Dog days: entrepreneur overcomes obstacles in canine-focused business

A dog-training academy on 40 acres on Lake Buffum in Polk County isn’t just a place for canines to find their purpose, and passion. The business owner, too, wags the day.

  • By John Haughey
  • | 8:53 a.m. December 22, 2018
Calvin Knight. John Kuendig founded John K9, a dog–training facility and kennel in Polk County, in 2015.
Calvin Knight. John Kuendig founded John K9, a dog–training facility and kennel in Polk County, in 2015.
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John Kuendig graduated with a zoology degree from an Ivy League university. He later trained dolphins, sea lions, birds and monkeys for a decade in aquariums and wildlife parks in Hawaii, South Florida and North Carolina.

 

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