Yes, you can access ALL courses and memberships you purchase through the Kajabi app. Apple users can download it here, and Android/Google users can download it here. Our customers can view our courses on any computer, tablet, or device connected to the internet.

Training can start anywhere and with any course. Where you start depends on your dog's age, the issues you are trying to address or correct, and the plans you have for training your dog.  

The recommended order to follow along with our training is as follows:

• Puppy Essentials Training Bundle: Potty Training, Crate Training, Puppy Biting and Manners
• Obedience 101 Mastering Basic Commands
• Leashed! Complete On-Leash Obedience
• The Perfect Walk
• Unleashed! 5 Steps to E-Collar Mastery

Please visit our Courses page here for a video explanation and walkthrough of all the courses.

Please refer to American Standard Dog Training (ASDT) pricing and information here for all in-person training and board and train inquiries.

Yes! We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee on all of our online courses. For more information, please view our Refund Policy by clicking here. 

You will receive the course INSTANTLY upon checkout. You will create an account at checkout, and your courses will be available in your library. All courses are completely online and can be watched at your own pace. Our goal is to teach you how to train your own dog like a pro. Some people can consume an entire course in one sitting, while others prefer to take their time and rewatch specific lessons.

Within each course, we thoroughly review the items, brands, and types of products we use and suggest. For your convenience, most of these items are linked on our Amazon Storefront.

Our online courses offer excellent value and results for dogs of all ages, breeds, and temperaments. Like our professional VIP Board and Train services, our courses are designed for dogs of all ages, breeds, and issues. In our lessons, we demonstrate our training techniques using a variety of dogs and puppies of different ages, breeds, temperaments, and issues.

Due to the proprietary nature of our content (and because we occasionally update or add to the courses), our training is not available on DVD or in downloadable format. It is available for streaming from any device connected to the internet.

You will have access to any purchased course for 12 months. If you become a member, you will retain access to all purchased lessons and courses included in your membership for as long as you maintain your membership. Our courses should take less than 12 months to complete, and we encourage you to train with your dogs frequently and consistently to maximize their learning potential whenever possible.

Like all training and education, your success depends directly upon the effort you put into it. However, we have had students with zero dog training experience take our courses and achieve incredible results with their dogs, even becoming successful professional dog trainers. Furthermore, our numerous 5-star reviews speak for themselves, as do the countless videos we receive from clients worldwide showcasing the incredible success they have achieved with their dogs. As we always say, "The proof is in the pudding!"

• • Our Puppy Essentials Training Bundle can begin even before bringing your new pup home, as it prepares you for everything you will need to start training the moment you bring your puppy home. The optimal age is for puppies between 8 weeks and 6 months, but it can also apply to canines beyond that range. It's suitable for any dog struggling with potty training, crate training, manners, and biting.
  • Obedience 101 is excellent for puppies as young as 8 weeks old and is suitable for dogs of any age. 
  • The Perfect Walk is great for dogs of any age and puppies around 4 months old or older.
  • Leashed is for dogs or puppies of any age.
  • Unleashed, which focuses on E-Collar training, is recommended for dogs aged 4-6 months or older.

Definitely not! No dog is ever too old for training, which is excellent for keeping the mind and body active. Remember that the older your dog is, the more established its behaviors are—and the longer it may take to modify its habits, routines, or behaviors. Therefore, the sooner you start, the better, but there is always room for improvement in any dog of any age.

Our main training facility is currently located in North Carolina. We continue to train and certify ASDT trainers to open satellite locations across the U.S., and we now have Certified trainers in Florida and Georgia. However, the beauty of online training is that you can be anywhere on the planet and train your dog wherever you are.

Our Obedience 101 course provides a comprehensive guide on how to train dogs using food. We explain in detail the types of food and treats we recommend to shape and reinforce desirable behaviors, which is a technique we use for all our VIP Board and Train dogs.

• Our Obedience 101 Mastering Basic Commands course contains an entire section devoted to increasing and improving a dog's food drive.
• We highly recommend our Leashed Complete on Leash Obedience course for those who prefer to train without food or have a dog with little to no food drive.

Click below for a full video on dog aggression and what may or may not help your situation. Click here.

Yes and No. Just like children, every dog is different. Some breeds tend to be faster learners, while others may require additional support and extra time. But ALL dogs can be trained with the right techniques, dedicated time, and proper training methods.

At DIYK9, we encourage applying and using the right tools for the job. However, you are entirely responsible for choosing what tools you use or do not use to train your pet.

As highly experienced Balanced Trainers, we are well-versed in applying and using all training styles and methods. Every dog responds differently to different training methods and tools, so we adjust as needed to make training fun, efficient, and effective. 

