Top Tier K9® Franchising
The Professional's Choice
Top Tier K9® Franchising puts you at the top of the dog training industry.
Everything you need to learn is taught 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 to your own community with 100,000 people in each protected territory (franchise) you acquire: Pet and working dog (Foundation Dog®) training. We train you and your employees. We help educate your customers as well.
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 including VR and augmented AI in the metaverse, through iPhone and Android one-to-one service and support applications, and traditional video streaming, live seminars and website support.
Lead generation through our weekly "Ask The Trainer" webinar open to all pet owners who need help with their dogs, customer care, pet management, and a training method that has been recognized as the world’s greatest.
You need absolutely zero experience as a dog trainer to get started. We teach you everything in the Top Tier K9 Academy for Dog Trainers. 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. We focus on bringing professionals into the dog training industry, providing a bridge that helps you exploit your current skillset to make your dog training company stand out against any competition.
Board and Train service, 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 line puppies to train for your clients as service dogs, protection dogs and special security dogs.
Built using world-class program and project management processes. Quality control and assurance from the start. Customer Relationship Management, lead generation and constant improvement is what sets Top Tier K9 apart from all other dog training companies (being recognized as the world's greatest dog training company certainly helps).
Come on in, the water is fine and the dog training industry is begging for professionals who have real world business experience and a love of 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
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Top Tier K9 Academy for Dog Trainers
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, 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 12 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 (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 the Top Tier K9 Pet Training App, video streaming, DVDs and our Virtual Reality Dog Training Center for customers who have a VR headset. Customers can access additional 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 as a Franchise level 2 (once you certify in our masters program), you can train and sell Certified level 3 Foundation Dogs to help them meet that need.
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
Through constant improvement Top Tier K9 Franchising works to reach audiences using effective project management and business analysis to bring new customers to our Franchisees. It is the franchisee's responsibility to sell within their own community and build their pet training business. Top Tier K9 Franchising Assists in that through business and sales education, reviewing your marking campaigns and assisting in that process.
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 Franchise" 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.