it.
He also went from running away with his tug toy last week to bringing toys directly back to us today — even choosing new ones from his basket when he wanted the game to continue.
These aren't party tricks.
They're pieces of a much bigger picture.
We're teaching Larry that his choices have consequences, that there are clear expectations, and that interacting with his people is worthwhile.
And we're teaching his owners how to build that understanding consistently.
That's the part that takes time.
An exceptional dog isn't created by trying to get everything done quickly in puppyhood. It's built through good decisions, good strategy, consistency and a long-term vision of the adult dog you're trying to develop.
That's why I still work with puppies.
I don't need to work with every puppy.
I want to work with owners who understand that we're not just trying to get through the puppy stage.
We're building the future dog.

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