We teach ALL our proven training methods throughout our industry-leading courses and show you different techniques and strategies for addressing different training problems WITH and WITHOUT using various tools. The use of quality training tools is highly effective in both the training and maintenance of behaviors across all breeds when the tools are correctly conditioned and applied. However, tools are only part of the equation. For instance, our Obedience 101 course is 100% focused on "force-free" and "positive only" training techniques and requires no "tools" to train. The Perfect Walk shows how to use different training techniques, with different leashes and collars, on multiple dogs to achieve the desired results. Puppy Essentials Training Bundle shows variations of training techniques to achieve desired results with and without tools. Unleashed is dedicated to teaching how to properly condition the E-Collar (a powerful training "tool") in a fun, fair, and efficient method. Our Leashed Course covers leash pressure training and will demonstrate the proper application of training techniques using different tools (prong, slip, and martingale flat collar).  

We have had thousands of clients across the U.S. and other countries tell us they have successfully completed the training utilizing substituted products such as slip leads, martingalE-Collars, and Starmark plastic prong collars.

Balanced Dog Training is a training and behavior modification method that uses both reinforcement and pressure to shape and achieve desired behaviors. Typically, reinforcement-based training involves rewards such as treats, toys, or verbal praise for desired behaviors. Pressure-based methods involve the timely removal of rewards or the addition or removal of physical pressure to help teach a new behavior or stop undesired behaviors. In addition, balanced training aims to create a trusting, reliable, and clearly defined relationship between the dog and its owner/trainer. Balanced training is akin to raising a child using rewards and encouragement to teach and reinforce good behaviors, guidance, motivation, and fair use of punishments to stop or redirect undesirable behaviors. This can encompass everything from using toys, treats, rewards, play time, or an allowance to reward good behaviors and clearly defined consequences such as timeout, removal of toys, docking allowance, extra chores, etc.

Balanced training is the fastest, most fair, and efficient way to train any and every dog. It is a flexible system that allows you to mix and match different training methods depending on what's the best fit for the individual dog, the circumstance, or the specific moment in training. It utilizes the same system of rewards and punishments found in nature that help teach animals, for example, where to find food or water and to avoid places or things that can hurt them or worse. Balanced training emphasizes teaching dogs and puppies fun and exciting ways to help them learn new things. Also, it underscores their training with pressure as needed to bring about the much-needed reliability in training to make it applicable to real-life scenarios.  

Everyone can make their dog sit in the kitchen for a treat. But with "positive only" training, if you don't have a treat, the dog is not hungry, or there is any level of distraction present, the reliability in your obedience immediately goes out the window.  Real-life, consistent, and reliable obedience requires that the dog listens to commands the first time, every time, whether you have a treat or not, regardless of what level of distraction is present. True obedience that's reliable and effective in all environments and under any level of distraction CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED through balanced training.

With Balanced Training, you will:

• Have fun training and learning.
• Build a strong, trustworthy, and clearly defined relationship with your dog.
• Train faster and more efficiently.
• Trust your dog in public places.
• Enjoy the companionship of a truly well-behaved dog.
• Have the confidence and reliability of a truly obedient dog that knows how to behave in all circumstances.

• Currently, the Puppy Essentials Training Bundle contains
• • Potty Training Course
  • Crate Training Course
  • Puppy Biting & Manners Course
  • The Complete Training Set includes access to 
  •  The Puppy Essentials Training Bundle
  • Obedience 101: Mastering Basic Commands
  • The Perfect Walk
  •  Leashed: Complete on Leash Obedience
  • Unleashed! 5 Steps to E-Collar Mastery

  (This is the best value for the money)

You will only need to commit 5-15 minutes daily to see major improvements in your dog and to achieve excellent basic and advanced obedience. However, as with many things, the more you put in, the more you get out.

Depending upon many factors, training results can be seen in as little as 5 minutes to achieve The Perfect Walk or may take 4-6 weeks for Unleashed to achieve full off-leash reliability. Our Potty Training course can help you potty train an 8-week-old dog in as little as 48 hours. However, some puppies require more time. Puppy biting can be solved in minutes or take several days. Our Obedience 101 course can be completed, and your pet can be fully trained in as little as 1-2 weeks, or it can take longer, depending on your level of commitment.

The more time and energy you put into training, the faster and better the results will be. As professional dog trainers, our VIP Board and Train program takes approximately 6 weeks to "fully train" a dog for reliable on and off-leash obedience.  However, you can expect a marked improvement within a few days and even more in the coming weeks. Our DIYK9.com training is designed to fit your schedule, and you may go through the material as quickly or progress as slowly as you prefer. We always encourage you to enjoy the process and not to rush or skip through the training.

Access to the courses is immediate. You will create your login and password during checkout and utilize the same information to gain instant access to the course(s) from any device connected to the internet.

There is a 12-month access period. You can watch and rewatch your purchased course(s) or lessons as often as you like. If you need additional time beyond those 12 months, any of our Membership Subscription options will allow you to extend your courses for the duration of your active subscription. Please contact our customer service team at [email protected] for assistance.

To request a discount for our courses, please email us at [email protected] from your work or student-related email. Please include any current identification, and we will respond to your request.

