https://www.balancedk9.ca/contact-1 daily 0.75 2026-01-13 https://www.balancedk9.ca/home daily 1.0 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604fed8f7ade4643611a6bc7/1616111988940-A0BXSHNA6VPFWLHXP87R/Screenshot+2021-03-18+195828.jpg Home - Helping families in North Halton and surrounding areas. https://www.balancedk9.ca/services daily 0.75 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604fed8f7ade4643611a6bc7/1616099092626-QYOTIWN2IS98VNEE0EJL/Katie%252BPup.jpg Our Services What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Puppy (or Rescue Dog) This is a 2-hour session where we come to your home to talk with you about what you should expect with a new dog in your home, puppy/doggy proofing your home (similar to child proofing for new parents), potty-training scheduling for puppies, etc. All the things you need to know for introducing a new puppy or rescue dog in your home. Private 1-on-1 Training Typically done as an in-home training, we start with an initial assessment where we come and meet you and your dog, talk about any behaviour problems that you are experiencing with your dog, and build a training plan that is tailored to you and your dog’s needs. While we’re assessing your dog you’ll be assessing us to decide if you feel comfortable with us and whether you feel you can build a relationship of trust with us as your trainer in order to get what you need from the training. This is offered in 3 pricing options: A la carte (if you only need 1 or 2 sessions) A 4-session package An 8-session package Contact us privately for pricing, and for payment plans. In-home training is only offered within certain areas, please contact us privately to find out if you are in our service area. Group Training We offer different training packages for both obedience and bond-building time with your dog. Our group training includes: Basic Obedience (Level 1) Advanced Obedience (Level 2) Introduction to Agility Introduction to Obedience Rally Introduction to Scent Training Contact us privately for pricing, and for payment plans. Doggy Daycare We offer both half and full-day daycare, space is limited to no more than 5 dogs in an in-home atmosphere. An initial playdate must take place to ensure compatibility with our dogs. Boarding Private boarding in an in-home setting. How your dog lives with you is how they will be with us. Space is limited to no more than 5 dogs in our home at a time, and an initial playdate must take place to ensure compatibility with our dogs. Rates vary depending on the length of stay. Grooming Bath, blowdry, and nail trim services are available. We currently do not offer specialized cuts or anal gland draining. Small, medium, and large dogs all welcome. Pricing is based upon the size of your dog. Dog Walking Half-hour and full hour walks. Individual walks or walks of up to 2 dogs in a single household only. We do not offer group walks with large groups of dogs. Statutory Holiday and Weekend walks available at an additional cost. An introductory meeting is required to discuss our services, and for our walker(s) to meet you and your dog to ensure compatibility. Dog walking services are currently limited to Georgetown, Ontario. Service Dog Training Contact us privately for pricing, payment plans, and details about the program. All of our training services come with lifetime support for the training we have done with you and your dog. We do not offer traditional Board and Train services that other trainers may offer. https://www.balancedk9.ca/group-lessons daily 0.75 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604fed8f7ade4643611a6bc7/6ae8ceff-cff0-44de-b1e3-1c26a099d9dc/IMG_20230423_122008_00_056_2023-04-23_21-42-58_screenshot.jpg Group Lessons - Details about our Group Training Our Basic Obedience training group class is made up of eight (8) sessions that we run on Sunday afternoons here in Georgetown, Ontario. We start our first lesson with a bit of an explanation to dog psychology, our method of training, and a controlled introduction of the dogs to each other – it’s a bit of a “sniff, sniff, hooray!” where the dogs pass by and learn each other’s scent. This introduction generally allows the remainder of the lessons to go more smoothly as the dogs should then know each other’s scent and be more familiar with one another. The 2nd through 7th lesson is split into two halves, the first half is social time for the dogs to play and interact with each other and socialize in a controlled environment while we play sounds in the background (like thunderstorms, vacuum cleaners, police and ambulance sirens, etc.) to help them to become acclimated to them and to help understand that these are not scary sounds and associate the sounds with fun memories. We follow this up with a quick (5 minute) bathroom break for the dogs to go outside, pee or poop, and get into a mindset for the second half of the class. The second half of the class is where we do our structured lesson that you and your dog will be working through with handouts and homework that you’ll take with you to put into practical use over the course of the week until the next lesson. The 8th lesson is what we call our “Retrospect Day”, where we put you and your dog through a kind of obstacle