Evaluations/Consults
Evaluations and consults are for people who are wanting more information, wanting to meet the trainer, or if the trainer has questions about the dog that can only be answered by meeting the dog.
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Phone Consultations: FREE - Please be patient with me if I do not answer. You MUST leave a voice mail to receive a call back.
In Home Evaluations: FREE - You must be within 15 miles of Decatur, Indiana to be eligible for this or willing to come to Decatur, Indiana
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Virtual Consult: FREE - Will be on video on either Facebook, Zoom, or Google Meet
Private Lessons/Private Lesson Programs
Individual Private Obedience Lessons: $40 - $80
Individual Private Behavior Modification Lessons: $60 - $100
Lessons last 60 minutes in your home, at a park, or at a pet friendly store. Pricing depends on location and the type of training needed.
Lesson Programs
All programs come with midweek check ins for extra support help, lifetime phone support once formal training is complete, access to a private Facebook group with other GK9A clients, and access to GK9A pack walks and other events. Something that sets us apart from other trainers is that our lesson programs are completely customized to you and your dog. The information we gather during a phone consultation and the first lesson help craft a training plan for you and your dog.
New Best Friend Program: For people who are looking for a puppy or dog from a breeder or rescue. This program is to help you find a rescue or breeder and match you to a dog based on your family. Includes breed selection help, breeder or rescue selection help, temperament testing for dog or puppy, getting the dog or puppy settled, and training help. Includes 10 private lessons.
Investment: $1675
8 Lesson Program: This program is for puppies of all ages or adult dogs. Teaches owners how to train and handle their puppy to set them up for success in the future. Gives your puppy a solid foundation, and helps them grow into a confident, well-rounded dog. Your puppy or dog will learn basic commands, manners, and life skills for a healthier coexistence in the home. This program also allows time to cover housebreaking, leash pulling, some minor behavioral issues like jumping, play biting, door dashing, and working on teaching dogs and puppies to be calm inside the home. This program has a flexible outline that can be fully customized to you and your dog/puppy. Includes 8 private lessons, 2 virtual lessons, and necessary equipment.
Investment: $360 - $720
10 Lesson Program: This program is for dogs 5 months or older. This program allows time to teach dogs basic and advanced commands, manners, and life skills. Dogs will learn how to walk calmly on a leash, listen to commands, and behave calmly in and out of the house. Dogs will become members of the family you are confident to take out in public. This program also allows time to address more problematic but not dangerous behavior like fearfulness, over-excitement, pushy behavior, insecurity, grooming anxiety. This program has a flexible outline that can be fully customized to you and your dog. Includes 10 private lessons, 4 virtual lessons, and and necessary equipment.
Investment: $430 - $880
12 Lesson Program: This program is for dogs 5 months or older. This program allows time to teach dogs basic and advanced commands, manners, and life skills. This program is perfect for owner’s who are wanting their dogs to learn how to behave inside and outside the home so you are confident taking them out in public. This program also allows time to address more problematic but not dangerous behavior like fearfulness, counter surfing, over-excitement, crate anxiety, and barking. This program has a flexible outline that can be fully customized to you and your dog. Includes 12 private lessons, 4 virtual lessons, and necessary equipment.
Investment: $700 - $1240
14 Lesson Program: This program is for dogs 8 months or older. Teaches dogs basic and advanced obedience, manners, and life skills. Dogs will learn how to walk calmly on a leash, listen to commands when told the first time, and behave calmly in AND out of the house. Dogs will learn how to heel, listen to obedience commands, and recall off leash. This program is geared towards owners who are wanting their dog off leash trained. This program has a flexible outline that can be fully customized to you and your dog. Includes 14 private lessons, 6 virtual lessons, and necessary equipment.
Investment: $770 - $1400
Behavior Modification Program: This program is for dogs who display any sort of reactivity, aggression, separation anxiety/general anxiety, resource guarding, or extreme nervousness and fear. Teaches dogs obedience, manners, and life skills. Teaches your dog a better way of processing and responding to triggers or stimuli. Teaches owners how to manage and address concerning behavior. This program has a flexible outline that can be fully customized to you and your dog. So you don't pay for training you don't need. Includes 18 private lessons, 8 virtual lessons, and necessary equipment.
Investment: $1290 - $2100
Slight discounts will be given if paid for in cash, because of transactional fees through Square.
