About Nine Realms

History

Nine Realms was started in Spokane Washington in 2018. It has been run solely by Karin Wageman since its founding. Since founding, Nine Realms has taught dozens of handler schools, trained and sold numerous police canines, trained and certified dozens of narcotics/explosives/tracking dogs, traveled to Grumeti Tanzania to teach anti-poaching canine handlers ten times, attended numerous handler schools, advanced schools, seminars, and workshops, and trained over 40 service dogs through board and trains and owner training lessons.

Name Meaning

Nine Realms Canine Training is named after the Nine Realms of Norse Mythology. The idea for the name came from Karin’s love for Norse Mythology, her Scandanavian heritage, and her many travels across the world training. At Nine Realms Canine Training, training goes above and beyond the realm of simply pet dog obedience. Karin is experienced training dogs in a variety of realms including law enforcement, anti-poaching, tracking, detectin, protection, patrol, and service work.

Methods

Nine Realms uses a balanced training method for police canine training, service dog training, and pet dogs. We use all quadrants of learning (positive, negative, reinforcement, punishment). Nine Realms Canine Training does not limit training to any one method but instead uses a combination of methods based upon canine behavior, learning, and neurobiology. Each dog is unique in personality, desires, fears, learning style, and ability. Therefore, no training Nine Realms does is ever a cookie cutter design, but is instead tailored for each individual dog.

Nine Realms uses the following tools and methods but is not limited or exclusive to these methods: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, negative punishment, positive punishement, food based training, toy based training, marker training, pinch/prong collars, electronic collars, relationship based training, and structured management.

Karin is constantly growing her knowledge in all areas of her work (tracking, detection, protection training, reactive dogs, sport work, anxious dogs, etc.) and is adding new methods and information to better improve her training skills.