K9 AdvantEDGE is a family-owned dog training business based in Brownstown, Michigan, serving the Downriver and Metro Detroit areas for over 10 years. Founded by Tyler Edge, an AKC Certified CGC Evaluator, and his wife, Esther, we work with dogs of all ages and breeds - from young puppies building their first foundations to adult dogs working through behavioral challenges. Our balanced, real-world training is tailored to each dog and household, focusing on reliable obedience, leash skills, and calm behavior that holds up in everyday life. Whether through In-Home Sessions, Stay & Train, or Online Courses, we coach owners alongside their dogs so the results are lasting. Honest guidance, genuine care, and training that make a real difference.
Training & services
Training goals
Behavior consultationProgram details
Behavior Modification Dog Training helps address reactivity, anxiety, aggression, and other challenging behaviors with personalized training plans. We use positive methods to improve communication, build confidence, and create lasting change for dogs and owners alike.
Crate trainingProgram details
Crate training helps your dog feel safe, calm, and comfortable in a routine they can understand. We use positive methods to build good habits, reduce anxiety, and support house training. Get practical guidance that fits your dog’s age, temperament, and goals.
House trainingProgram details
Get your dog or puppy reliably housebroken with structured routines, clear expectations, and consistent reinforcement at home. We help you avoid the common mistakes that drag potty training out for months and set you and your dog up for real long-term success at home.
Clear potty training routines and structure that actually work for busy households. We help you set up a schedule, reward the right behavior, and prevent the accidents that frustrate so many new dog owners. Most effective with puppies, but adult dogs benefit too.
Leash trainingProgram details
End the pulling, lunging, and chaos on walks for good. We teach loose leash walking and structured heeling using a balanced approach that works for big dogs, small dogs, and everything in between. Walks become something you and your dog actually look forward to again.
Obedience trainingProgram details
Advanced obedience training helps dogs learn reliable manners, better focus, and calm behavior in real-world situations. We use clear guidance, positive reinforcement, and consistent routines to strengthen commands and improve listening. Ideal for growing confidence.
Basic Obedience Dog Training helps your dog learn sit, stay, come, leash manners, and calm behavior at home and in public. Our positive, personalized sessions build trust, improve communication, and make everyday routines easier for you and your pet.
Reliable, real-world obedience taught with a balanced approach. Sit, down, stay, place, heel, and recall, proofed around the distractions you actually face. Available as in-home lessons or board and train, with owner coaching so the results carry into everyday life.
Reliable off-leash control, your dog actually maintains around real-world distractions. Built on balanced, e-collar conditioned foundations with proofed sit, down, place, and recall. Ideal for owners who want freedom at parks, trails, and beyond their backyard.
Puppy trainingProgram details
Start your puppy off right with potty training, basic obedience, leash skills, socialization, and healthy boundaries. We help you avoid the issues that show up later, such as separation anxiety, overexcitement, and reactivity. Reduced puppy pricing on all packages.
Specialized training programs for puppies under 8 months at reduced pricing. Covers potty training, basic obedience, leash skills, socialization, and healthy boundaries to prevent future issues. Available in 3, 5, 7, or 10 session packages tailored to your pup and home.
Recall trainingProgram details
Build a reliable come command that your dog actually responds to, even off-leash and around distractions. We use a balanced, e-collar conditioned approach so you can confidently call your dog back at parks, on trails, and in the yard. Long-distance recalls are included in advanced packages.
SocializationProgram details
Healthy socialization that builds real confidence, not chaos. We teach puppies and adult dogs how to stay calm and focused around people, other dogs, and new environments with clear boundaries and structure. Prevents future fear, reactivity, and overexcitement issues.
Behavior support
Aggression trainingProgram details
BarkingProgram details
Professional dog barking training helps reduce nuisance barking with calm, reward-based methods tailored to your dog’s behavior. We teach reliable quiet cues, improve impulse control, and build better habits at home and on walks. Get clearer, calmer communication today.
Fear and confidenceProgram details
Jumping upProgram details
Reactivity trainingProgram details
Barking, lunging, pulling, or fixation around dogs, people, and everyday triggers can make walks stressful. K9 AdvantEDGE provides in-home reactive dog training across Brownstown and Downriver, using structured practice and owner coaching to help build calmer, more manageable responses.
Separation anxietyProgram details
How training happens
Board and trainProgram details
Your dog stays with our family for 4 or 6 weeks of intensive daily training. Reliable obedience, leash skills, place command, recall, and e-collar training built through consistent repetition. Includes a go-home lesson and follow-up to make the transition smooth.
Our 4-week stay and train program is priced at $2,800 total. Your dog learns reliable sit and down stays, loose leash walking, and a solid place command around mild distractions. Comes home e-collar trained with a go-home lesson and follow-up check-in lesson included.
In-home trainingProgram details
One-on-one training in your home, yard, and neighborhood, where the real challenges actually happen. Available in 3, 5, 7, or 10 session packages covering obedience, leash skills, place command, and behavior issues. Owner coaching is included in every single session.
Personalized one-on-one training delivered in your home, yard, and neighborhood. We address obedience and behavior in the exact environment your dog actually lives in, so the training sticks. Owner coaching is included so every member of the family stays consistent.
Online or virtual trainingProgram details
Train on your schedule with K9 AdvantEDGE’s self-paced online dog training courses. Owners get step-by-step video lessons, written guides, and community support for foundational obedience and everyday manners, with anytime access from anywhere.
Owner coachingProgram details
Private trainingProgram details
Private, one-on-one lessons focused entirely on your dog and your specific goals. No group classes, no distractions from other dogs unless we plan it. Available in your home in 3, 5, 7, or 10 session packages across Brownstown and the entire Downriver Michigan area.