Board and Train
Board and trains are a service where the dog stays with the trainer for the duration of the program. GK9A only does one board and train at a time so that we can give our full attention to each individual dog. Dogs are kept in our home and live with us just like if they are our own dog. They have access to a fully fenced in and secure backyard, mental and physical enrichment, and multiple training sessions per day to ensure they are successful with training. Owners are allowed to arrange times to visit their dog while they are here in our fenced in yard or we can bring them to your home for the visit. However, these must be scheduled.
Dogs will live with us for the duration of their training. At the end of each week, owners must set up a time to come see what their dogs have been learning and practice with them. You will see faster results because your dog is learning directly from a canine professional, and is receiving several hours of hands on training each day. Training videos will be sent at least weekly, and text updates will be sent daily. Your dog will get multiple hours of one on one interactions and training from a canine professional daily. GK9A is secured by video monitoring and a security system. We also have fire and carbon monoxide detectors.
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To qualify for a board and train, dogs must be at least 4 months old, crate and housebroken (unless they are a puppy), up to date on Rabies, Distemper, Parvo, and Bordetella given by a licensed veterinarian. They also must be on some sort of pharmaceutical flea, tick, and dewormer. Dogs must be in good health and pass our health clearances. Dogs may be required to see the vet to ensure they are in good health before training.
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All board and trains come with one training video each week, daily updates, a weekly report card, 1 private lesson at the end of every week during the board and train, lifetime phone support once formal training is complete, access to a private Facebook group with other GK9A clients, and access to GK9A pack walks and other events.
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Three Week Board and Train - $900
This program is great for giving young puppies a solid foundation to learn how to act in and out of a home, how to communicate with humans and other dogs, and to prevent behavioral issues from occurring. This program is also great for adult dogs who are happy and friendly, and just need to learn obedience skills and manners. Minor behavioral issues like jumping and mouthing can also be worked on in this program. Dogs will learn how to heel, sit, down, stay, come on leash, and place. They will also learn things like not jumping on people, how to not dodge out doors, and how to play respectfully with humans. The outline for this program is customized to your top two-three training goals. All training equipment is included. Includes 3 private lessons during training, and 3 private lessons for after training.
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Four Week Board and Train - $1400
This program is perfect for teaching happy and friendly adult dogs more advanced obedience and manners, and teaching dogs how to act out in the community like going to pet friendly stores and restaurants. This program is also for adult dogs who have slightly more difficult but still relatively minor behavioral issues like displaying pushy behavior, over-excitement, fearfulness, crate anxiety, barking, insecurity, and grooming anxiety. Dogs will learn how to heel, sit, down, stay, come on leash, place, how to get up onto an object on command, how to get off an object on command, how to leave something alone when told, and how to drop something when told. Dogs will also learn how to act out in public, how to greet people without jumping, how to not dodge out doors, and how to play respectfully with humans. The outline for this program is customized to your top two-three training goals. All training equipment is included. Includes 4 private lessons during training, and 4 private lessons for after training.
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Six Week Board and Train - $2000
This program is designed for adult dogs to learn off leash training skills. To be enrolled in the off leash program, dogs must be at least a year old. Dogs will learn how to heel, sit, down, stay, come on and off leash, place, how to get up onto an object on command, how to get off an object on command, how to leave something alone when told, and how to drop something when told. Dogs will also learn how to act out in public, how to greet people without jumping, how to not dodge out doors, and how to play respectfully with humans. Dogs will learn how to perform all of these things completely off leash. The outline for this program is customized to your top two-three training goals. All training equipment is included. Includes 6 private lessons during training, and 6 private lessons for after training.
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Behavior Modification Board and Train (8 weeks) - $2600
This program is designed for dogs who have complex behavioral issues like aggression, reactivity, resource guarding, grooming aggression, or severe fearfulness. Dogs will learn how to better handle their emotions, and how to respond in a safe and respectful way. Dogs will learn how to heel, sit, down, stay, come on leash, place, how to get up onto an object on command, how to get off an object on command, how to leave something alone when told, and how to drop something when told. Dogs will also learn how to act out in public, how to greet people without jumping, how to not dodge out doors, and how to play respectfully with humans. The outline for this program is customized to your top two-three training goals. All training equipment is included. Includes 8 private lessons during training, and 8 private lessons for after training.​​
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​Slight discounts will be given is paid for in cash, because of transactional fees through Square
Service Dog Training
Gillian's K9 Academy LLC specializes in training service dogs for mental illnesses and disorders such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, and autism. We also train dogs for mobility issues, and other conditions like POTS, ehlers-danlos syndrome, and dysautonomia. A training log to prove hours of training AND certificate of training completion will be provided.
