About Gladio K9

Real-world training in Warwick

Gladio K9 is a dog training business at 272 Pettaconsett Avenue in Warwick, serving all of Rhode Island, Southern Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut. It accepts all breeds and describes its approach as balanced and personalized, tailored to each dog and lifestyle, with owners taught to strengthen and maintain behaviors and take a leadership role.

Services

Private one-on-one sessions cover practical obedience for dogs of any age and behavior modification that teaches acceptable behaviors to replace unwanted ones. Day school condenses the same curriculum into two and three week drop-off programs for dogs 6 months and older, described as a board and train program without the board. Gladio K9 also sources and trains personal protection dogs, offers bite work sessions for dogs already trained in protection, and provides confidential private narcotics detection sweeps with its certified narcotics dog, Pharaoh. Structured daycare is $45 per day for one dog or $75 for two, with 10 and 20 day packages; training rates are by phone. Active duty military, veterans and first responders receive a discount.

The trainer

Owner and trainer Gerald Famiglietti earned his dog trainer's certification from Animal Behavior College and trained further in police K9 and personal protection work at Tarheel Canine.

What to ask

Ask about rates for private training and day school.