Competitive K9s Dog Training

Competitive K9s Dog Training Dog training services in and around the Ottawa area. Offering privates, semi privates, group classes

Offering private lessons, semi private lessons, group classes, board and train/title, and general boarding. We specialize in training performance and sport dogs and their handlers. Instruction in Sport Detection, CKC Obedience, Rally, IPO Obedience and Tracking, Obedience for Sport, and Pet Manners available.

Sumi peeking out to give you a heads up we are on track for the next level 1 to start in 6 weeks, Wednesdays at 6!
08/30/2026

Sumi peeking out to give you a heads up we are on track for the next level 1 to start in 6 weeks, Wednesdays at 6!

Another Championship title for Rychly and Steph! Despite his characteristic overzealousness he went 5 for 6 today under ...
08/22/2026

Another Championship title for Rychly and Steph! Despite his characteristic overzealousness he went 5 for 6 today under Chelsea at Fire and Ice SDDA games trial to complete his Distance and Speed titles which gave him his SD-GCH. He also filled in for Quinn Vom Steyerberg and teamed up with Molly & Night Fury to earn his first team Q. He will maybe play an Elite close to home but for now he "retires" - which is a loose term as he plays with Morgan and maybe occasionally me and will work on finishing his team title. So name change time! He is now SD-MACH SD-GCH Rychly Van Sinova GPR2 SD-GA SD-GS SD-GD 💞

New SDDA Games class session starting August 6th!Never done SDDA Games? Struggle with the accuracy needed for speed? Wor...
07/14/2026

New SDDA Games class session starting August 6th!

Never done SDDA Games? Struggle with the accuracy needed for speed? Working heights in aerial? The independence for distance? Or strategies for successful Team searches? This 8 week course is designed to build your skills in games from the ground up. Many times issues passing games are due to a lack of breaking things down into appropriate chunks and skills. We'll work on foundations and build them step by step to completed games. This class is limited to 4 dogs. Sign up:

https://competitivek9s.punchpass.com/series/50524

I had to wait until she'd announced it herself to brag on her, but Instructor Morgan completed her first ever SD-MACh wi...
07/13/2026

I had to wait until she'd announced it herself to brag on her, but Instructor Morgan completed her first ever SD-MACh with Mayhem yesterday alongside Rych and I! I'm so proud to see how they've progressed as a team! Today Morgan also faced her "fears" and handled Rychly in Exterior and came away with a whole new confidence in her ability to read and handle a different dog style. Meanwhile Dia and I wrapped up her SD-E with a 200/200! She now needs just 1 Excellent Exterior for her SD-Ch and then 1 full Excellent title for her SD-MACH as well. With a little luck maybe we can finish her up this year too! Separately Stryd worked well and earned perfect scores in Advanced Containers and Exteriors today with me as well! It was a big weekend and we'll make a bigger detail post soon :)

SD-MACH Rychly Van Sinova GPR2 SD-GA 💞😍😭And then there were 4. My boy (who seems to think 6 feet away is close enough in...
07/12/2026

SD-MACH Rychly Van Sinova GPR2 SD-GA 💞😍😭

And then there were 4. My boy (who seems to think 6 feet away is close enough in exterior and that offering an alert to my attempts at direction should be rewarded) and I somehow have managed to pull exteriors together banking 4 qs in a row to complete his retirement project. He joins his half sisters and neice now as my 4th breeder handler owner trained MACH dog 💞

After a tough decision to stop pursuing his GPR3 when I started noticing very occasional flares of an old injury showing up in ball - knowing he would be reckless enough with his body to risk a more serious issue - the old man got thrown into SDDA. Containers and Interiors weren't an issue, but for a dog who has always preferred the looser standards of work scent vs the precision of sport scent and who has had such a long history of obedience work, exteriors presented a challenge. He didn't have a problem finding odor, but the idea that a foot away wasn't good enough boggled his mind. Paired with his history of training including offering behaviors it lead to as many no in exterior as yes. But with time and some training and handling adjustments he's actually come a lot father than expected and today under Guy LaHaye we finally wrapped it up. At 12.5 I know any day could be the last and I'm both happy and relieved we can say he has this title.

Oh did I mention he also pulled a speed Q out finding 3 hides in 32 seconds? He needs 1 more tomorrow to add that title too.

Oh and also Morgan stepped in so Stryd could still play today and handled her to a 60/60 and 59/60 in Advanced Containers and Exterior. Now I will be able to handle my own dogs again but I'm so happy to know I always have a backup! Tomorrow we attempt to wrap Dias Excellent title, bank more Advanced with Stryd and wrap up Rychly speed

Thanks to our judge and all our volunteers, you guys were amazing today and looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

As for my Golden Child, he'll continue to wrap up his SDDA Games titles, play in Advanced, Excellent and Elite when I'm not running other, but we both miss competition obedience venues so maybe we'll try our hand at CARO Rally ;)

Lots of student success to share from the weekend but also check out 2 instructors earning SD-CH titles in the same tria...
05/10/2026

Lots of student success to share from the weekend but also check out 2 instructors earning SD-CH titles in the same trial! To top it off Stephanie trained Dia but she and Morgan shared in handling duties with Morgan piloting her in Advanced Exterior while Stephanie handled her in Advanced and Excellent Containers and Excellent Interior earning 7/7 Qs

For the SD-CH - In the last search of the day Rychly pulled it off to complete his SD-CH under judge Cathy Teeth! This is dog number 4 with me (Stephanie) to reach this title but anyone who knows us knows how special this is to me with this dog. Not just because it's been hard fought (a long history of obedience and control training with a dog with a good nose but little patience to work to precision location vs "close enough" make exterior area searches especially when it's windy a challenge and we've had to do a lot of experimenting in training) but because of who he is to me and me to him - hand raised in the midst of grief

And while we are on the mushy stuff, you'll notice there's someone else in one of these pictures. Say hi to the latest Instructor to finish her SD-CH today!!! I'm so proud of this team, but also Morgan in particular. In my "race" to title senior (retired) dogs I was stressing about waiting to run Dia sooner than later while also wanting to finish Rych post IGP. Morgan stepped up to handle my girl - taking an already trained dog who is mostly worked by someone else and having to learn their handling from scratch the first time isn't easy. But she's done it well, and has improved each time. Meanwhile today she also handled Rych in Advanced Interior - a more handler aware dog with less behavior change and a tendency to fring alert. But when I impulsively offered her the chance since he technically got the last he needed yesterday she jumped on it and he stepped up too. This meant he passed 4/6 runs (2 Advanced Interior, an Advanced Exterior, and an Excellent Exterior). Super huge congratulations to .k9dogtraining and Mayhem - I'm so glad we got to earn this together!

📷 and my cell phone 🤣

Just a few of the shots from our last shoot with - a few spaces left in this Sunday's shoot (April 5) near Kemptville w...
04/01/2026

Just a few of the shots from our last shoot with - a few spaces left in this Sunday's shoot (April 5) near Kemptville which will have the option for title ribbon shots, along with fitness and food theme and weather permitting a couple rustic exteriors!

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