Service dogs are dogs that are tasked trained to assist an individual with a disability. Emotional Support animals are not service animals. Please reach out to me for more information on this training.
Dogs must be temperament tested and evaluated by me before training for service work can begin(UNLESS you are a virtual client).
Service Dog Evaluation and Temperament Test: $100
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Individual Service Dog Lesson: $30-$100, can be virtual, hybrid, or in person
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Six Lesson Service Dog Program: $180-$600, can be virtual, hybrid, or in person. We recommend this program to anyone looking to get started with training their dog as a service dog. This is one lesson a week for six weeks. Dogs will learn foundations, obedience, and manners to see if they are the right fit to move into some of our larger programs.
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Twelve Lesson Service Dog Program: $360-$1200, can be virtual, hybrid, or in person. This program is for people who are needing help with one or two areas of service dog training. We can work on things like socializing puppies, teaching public access skills, learning foundations, working on task training, and more. This program is meant to be completed over three months.
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Twenty-Four Lesson Service Dog Program: $720-$2400, can be virtual, hybrid, or in person. This program has 3 parts to it. First part is foundations where we will work on you and your dog building a strong relationship, working on socializing and exposure, teaching owners handling skills, and how to set up training outings so you are successful. The second part is public access. Dogs will learn how to act appropriately in public. Owners will learn how to respectfully handle their dogs. The last part is task training. Dogs will learn 2-3 tasks that are the most important, and if there is extra time, we will work on more. At the end of this part, dogs will need to pass the AKC CGC, CGCA, and CGCU. Dogs will also need to pass our public access test in order to graduate from the program as a service dog.
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Service Dog Board and Trains​
12 Week Service Dog Board and Train : $3600 - This program is for dogs who have area that need improvement like obedience, public access skills, task skills, manners, some minute behavioral issues, and more. The outline for this program is customized to your top two-three training goals. All training equipment is included. Includes 3 private lessons during training, and 3 private lessons for after training.
24 Week Service Dog Board and Train: $7200 - This is a start to finish program. Dogs will be taught foundations, public access skills, and task work. They will also be trained to pass the AKC CGC, CGCA, and CGCU, as well as our public access test in order to fully graduate from the program. All training equipment is included. Includes 6 private lessons during training, and 6 private lessons for after training.
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Slight discounts will be given is paid for in cash, because of transactional fees through Square
Temperament Testing
Are you thinking about adopting or getting a dog but want to know the dogs temperament? Do you have children or other animals and want to ensure their safety?
Are you getting a puppy for sport work or service work and need to know which pup is the best fit?
Look no further. We offer temperament testing!
Litter, Single Puppy and Adult Dog Temperament Testing: $50-$100 per hour + traveling fees for any location over 40 miles from Decatur, Indiana($15 per 30 miles)
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Title Testing​
I offer Canine Good Citizen, Canine Good Citizen Advanced, and Canine Good Citizen Urban, Trick Dog, and Virtual Home Manners testing.
Testing for the Canine Good Citizen, Canine Good Citizen Advanced, and Canine Good Citizen Urban is $20.
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Trick Dog and Virtual Home Manners testing is free
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Virtual Training
Virtual Consult: FREE - This is for new virtual clients only. New virtual clients MUST book a consult before being able to book any packages or individual virtual lessons. Virtual lessons take place via Zoom, Google Meet, or Facebook.
Virtual Lessons via Zoom or Facebook: $30 per lesson
Virtual Lesson Packages
4 lessons: $100
6 lessons: $120
Train from the comfort of your home. Convenient, accessible, and just as effective as in person training.
Details: Sessions are one hour. We can discuss anything besides sport dog training. We will make a training plan and I will assign homework. You will send me videos of your progress between sessions. Frequency of lessons is flexible, but most people do every 1-2 weeks. Lessons must be paid before the lesson begins. You will get access to a Facebook support group where there will be training tips, videos, resources, and fun training challenges.