K-9 Kollege

Puppy Plus covers basic manners, housebreaking and crate training tips, biting and mouthing, and confidence-building activities for puppies 8 weeks to 5 months, in a 6-week session.

Beginning Obedience is a 6-week on-leash course for dogs 5 months and older covering handler focus, sit, down, come, stay, leave-it, leash walking, and stand.

Advanced Obedience 1 and 2 build on Beginning Obedience with off-leash handling, distance work, distractions, retrieving, and drop on recall.

Special Issues Counseling is one-on-one work with Marilyn for behavior problems in dogs of any age or breed, with exercises designed around the specific dog and held at the client’s home or an agreed public location.

Pricing Summary

Beginning Obedience, Puppy Plus, and Advanced Obedience 1 and 2 each run $112 for a 6-week session. Dog Tricks is $75 and a Beginning Obedience mini session is $80. Special Issues Counseling is billed separately: a first meeting of about 1.5 hours is $99, a half-hour follow-up is $35, a one-hour follow-up is $60, a package of four one-hour sessions is $204, a half-hour phone consultation is $30, and a travel fee of $20 applies outside Clark County.

Cash prices are shown, with a $2 service fee added for online payment.

Policies

Classes are non-refundable unless cancelled at least seven days before the first class, since class sizes are limited. If a client must withdraw for unforeseen circumstances, K-9 Kollege will consider other options case by case, and any accommodation applies only to the dog originally enrolled and is not transferable to another dog or person.

K-9 Kollege Dog Training has been running group-style dog obedience classes in Springfield, Ohio since 1986. Owner and instructor Marilyn Snyder built the school around the idea that a trained dog stays a valued member of the family instead of being given up over bad behavior, and the classes welcome both new dog owners and experienced handlers.

Puppy Plus is built for puppies from 8 weeks to 5 months and covers sit, down, and come along with housebreaking and crate training tips, biting and mouthing, and body-awareness activities. Beginning Obedience, for dogs 5 months and older, works on handler focus, sit-stay, down-stay, leave-it, leash walking, and stand. Advanced Obedience 1 and 2 carry dogs into off-leash handling, distance work, distractions, retrieving, and drop on recall.

For behavior problems that group class does not solve, Marilyn offers Special Issues Counseling, one-on-one sessions built around the individual dog and worked at the client’s home or an agreed public location. She also teaches Reactive Dog, Agility, and Dog Trick classes.

Marilyn holds a B.S. in Education and has competed and instructed in dog agility since 1994, earning the AKC Master Agility Champion title and the USDAA Agility Dog Champion title. As a fifth-generation Springfielder, she has stayed active in the local community throughout the school’s history.

Classes run at Heritage Park and the Clark County Fairgrounds Annex Building in Springfield, using motivational, user-friendly methods aimed at building a dog’s confidence and social skills alongside its handler.

Accomplishments

K-9 Kollege has been in business since 1986. Instructor Marilyn Snyder holds a B.S. in Education and has competed and instructed in dog agility since 1994, earning the AKC Master Agility Champion (MACH) title and the USDAA Agility Dog Champion (ADCH) title in 2004 with her Australian Shepherd Roper, along with CPE C-ATCH titles with her dogs Hemi and Joker. Joker was the 2022 CPE 16-inch Level 5 Standard Agility Champion.

Marilyn is a 1986 Leadership Academy graduate and received the 1991 Leader of the Year award for her community involvement in Springfield.

How to Get Started!

New clients can call or text 937-322-1672, use the contact form on the site, or register for an upcoming class session.