“Deemed not adoptable.”
PK came to Angier K9 as a rescue with a hard start. “She was actually deemed not adoptable because she was just so timid, she was scared,” her trainer explained, “and she was reacting to people.” Early on she growled and showed her teeth when her kennel was opened.
Christian, the head trainer for behaviour modification, worked on her reactivity. In her trainer’s words, “he helped her a lot,” and gave her “a second chance of life.”
The ducks, the park, a new friend.
Her training ran through parks, trails and stores, and on day four she passed staff dogs by choice. At the pond, “PK used to lunge at the ducks,” her trainer said, but she learned to coexist with them. A passer-by learned to greet her the right way: “Put your hand out so she can sniff you first.”
Of her early days, her trainer said: “she wouldn’t even be out here in this park, she was super scared, but she’s doing much better.”
“Oh, PK found a home.”
Angier K9 filmed her progress to help her get adopted, and it worked. “We wanted to get you adopted… yes, you got adopted,” her trainer told her on a visit to her new home.
Her new family described the change: for the first three or four days “she didn’t really wag her tail much,” and “since then she has just really come out of her shell. She plays with the girls, and like, these are her humans.” Walks still brought reactions to neighbourhood dogs and some people, so the visit went straight to the leash.
“She didn’t do anything.”
Later, Kelton spent a day training with PK and walked her past several dogs on camera. He was ready to work through a reaction and never got one: “I couldn’t get her to. We walked by like three or four dogs, and she didn’t do anything.”
Her family summed her up: “She’s beautiful, and smart, and nice, and sweet.”
Kelton’s walk plan for her family: the word first, then the leash, and reward every good pass.
Refreshers, and a room to share.
Kelton says the team trained PK, helped her get adopted, and still does refreshers for her sometimes; in June 2026 she was back for a refresher program. At home, one of the children put it best: “Mommy lets her sleep in my room.”
