JPK9 Academy serves Folsom dog owners from its Elk Grove facility, about 30 minutes away. Juan Portillo personally works with every dog, offering puppy training, obedience, behavior modification, aggression training, board and train, and boarding without training.
Folsom dog owners bring Juan every kind of situation. Here are the ones that come up most.
Drags you the whole way, especially near the Johnny Cash Trail or Folsom Lake.
Listens perfectly indoors, then acts like a stranger the second you're past the driveway.
Chewing, digging, or accidents that only happen once you've left for work.
Biting, potty accidents, and no idea where to even start.
Fine one on one, but loses it the moment another dog gets close.
Came from a shelter or rescue with an unknown history, and is still cautious, jumpy, or unpredictable.
Fine with the family, but defensive or aggressive toward unfamiliar people, sometimes with a bite already in the history.
A class or a different trainer didn't stick, and the behavior came right back.
Four common situations, and where they usually land.
| Your Situation | Best Program | What Happens |
|---|---|---|
| New puppy, no structure yet | Puppy Training | JPK9's puppy training in Folsom covers potty training, crate training, biting, and basic obedience starting at 8 weeks, all at your home. |
| Pulls hard or reacts to other dogs on walks | Private Lessons | Private dog training in Folsom puts Juan in your yard and on your street, working through the reaction where it actually happens. |
| Traveling, or a schedule with no time to train | Board and Train, or Dog Boarding | Board and train handles daily training start to finish. If your dog just needs a place to stay, plain dog boarding is available separately. |
| Aggression, a bite history, or another trainer said no | Aggression Training | Aggressive dog training in Folsom starts with an individual evaluation. Juan takes on cases most local trainers won't touch. |
Juan offers both in Folsom. Here's the actual difference, so you book the right one.
Not sure which one your dog needs? Ask Juan directly.
Call (916) 571-0157JPK9 is based in Elk Grove, about 30 minutes from Folsom.
Your dog's home
JPK9's facility
Every program below runs through Juan directly, not a rotating staff, not a franchise script.
A board and train stay runs 3 to 5 weeks at Elk Grove. You'll get video check-ins along the way, and neither pickup nor drop-off means a drive for you, Juan handles both ends from your Folsom home.
See Board and Train Programs
Biting, potty accidents, chewing, the usual puppy chaos. Juan starts working on all of it from 8 weeks old, building habits early so they don't need correcting later.
See Puppy Training
Some dogs are perfectly behaved until a squirrel, a stranger, or another dog shows up. Group classes at Elk Grove run weekly and put your dog around exactly those distractions, on purpose.
See Group Classes
No set curriculum. Juan comes to your Folsom home and builds each session around whatever's actually going wrong, not a generic checklist every dog runs through.
See Private Lessons
A bite history, growling, real aggression, cases plenty of Folsom trainers pass on. Juan evaluates the dog in person first, then decides what's realistic before promising anything.
See Aggression Training
Some dogs know every command and still react out of fear or stress. This program goes after why that's happening, not just correcting what it looks like on the surface.
See Behavior ModificationNo sales pitch, no standard package. Here's exactly what happens.
Not a booking line, not a receptionist. Call (916) 571-0157 and describe what your dog is actually doing.
The evaluation happens at your house, starting at $100, so Juan sees the real behavior, not a training-room version of it.
Whatever program fits gets built around your dog specifically, with owner coaching included from the first session.
Founder and Head Trainer, JPK9 Academy
Juan is one of the few trainers serving Folsom who handles board and train, plain boarding, and everything from puppy basics to aggression cases, all out of the same Elk Grove facility. No separate boarding kennel, no separate training company.
He's been at this over 15 years, and his method starts the same way every time: evaluate the actual dog in front of him before deciding anything, not slot it into whichever package is easiest to sell.
Sarah keeps a lot of the facility running day to day, but the sessions, the evaluations, the phone calls about your specific dog, that part stays with Juan.
These are unedited clips of actual JPK9 sessions, not a polished ad, so you know what Folsom dogs actually go through.
Three Folsom-area reviews, three different starting points, all in the client's own words.
Juan came highly recommended by another dog owner in town, and it was truly a blessing to train with him. I own a Belgian Malinois, and from the start he was honest about what it would take to get the specific skills I wanted, like recall and reliable off-leash control.
Our dog was labeled a dangerous pet after an incident, and animal control required training. Most trainers wouldn't take a case like that. Juan did. I worried a 10 year old dog was too set in his ways, but within 8 weeks the shift was amazing, even with reschedules through extreme heat and wildfire smoke that summer. My wife and in-laws noticed how much more attached he'd become to me.
Meeko used to bark at nearly every person and dog he saw, which left me frustrated and exhausted some days. JPK9 took him in for board and train and had him attend group sessions too. His behavior has improved remarkably, and it's been well worth the money.
Call (916) 571-0157 or leave your number below. Tell Juan what's going on, whether it's a puppy that needs structure, a dog that needs boarding, or something more serious. He'll tell you plainly what JPK9 can do for your Folsom dog, and what it costs, before you commit to anything.