course where we run you through everything that we’ve worked on with you and your dog through the prior classes. Each lesson is 1 hour long, and we teach one lesson per week, so the group class is 8 weeks long. We do not run classes on statutory holidays – those holidays are family time, and we’re very big on family time, so we will have a week off for any weekend that there is a stat holiday on the Friday or Monday. Classes are typically scheduled to run between September and late May / early June. Each dog in our classes is required to have their own handler, and we do require that all dogs in attendance have their vaccinations up-to-date for at least Rabies and Bordetella (Kennel Cough). Where it comes to handlers we allow and encourage up to 3 people from each household to come and be at the lessons and learn what they can, that way everyone is learning the same lessons and can apply them consistently, and consistency is something that dogs need. In terms of class size, we accept no more than 5-6 dogs in our group classes. We have at least 2 of our own staff present to help with the structured lesson part of the class working with everyone to make sure that you understand the lesson and how to implement it. We provide training materials in the form of booklets that you take home with you and keep at the end of the class with all of the things we’re working with you on (course materials are now available online through our Google Classroom site), and we send you home with homework at the end of each class. Don’t worry about the homework, though, we aren’t asking you to do hours and hours of work, just 15 minutes of work with your dog, and it’s all based on things that you’ll be using in your day-to-day lives. https://www.balancedk9.ca/private-11 daily 0.75 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604fed8f7ade4643611a6bc7/1616105615583-VK55HA7UB9TXLNZXZ3AB/Kim%2B%2526%2BNova.jpg Private 1-on-1 - Details about our Private 1-on-1 Training We start off by having you fill in an info form that provides us with some information about you and your dog, and once we have that information we will then set up an initial 1-hour assessment appointment where we have our Head and Junior trainers come first to meet you and your dog and talk about the problems you’re experiencing, and to see what they can see in your dog. During the time that we’re assessing your dog you’ll have a chance to evaluate us. We feel that it’s important that you’re able to build a trust and relationship with your trainers, otherwise you may not get what you need out of the training. At the end of the assessment, our trainers will give you their recommendations, and you can decide whether you would like to move forward with us as your trainers, or if you’d like to go with someone else. Where it comes to what we can cover in our in-home training, we can do everything from our Basic Obedience training in an in-home setting, or we can tailor the training to you and your dog’s specific needs based upon what we see in the initial assessment visit. Depending on the needs of your dog’s training, we offer 3 training packages and pricing, and like Costco the bigger the package the less it costs on a per-lesson basis. Our packages: A la carte: if your dog only needs 1 or 2 sessions. A 4-session package. An 8-session package. Please contact us about pricing and payment plans for our training packages. We offer in-home training only within certain areas up to a 30-minute travel time from Georgetown, Ontario where we are based. This covers the North Halton (Acton, Georgetown, and Milton) area, and certain areas in Peel region (north-western Mississauga, and Brampton west of Highway 410), and north up to Erin and Caledon areas. Please contact us privately to see if we cover your area. https://www.balancedk9.ca/about-balanced-k9 daily 0.75 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604fed8f7ade4643611a6bc7/1616112309264-35MTIZ6C3H51YZNINFBU/3%2Bgirls.jpg About Balanced K9 was established in 2019 as a dog training and services business serving North Halton (Acton, Georgetown, and Milton) and North-Western Peel (western Brampton and north-western Mississauga). We have flexible schedules since we understand that dogs are not the same and need time to learn. We offer training options and we guarantee the success of the dog for the lifetime of the dog. This means if you feel the dog is forgetting their training, contact us and we will help you out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604fed8f7ade4643611a6bc7/694e6078-9f89-4d94-b8a0-add315b1cdf7/2019-09-08+11.33.03.jpg About Debbie B, our owner and Head Trainer, is a certified trainer and has been mentored by Sue McMullen at Canine Academy. Debbie has also taken courses at the Victoria Stilwell Academy, and Pet First Aid through St. John Ambulance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604fed8f7ade4643611a6bc7/6f80e845-3181-4861-9107-f769dac8721e/2025-10-05+18.58.27.jpg About Dave, our Admin Assistant, is our primary point of contact for appointment scheduling, and general communication. He assists in our group classes, our walking services, and pet care for both Doggy Daycare and Boarding. 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