K9 Companion Obedience

05/21/2026

05/04/2026

Deacon has started working on some off leash skills in the last week and for a 19 week old puppy who just started this, he’s doing very good!!

04/26/2026

Kevin had another great session yesterday! He absolutely loves training and is a very smart boy!

04/22/2026

Kibby and Ayla start their transition of training back home today. They both have made a ton of progress and now it’s time to go back home and continue working!

04/19/2026

Kevin did incredibly well in his first training! I’m so excited to continue training him and watch him learn and grow his obedience skills

04/14/2026

Practicing our impulse control when going through doors/gates/etc. is a skill that every dog in my house learns and is expected to do. Regardless of if they are my personal dogs, foster dogs, training dogs or just a dog i happen to be pet sitting.

04/09/2026

Kibby and Ayla have been working really hard for the last couple weeks with obedience and confidence building. They have made huge strides in becoming all around better behaved dogs. We had our first Home Depot session the other day and they were both so good! I honestly expected Kibby to struggle even just slightly with her anxiety when there were so many loud noises and new people but she took me by surprise and knocked it out of the park! Today Kibby even started running around playing with Duke in the yard for the first time in her 2 weeks here!

04/02/2026

One question I get asked all the time is how to fix or stop resource guarding behavior in dogs. Technically, I don’t stop resource guarding behavior all together as it is a very natural/instinctual dog behavior but I do teach the dog some very strong obedience in order to manage the behavior and stop it from turning into a fight over a resource.

Duke will guard his food, high value treats/chews and sometimes toys that he is actively engaging with when another dog tries to take that resource from him. In order to manage this behavior and stop it from turning into a fight or him over correcting another dog for trying to take his resource, I taught him a very strong “leave it” command.

In this video you can clearly see that when Deacon comes to play with the toy Duke has, I say “leave it” and Duke immediately disengages from the toy and does not guard it.

04/01/2026

My boy at 14 weeks old just earned his AKC S.T.A.R. Title!

03/31/2026

Ayla was on fire during this session! She was ready to work and had a blast doing it!