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Obedience Training
Private One-on-One Training • Sunday Group Classes
Our training philosophy at Working K9 centers on obedience — built through clear handling, consistency, and real-world practice.
Choose the right program
Training formats designed for different goals — individualized focus or structured group progression.
One-on-One Sessions
Individualized training tailored to the handler, the dog, and specific real-world challenges. This format allows for focused problem-solving, precision handling, and faster progression.
Ideal for foundational obedience, behavioral clarity, or advancing specific skills that require dedicated attention without external distractions.
Sunday Group Classes
Structured group sessions designed to reinforce obedience under controlled distractions while building confidence, obligation, and reliability in varied environments.
Group classes introduce pressure gradually and allow handlers to apply learned techniques alongside others — strengthening teamwork, discipline, and consistency.
Handler-first training
Our practical training always starts with the handler. Negative issues can be communicated to a dog through improper or confusing leash handling, so the handler must first learn the skills needed to use the leash correctly.
Humane, consistent leash handling — used as a clear communication tool — helps ensure immediate progress. A system of basic techniques and expectations is taught to the handler first, creating clarity before we ask more of the dog.
From leash fluency to controlled pressure
Once leash handling techniques have been learned, the K9 is guided using slow and consistent commands on leash until both dog and handler become fluent. A series of obstacles are then introduced.
These obstacles increase in difficulty with time and experience. They are designed to create confusion, anxiety, escalate stress levels, create resistance, and finally refusal. As dog and handler grow in mutual trust — and most of all respect — those same obstacles become conquerable.
With slow introduction and progression, trust develops to the point where refusal is eliminated. From there, exercises can be built where obligation exists regardless of distractions — without exception.
Please contact us if you would like to set up an assessment.
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