Georgia K9 National Training Center, LLC

Georgia K9 National Training Center, LLC Georgia K9 NTC is a full service training facility dedicated to helping you have the perfect canine.

Georgia K9 National Training Center is the South's premier K9 training company. Our trainers are nationally recognized dog handlers and our clients are nationwide.

GAK9NTC Basic Handler Course (3/21). The course is open to everyone across experience levels, even those currently w/...
06/19/2026

GAK9NTC Basic Handler Course (3/21).
The course is open to everyone across experience levels, even those currently w/o a K9 - the student can work with one of our GAK9NTC dogs. Police, search & rescue, civilians are all welcome. Puppies / juveniles -possible, supplemented with an adult GAK9NTC dog. We start with classroom material for the day -but the ultimate objective and content is training in the field, with real life / on the street situations. Importantly, the dog learns to find live humans - not tracking to toy or object. Different genders, ages, races. Fixed object starts for missing persons. Vehicle pickup. Door problems. Tracking to buildings. Cross tracks. Scent pools. Heavy contamination.

GAK9NTC Basic Handler Course (3/21). In cases where the handler or their department / agency purchases our K9, part o...
06/12/2026

GAK9NTC Basic Handler Course (3/21).
In cases where the handler or their department / agency purchases our K9, part of the course’s objective is to have the dog bond to the handler. To enable this, we focus hard on not having the dog bond to GAK9NTC trainers. Once you arrive on our property to start the course - the dog is yours. Which means, it stays with you. Plays with you. Hangs out during downtime. Learns obedience with you.

GAK9NTC Basic Handler Course (2/21). The standard course is 2 weeks / 8 hours a day, a mix of ‘classroom’ and field wo...
06/11/2026

GAK9NTC Basic Handler Course (2/21). The standard course is 2 weeks / 8 hours a day, a mix of ‘classroom’ and field work tailored to the individual handler and K9’s “incoming” experience level. A completely green handler and dog advance as far as they are able and interested from imprinting and fire trails. Andrew and Narco arrived already relatively advanced - Narco was able to work hard surfaces and contamination. So, their learning was more focused on refinements and taking Narco to the next level. One example of a refinement that may be necessary is moving the dog from tracking to toys to tracking to human targets. Tracking to toys or other articles when practicing does not give the dog experience with alerting to an actual human target - which is problematic in hostile deployments. See previous posts on reading proximity alerts and more on why we train this way, with humans for the dog to find at the end of each practice trail.

GAK9NTC Basic Handler Course (1/21). Let’s start with the participants. Narco serves his community with the Greene ...
06/09/2026

GAK9NTC Basic Handler Course (1/21). Let’s start with the participants. Narco serves his community with the Greene County Sheriff’s Office K9 Division as a multipurpose detection, tracking, and apprehension K9. His handler is Andrew Long / Andrew Long / Greene County TN Sheriff's Department. Normally a two-week 1:1 or 1:2 private experience, this session was specially compressed into one intensive week to sharpen Andrew and Narco’s trailing skills while serving as Beth Roberts’ graduation project. Beth recently retired from Johns Creek PD and is training with us to become a tracking/trailing instructor. K9 Dane is her retired partner and the more senior Mal in the photos. Macy Taber, one of our tracking/trailing instructors in Canton, came along with K9 Rambo (detection and tracking GSD). A signature feature of every GAK9 handler course is the chance to work multiple dogs in addition to your own partner. So, K9s Tank, Widow, Venom, Basil, and Trace were also on hand. K9 Widow, wearing the red collar, is currently available — the others are spoken for or deployed.

Meet Narco, multipurpose K9 with Greene County Sheriff's Office K9 Division. Narco and his handler Long recently parti...
06/08/2026

Meet Narco, multipurpose K9 with Greene County Sheriff's Office K9 Division. Narco and his handler Long recently participated in our 1:1 Basic Handler Course. We will share moments from the course feating Narco throughout June. A number of other K9s will also be making an appearance - both GAK9NTC mantrailers and the instructors' own dogs. We aim to give handlers an opportunity to work with multiple K9s during this ~2 week course.

05/31/2026

Part 4 of 4: GAK9NTC Tank suburban trail with multiple surface transitions - Tank finds Macy.

05/31/2026

Part 3 of 4: GAK9NTC Tank suburban trail with multiple surface transitions.

05/27/2026

Part 2: GAK9NTC Tank suburban trail with multiple surface transitions.

05/26/2026

Part 1: GAK9NTC Tank is lerning to work a suburban trail with multiple surface transitions. Compared to the previous video, he is now working a much more contaminated area as well as learning to work swirling odor in parking lots.

Congratulations to Mark Herman, Harris County Constable Precinct 4 Deputy Millhouse and GAK9 Sig for passing their handl...
05/25/2026

Congratulations to Mark Herman, Harris County Constable Precinct 4 Deputy Millhouse and GAK9 Sig for passing their handlers course on Friday. They were joined by veteran tracker team Deputy Palacio and K9 Hades who've been on the street now for about two years and have racked up 35 finds of mostly missing persons. Georgia K9 National Training Center, LLC

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205 Knoxbridge Court
Canton, GA
30114

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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+18773606959

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