K9 Fit For Life

07/04/2025

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07/04/2025

Happy 4th of July from my family to yours. Be safe! 🧡

07/02/2025

Do you love talking and bragging about your dog's accomplishments or the negative or positive things going on with your dog? Do you love to have training or behavior questions answered by a professional without having to sign up for a training program? Good news! K9 Fit For Life offers a consulting service where anyone can make an appointment to chat online about their dog, get expert advice and have questions answered all in one session. Since it is online, you can be anywhere in the world to do this. Give me a call or email me to schedule a session.
I love talking dogs! 🧡🐾

07/02/2025

Call K9 Fit For Life to join our basic obedience program. I will give you the tools and knowledge as well as build your confidence to be the leader your dog needs. This is not just any basic obedience program. We will work together to create rules and boundaries, teach you leadership, and ensure you understand when it is appropriate to reward or correct.
So many times, we are the ones creating negative behaviors without even knowing it.
Sign up for my program before you bring your dog home or if you already have a dog who you would like help with.

Be a Responsible Dog Owner.
Training is for Life! 🧡

07/01/2025

K9FFL Woof Newsletter for July is out! If you didn't not recieve it or you would like to be added to the mail list, please email or message me.
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07/01/2025

Please don't wait to prepare for this! 🎇🧡🐾

06/29/2025

This is my dear friend in NC... as she says this loud and clear, I think about all the trainers including myself and how we struggle with this. Love you my friend Kelsey Brooke Cox. Keep up all the amazing work that you do! 🧡

Dog training and working with the public is incredibly HARD. Unrealistic expectations, clients without boundaries, and the amount of hours are simply brutal. I have to remind myself constantly why I'm doing this and my good clients keep my spirits high. Reviews, progress with your dogs, and sending your awesome updates keep me motivated.

Let's talk about compassion fatigue in the dog training world. We often hear about this in the Veterinary community but it is often overlooked when talking about professional dog trainers. As a professional dog trainer we often deal with non complaint owners, we deal with behavioral issues (sometimes non fixable), we see our training dogs euthanized for fixable issues/dogs taken to the shelter because owners refuse to do their homework, people have unrealistic and unreasonable expectations for training in a short amount of time, and simply we work way too much. Due to these reasons dog trainers leave the industry and great dog trainers simply burnout.

How can you help?

Have realistic expectations for training.

Socialize your puppy properly and seek help before issues start.

Understand that dog trainers have lives outside of training so if we don't respond immediately we will get back to you as soon as possible.

When something isn't working with training, simply ask.

Remember you paid for a service, not a person's soul. You paid for an hour of their time not 24/7 access.

We're doing our best to provide excellent service and professional help. We are human and also need a break ❤

06/25/2025

Training sit and down.. good boy! 🧡

06/25/2025

Good Kennel Up!! Crate games for this boy! 💙🧡

06/25/2025

Getting started on the recall!! All fun and games!! 💙🧡