Dog age
Adult dogsProgram details
Adult dog training helps improve manners, recall, leash walking, and focus for dogs of all breeds. We use positive, practical methods tailored to your dog’s age, temperament, and goals. Build better habits and a calmer home with personalized support today.
PuppiesProgram details
Training level
Advanced obedienceProgram details
Advanced trainingProgram details
Support between sessions
Go-home lessonsProgram details
Personalized training plansProgram details
Dog size
Small dogsProgram details
Training approach
E-collar trainingProgram details
Modern, humane e-collar conditioning for off-leash reliability and clear communication at a distance. Your dog comes home from our board and train fully trained on the e-collar, with a go-home lesson and follow-up so you understand how to use it confidently and fairly.
Positive reinforcementProgram details
Additional services
BoardingProgram details
Other listed services
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Dog trainingProgram details
Family-run dog training serving Brownstown and all of Downriver Michigan. We offer in-home lessons, board and train, and puppy programs using a balanced, humane approach. Clear communication, fair structure, and real-world results that last well beyond the lesson.
Anxiety dog trainingProgram details
Professional anxiety dog training helps reduce fear, stress, and reactive behavior through calm, positive methods. We build confidence with gradual exposure, clear routines, and customized support for each dog. Improve daily life with gentler, more relaxed behavior.
Distraction TrainingProgram details
Distraction Training helps pets stay focused and responsive around noise, people, other animals, and everyday movement. We use clear, positive methods to build reliable manners and confidence in real-world settings. Ideal for calmer walks, visits, and better control.
Dog jumping trainingProgram details
End jumping on guests, family, and strangers on walks. We teach your dog impulse control and a calm, polite greeting using clear communication and fair structure. Owner coaching is included so the whole household stays consistent and the unwanted behavior actually goes away.
Family dog trainingProgram details
Training that works for the whole family, not just one handler. We coach every member of the household so your dog gets consistent expectations from everyone. Builds a calmer home, better walks, and a dog that fits naturally into your daily family life and routines.
Personalized Dog TrainingProgram details
No one-size-fits-all programs here. We tailor every session to your dog's temperament, your household dynamic, and your real-world goals. Whether you need basic manners or serious behavior work, the plan always fits your dog and your life, not the other way around.
Dog boot campProgram details
Intensive board and train program designed to transform your dog's obedience and behavior in 4 to 6 weeks. Hours of hands-on training daily in a real-world home environment, not a sterile facility. Perfect for busy owners who want fast, lasting, real-world results.
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5/5Our Sweet 1 year old, very energetic puppy Pepper headed off to stay and train, 4 weeks later I swear this is a new dog. He even got taller! He came home knowing Place and walking nicely. A few weeks before he left he took me out on a walk, now a scar on my hand. Now he walks rig…Read full reviewClose full review
Our Sweet 1 year old, very energetic puppy Pepper headed off to stay and train, 4 weeks later I swear this is a new dog. He even got taller! He came home knowing Place and walking nicely. A few weeks before he left he took me out on a walk, now a scar on my hand. Now he walks right by me so calm, didn’t even pull me for a cat walking by, I’m just floored how good he is! No more jumping. Highly highly recommend!
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Ryan Nickowski
5/5
Esther and Tyler trained our bloodhound Murphy and did a great job. I was having an issue recently (about 2 years after the training) Tyler came back out free of charge and come to find out our remote was on the wrong setting. He fixed the issue and was very helpful. I would recommend them to all our family and friends.
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Angela Farley
5/5I rescued a dalmatian/lab mix and was having a real problem training her. I've rescued and fostered many dogs and was just struggling with Elsie. She's a sweet dog and I felt so bad because I felt like I was always yelling at her. Sadly, I even debated returning her.
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I rescued a dalmatian/lab mix and was having a real problem training her. I've rescued and fostered many dogs and was just struggling with Elsie. She's a sweet dog and I felt so bad because I felt like I was always yelling at her. Sadly, I even debated returning her.
I'm so glad I found K9 AdvantEdge. After training with them, she came home staying in place even with being distracted from my border collie playing, balls rolling past her and us walking around. She walks on the leash so calmly when before even the trainer at a local chain pet store that we tried told us Elsie needs more than she can offer. She's not jumping up on us anymore and I'm not afraid of her knocking me over. When I walk down the stairs, I tell her to wait at the top of the them until I'm at the bottom then call her to come down. And she does!
I realize this is a long review, but I simply cannot say enough about them in a few words. If you are frustrated, sad, angry or thinking that you're at the end of your rope and don't know what to do this is your sign that you do know what to do! Call K9 AdvantEdge! You will not be sorry.
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Kathy Gray
5/5
Tyler did a great job with our dog Jake. Before training we couldn’t trust him around other people or even our other dogs, now we can even have him off leash. Jake now gets to live his best life!
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Betty Jahnke - Home
5/5Best experience!! I reached out to others who had trusted their pups with them for training. The reviews and conversations were always 100% yes. I now know this to be so true. The sweet dog I entrusted to them for a month has just returned home and all the behaviors that I wa…Read full reviewClose full review
Best experience!! I reached out to others who had trusted their pups with them for training. The reviews and conversations were always 100% yes. I now know this to be so true. The sweet dog I entrusted to them for a month has just returned home and all the behaviors that I was concerned about are gone and the sweetness is even more prevalent now. K9AdvantEdge is a wonderful couple who have great expertise and passion for training and only do small group trainings at their private home. Truly a family experience for the dogs. You will be so happy you said YES to this training.
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