Training
Types of Obedience
Training Offered:
Puppy Training
Problem solving
AKC competition
Schutzhund competition
Detection training
Training courses and Certification
We are behavior problem solving specialists. If you have any type of problem with your young or adult dog, help is just a phone call away.
Basic Information on
dogs of differing ages
8 weeks to 6 months
When a puppy comes home for the first time, it is a whole new world for it; this causes a lot of stress in the beginning. It’s a good idea to call a trainer in as soon as possible. The young dog has to learn what good habits are.
Housebreaking: Every dog living in a family has to learn clean habits as soon as they come into the house. We can help you achieve that.
Obedience: Young puppies have to learn proper behaviors, and the best time to achieve that is as soon as possible. Training is being done most of the time with motivational approach, with food, toys, and lots of praise.
Chewing and Jumping: Behaviors that a young dog has to learn are wrong as soon as they come home, or soon after.
Puppies
6 months to a year
An older puppy that did not have the earlier training and is being started at 6 months of age will still use motivational training for the learning process, depending on the dogs maturity level. Some dogs can go to off leash training. Motivational training is done via food reward and toy reward to create association with obedience commands.
1 year and up
Most dogs after 1 year are mature enough to handle the more advanced type of training, which entails off leash training. We can help you achieve success with your dog with humane and compassionate training methods. We train the dog to a level that suits your family needs. For those clients that want to do other types of training (competition show handling, Schutzhund, agility, etc), we are able to help you out also.
Board and Train
For a reasonable fee, we do all the hard work for you. We put the necessary foundation on your dog in terms of house manners and obedience commands and then work with you to perform a skill transfer, so your dog will listen to you, instead of just listening to me, his trainer. Because of years of experience, we have the right time of rewards, and commands and achieve much faster results in a short period of time.
Please call us to inquire at 917-692-3650, about this service.
Schutzhund Training
The sport of Schutzhund, now called I.P.O requires a commitment on the part of the owner. We have won numerous awards in this sport, as you can read about on our “About the Trainer” page.
Before a dog is even permitted to enter a Schutzhund competition, that dog must first pass a Temperament and Obedience test called the BH (Begleithunde). For obedience, the dog must heel on and off leash, do a sit and down in motion while the handler walks off, recall off leash from a distance, heel through a crowd, and stay in a long down (15 minutes) with handler away while another dog is working nearby. That is the obedience phase. In the temperament phase, the dog must not show any aggression when tied out with the handler out of sight, while a jogger runs past, then a bicyclist, and finally a dog. The test varies according to the judge, but there is also a part which shows how the dog behaves around people, with people crowding around, and so on. After the dog receives the BH, he or she can then go on the earn their Schutzhund degree in Level I, Level II and Level III, with each level representing greater levels of difficult in obedience, protection and tracking exercises.
Only dogs with stable drives, are able to achieve these degrees. These are the Schutzhund titles, SCH I, II, III, FH I, II; and the IPO I, II, III. These titles indicate that the dog accomplished on the same day, the three phases: tracking, obedience, and protection. Only a dog of balanced drive can achieve this as in the tracking and obedience work different drives are used than in the protection work. The ability of a dog not to break down when given a series of commands, in a long, 15 to 20 minute exercise, combined with the ability to call upon different drives for tracking work (his nose) versus prey and fight drive in protection mode, and so forth, means dogs must be very temperamentally stable to do this kind of work. We can help evaluate your dog, to see if it has the necessary genetic level of prey drive and strong nerves to achieve these degrees in this sport. We have titled our dogs, at not only the club level, but at the national level, in this sport and we can extend our expertise to you.
The video on this page touches on some parts of this.
Dog Training in Huntingdon Valley, Greater Philadelphia & Fort Washington
Welcome to Advanced K9 Training! We are proud to offer a wide range of services to help you train your pup and solve any problems you may be having. Our dog training in Greater Philadelphia services includes Puppy Training, Problem Solving, AKC Competition, Schutzhund Competition, Detection Training, Training Courses, and Certification.
Puppy training is essential to set your furry friend up for success as they grow into adulthood. Dogs of all ages can benefit from obedience dog training in Huntingdon Valley. It can help them to better listen to and respond to your commands. And if you’re looking for something fun to do with your dog, tricks training is a great way to bond with your pet while also showing off their impressive skills to your friends and family!
No matter what type of dog training you’re interested in, the experts at dog training in Fort Washington can help. Contact us today to learn more about our services and to schedule a consultation with one of our experienced trainers. We are here to help you every step of the way, so please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Thank you for choosing Advanced K9 Training!