About 307K9

What they offer

307K9 is a dog training business in Mills, near Casper, run by its owner and trainer Athena Brown. It works with puppies, teenage dogs learning house manners and self-control, adult dogs that could be better, and dogs preparing for competition.

Classes

Group classes are kept small and suit dogs that are social and not reactive on leash. Good Manners covers sit, down, short stays, waiting at doors, loose-leash walking, leave it, place and greeting politely, and Beyond Manners builds distance, duration and self-control around more distraction. Graduates can join monthly outings that practice manners in public, and specialty classes cover scent work and other team skills.

Private coaching and behavior work

Private packages cover basic skills such as crate training, chewing and doorway boundaries, and advanced work on recall, loose-leash walking, polite greetings and preventing separation anxiety. A longer program for challenging dogs, which starts with a behavioral assessment, addresses barking or growling at visitors, guarding food or toys, leash reactivity, conflict between dogs in the home and fear of new people or places.

Day training

A day-train program has the dog dropped off twice a week for four weeks, with a weekly session that hands the skills to the owner. It suits basic cues, leash manners, recall, impulse control and crate training; the business says it is not a good fit for dogs with aggression or severe separation anxiety.