Essex County K9 Services

Essex County K9 offers complete training services for all breeds and all ages. We promote team work, communication and the bond between K9 and handler. We train you to train your dog. From Basic obedience to advanced stability, agility, scent work and man tracking, we can help you achieve your goals with your pet. We help build the bond of friendship and trust between you and your dog and encourage you to become active during the training as well. We will teach you to recognize signs of aggression, stress and address any other concerns you may have.

We are proud of our accomplishments and honoured that quite a few VETS in our area have participated in/reviewed our classes and now recommend us to their clients. Ask us for details!

For more info on training and times, Please e-mail essexcountyk9@hotmail.com

We have two locations to serve you and your canine friend, one location in Essex, ON located at 10 Talobt St. South, Unit 2 and one location in Cottam, ON located on Division Rd. North.

The Essex location is a 3500 sq.ft climate controlled building and the Cottam location includes a 1 acre training field as well as up to 50 acres  of bush to track on. In addition to these locations, ECK9 has access to an additional 100 acres of land to use for tracking or training that includes areas of covered bush, a pond, hills and open fields.

Essex County K9 Services is owned and operated by David Walsh. Dave, along with his wife Fern, their three sons, and the support of other family members and friends, opened the doors to the training facility in November 2008.
Dave has been training dogs for years and has an abundance of experience dealing with different breeds. He has gained a lot of experience working his seven personal dogs through everything from basic obedience to tracking, personal protection, high end stability and scent work. “The more you work your dog, the more you will get out of the dog and the deeper the bond between dog and handler will be.” Dave loves working with and teaching about his passion, which of course, is dogs.
Dave is still active, regularly taking part in training seminars. His belief is that you can never have enough knowledge and if a trainer says they “know everything about dogs”, they are closed minded and not willing to learn. Dave is always eager to learn new things and pass them onto his students. He will tell you that he learns every time he steps onto the field. His knowledge base extends from basic obedience training to advanced stability as well as scent and tracking.