Faith and Valor K9 was born from a simple need: training service dogs. My journey in dog training began as a kid training hunting retrievers and retriever competitions. Their natural ability to fetch, carry, and pull naturally evolved into teaching real mobility work and practical service tasks.

Over the years I honed those skills making a career out of obedience and behavior training. The skills I had from retriever training resurface as teaching dogs to pick up items.  I wanted to help people the way I could so I began training 1 service dog a year at a deeply discounted rate of some of my nonprofit competitors.
Life isn’t clean or easy. I’ve faced my own personal struggles and battles from when life takes a hard turn. What carried me through the hardest times was taking a moment to myself to reflect on faith, talk to god, and hug a dog. A good K9 and Faith can get you through the darkest of times with valor no matter how broken you feel or are.

Dogs are my connection to people of all walks of life. A powerful connection that I want to share. My Faith calls on me to serve the community and providing our hero’s a hero has got to be one of the coolest ways to do so.

There’s a beautiful reminder in the fact that “dog” spelled backwards is “God.” These dogs become more than working animals. They offer comfort in your darkest hour. They stay close, read your emotions, and give you that quiet, unshakable support and strength. They create a deep emotional connection — a bond that says “you are not alone.”
This is especially powerful for veterans — men of valor who have performed legendary tasks and heroic work in the field. Many carry invisible wounds from their service. Through the dog connection, walls come down. Conversations start naturally. Understanding grows. Healing begins — not through forced therapy, but through the simple, faithful presence of a dog who just gets it.

That’s what Faith and Valor K9 is really about: pairing exceptional service dogs with warriors who deserve a loyal partner that reflects both valor and divine faithfulness. If we just pass the dog off to the veteran we really let them down in what we could offer. On top of the service dogs we want to build a community of support and passion to carry out our mission. We will build a youth outreach program to educate youth on dogs, life skills, and develop a volunteer group to help raise and train, participate at events, or carry out our mission. For our Veterans we will create a group centered around dogs to keep up training, provide support, connection, fun, and purpose through our mission. Though our core mission is providing service dogs to veterans I’ve assembled a team to carry out a mission much more monumental.