About Camp Run Kennels LLC

About Camp Run Kennels

Camp Run Kennels is a family-owned facility on Camp Run Road in Morgantown, sitting on 12 acres. Owners Brad and Caroline Palmer describe a deliberately non-corporate operation: the kennel is on their own property, someone is always around, cameras run throughout the facility, and they get to know each dog and owner personally. Alongside training the business offers dog daycare and both short- and long-term boarding.

Board and train

Board and train is described as the hallmark service, led by Brad. Programs are published as a ladder: a one-week basic manners tune-up covering leash skills, polite greetings, impulse control and household manners; a two-week foundational obedience program; a two-week scent detection and tracking program; a three-week advanced obedience and off-leash reliability program worked around real-world distractions; a four-week behavior modification program for dogs struggling with reactivity, anxiety, fear or impulse control; and a four-week human aggression program described as advanced and reserved for dogs showing aggression toward people. Any package of two weeks or longer includes unlimited follow-up sessions for the lifetime of the dog.

Who runs it

Brad Palmer states over 15 years of experience as a police K9 handler, the last eight of them as trainer and supervisor at MPD, and the site describes him as a certified K9 handler and instructor. Both owners are WVU graduates.

Honesty about outcomes

The published program notes are unusually direct about limits: training results are not guaranteed and depend on the dog's temperament and owner follow-through, behavior modification is framed as improvement and management rather than perfection, human aggression cases are described as requiring lifelong management, and the kennel reserves the right to decline dogs unsuited to a board-and-train environment.