Magnum Opus K9 Training

03/24/2025

Having fun & Getting good s**t done is the name of the game! We have a few more lessons with Doberman Cosmo before drives back to Georgia. I enjoy seeing reactive dogs let loose and play in safe and controlled ways while working hard on big feeling things! Getting them to be more comfortable in environments and balanced in their mind to trust their owner’s guidance is the way to more freedom 🔑

03/24/2025

Congrats to Lila on graduating the Advanced Lesson program! 👏💯🥳🤘🏼

03/24/2025

Welcome GSP Gunnar to the Advanced lesson program! We have a lot to tackle here with his lack of focus on his owners outside of the home and disrespecting his surroundings via counter surfing and jumping on people. Thank you for the referral 🤘🏼

03/24/2025

03/10/2025

Major congrats to client Tori and Jinxie for working up the courage and building up the training skills to go out there and compete in their first dog sport trial! I worked with Tori on Jinxie’s dog reactivity and now they are crushing it in group classes with other dogs and getting into sports!

One of the biggest rewarding parts of being a trainer that manages a ton of behavior cases is inspiring and building confidence in the handler. There is a shift that happens with each of these handlers of dogs with challenging and tough behavior they are learning how to properly approach, navigate, and live with. I have a huge passion for dog sports/activities, whether for casual enjoyment or competition, and it’s amazing when I can help get a handler on board with these goals that bring genetic fulfillment to their dogs which just makes life even better together. Iykyn. Many handlers see these outlets and opportunities as a pipe dream, and are amazing when they become available for them as they improve their relationship with their dog.

03/09/2025

Congrats to Athena & Family on graduating the Advanced Lesson Program! 👏🤘🏼🥳

02/24/2025

This is so true.

01/13/2025

‼️ Effective IMMEDIATELY 📣

Hello MOK9 fam, this is my current service menu that I am excited to roll out. I am offering training in San Antonio AND in Houston on a regular basis now that I am collaborating with the amazing . The schedule and locations are super limited so interested potential clients will continue to be screened and not everyone will be a good fit for my programs. I appreciate everyone’s patience and hanging with me as I’ve been getting my life back on track since the medical set backs. I’m glad to be getting past all that. If you’ve already reached out I will be responding shortly.

12/14/2024

Trainers get so many emergent calls from people seriously struggling with multi-dog packs. Many dogs are rehomed, put into the system, and killed when oftentimes training and simple daily adjustments to pack life can be the solution.

Training tools help this process and change toxic pack dynamics by making it easy to enforce boundaries and hold each dog accountable for learning without making big mistakes that could lead to a fight and vet bills. Your dogs are living with you in your home so you set the rules, not them. Do not work up to trying to manage them off leash until you know you have reliability, for your safety and theirs understand that you might not be able to trust some dogs completely off leash with each other around in some situations.

Each of my dogs in this video are dog selective and DA to various degrees and are highly possessive and are resource guarders. They are all intact and different ages. This peace and harmony shown here is not without daily work and a lot of training and preventing bad mistakes anytime they are together. Your first step to helping your pack dynamic is stopping them from getting to each other and bullying/trying to take what the other has. That has to happen before any progress can be made. If they claim ownership of you then you implement these same methods keeping one from getting to you while you give attention to the other.

Leashes, crates, and training can make all the difference in keeping dogs in homes. The more your dogs get away with negative interactions with each other, the more they lose trust and confidence in you to keep them safe and happy.

12/14/2024

Congrats to Kai and his awesome people on graduating the puppy program 🤘🏼🐾🥳🤩

12/09/2024

Hard work, understanding, and some break throughs at Wrigley’s lesson today.

12/03/2024

Make time for them, they’re here for just a short while ✌🏼

12/03/2024

Wrigley doing amazing with impulse control and distance at the doors she used to bully her way through.

12/03/2024

Decompression hike with Ragnar, Syn, & Q 🤘🏼

11/28/2024

#2024