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Top Tier K9 Academy for Dog Trainers
Top Tier K9® Franchising
The Professional's Choice: Contact now to discuss a Franchise for you @(850) 321-3253
Top Tier K9® Franchising puts you at the top of the dog training industry.
Everything you need to learn is taught to you at the Top Tier K9® Academy for Dog Training. How to train pets and run your pet training business. How to train dogs to track, find specific odors, perform advanced obedience tasks, and provide protection. You learn it all and then can offer it all in your own community: Pet and working dog (Foundation Dog®) training.
Recognized as the world’s greatest dog training company, a Top Tier K9 franchise allows you to train dogs, educate people, and provide ongoing support using our methods and techniques supported by industry leading technology in the metaverse, through iPhone and Android one-to-one service and support applications, and traditional video streaming and website support.
Lead generation, customer care, pet management, and a training method that not only is recognized as the absolute best in the state of Florida (where it all began) but now recognized as the world’s greatest. Can you imagine signing up with another franchise and having to compete against the world’s greatest? That’s a big hill to climb and will set yourself up for unnecessary and self-inflicted pain.
You need absolutely zero experience as a dog trainer to get started, none. We teach you everything in our online, instructor lead training and our onsite certifications in Northern Florida. You can get ready to launch your franchise while you keep your current job. Our program is designed for that. With daytime and nighttime training options, we support almost any schedule helping you transition into the lucrative world of dog training.
Board and Train, private lessons, group classes, and internet-based client consulting are all available to our franchisees. You even get access to our world-class breeding program (Litters on the Ground) for quality working puppies to train for your clients as service dogs, protection dogs and special security dogs.
Nobody does it better than Top Tier K9®, The Professional’s Choice.
Benefits to Franchising with us
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Become a certified dog trainer through Top Tier K9®, the world's greatest dog training company
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Learn business development and project management from award-winning entrepreneurs.
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Have an amazing demo dog that tracks, finds specific odor, performs protection and is off-leash obedient.
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Learn to train pets and working dogs (Foundation Dogs®).
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Launch your business under the Top Tier K9 brand.
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Participate in ongoing dog training seminars, master's level certifications, and unmatched sales and business development programs.
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Utilize the world's first Virtual Reality Dog Training Center to help train your clients.
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Use the Top Tier K9 Pet Training App with your customers for ease of communications and relationship building.
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Send your employees through Top Tier K9 for their training and certifications.
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Priority Access to the Top Tier K9 "Litters on the Ground" program for a supply of world-class puppies for your Franchise work.
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We trained and placed 22 dogs for 22 veterans from Top Tier K9 Franchising in 2023/2024. A way to give back to the warriors who served us
New Top Tier K9 Pet Training App for each franchise location for their customer communications
About Our Founder
Top Tier K9 was founded in March of 2014 by Jeff Minder. As a certified project manager (PMP), professional instructor, and master dog trainer, 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. Lockheed Martin, Motorola, the United States Air Force, Knowles Atomic Power Lab, Roche Pharmaceuticals and many other Fortune 100 companies. The University of Texas (Austin), University of Florida, University of North Carolina (Charlotte), UCLA Health are just a few of the universities and colleges where Mr. Minder has taught advanced business and project management techniques.
The founder and trademark holder of the Foundation Dog® and Top Tier K9®, 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 and the man responsible for building the World's Greatest Dog Training Company. Mr. Minder has brought all of his skills and experience together to create the world's greatest dog training company 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.
The Franchisee
You learn how to train pets in our Live-online (instructor lead) Intro to dog training course followed by a 2 week certification with advanced business bootcamp at our Milton Florida Campus. This is followed by 6 weeks live online of our Foundation Dog® trainer class (Intro to Foundation Dog Training) 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 (tasks). A Masters in Pet Training is also included in the base Franchise License Fee.
You also have the option of purchasing a demo dog from Corporate to jump start your pet training sales.
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 or send their employees through the school at a discounted price.
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 an inventory of trained Foundation Dogs® to finish and resell to your client base. Once you complete the advanced training to become a level 2 franchise (optional) you can train and finish those Foundation Dogs® yourself.
The advanced training (Foundation Dog masters classes) 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.
Masters in Pet Training is included in the Level 1 franchise license
Market Development
Top Tier K9 is recognized as the World's Greatest Dog Training Company 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 can be used to help train your customers
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.
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" or "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 and have the support of the World's Greatest Dog Training Company
Step 1
Contact Jeff Minder at minder.jeffrey@gmail.com and request an interview. Or call (850) 321-3253
Step 2
If you are a qualified candidate, You will receive and sign a receipt for a copy of our Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD)
Step 3
We will examine your territory requested, background check, credit check, proof of citizenship and financial disclosure/review
Step 4
You can then purchase the franchise license for your approved territory and begin the pet trainer program. We run several classes per year.
Step 5
Complete your pet trainer certification and business bootcamp. Start your franchise in your territory
Step 6
Begin the Foundation Dog® Trainer class (online), obtain a working line puppy (from us or any reputable breeder) and start building your demo dog.
Make money training pets
None of the communications on this website should be construed as an offer to sell a franchise. We will not offer any franchise for sale: (i) until your state has duly registered our franchise offering or duly exempted our franchise offering from registration, if your state requires registration exemption; and (ii) until we have duly delivered our Franchise Disclosure Document to you in compliance with applicable law.