K9Luva Training and High Needs Home Stays

K9Luva Training and High Needs Home Stays Professional Dog Trainer with extensive experience training dogs with behaviour and/or psychological challenges.

Provides Home Stays for difficult/High Needs canines on a one to one level. Training is tailored to your dogs individual needs.

16/12/2025

Blue has been coming for sometime to help with his over enthusiasm with everything. Blue had a long history of lunging and dragging his owner around and found it difficult to contact and focus.
He is doing so well with his training and yesterday I decided to try a little bit of obedience heel work. (I am quite out of practice as it has been a number of years since I competed now), but Blue really loved it.

12/12/2025

Being from the lower North Island and having a double coat has made it very uncomfortable for Seed in this awful heat & humidity. While it is not usual to clip these breeds of dogs, welfare must come first. Given Seed is 15 years old, my only focus is giving him the best and most comfortable last months/years. Seed has never had this done vefore and is sooo trusting he just goes with whatever I ask of him.

12/12/2025

I absouletly love when families want their children to be involved in training.
I find it so rewarding to be able to build their confidence in being around dogs, especially their own dog, help them to be safe around other dogs.
Just proves that everyone should train with their dog, no matter the age.

11/12/2025

So I started a new training challenge to teach verbal left and right cues.
Firstly using the verbal, then a visual and then action.
Hopefully it will create the concept in Mere's head what Left & Right mean. I am throwing to her Left/right, not mine. Gotta remember that I want her to go in that direction.
Give it a few weeks and see where we are at.

21/11/2025

I thought I would re- share this post as it came back up on my feed, and I really love this.
Very sadly Dozer died suddenly last year and did not make the move to Aussie with his family.
I am so proud of how far Dozer came in his rehab and he definitely enjoyed life a lot more in his final months.
Layla did amazing in her training and is now living a fabulous life in Aussie investigating all of the different smells over there.

20/11/2025

A very sad day today. Another of my friend/client lost their beloved dog suddenly this morning.
If you have experienced the absolute heartbreak and grief in losing a beloved pet - someone has probably said to you at some point but "it's just a dog". It is never 'just a dog' (or other pet) to us.
I found this touching reel (get your tissues) from Noel Fitzpatrick (known as the Supervet).
Next time someone says 'It's just a...." remember this.

15/11/2025

Followed by Kahi for his walk/play time.
Kahi is one of my very original clients. I remember meeting him for the 1st time, as he dragged his 6 foot + owner around the area, jumping and lunging. The look of terror on his owners face when I asked him to hand me the lead was priceless. 5 years later, Kahi and I are still best mates!

Boarding here is different than most other dog boarding. I operate on a one to one basis, this means your dog does not n...
14/11/2025

Boarding here is different than most other dog boarding. I operate on a one to one basis, this means your dog does not need to interact with other dogs, has individual attention and in a way that meets their own social and emotional needs.
Big or small, I can take them all.
Hates other dogs - no worries here
Is nervous or shy - lovely quiet country environment to allow time to decompress and just be in the world.
Plenty of space to just do dog things.
Eddie is back and he loves it here. Out for our morning walk.

13/11/2025

Oh so much to say about this video....
Back in my uneducated days, I thought this was a behaviour we Didn't want to encourage in dogs as it 'encourages' this type of play.
Oh how wrong I was. Some breeds have a strong genetic behaviour drive - think huntaways bark, border collies chase things, bullies like to grab, tug and shake.
IF we don't give a construcctive and rewarding way to 'allow' these behaviours then you will have a frustrated dog. Frustration leads to behaviour issues and other unwanted repercussions. This in itself won't resolve training issues, but it's an excellent way to allow the dog to fulfil their inborn traits.

Big thanks to Karlin Tekawa, Wayne Keller, Robyn Armstrong, Sandy Lambert, Theresa Manning, Maree Berridge, Figberrie Bu...
09/11/2025

Big thanks to Karlin Tekawa, Wayne Keller, Robyn Armstrong, Sandy Lambert, Theresa Manning, Maree Berridge, Figberrie Bumblebrum, Bridgette Phillips

for all your support! Congrats for being top fans on a streak 🔥!

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Maungakaramea
Whangarei

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 7pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 7pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 7pm
Thursday 7:30am - 7pm
Friday 7:30am - 7pm
Saturday 7am - 7pm
Sunday 7:30am - 7pm

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+6421522892

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