Superior K9 LLC

02/17/2024

A new adventure is on the horizon! I’ve got one 4 week lesson program spot open on Sundays, starting Feb 18th-March 10th. This will be my last training spot available for the foreseeable future. If you want to train with Superior K9, now is your chance! Unfortunately I am completely booked for boarding/board & trains and am unable to take any more dogs indefinitely. Don’t worry, Superior K9 isn’t closing, just shifting in a new direction. Stay tuned for more updates!

11/25/2023

This is the ONLY sale of the year here at Superior K9 LLC! If you’ve been waiting to start training with your dog, now is the time! Take 15% off of either the 4 Week Lesson Program or 3 Week Board & Train Program when you book with us by Monday November 27th 2023.

To book, send an email to [email protected] and then sign and return the intake forms as well as your dog’s up to date vaccination records.

Happy Heeling into the Holiday Season! 🐾

10/20/2023

Obedience, Stability, Neutrality 🐾

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10/15/2023

Generalization in dog training is a broad but fairly simple concept. It’s is quite literally your dog’s ability to “generalize” information that it has already encoded into its long term memory with new information given to the dog by a handler or environment. It’s a guess for the dog, but when two things are similar enough, the dog may associate them and be rewarded. A dog that generalizes well is often a well rounded dog that can excel in many things from obedience to detection, tracking or sport.

10/14/2023

Kimber is here for our advanced 3 week board and train program. She is doing stressed based training such as beams, ladders and cans to increase her stability and ability to recall obedience under stress. We are also doing dog neutrality, public access and impulse control training. Kimber’s owner works in construction and brings her to work with him every day. She is exposed to heavy equipment, other dogs and loud noises that she must maintain her obedience through for her own safety. Although Kimber is a naturally stable dog, it’s still important for her obedience to be on point. Her job is to exist with her owner as he works without him having to constantly worry about her. Kimber is doing cans in this picture. Cans teach a wide variety of things such as trust and physiology. If you want a stable dog that can succeed in a variety of environments, send us a message!

10/13/2023

A common word used by dog trainers that can leave dog owners scratching their heads. When we talk about dog behavior especially in terms of a dog's environment, a stimulus (singular) or stimuli (plural) almost always comes up. Examples of stimuli may be sounds, sights, foods, smells or physical interactions.
The sounds of the dog food bag as you get your dog's food ready in the morning may be a stimulus that causes your dog to whine or bark. A stimulus may also bring forward certain emotions in a dog, such as fear, anxiety or pleasure. Understanding how your dog interacts with the stimuli in it's environment can help you create and modify behaviors as well as manage your home in a way that sets your dog up for success on a daily basis.
What is a stimulus that affects your dog's behavior?

10/10/2023

Exciting news! Superior K9 LLC can now officially accept credit cards! I’ve been working on being able to offer more to my clients, and that includes payment options!

09/25/2023

The past month has been one of the most important adventures of my life thus far. Learning under Jensen Huffman K9 Obedience has been an incredible honor and I am beyond excited to bring more information and new methods of dog training to my community.

Please join us in congratulating .marin of for her completion, graduation and Masters Trainer’s Certification, here at Huffman K9 Obedience. ⁣⁣
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This accomplishment is no small feat, with less than a 50% completion rate, this program is emotionally, physically, and mentally taxing. The commitment that Kayla has shown to the process was exemplary and her dog and handler training skills match her grit and determination.⁣⁣ Her personal dog leaves with tracking, protection and human remains detection skills and Kayla leaves us as a professional trainer and handler.
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Congratulations Kayla!⁣
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09/15/2023

On August 27th the town of Superior lost two beloved members of our community to a horrific act of violence. Superior K9 LLC has donated a 4 Week Basic Obedience lesson package to the raffle benefiting the families of the victims. The benefit dinner will be Saturday, September 16th at 3pm at the Mineral County Fairgrounds. Please go donate and support the families of Logan and Jenny and honor their memory.

There is more information about the 4 Week lesson program on the website, link in bio. Unfortunately I will be unable to attend the event as I am still in school in Oregon. Please please go support 🙏🏼

09/09/2023

FREE TRAINING ADVICE!!!!
Alright, usually I do not give training advice on the internet. But I’m going to give you the most valuable free training advice there is:

CRATE YOUR DOG IN YOUR VEHICLE.

It fu***ng kills me every time I see a reactive or aggressive dog do freaking awesome in a training session just to end with getting shoved into the back seat of a car. Or worse, the bed of a pickup. It almost immediately undoes all of the hard work you, your trainer and the your household have done.

A lot of times, barrier reactivity is the base line of a LOT of behavioral issues. Barrier reactivity is a self
rewarding act because especially in the car, whatever the trigger is, goes away pretty quick. The dog thinks that the trigger went away because it lost its effing mind barking and freaking out at whatever the trigger was. But in all reality, the nature of vehicles is to move. A window is a barrier. When your dog is sitting in the back seat staring out the window and sees another dog, barks at it, and then the vehicle keeps moving and the dog disappears, your dog was just rewarded for barking and being reactive.

If you’re wondering why your reactive dog isn’t improving with all the training and management in the home… it’s because it only takes ONE TIME for your dog to aggress another dog (or whatever the trigger is) through the car window, self reward and learn to repeat that behavior until that aggression starts bleeding over into other facets of life. If it wasn’t already an issue.

If your dog is in a crate… guess what… it can’t be barrier reactive in a car or truck. It can’t condition that reactivity and aggression.

I’ve preached the safety reasons for crating in the car over and over and over again. But if your dog’s safety didn’t convince you to crate in your car, maybe this will.

Crate your dog in your vehicle. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

09/03/2023

As we turn the corner towards fall, we book up SUPER FAST for boarding during the holidays. I have a limited number of kennels available to fully crate trained dogs that have been through at least one of my training programs.
Perks of boarding with us at Superior K9:

🐾 quality over quantity. I only take a few dogs so that I am able to spend the necessary time caring for each dog as if they were my own. Dogs are crated in my home, with me, and all the luxuries of a house dog.
🐾 training maintenance! Your dog gets worked every day and training is a part of every day life. No backtracking like after boarding in a big, loud, chaotic kennel.
🐾 Exercise! Every dog gets appropriate exercise. Between endless acres of public land to explore and a dog specific treadmill (for those sub zero days) your dog will maintain an active lifestyle.
🐾 safety is #1! Your dog stays in a clean, well managed household that is run by experienced handlers and trainers. No stressing about your dogs well-being while you’re on the beach!
🐾 regular updates! I do my absolute best to send pictures/videos to owners on a regular basis.

Are you ready to sign up for a training program now!? Or if you’re one of my wonderful previous clients, are you ready to take a worry free vacation!?

Email: [email protected]

07/13/2023

Only 2 time slots left in the August Schedule!

If you’ve been wanting to sign up for basic obedience training classes with you pup, now is your chance!

Now up to 3 dogs per household are welcome to attend private lessons!

Visit https://www.superior-k9.com for all the details!

Email [email protected] to get signed up!