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Ron Pace’s Canyon Crest K-9 Training Center is situated on five scenic acres in Tacoma, Washington. We are five minutes from the Tacoma Dome overlooking the Puyallup Valley. Our training grounds create the perfect setting for dog training. It is our primary goal to help the dogs and their owners achieve their maximum potential as either well behaved pets, or as working dogs. Ordinary people are doing great things with their dogs at our training facility. We invite you out to compare.

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If you are exploring dog training for you and your dog you’re likely looking for a way to improve or enhance life with your pet. Now more than ever before we seem to have many varieties of experts to help us - "dog whisperers", "dog psychologists", "dog behaviorists", and "dog psychics" just to mention a few. We have over thirty years of experience teaching people how to train their dogs using a no nonsense approach (full of positive motivation). We provide you with the tools to communicate with your dog in order to build a loving, and respectful lifelong partnership.

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Man and White Dog It’s not unusual to have any number of our clients at our facility that have traveled from North of Seattle, Port Orchard, Gig Harbor, Olympia or Portland. Because this training works, we are no longer a secret. We do understand that just as food based training is not for everyone our directional training is not either and that is why we highly recommend to those of you searching for the right coach to help you train your dog to explore as many training facilities you can before you commit your time and money to one or another. This way you will not be disappointed. Give us call when you are ready to visit. 253-926-9200
FRUSTRATED WITH YOUR DOG’S BEHAVIOR?
If you are frustrated with your dog barking, running away from you, chewing, digging, jumping, scratching at the door or showing aggression we can help you with your dog behavior problems. To those who struggle with obedience and lack of respect from their pets, their greatest obstacle may not be their dogs, it may be themselves.
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DIABETICS in need of good dogs. Looking for dogs to complete our diabetic alert service dog teams. Pre-qualifying dogs must be 6 months to 2 years of age, under 60 lbs and must be good with people and other dogs. Your dog could save a life! Call for details 253-926-9200, or
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Dog helps keep diabetic teen alive and well

Service dog Max harasses Liam Kelly, 14, of Gig Harbor after Max noticed Kelly’s blood sugar was elevated during a training session at Canyon Crest K-9 Training Center near Midland last week. Liam has been working with Max for about six months.

Max has a nose for Kelly’s blood-sugar levels, thanks to training from Ron Pace and Jarod Pace of Canyon Crest K9 Training Center in the Summit/Waller Road area. Using actions and rewards, the Paces taught Max to alert Kelly when his blood-sugar levels were too high or too low.

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Liam Kelly
Follow-up: A few months later…

I wanted in writing to tell you again how much I appreciate all you have done for Liam and my entire family. You have been a blessing in our life and have continually used your gift of not only animal intelligence, but also caring for others. You are truly a faith filled man, who walks the walk.

Liam’s last check up with the endocrinologist was great and showed that Max has definitely benefited Liam’s health and diabetes control. In diabetes, the gold standard to check on your control is a test called the hemoglobin A1c.

Basically, this test measures what your average blood glucose level (bg) has been for the last few months. There’s some debate as to how far back in time it goes, but it’s about 2 or 3 months, with a bit more emphasis on the most recent month.

In you blood is something called a hemoglobin molecule it contains iron and carries oxygen around the body, delivering it to cells. The molecule is made in your bones, in the bone marrow, and lives for about 3 months. When it dies it is cleared from the blood stream by your spleen (a funny little organ which lives in the lower left rib cage). During it’s life, glucose molecules one by one "stick" to the hemoglobin molecules. The more glucose that’s in the bloodstream, the more sticks to the hemoglobin. If you remove the hemoglobin from the blood, and measure how much glucose is stuck to it, you can find out roughly how much glucose has been in the blood during the life of the molecule. In other words, an average for the last 2 or 3 months, but the most recent month has a stronger effect on the result than the other 2 months.

Liam’s last A1c was 6.3 which has gone down from 6.8 in the last 2.5 months. This is an awesome result given that control is hardest during adolescence and also given Liam’s ADD. A typical normal range for A1c is 4.3%-5.9%. For a diabetic (type 1) anything under 7% is considered excellent. In fact, the doctor said that he had no one else in his practice , of Liam’s age that had such great numbers…thank you Ron and Max ! Every test that we get like that is saying we are preserving his kidney function, eye and nerve health…giving him every possibility of having as healthy and normal a future as possible. I know that having Max has been so helpful for Liam, he hasn’t good awareness of his lows. This past week after football camp, some days Max was alerting 4-5 times, really surprising Liam because he thought he was fine, but the dog knew differently ! WE can’t thank you enough ,you and Max have literally saved Liam’s life and allowed him to feel he can participate in sports or anything he wants because Max will alert and give him that extra security if his blood sugars are out of range. We have had Max now for almost 5 months and it has been lots of work, but the benefits have been tremendous, it has been the best decision we could have made for Liam- so thanks for your expertise, patience and humor in making this happen for us.

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"It doesn’t only happen in the movies. In ‘The Natural’, Roy Hobbs had a gift for baseball. He also had a tool, his bat ‘Wonderboy’... Ron Pace is also a natural. Pace has a gift for dog training. He also had an aid, his dog Jake. Jake The Wonder Dog!" -The Tacoma News Tribune
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is to provide the ordinary dog owner a successful way of communicating to their dog by using positive, fair and humane methods of training. This in turn will create a happier dog, family and community.
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