Katy's K-9 Training and Behavioral Services

Katy's K-9 Training and Behavioral Services Positive Reinforcement Based-basic obedience,therapy dog certification,AKC CGC,behavior modification

Class Full💥For everyone still on the waiting list I will be working to schedule another class asap to fit you all in.
08/19/2025

Class Full💥
For everyone still on the waiting list I will be working to schedule another class asap to fit you all in.

A dog yawns in training.Seems pretty simple except there are six different scientific lenses that will tell you six comp...
08/15/2025

A dog yawns in training.
Seems pretty simple except there are six different scientific lenses that will tell you six completely different things.

The Stress Lens:
It is a calming signal, the dog is feeling pressure or conflict. Slow down, take the heat off.

The Physiology Lens:
Yawning oxygenates the brain. The dog might actually be gearing up for sharper focus.

The Social Bonding Lens:
It is contagious, they are mirroring you. That is connection, not conflict.

The Neuro Lens:
Yawning cools the brain to keep arousal in the learning zone. The dog is self-regulating.

The Operant Lens:
You have reinforced it without realising, it is just another behaviour in their toolbox.

The Vet Behaviour Lens:
It could be nausea or pain. You might need a health check, not a training tweak.

Same moment.
Six explanations.
Six opposite responses.

Here is the kicker, in the real world, you don’t get time to flip through textbooks before you act.

⏰You have got seconds.
🤷‍♀️You have got context.
🤔You have got your GUT instincts.

Your gut instincts only get sharp from miles on the lead, hours with dogs, and enough mistakes to know what the right call feels like.

Science only gives us framework.
Experience lets us use them in the moment.
So get out there and work with your dog to sharpen your gut instincts!

If you don’t have the gut instincts yet then work with a professional trainer like myself to learn your dogs body language so you have the framework.

3 spots left in this class so send me a message to join us and become a therapy dog team.
08/03/2025

3 spots left in this class so send me a message to join us and become a therapy dog team.

🎓 📚 Please help me congratulate Charlie and Heather on becoming an officially certified therapy dog team! They will be t...
07/18/2025

🎓 📚 Please help me congratulate Charlie and Heather on becoming an officially certified therapy dog team! They will be the 1st therapy dog team to be a part of the staff at Harper Creek’s Wattles Park Elementary School and I can’t wait for them to bring smiles to all the students and staff there. It has been such a pleasure training Charlie and working with Heather and the Harper Creek School district to bring a therapy dog program to their school.

🐾Therapy Dog Training Class🐾 Contact me asap to get your spot! I only have 4 spots left already due to my waiting list f...
07/03/2025

🐾Therapy Dog Training Class🐾
Contact me asap to get your spot! I only have 4 spots left already due to my waiting list for this class.

🧨🎆🎇👇Then message me and we can do some behavior modification training to help them overcome some of the fear. It is not ...
06/12/2025

🧨🎆🎇👇Then message me and we can do some behavior modification training to help them overcome some of the fear. It is not a quick fix though so make sure they are ready for the fast approaching July 4th Holiday.

🐾🎓Puppy Class Grads🐾🎓Great finish to my lastest Puppy Class. I will miss these cuties and can’t wait to see them again s...
06/11/2025

🐾🎓Puppy Class Grads🐾🎓
Great finish to my lastest Puppy Class. I will miss these cuties and can’t wait to see them again soon in Basic Training and then Therapy dog prep classes.
😉enjoy reading the pic captions to see the nicknames I had for them


🎓🐾Recent Therapy Dog Prep Class Graduates. Can’t wait to see all the awesome things they will do in their communities an...
06/10/2025

🎓🐾Recent Therapy Dog Prep Class Graduates. Can’t wait to see all the awesome things they will do in their communities and schools!

05/15/2025

Used these new Conversation Cubes I got from Learning Resources today and they were a big hit! All the kids loved having Trixie rolling these the dice so they could read off the questions and answer them. They sparked some great conversations and helped us start to build relationships and connections here between students and staff.

🐾🩵💙KIDS NIGHT! 💙🩵🐾We need kids ages 4-16 on Monday, May 19th from 6-7pm at Paw Paw Later Elementary. They will get to he...
05/14/2025

🐾🩵💙KIDS NIGHT! 💙🩵🐾
We need kids ages 4-16 on Monday, May 19th from 6-7pm at Paw Paw Later Elementary. They will get to help us train dogs in my therapy dog class by reading to them and doing classroom scenarios. It is always a lot of fun and everyone will be paid in cookies and doggie kisses.😘 Please comment below or message me if you and your child would like to attend for a fun night with our pups. This always fills up fast.

Tonight I had some high schoolers come to help train the future therapy dogs and they all did so great! We ran school sc...
05/13/2025

Tonight I had some high schoolers come to help train the future therapy dogs and they all did so great! We ran school scenarios to help get the dogs used to new situations and environments like reading to kids, walking along side a wheelchair, and working with an upset student in a councelors office. I am so thankful for the generous students who volunteer their time to help train these dogs for our community! I could not do it without them.

🐾Puppy Class Time🐾Start your relationship with your new puppy off on the right foot fast by taking my puppy class. I hav...
04/30/2025

🐾Puppy Class Time🐾
Start your relationship with your new puppy off on the right foot fast by taking my puppy class. I have 4 spots left and they will go fast so contact me asap if you want in.

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