Nashville K-9’s pet obedience program is an all-breed pet obedience training program geared to make your life with your pet easier and more rewarding. Our Nashville dog trainers have had extensive experience with rescues, strays, and questionable background dogs. We are one of Tennessee’s premier facilities for obedience training and behavior problem management. We offer on-leash and off leash programs to fit your lifestyle, from young dogs to older dogs we have a program to meet your needs. Our dog behavior management programs address problem behaviors such as housetraining, aggression, shyness, hyperactivity and more. Call today to speak with a trainer regarding any specific problems you are having with your dog. Our programs are designed to help you communicate effectively with your pet, and integrate him or her into your family’s daily routine. Our programs are designed to address basic obedience commands such as sit, down, stay come and heel, and how to use these commands to your advantage whether at home or on a walk. Our off leash programs allow a greater level of control. Whether going to for walks, hiking in the mountains, or just around your property you get freedom from the leash, allowing for more exercise, and a happier pet.

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Initial Obedience – Leaving Your Dog with Us

This course is for basic control in and around the house. At the end of only one month, your dog will do the following on leash: SIT on one command, DOWN on one command, COME when called, STAY (in a sit or a down position) until released, and HEEL at your side, sitting automatically when you halt. We also teach your dog how to properly greet people without jumping up and how to go through doors and gates under control. To summarize, in-board training means: we do all the hardest work for you, you save time and frustration, and we are here to help you for free anytime you need our assistance. Dogs aged 4 months & up.

Basic Obedience

The dog is trained to SIT on one command, DOWN on one command, STAY (in a sit or a down position) until released, and HEEL at your side, sitting automatically when you halt, all on leash. However the dog will be trained to COME when called whether on or off the leash under distractions. We also teach you how to teach your dog to properly greet people without jumping up and how to go through doors and gates under control. Dogs aged 6 months & up.

Advanced Obedience

This course follows long SITS, long DOWNS , HEEL, JUMP, SPEAK, RECALLS, and RETREIVAL. Advanced Obedience is a great gateway into search and rescue, Schutzhund sport, or agility for those who are looking to seek the total control as the foundation for these sports. Dogs ages 8 months & up.

Tracking Program

Search and rescue dogs are trained to track a human scent until they find the source of the scent. We teach anywhere from people search, water training, and hard surface tracking.

Protection Program

This program trains your dog for protection work, allowing to subdue a perpetrator or perpetrators. It is designed Schutzhund style, regulation soccer field size, and not a 40 foot ring. Some exercises require the dog to work under the noise of a firing gun. In addition to the normal dumbbell retrieval, the dog must retrieve over a one meter jump and a six foot wall. Down stays and a long send away conclude the test. The final test is the most misunderstood by the general public. This is protection. The most important point to understand when watching a protection routine, is the relationship between dog and handler. The dog must never bite the trial helper, unless either the dog or the handler is attacked. Then it must attack fully and without hesitation. But here the real difference becomes apparent. The dog must stop biting on the command of the handler and guard the trial helper without further aggression. Often people confuse Schutzhund protection training with police dog or personal protection work. Only the Schutzhund dog is capable of the feats of never being aggressive except under those specific situations it is trained to face, and even then it must always be under the absolute control of the handler.