GAK9 Athens

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from GAK9 Athens! 🐾
Grateful doesn’t even begin to describe how we feel getting to spend another holiday surrounded by some of our favorite pups! We hope everyone had a great day with family, friends and their pups. 🦃 🖤

11/25/2025

It’s an 🫒

Olive Martini Black to be exact. 🍸
The smallest, spiciest little floof is joining us from Colbert, GA to learn all about being a good girl. We’ve had so much fun taking this girly out and about. You can’t convince her that everyone didn’t come out to see her 💅🏻 From zig-zagging and pulling to walking like a perfect princess and sitting still, laying down on command, and not jumping all over everyone that says hello. We’ve still got a bit to go and Miss Olive will be ready to go home and show her mom & dad all her new skills!

Loved by 🖤

11/25/2025

It’s the sale of the season 🤩

Here’s your chance to save hundreds on our #1 training option. Hurry, this deal will only be live until the end of the month! 🐕 🦃

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📱 762-499-4428

11/24/2025

11/18/2025

Peaches 🍑 the

Sweet Peaches is here from Commerce, GA to learn all about being a good girl! We’re working on heel, sit, down, place and recall with lots of focus on confidence building! This girly has a busy household of little humans and a big flock of chickens, so impulse control is a must. Peaches is super smart and learning everything with ease. We love this doodle bop so much! 🐕

11/18/2025

Vador the is joining us from Smyrna, GA for our Elite Board & Train!

Talk about pure muscle, this dude could’ve ripped your arm clear off! We’ve cleaned up those leash manners and now this meatball head is so much fun to take out and about! We’ve only a part of the way through his training and he’s already been awesome! I can’t wait to see how he turns out!!

11/09/2025

🐾 Grab your leash and lace up your sneakers — it’s time for the 2025 AKC Fit Dog Turkey Trot 5K hosted by GAK9 Athens! 🦃

📅 November 22nd at 10:00 am
📍 Oconee Veterans Park – 3500A Hog Mountain Rd, Watkinsville, GA

Come out for a fun fall walk or run with your dog while supporting a great cause — donations benefit Central Georgia K9 Search and Rescue (CGK9SAR). You’ll even get the chance to meet the incredible K9 teams from CGK9SAR and learn more about the amazing work they do!

GAK9 Athens is an approved AKC Fit Dog Club. We will have an AKC Evaluator present for the opportunity to earn Fit Dog titles, CGC titles, and all participants can receive an exclusive 2025 Turkey Trot medallion! 🏅

🐶 RSVP or learn more: 762-499-4428

Let’s celebrate fitness, community, and our four-legged friends this Thanksgiving season! 🍂💛

10/31/2025

Riptide 🌊

We had the absolute pleasure of working with Riptide, a 1yo Belgian Malinois from Savannah, GA! A complete spaz, as most young maligators, Rip was so much fun. We had a blast taking him to all the stores, parks, SAR training days, and events to learn all about being a good boy. His dog dad can now take him to work, play ball at the park off leash and have people over without Rip being an overzealous welcoming committee! He’s living it up back home!

10/11/2025

Nitro the 10m Belgian Malinois is joining the pack from the Savannah, GA area.

Nitro is one lucky pup! After a rehoming situation, this boy found himself the best dog parents and a home on a ton of acreage with a gun range, chickens, turkeys, and a whole lot of adventure! Nitro is here to learn all the off leash skills needed to live his life to the fullest and enjoy being a do-it-all dog!

We have been working hard on Nitro’s obedience and environmental exposure to help boost his confidence in new places. He has been overwhelmed in the past with meeting new people and going to busy areas, but you’d never know it with how much of a social butterfly this guy is today! Nini went with us to the NAPWDA workshop in TN, where he got the whole package of dogs, people, and distractions at our training locations and hotel. As you can see in some of the photos, Nitro made a ton of new friends!

We’ve still got some time to go in his Elite board & train, so stay tuned for updates on how this handsome guy turns out and all the adventures he gets to go on!