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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
Litters on the Ground
Puppies are included in the purchase of training packages. Buyers participate in the tier/phase development training via Zoom. Our inventory of trained Foundation Dogs from previous litters is listed at Foundation Dogs On Hand. Current litters are listed below.
Acquire a trained Dog from us (Owner/Handler)
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Contact us and explain your needs
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Acquire the training package for your needs (Obedience, or Foundation Dog Tier 1, 2, or 3)
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Join us live online watch us train the litter through the Foundation Dog training processes
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Get your Tier-certified dog on the day that the tier paid for is completed.
Our breeders live, and our whelping processes take place, in multiple certified locations to provide the best care for our breeders and their litters.
Litter on the Ground 8 August, 2025. 8 puppies, 4 male 4 female
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Owner/Handler working dog option: Pre-buy a puppy with a training package
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Trainer option: Certified trainers can pick up your 8 week old puppy.
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Obedience Training Only: You meet once a week through Zoom to learn how to maintain the basic obedience training program. You pick up your puppy at 12 weeks old.
Our System
Our unique training and testing processes, developed specifically to create advanced working dogs (Foundation Dog® program) is proven, trademarked, and without peer. Our breeding program (Litters on the Ground) ensures quality puppies available to our customers, and our Franchisees and their customers, for their Foundation Dog programs.
We breed and build for perfection, to have certified Foundation Dogs that are ready to be finished for customers specific needs or used as demonstration dogs for our businesses across the nation (Foundation Dogs On Hand).
Through this Trademarked and quality first approach to dog breeding and training we find jobs for every puppy.
It Starts with a Great Puppy
We have worked with many students who attempted to acquire great working line puppies for use in their education at our Academy for Dog Trainers. They call dozens of breeders to try and find a good puppy that will actually work in protection, as virus detection dogs, search & rescue, police/military work or as a service dog. It is almost impossible to find a great puppy and certainly harder to find a great puppy when a buyer wants it NOW, and with no consideration for the training of the dog. Since it is now illegal to import a puppy under 6 months old, solid working line puppies are increasing in value, and costs.
Top Tier K9 has a world class breeding program in support of our customers and Franchises. We do not sell our puppies untrained to the public. These puppies are bred specifically for the training program taught at our school, the Foundation Dog® training program that trains a dog tracking, scent detection, advanced obedience and protection (breed dependent). A multi-purpose K9, ready to be finished as a family/executive protection dog, military/LE K9, service dog, and/or special security dogs.
If you want one of these beauties, you can acquire one at any Tier/phase level of training from Top Tier K9 Corporate or from many of our franchises across the nation. Using a franchise ensures you have ongoing training and support available for your Foundation Dog from a local trainer and that local trainer owns a Top Tier K9 Certified Location with ongoing support from Top Tier K9 - Corporate.
How it works:
Our breeders are hand selected from our inventory of Foundation Dogs and from working lines across the globe that pass our standards. Adult males and females that can track, perform scent detection, protection (breed specific) and advanced obedience.
The ones with the best disposition, the best temperament, and the best performance in the field make up our breeders.
Pawprint Genetics testing helps ensure we are starting with the healthiest parents available. Dams and Sires that are not affected by any of the breed specific diseases that can be detected. This is imperative to a safe and healthy breeding program.
PennHIP Testing. Hips are tested for the laxity in the hips to give us the highest confidence that dysplasia is not carried by our breeding males and females.
OFA Elbows and Hips: In addition to the advanced Pennhip testing on the hips, elbows some are also tested through OFA and probable OFA hip results are included in the Pennhip testing. OFA is for show, PennHip is for go.
PennHIP is a method for evaluating hip joint laxity in dogs, specifically to assess their risk of developing canine hip dysplasia (CHD) and osteoarthritis (OA). It's considered a more accurate predictor of hip health than traditional OFA (Orthopedic Foundation for Animals) evaluations. PennHIP involves three x-ray views taken in different positions to measure joint laxity and congruity.
The litters are nurtured, tested and trained from day one. Exposure to varying temperatures, surfaces, and sounds through a process that helps us fully understand each puppy and to bring the most out of each puppy as an individual. Pack and individual development is part of our Litters on the Ground program.
Foundation Dog® Training:
Our Litters are separated at the right time and as early as their development allows. Each puppy is assigned to a trainer and the Tier/ phase Foundation Dog® training begins. Building working dogs from the ground up. Once Tier 3 is completed, the dogs are ready to be finished by/for their buyers, or finished as a demo dog for the trainer's dog training business, All finishing work is part of our Master's programs. A trainer must be a Top Tier K9 certified Master Dog Trainer to finish Foundation Dogs for their clients and that is reserved for Top Tier K9 Certified Locations.
All level 2 Top Tier K9 Franchises (as well as Top Tier K9 - Corporate) are your "go to trainers" for Certified Foundation Dog® Tier development and finishing programs that create Top Tier K9s.
Foundation Dog® Training is slightly modified depending on the breed of the litter entering the program. This example is for our Malinois and Dutch Shepherd Litters
Top Tier K9 Foundation Dogs
