K9 Companion Obedience

09/26/2026

Static and Milo both had training sessions today and they are both such fun dogs to work with!! Static is your typical high energy pointer type of girl with some insecurities and lack of confidence which has developed into some behavioral issues with other dogs. She is an incredibly smart dog and watching her learn to trust me in our 1.5 hours together today is an example why I love doing this. She started to trust me then started to work for me and then we were able to start diving into teaching her and her owner the first steps to fixing these behaviors.

Milo is a completely different type of dog. He is a young, very large, chocolate lab. Almost 100 pounds of dog that still wants to excitedly jump all over people and forgets some manners but boy does he thrive when you start making him work for toys or food or really any reward 😂. He is learning and picking up on things super quick and I love a drivey dog like him!

09/22/2026

Life has been a bit wild lately so posting training content has kind of been pushed to the back burner but we’re gonna try our best to get back to regular posts and updates on my amazing training clients and their dogs!

Let’s start with an adorable picture from the group of dogs I had together at my house recently!

07/17/2026

Forrest aka Mr. Maligator was working on reinforcing his “drop” command with the ecollar last night. He LOVES playing but forgets that he has to let go in order to keep playing or have the toy thrown again. We are also working on building his engagement with me and learning that his engagement earns fun play and we can use that to help us tackle his bike reactivity later on

07/17/2026

In my opinion, one of the easiest ways to do a training session that is more fun for both you and the dog, is to play!! Going outside and just throwing a ball relentlessly for fetch is a total waste of a huge opportunity! Training while using play as a reward teaches a dog how to obey commands during high arousal and builds their drive to work or train because the reward is so much more fun!

06/28/2026

Today was Coco’s first ever public outing/training session. Coco is a 7 month old super mutt puppy with many high drive and high energy breeds mixed in. She is historically pretty severely reactive to pretty much all people. Her session today impressed me as I expected at least a couple instances of reactivity to work through but Coco was insanely well behaved. Tons of people walked by her with loud carts or groups of people at a time. Several people talked to her and she just happily did her obedience work and paid no mind to them. An employee even had a whole conversation with me about her and how amazingly well behaved she was being.

06/24/2026

Little time lapse of nail trimming day for my 2 boys and training puppy, Coco. Coco obviously took longer to calm down but very obviously eventually just laid there while I cut her nails. Generally I do nails every week for my puppy to continue keeping him used to it and his puppy nails grow quick!! I’ve added coco to that same routine while she is doing her board and train to get her more comfortable with it.

06/17/2026

Coco is a 7 month old mixed breed (Belgian Malinois, GSD, Boxer, Bulldog and a few more that came up in her litter mates DNA test). She is doing a board and train with me to work on general obedience as well as a main focus on socialization with humans as she is a very classic shepherd type dog that wants to bark and act all tough and aloof anytime she sees people. We’ve started with focusing on her obedience and will soon start to move to more work both just neutrally seeing people without reacting as well as greeting people appropriately.

06/08/2026

This is a long one but worth the read! ❤️

A lot has changed for these two dogs since their mom adopted them just 5 months ago. Max and Ruby were adopted from a shelter with an unknown history other than they were a breeder release and a bonded pair. When I met them for the first time in February they were terrified and incredibly anxious little dogs (first photo). I couldn’t pet them without them flinching and running away and it took 3 lessons (each 1 hour long) before I could pet Max without the fear and a few more sessions before Ruby got anywhere near that. Today we went to Lowe’s for a training session and these dogs were LOVING it. They readily walked right up to people to get pets and attention. They were totally confident and it almost brought tears to my eyes when I watched Ruby walk right up to some employees who asked to say hi and happily accepted pets and even begged for more when they stopped petting her!

I’m so proud of how far they have come and our main focus at this point is truly tackling their biggest problem…severe leash reactivity to dogs. They love playing with dogs but when on a walk they will go insane and even redirect and start attacking each other. We’ve made big strides in the severity of their reactivity already but building their confidence and basic obedience was the initial big goal. We’ll get them there and their mom is committed to doing everything for them to do so!

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!!