Top Tier K9

The Professional's Choice
Top Tier K9 is recognized as one of the top dog trainer schools in the world. For the past decade we have trained and certified more than 200 dog trainers. Their success as dog trainers and business professionals is the driving factor for our expansion through franchising. We sold our first franchise in October of 2022. Our work is proven.

Established in March of 2014 Top Tier K9 quickly rose to the top of the dog training industry through the creation of an advanced pet training protocol and method, the creation of the Foundation Dog® program, and ground breaking work in training the world's first COVID-19 detection dogs followed by the creation and launch of the world's first Virtual Reality Dog Training Center.

Our board and train pet training program is what created the foundation for our success. This program uses a balanced approach to dog training and a focus on training the dogs and their owners, equally. This is the part of the business that is being offered as a franchise, level 1.

Franchisees learn advanced pet training, world-class business development and project management as part of their initial training. In addition, they learn to train Foundation Dogs® to track, find specific odor, perform advanced obedience and protect. This Foundation Dog® becomes the franchisees demo dog to showcase their dog training skills against their lesser equipped competitors. All of this is included in the franchise license fee.

Having your own dog training business with the option and path to move into level 2 and work in the training and placement of service dogs for disabled veterans, protection dogs for abused women, police and military K9 in your own community with the support of one of the best dog training programs in the world is exactly why professionals choose Top Tier K9 as a franchise opportunity.

Top Tier K9 Franchise Essentials

• The Franchisee
  You receive the 8 week live online pet trainer course followed by 2 weeks of onsite certification with advanced business bootcamp at our Madison Florida Campus. This is followed by 14 weeks live online of our Foundation Dog® trainer class to train your own demo dog for your business and to learn how to train dogs to track, find specific odor, perform protection work and advanced obedience. You can then prepare to launch your own Top Tier K9 Franchise.
• Training Your Customers
  With the franchise you have access to our customer centric training systems including video streaming, DVDs and our world's first (and world's only) Virtual Reality Dog Training Center. This is where your customer can obtain training while you are training their pet. We relieve that pressure from our franchisees. Franchisees can hire Top Tier K9 certified dog trainers to work for them.
• Reselling Fully Trained Dogs
  If you have a customer who needs a service dog, protection dog, or special security dog, Top Tier K9 Corporate maintains a large inventory of trained Foundation Dogs® to finish and resell to your client base. That is until you complete the advanced training (optional) to learn to train and finish those Foundation Dogs® yourself. This training is phase 2 of the franchise and is not included in the base franchise program and is an optional program for franchisees who want to train and sell working dogs.
• Market Development
  Top Tier K9 is known as one of the Top Dog Training Schools in the world. We maintain a litters on the ground program for the selection and training of working line puppies, we have the Build a Battle Buddy program that provides service dogs to disabled veterans and the K9 Warriors for Women program that provides protection dogs for women. Our ground breaking Virtual Reality Dog Training Center will be used to help train your customers as well as to drive new business to all the franchisees. These programs are available to our franchisees.
• Network of Support
  Our certified trainers include lawyers, doctors, surgeons, IT professionals, tradesmen, military and law enforcement personnel and so many other professionals who have left their fields to become dog trainers. We all help each other out. You will be a part of a rare family in the dog industry, one that actually supports each other. We have DVD and video streaming to help train your customers as well as the world's first Virtual Reality Dog Training Center for customer support and training.
• Value Proposition
  Work out of your home, a small facility like a portable building, a store front or a large kennel operation. You can open a "Top Tier K9" training center or you can add "Training by Top Tier K9", "Powered by Top Tier K9" to your existing boarding kennel, grooming shop, pet supply store, outdoor store or any range of existing businesses that want to get into the lucrative dog training industry. Most importantly: You get to BE YOUR OWN BOSS.

About the Founder
Top Tier K9 was founded in March of 2014 by Jeff Minder. Mr. Minder brought an immense amount of business capability to the dog industry and is not only recognized as one of the top dog trainers in the world, he is also an award winning teacher and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in North America by Dell Computers and National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB).

Mr. Minder has taught business analysis and project management for some of the largest and most successful companies in the world and has also taught at many different colleges and universities.

The founder and trademark holder of the Foundation Dog®, the first trainer to train a dog to hunt for and indicate on COVID-19, and the inventor of the world's first Virtual Reality Dog Training Center, Mr. Minder has brought all his skills and experience together to create one of the greatest dog training programs in the world and has put together the Top Tier K9 Franchising System for the benefit of franchisees, the dogs they train, and the owners who love them.

Don't delay and inquire today to learn more about becoming an owner!

* This information may have changed since first published. We recommend that you always verify fees, investment amounts, and offers with the business opportunity directly prior to making a decision to invest.