Our online training teaches and demonstrates the same principles, methods, and practices we use in our professional in-person dog training. Our training videos, including the ones on social media and within our premium DIYK9 courses, are all filmed with our VIP clients' board and train dogs during their training sessions. Our VIP Board and Train clients pay between $10,000 and $20,000 for us to complete the training for them. This is an excellent option for those unable to dedicate time and energy to training. If you prefer to "Do-It-Yourself" from the comfort of your home, on your schedule, then our online DIYK9 courses are the answer. Hundreds of professional dog trainers have learned new skills and improved their craft by taking our online courses.

Utilizing the same training methods taught in our online courses, when dogs complete our in-person Board & Train Program, they will be Service Dog Qualified minus the Task Specifics (i.e., blood sugar detection, medicine retrieval, visual guide, etc.) 

ESA, or emotional support animals, are quickly becoming no longer accepted on commercial flights, restaurants, hotels, apartments, etc. So, we do not promote or try to sell anyone the travel or lodging benefits of an ESA animal.

Service Dogs are federally protected by law. Service Dogs can be fully trained by their owners, professional, and even novice trainers. There are only two requirements for a dog to be considered a service dog. The first requirement of any Service Dog is to be well-behaved, obedient, and always under the handler's control. The second requirement is that Service Dogs must also be trained to perform a specific medical-related task, such as detecting low blood sugar (diabetic dog), detecting seizures (epilepsy dog), helping the visually impaired (seeing eye dog), performing deep pressure therapy for those who have PTSD, etc.  

Therefore, it is entirely possible for a novice owner to choose the right dog and utilize our online courses to teach reliable on and off-leash obedience to complete the first requirement of a trained service dog. The same owner can then focus on training the required task that suits their medical needs. Our training methods and principles can help train and shape these more complex task-specific behaviors, but the steps needed to teach those specific tasks are not included in our current course offerings. Those steps can be found in various other places online, such as consulting with other service dog trainers and owners and hiring a professional trainer to teach the final portion of the service dog training.  

Please keep in mind that currently, no official documentation, testing, or certification is required by law on a local, state, or federal level to classify any dog as a service dog, even though service dogs are required by law to be admitted into public and private establishments. A "service dog" that is not well behaved, well-mannered, or the handler cannot maintain control and obedience of the animal, then the "service dog" can still be legally ordered to be removed from the same establishments. In other words, even if the dog can detect low blood sugar, detect a seizure, or help someone with PTSD if the animal is unruly or disobedient, it can still be legally removed from an establishment. Therefore, a service dog's first and most crucial requirement is always being well-mannered and obedient. Our courses teach precisely that.

Yes, we add new material and update older material as often as possible, with new dogs, issues, and learning new commands under different circumstances. Our courses are living courses that consistently improve over time.

• Training can begin the first day you bring home your puppy, and that training can last as little as 2-3 minutes. After that, intensity, duration, and level of distractions should be increased slowly over time.
• Remember to train when convenient for you so you are patient and calm, not feeling rushed.
• You can start with as little as 2-3 minutes of training daily (2 - 3 times per day) or whatever frequency your schedule will allow, and gradually build up to 15-30 minute training sessions once or twice daily.
• Only training twice daily, for 15 minutes per session, over 4-6 weeks will be enough to achieve on- and off-leash reliability. Some dogs may require more time, and these results are more likely if every training session is conducted using our methods effectively. If the training is done incorrectly or many mistakes are made, accomplishing your training goals can take considerably longer.

We do not offer any online bite work training courses as this falls under the umbrella of Protection Work Training and should only be conducted with the supervision of a team of experienced trainers. Please do not try to train your dog in bitework at home alone or with the help of other people who are not professional trainers.  Doing so can make your dog a severe liability, and you may be seriously injured in the process.  Please consult with an experienced local professional trainer for Protection Training and Bitework.

• DIYK9 Monthly Membership 

  • Very affordable monthly cost.
  • Instant Access to "The Perfect Walk" course
  • Discounted rates on all courses
  • Access to Monthly Live Training Sessions and Live Q&A Sessions with Garret or our Certified Trainers
  • Community Forum
  • Private Facebook Group
  
  

  DIYK9 Monthly Premium Membership

  • Access to Weekly Live Training Sessions and Live Q&A Sessions with Garret or our Certified Trainers
  • Instant Access to "The Perfect Walk" course
  • Instant Access to Mac’s Training Journey
  • Community Forum
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Discounted rates on all courses
  • Access to our Q&A Vault of Video Content

Yes, our Membership subscription is set to auto-renew every month (for monthly memberships) or every 12 months (for annual or annual premium memberships). You can cancel any membership at any time. 

There is no penalty for canceling your membership. You will continue to have access to membership benefits until the end of the billing period. If you have purchased any course separately from the membership, you will continue to have access to that course until the end of the 12-month access date, which starts from the date of purchase. 

There are several membership options. Please check out our membership page for more details.

Please see our detailed refund policy by clicking here. In short, we do not offer refunds for our Membership Subscriptions, but you may cancel them anytime without penalty, and you will continue to have access until the end of your billing cycle.

You will retain access to any courses purchased under the Membership for a minimum of 12 months from the date of purchase of the individual course. You will maintain access to any courses that are part of your membership until your membership billing cycle ends.