About Grand Rapids K9 – Dog Training

A Sparta facility with a working-dog focus

Grand Rapids K9 lists its address as 480 Hull St NE, Sparta MI 49345. The homepage publishes counters of "17 Years Experience*", "2400 Pets Trained*", "3 Police K9 On Patrol**" and "12 Protection K9 in Homes across America**", annotated "*Combined between trainers" and "** UTD as of August 2026."

Services

The published service list is Board & Train ("Your dog will stay with us for 14 days and we will fix all the problems and teach all the obedience. In-home follow up is included and required"), a Puppy Program, and Protection Training. Puppy Socialization, BiteWork and Group pages also appear in the navigation. Method is described as "based on proven techniques dating back to the 1890's. We use a combination of Classical and Operant-Conditioning to teach and modify behaviors."

The trainers

Jason "has been training dogs professionally since 2015… He has worked and trained over 1400+ dogs of all different breeds, but has most of his experience with higher drive breeds such as the German Shepherd and Belgian Malinois," graduated from Grand Valley State University in 2012, and attended "Magnum K9's Decoy Class for Law Enforcement K9 in Baldwin MI" in September 2019 and High Risk Deployments K9's "Intro to Scenario Based Training" in Flint in June 2019. Kaysie "has been training dogs professionally since 2021" with "an impressive 1000 dogs trained." A Belgian Malinois, Ryder, is credited as the company's protection dog and mascot.

Media

The site states WZZM-13 interviewed the business twice about police K9 work: after Grand Rapids Police Department K9 Dozer "was injured in a hit and run accident," and after Kalamazoo DPS K9 Sledge "was repeatedly stabbed in the neck during a high risk encounter with a homicidal suspect."

Hours

"Evaluations & Board and Train Follow Ups Monday-Friday 9am-5:00pm", weekends by prior booking.