Meraki K9

04/18/2025

We love a powerfully charged terminal marker!

03/29/2025

More on this story to come soon! Enjoy this snapshot of Nova’s handoff to her new handler, Carson! So excited to see all the wonderful adventures they will have together!

03/18/2025

We’ve had a busy couple of months here! We had so many great pups come through and even had two sibling pairs! We had Potato’s sister, Zemy (Doodle) and Matilda’s sister, Roxie (bully mix) come right after their siblings came for training! Everyone did amazing! We also had puppy camper, Max, come back to wrap up the last part of his puppy on leash program! We will see him again soon for his off leash adventure training!
We had a few boarding pups too! Piper, Molly, Maya, Doug, Diabetic Alert Dog Sugar and Diabetic Alert Dog Kona. Kona did some brushing up on public access and also worked on his tucking skills!

We have a few spots open for April and May and will have limited spots in June!

03/16/2025

Help us wish Doug a very happy 3rd birthday! 🥳🥳🥳

01/28/2025

This is Kona, a dog I had in over the fall for training! Look at all the awesome things he is doing! Great job to Kona and his family! They have truly done an outstanding job of keeping up and continuing his training! I am so so so proud of this team 🥹

01/09/2025

We hope you all had a happy new year! Let’s welcome Potato, Manpx, and Matilda who are kicking off the new year with resolutions to be the best fur-sions of themselves!

Potato—a young Douge de Bordeaux here learning confidence and leash manners!

Max—Golden Retriever puppy who will be a frequent flyer here! He is doing a raise and train program! In this program, Max will do an on and off leash board and train at appropriate ages and do intermittent boarding with training refreshers to make sure everything is really sinking in along with getting extra socialization experiences!

Matilda—a young mix who is here to help build some confidence, create a reliable and fair communication system, and work on some obedience!

12/25/2024

Happy Howlidays and Merry Christmas from our pack to yours! Here’s some pictures of some of our pups, recent training pups, and some past graduates that came back for a visit while their people were out of town!

Sugar: Golden Retriever Diabetic Alert Dog
Max: Golden Retriever
Wilson: Golden Retriever
Kona: Portuguese Water Dog Diabetic Alert Dog
Soot: Black Lab (Our Pup)
Nova: Yellow Lab Diabetic Alert Dog
Elsy: Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
Idgie: Jack Russel Terrier
Sam: Malinois (Our Pup)
Frank: Patterdale Terrier (Our Pup)
Rip: Patterdale Terrier (Our Pup)
Arya: Malinois (Our Pup)
Luna: Black Lab
Doug: Golden Retriever
Josie: Chihuahua Mix
Nova, Soot, and Doug enjoying a romp in the yard!
Piper: Bully Mix (This was sent in from her owners! We love a good update!)
Nala: Golden Retriever
Axel: German Shepherd
Roxy: Rottweiler

I hope all the dogs get everything they wanted from Santa Paws because they were all exceptionally good this year! 🤗🤗🤗

09/06/2024

Coffee Creamer and Dog Training

I had an interesting morning making coffee creamer! Just thought I would share how I related my experience to dog training 🐾🤔🤗🐾

Yesterday morning I decided to make homemade coffee creamer, something that I do on a fairly regular basis. I got my ingredients together, creamer, milk, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice (IYKYK!). I mixed it all together in my mason jar, then proudly poured it into my coffee expecting it to be the deli...

08/29/2024

Take a look at some of our pups in training for August! Everyone has done amazing with their training! 🐾 😍 🐾
We have a couple of spots available for private lessons for September!

07/08/2024

Hello!

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that it is looking like we are booked out for board and train programs until late September into early October!

However...new this summer is the availability of some private lesson programs! If you've been wanting to work with us, but board & train wasn't the best fit for you or your dog, this may be the solution!

Private lesson programs:
This program will require a dedicated and passionate owner! To see the best success you will need to work your dog at home throughout the week in addition to attending your weekly lesson.

If you are interested in seeing if this program may be the right fit for you and your pup, please book your free phone consultation here ⬇️
https://www.merakik9.com/book-online

Check out my latest blog post that goes into more detail about these new programs!

https://www.merakik9.com/post/exciting-new-things-happening-here

I am also proud to announce that I am now an official Work Your Pack Productions Affiliate Trainer and I am so excited to share their video program with my clients! Happy learning! 🐶🤓🐾

Hello, everyone! Things have been super busy here at Meraki K9, but I have some fun new programs to announce! I have officially become a Work Your Pack Affiliate Trainer! What does this mean for you? This means that you will now have access to the Work Your Pack Foundational Obedience Video with you...

07/08/2024

Everyone say hello to Chase and Nala!

You may remember Chase attending training last year in March as a puppy! He is back this year to continue building some confidence and to upgrade his toolbox to now include tactile stimulation with an ecollar for extra clarity!

Nala is here to brush up on her obedience skills!

Both Chase and Nala are doing amazing! So happy to have them here and so excited to see how they have been progressing in their training 🥳🫶🏻🐾

05/23/2024

Look at these champs holding a sit even though they really want to be playing! North and Nova very much enjoyed their time together today!
While we don’t promote dog parks or doggy daycare, it is nice when we have puppies around the same age and size for some puppy social time 🐾🐶🐶🐾

It is extremely important to continue working your engagement while allowing your dog to play with other dogs so that your dog does not begin to place more value on the other dog than they are placing on you! Today’s lesson included working on their terminal marker/recall during play and also working on some sits together!