Cedar Creek Kennels LLC

Cedar Creek Kennels offers two levels of obedience training: Basic and Advanced. Basic obedience covers commands like “Here,” “Sit,” and “Walk at Heel,” with an introduction to E-collar. Advanced obedience includes “Here,” “Sit,” “Stay,” “Ext. Stay,” “Down,” “Walk at Heel,” and E-collar conditioning. They also offer a Basic Training Package Weekly with Daycare.

For Police K9 training, they offer Dual Purpose (8 weeks), Single Purpose (5 weeks), and Single Purpose with Tracking (7 weeks) handler courses. These comprehensive courses cover narcotics searching, advanced tracking in all operational environments, suspect searching, property and evidence searching, obedience and control, handler protection and criminal apprehension, and agility. They also provide a 5-day Basic Tracking Course, a 5-day Advanced Tracking Course, and a 1-day Patrol Officers and 911 Operators Course. Their K9 training is scenario-based, modeled after real-world deployments, and unique in that handlers are taught to train their own dogs.

Pricing Summary

Dog boarding is $25 per day. Basic Obedience 1 week Board and Train is $1000. Basic Obedience 2 Week Board and Train is $2000. A Basic Training Package Weekly with Daycare is $1000. All training packages must be paid at the time of drop-off. Financing is available, and they accept cash, check, and debit/credit cards. If using their food for boarding, a $2 a day surcharge applies.

Policies

A $15 fee will be assessed if special arrangements were made for drop-off and pick-ups and the client failed to make the time.

Cedar Creek Kennels LLC specializes in training elite police K9 teams to hunt, serve, and protect. They offer advanced and comprehensive training courses designed to produce strong, confident, and successful K-9 teams. Their trainers are Police K9 handlers with over 60 years of combined military and law enforcement experience, and their courses are based on years of operational K9 deployments.

Beyond K9 training, Cedar Creek Kennels also provides quality pedigree dogs for K9 training or family needs. For general dog owners, they offer obedience training, dog daycare, and boarding services. They are committed to providing premium care for pets, treating them like beloved family members, with boarding facilities featuring 40 climate-controlled runs and security cameras.

Their unique approach to K9 training emphasizes a low student-to-instructor ratio and scenario-based training, drawing from real-world canine deployments. For obedience training, they identify a dog’s specific characteristics and apply proven techniques to train them, including correcting common behavioral issues such as jumping and excessive barking.

Accomplishments

Cedar Creek Kennels was founded in 2019 and boasts over 60 years of combined experience in training and handling K9s among its trainers. Their K9 teams consistently outperform the national average, demonstrating a 73.2% success rate in various operational scenarios, significantly higher than the national average of 5%–10%.

Matt Greenlief, Director of Canine Training and Operations, is a Certified Canine Trainer, Certified Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board Canine Trainer, and Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board Canine Odor Recognition Assessor. He has trained over 500 law enforcement officers and military members nationwide. Dave Wynne, Director of Law Enforcement Operations, is a former Police Officer Dog Unit in New South Wales, Australia, with over 450 suspect apprehensions from tracking/searching. Torrin Lomax, Director of Military Operations, is a retired US Army Special Forces veteran with 14 years of service, having trained hundreds of handlers and thousands of canines for special forces, Army Rangers, Marine Special Operations Command, law enforcement, and search and rescue.

How to Get Started!

Clients can check boarding availability online or contact Cedar Creek Kennels directly. For K9 training, agencies can schedule an appointment to visit the facility, observe training methods, and contract for services.