Top Tier K9® |Pet, Working Dog and People Training
Home of the Foundation Dog®
The Professional's Choice
Recognized as the World's Greatest Dog Training Company 

Recognized as the world’s greatest dog training company, Top Tier K9® leads the way in developing dog trainers to launch their own successful businesses.

Top Tier K9 Academy for Dog Trainers 

Established in 2014, The Top Tier K9 Academy for Dog Trainers is built on the foundation of world-class program and project management processes used to create and implement a scalable learning system designed for people to enter the dog training industry regardless of their previous skills and professions.   Proper Instructional Systems Design (ISD) and world-class program and project management processes, ensures the curriculum, and its delivery is measurable, scalable, expandable, and of extreme value to students.  

Top Tier K9 Certifications reflect the level of learning achieved by our graduates and their commitment to excellence in the training of dogs and the education of dog owners  Top Tier K9 Certified trainers have to prove their skills to earn a certification,  Top Tier K9 Business Training is without peer and provides business startup and management training to help graduates become successful entrepreneurs in their communities.

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Students learn every tool and technique necessary to become one of the World's Greatest dog trainers.  How to train Pets, Foundation Dogs®, Service Dogs, Protection Dogs and Advanced Security Dogs.  Students learn project management, business development, public speaking, and risk management skills to be successful in launching their own dog training business.  Top Tier K9 earned the designation as the World's Greatest Dog Training Company and maintains that recognition through constant improvement and quality controls for trainers, dogs, and the owners of those dogs.  Students learn how to train dogs for paying customers and how to maintain customer satisfaction creating long term relationships in the growth and quality of their dog training businesses.

Our bridge training program for business professionals who desire to enter the dog training industry was built through the detailed analysis of the deltas that exist between those industries and the dog training industry and to exploit the strengths, background and abilities of business professionals from every industry, to take advantage of that existing expertise in their current work, and relate those existing skills to becoming a world-class dog trainer and business owner.  Doctors, lawyers, system engineers, television producers, chemists, biologists, gym owners, EMTs, police officers, military officers, psychiatrists, mechanics, welders, HVAC professionals, public school teachers and principles have all successfully, without any pervious experience as dog trainers, entered the world of dog training and are successfully engaged in the dog training industry because of the power of the Top Tier K9 Academy for dog trainers and it's staff of master dog trainers and award winning teachers and entrepreneurs.  The World's Greatest Dog Training Company.

Pet Training

Our certified locations provide a phased approach to training pets while concurrently training the pet's owners. This ensures that the levels of learning are integrated between the pet and the owner allowing the owner to maintain the pet through increased pressure brought about through the proper load management of both.  

On leash and off leash obedience for the pet and the proper education of the owner gives the best life possible for the team.  Top Tier K9 Certified Locations maintain the standards for training pets and their owners that helped Top Tier K9 win the recognition of being the world's greatest dog training company.

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The world's first Virtual Reality (VR) Dog Training Center is an optional educational tool for our certified locations.  For pet owners who have access to a VR headset, they can practice training a VR dog in the metaverse while the real dog is being trained at one of our certified locations.  This is optional but very powerful for those familiar with the metaverse.  Top Tier K9 maintains property in the metaverse and considers the metaverse as one of our most advanced corporate locations.

The training process for the pets melded with the training process for the pet owners was a deep dive for the evaluators that recognized Top Tier K9 as the World's Greatest Dog Training Company.  The Pets Plus program that creates learning opportunities beyond basic obedience for the dogs and their owners including advanced obedience, obstacle work, protection training, service dog training, and scent detection training was the icing on the cake.

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Working Dog Training

The Foundation Dog® program is the training method to create world-class working dogs by beginning the training with puppies and completing the certification process for Foundation Dogs.  A scalable, phased approach to dog training applied to properly selected working line puppies produces dogs that perform protection, scent detection, tracking and tasks of unlimited capacity.  The purpose of this program is for our students to learn everything about training working dogs and their hands on experience includes a puppy from our litters on the ground program.

Certified Foundation Dogs are produced and maintained at Top Tier K9 Corporate locations and many of our certified locations, ready to be finished as protection dogs, service dogs and special security dogs:  The special forces dogs of the dog training industry. Our Litters on the Ground program helps ensure that quality, high level , working line puppies are available for our certified locations to have some of the greatest working dogs on the planet available to their own communities.

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Certified Foundation Dogs were the first dogs in the world to hunt for and indicate on the COVID-19 virus, and have been deployed for use in military operations, police K9 work, as service dogs and protection dogs.  

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Top Tier K9 Franchising

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Top Tier K9 Franchising is deigned to give business professionals a bridge to becoming professional dog trainers and to launch their own Top Tier K9 certified location.  Pet training, Foundation Dog Training, Service Dogs and Protection dogs are available through our Franchise system.  Top Tier K9 Franchisees bring the World's Greatest Dog Training to their local communities.  Our franchisees are the only graduates of our Academy for Dog Trainers that maintain an ongoing requirement for continuing education in dog training and business development.  The best of the best own a Top Tier K9 franchise. (learn more at www.TopTierK9Franchising.com)

 

Professional Breeder Program

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For over 10 years Top Tier K9 has worked to create quality working-line puppies through our Litters on the Ground Program.  From proper vetting of dams and sires, health testing, stability testing, testing and exploitation of required drives, proper whelping and care of the puppies, we have developed a replicable process with quality assurance phase gates, to produce stable, healthy, high performance puppies.  As of August 1st, 2024, the USA no longer allows importing puppies under the age of 6 months old from other countries.  This has already created a massive void in the availability of quality puppies in the USA.  Our Top Tier K9® Professional Breeder program provides the education our certified locations need to develop a successful breeding program in their own community. Our Foundation Dog® Trainer program prepares graduates to actually train those litters and finish them as service dogs, protection dogs, and special security dogs turning a traditional revenue stream of simply "selling puppies" into a lucrative revenue stream of selling working dogs, Foundation Dogs!  The first 16-20 weeks is the most important time in a working dog's life for training.

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New in 2025:  Top Tier K9 International Expansion

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In 2024 Top Tier K9 was recognized as the world's greatest dog training company.  In 2025 we are expanding our offerings to more jurisdictions across the globe.  We are establishing corporate locations in select countries to expand our Academy for Dog Trainers, Litters on the Ground program, Foundation Dog training system, and our franchise system.  Developed using world-class project and program management, this demonstration of effective portfolio management will help more dogs, more dog trainers, and more owners across the world.  Top Tier K9 International​

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