The KLIMB wins industry award

Blue-9 President, David Blake, is proud to announce the company’s debut product, the KLIMB™, has won the prestigious 2015 Editor’s Choice Award by Pet Product News International (PPNI) magazine, one of the industry’s top publications.

Products were evaluated and selected by PPNI editors, based on innovation, function or design, or a combination of all three elements. The first professional grade dog training system of its kind, the KLIMB™, helps trainers, and pet care professionals achieve better results faster, and grow their business.
“We are honored to earn such high recognition for the KLIMB™, especially from one of the industry’s top trade publications,” said Blake. “This award is very important to us as it gives us the encouragement and momentum we need to continue sharing the benefits of the KLIMB and platform or pedestal training to the industry.”

Blake along with co-founder and professional dog trainer Darryn Witt originally developed this high-quality training platform for use with trainers and dog owners to assist in a wide range of behavioral training. Features of The KLIMB™ are unlike any other in that it’s stackable, expandable, locking, self contained and easy to wash.

“We’re incredibly proud to introduce the first-ever training platform of this high quality standard,” said Blake. “While platform training has been widely respected and utilized in the dog training community for quite some time, most trainers are working with a homemade platform, which introduces problems in the way of quality and portability. The KLIMB™ alleviates this issue and there’s simply no other product available like it.”

The way it works is a dog is trained through positive attention and rewards to learn that The KLIMB™ is ‘his place’, on which good things happen. A platform is more effective than training on the ground or a mat, as it keeps the dog from ‘creeping’ out of his position. The KLIMB™ takes advantage of dogs’ natural tendency to seek a higher vantage point, as being elevated requires more focus and defines boundaries. This helps dogs concentrate on training, ignore distractions, and avoid unwanted behaviors like begging for scraps or barking at visitors.

Already endorsed and even sold by trainers nationwide, The KLIMB ™is proving to be a hit among all sorts of pet professionals as an easy and convenient training tool to improve impulse control and focus.

“We are thrilled with how well The KLIMB™ has been received by trainers and it is taking off more quickly than we planned,” said Witt. “The KLIMB™ is perfect for confidence building, cross training, strength-conditioning, body awareness, and increased control training, and trainers are catching on to the many benefits it can offer them as business owners. We’re even seeing it being used as playground equipment for boarding and daycare facilities.”

For more information, or to purchase The KLIMB™, go to www.blue-9.com.

JAMIE BAXTER, July 21, 2015