About Takedown K9

Takedown K9 is the only trainer in this part of the corridor built around working dogs, and it is candid that this is the core of the business: it "specializes in top-tier canine training for law enforcement while continuing to offer obedience training for you and your family pet".

The ground

The site's claim for its site is specific – a "full 200-acre training and development course for training every imaginable scenario that you or your municipality may face". Boarding runs separately on what it describes as a new five-acre facility.

What is on offer

Four headings: obedience training, "home protectors", police dogs, and boarding. The stated ambition is to be "a leading kennel, renowned for delivering working dogs that are derived from top tier bloodlines and high quality training", so the operation breeds and places working dogs as well as training them.

The people

One owner began as a military working dog handler in the Navy, worked at a kennel that trained police dogs during his off time, and entered a puppy-raising program for future police dogs before building his own working-dog line. The site says he also "fell in love with pet training helping dogs become more confident and obedient". The other owner served as a Navy corpsman, took a degree in psychology, and moved into K9 training from there; the site describes her favorite part of the job as "seeing the moment when a dog and their owner click".

For a pet owner

The published client accounts are mostly about boarding and about family-dog obedience rather than protection work – recall, jumping, calmness around other dogs, and what one owner describes as being taught to be a confident leader.