Contact us via email: faithfulk9trainer@gmail.com Or stop by and visit us at: 460 W. Clayton Ave. Coeur D’ Alene, ID 83815 Or you can call us at (208) 667-6700 Hours: 6:30am-1:00pm, 3:00-6:30pm Need your dog to be that “canine good citizen” we can help and using us we will give you the education to be their handler “We bring the trainer out of you”. We would also like you to please take an opportunity and use our other services that we offer: overnight boarding , Daycare , and grooming give our new groomer a chance with your family. We are here to help, ask us any question!
(Faithful K9 Trainer wants to congratulate Oreo and his family for completing the training course for canine good citizen and this is what his family had to say). “We adopted our 9 month old puppy, Oreo, from KHS to be our family dog. Soon after, we started working with Faithful K9 Trainer to set a great foundation with Oreo. Our goal was to learn to train our energetic and deaf puppy with basic hand commands and leash skills, as well as things like not batting at our toddler or eating her toys! We are so thankful to Richie and Faithful K9 for teaching us how to train Oreo in such a positive and thorough way. I was amazed by what Richie taught Oreo in just a couple nights of boarding. Each week in our follow up trainings we saw huge improvements in the areas we were working on and learned so much ourselves each time. I loved how Richie had a training progression in mind, but also was very in the moment and attuned to Oreo and our needs for training during each session. Working with Faithful K9 was an excellent experience for all of us. Richie was highly knowledgeable, flexible with our schedule, very reasonably priced compared to other training programs in the area, and just fun to talk with and learn from. It is making our lives so much easier to have the tools to train our dog how we would like. Thank you, Richie!!-Travis and Anna Hixson”
Our mission
Positive Training
We are a no correction organization. We believe in positive reinforcement and use one of the drives to motivate the dogs to naturally do each learned command. We use markers to condition the noise (command) to mean the same thing as something naturally pleasing to the dog, like food yum! There are 4 stages of learning in operant conditioning.
Educating
We believe that no dog should suffer because of lack of knowledge. Here at Faithful K9 trainer we teach all dog owners that utilize our services to have a trainers mindset. So, it is a team effort to get the dogs to be that faithful K9 to us. Once we evaluate the owners knowledge they will also get a certificate of completion that makes them a faithfulk9trainer.
Staying connected
We are excited to be partnered with Faithful Fields LLC faithfulfields.charity an organization that is going to help all rescue organizations by housing and training their rescues to give them a chance to be rehomed and have a successful future with a happy home, whether its a service dog, emotional support animal, or a companion. We will give businesses or individuals a chance to sponsor any of the dogs to give them a chance to be a faithful K9. Please look into their website and see where you can help or if you know anyone in need of a service dog, emotional support animal or a good companion have them fill out the adoption application and see if we can match them with the right dog.
Founder/Primary Trainer
Richie
I’ve been training, since I received my first dog at the age of 10. My family always believed that if you want a dog its your responsibility and if it had issues “fix it” Now 33 years later and plenty of experience with countless breeds, behavioral issues, and most importantly training owners. I have 4000 hr. apprenticeship through Dept. Of Labor (Office Management and Business Administration services). I have some college in behavioral Science, Executive director of operations for Faithful Fields a non-profit org that rescues and rehabilitates dogs and give them opportunities to have a new life. Training for Canineswithacause.org
since 2017, and represent them for the North Idaho, Spokane, and surrounding areas. I am an approved AKC CGC Evaluator. I can administer the AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy program, CGC, AKC Community Canine, Urban CGC, Video Home Manners and Trick Dog tests. One of my passion is to work with non-profits in our communities: Canines with A Cause, Faithful Fields, which we help connect Veterans, families, facilities, and anyone who qualifies for our programs with a service dog to fit their needs. Because of Canines with a Cause program it is free to our veterans who need a service dog please look into their website and see how you can help. We rescue, so contact us for help! https://www.khq.com/news/idaho_news/prison-animal-program-benefits-dogs-inmates-and-the-broader-north-idaho-community/article_cef4a252-9edb-11ee-835f-d75acf72132a.html
If you are interested in having a dog trained for any type of service, behavioral issues or want to take some private lessons to get familiar with what works with your family member feel free to contact us via email: faithfulk9trainer@gmail.com will respond to you as promptly as possible. We serve the Northwest, and are based out of Northern Idaho. We are here to help and ready to deal with any issue thrown our way. Keep us in mind when you are having animal behavioral issues. We have our specialists to deal with all your needs. We do free assesments.
Training tips Blog
Our trained dogs do their homework
That’s me in the video training Ragusa, and you know when a dog is conditioned to the duration marker “good” (when she turns her head slightly to the word as she is watching herself in the video) this is why it is important to teach negative and positive marker words. This is a classical conditioning…
Mess or No Mess?
The first day with your new family member is always exciting he/she is sniffing around looking cute and wagging it’s tail a happy sign for a dog. Then with many clues givenyour dog pees or poops depending on the timing? All of a sudden the dog isn’t cute any more and now has become a…
Become a Volunteer in your community
With the aim of helping as many dogs and owners as possible, we always lack enthusiastic volunteers and fosters. Please contact us for more information on how you can help your community.
Inspiring to Inspire
Pure positive training
Faithful K9 Trainer 
I am so grateful for this team. I used them for my 17 week old standard poodle pup while I was in town for a conference. My pup loves going to daycare! It was his first experience and it was a win. Then I had them groom him. Oh my goodness! His coat is beautiful. The cut is exactly what I hoped for. This was a stressful week, our first trip together and my pup’s first daycare experience. Faithful Trainer made it easy. I may have imagined it, but it seemed my pup actually relaxed through the week and gained a few manners along the way. Last, this team is excellent with communication. I wanted to know what Grooming products they used and texted, expecting a reply days later( given that it was 8:30am on a Sunday) and they got back to me with pictures in just a short time. What a gift. Can’t wait until our next conference in tot area. We will be back!
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