For pest control, restoration, conservation, security, and agencies buying a detection dog — placement-ready teams selected and trained for the environment they'll actually work in.
K9School places detection dogs for bed bug, arson, conservation, narcotics, explosives, and firearms work — selected for the environment you actually work in and paired with handler training. You buy a team, not just a dog: a dog matched to the job and a handler trained to read it.
Dogs chosen for scent ability, environmental confidence, search drive, and operational stability.
Working dogs placed across narcotics, arson, bed bug and conservation.
Every placement includes handler development so your people can actually run the dog.
For pest control & property managers who stake their name on accuracy.
Accelerant detection for fire investigation and insurance work.
Wildlife, invasive species, and environmental detection.
Reliable narcotics detection for agencies and security teams.
High-consequence detection for operational deployment.
Human remains, firearms, mold, peanut and allergen detection, and other approved target odors. Each discipline needs its own training aids, search environments, and operational scenarios.
People shop for a detection dog the way they shop for a truck: they look at the dog first. That is backward. A dog selected for calm, methodical bed-bug work in occupied apartments is a poor match for high-tempo vehicle interdiction, and a hard-charging interdiction dog will wash out of a hotel room in an afternoon. Before we talk about any specific dog, we define the job precisely — the target odors, the environments, the daily workload and climate, and who will handle it. The clearer that profile, the better the match, and the fewer expensive surprises after delivery.
This is where a placement earns or loses its value. A dog is a multi-year investment your operation's results ride on. Get the selection right and the work is almost easy; get it wrong and no amount of training fully recovers it. So we would rather spend the time up front, ask the uncomfortable questions about how you actually work, and match you to a dog built for it — even when that means telling you the dog you were excited about is wrong for the job.
Dogs are sold at different stages, and the right choice depends on your handler's experience and your timeline. A green dog shows aptitude but isn't trained — the lowest price and the longest road, and only a good bet if you have an experienced trainer to develop it. A started dog has foundation odor work underway. A finished dog works the odor problem and can be certified with a handler quickly — the highest cost and the lowest risk, fastest to real deployment. There is no universally right answer, but there is a right answer for you, and it depends on an honest look at your team's ability to bring a dog along. For most businesses and agencies, a finished dog paired with handler certification is the lowest total cost once you account for the time and risk of developing one yourself.
The principles that make a dog reliable do not change with the target — a bed-bug dog and an accelerant dog are both trained to discriminate, to commit to source, and to tell the truth about what is and isn't there. What changes is the environment and the stakes. We place and support dogs across bed bug detection for pest control and property management, arson / accelerant detection for fire investigation and insurance work, conservation detection for wildlife and invasive species, and narcotics, explosives, and firearms detection for agencies and security teams. The legacy Kip K9 work spanned much of this range, and it all runs on the same method.
The finest dog we could hand you will underperform with an undertrained handler, so we do not treat handler training as an add-on — it is half the system, and we build it into the placement. Whether you are a pest-control company protecting a reputation on every inspection or an agency putting a dog on the street, what you actually need is a team that can work reliably and, when it matters, explain and defend what it did. That is what we deliver: a dog selected for your real work, a handler trained to read it, and the support to keep the team sharp after the sale.
The best protection a buyer has is simple, and it costs nothing: insist on seeing the dog work in an environment like yours, and ask for the documentation of what was evaluated. A reputable program tests dogs against a defined standard and hands you the record. If a seller resists letting you see the dog work, or cannot produce evaluation records, that reluctance is your answer — walk away. A demo in a parking lot the seller controls tells you very little; a dog worked cold in a realistic problem tells you almost everything.
We hold ourselves to the same rule we would tell you to demand of anyone. Every dog we place is evaluated to the LSOC courtroom-defensible standard, and the handler is trained to read the behavior behind the response — not just to trust the sit. For a commercial operator, that means a dog whose finds protect your reputation instead of risking it. For an agency, it means a team whose work survives the hearing. Either way, you are buying evidence you can stand behind, which is the only kind worth owning.
Narcotics, cadaver, accelerant and tracking. The same field-first approach across every one.
We place fully trained dogs as a complete package — the dog, training in an approved discipline, and handler instruction — and we also train dogs clients already own, after evaluating them. Acceptance into training is not a guarantee the dog will finish; we give you an honest opinion on the dog's potential first.
Often yes — the legacy Kip K9 work spanned narcotics, arson, termite, bed bug, and allergen detection. Ask us.
The package includes a selected dog, detector-dog training in an approved discipline, and handler instruction. The handler is taught to work and care for the dog, maintain its training, run appropriate searches, document performance, and work through common operational and training problems.
Our fully trained dog and handler package is $13,500 — the dog, training in an approved discipline, and handler instruction — with a $3,500 nonrefundable deposit before training begins. Training a dog you already own is quoted individually, because that depends on the dog. See what it costs for the full schedule.
For pest control, restoration, conservation, security, and agencies buying a detection dog — placement-ready teams selected and trained for the environment they'll actually work in.