Rigby business provides obedience training and boarding for dogs

Chris Norman owns Idaho Elite K9 Coaching and Boarding Suites in Rigby together with his spouse, Rachel. He and his workforce work with canine every day. See what it’s like within the video above. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

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BIZ BUZZ RIGBY Rigby couple personal coaching and boarding enterprise for canine

Chris and Rachel Norman are the homeowners of Idaho Elite K9 Coaching and Boarding Suites. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

RIGBY – Coaching K9 canine for the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Workplace is what Christopher Norman loved most about working in regulation enforcement.

He not too long ago stepped down after 17 years to give attention to his canine coaching and boarding enterprise full time. Idaho Elite K9 Coaching and Boarding Suites opened in a brand new 11,000-square-foot constructing at 3848 Indian Creek Loop, Suite A in Rigby.

It presents fundamental obedience coaching for any canine, or extra superior coaching for searching or competitors. It additionally offers a boarding element, which provides canine a spot to remain whereas their homeowners are gone.

Norman runs the enterprise together with his spouse, Rachel. The enterprise started as a facet enterprise about 5 years in the past, and he’s thrilled with the bigger house and new boarding capability.

“We now have 56 boarding kennels and two large bays to coach in,” Chris tells EastIdahoNews.com. “We’re set as much as home greater than 100 canine if we get that busy.”

Boarding kennels at Idaho Elite K9 in Rigby. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

For the Normans, boarding is extra than simply giving the canine a spot to sleep. It’s about offering enrichment actions for them, relying on the canine’s particular person pursuits.

“In the event that they like treats, then we will put a snuffle mat or lick mat out. In the event that they prefer to chase issues, we’ve acquired flavored bubbles. We wish them to have expertise and never simply be caught in a kennel,” he says.

Through the years, Chris has seen that many individuals haven’t any management over their canine. His expertise coaching K9s prompted him to launch the dog-training enterprise, and it shortly took off.

The boarding facet was extremely wanted to start with, however the Normans didn’t have the potential to supply it on the time.

“We acquired calls on a regular basis,” says Chris. “We had a number of boarding kennels, however these had been extra for our boarding trainings — those that dropped their canine off for us to coach. We determined after we moved to this (new constructing) that we’d add boarding on to that, and now we will present all of it.”

Legislation enforcement working with K9s usually obtain coaching in Alabama or different elements of the nation, and Chris’ objective is to ultimately present that coaching domestically at his facility. He’d prefer to host competitions as nicely.

“Having the ability to present a excessive stage of coaching and boarding (is all the time a precedence),” Rachel says. “One in every of our different targets is to extend our boarding numbers as a result of that’s now a core piece of the enterprise.”

With regards to coaching canine, Chris says there isn’t a “magic tablet.” It simply requires persistence and consistency. The Normans’ 9-year-old daughter, Savannah, owns a Belgian Malinois. Watch her work within the video above.

For costs and extra data, go to the web site or Fb web page. You can too name Idaho Elite K9 straight at (208) 569-1627.

Phoenix is a Belgian Malinois owned by 9-year-old Savannah Norman. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com