Whether you are working with a Police K9 or training a Personal Protection K9, there should most certainly be a certain level of control that the K9 has when it comes to passive decoys. Why is this? If your K9 is not able to detect passive body...
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Test Hunt & Prey Drive
Jul 20, 2023
Basic Obedience for Working Dogs – Advancing the Place Command
Feb 24, 2023
Obedience is the foundation of all training for working dogs. For service dogs in particular, place is a very important command. In our previous video, we began teaching future service dog K9 Cappy the place command. We are now advancing his place command by lengthening the duration of his down & moving the placement. As […]
Basic Obedience for Working Dogs – Teaching The Place Command
Feb 24, 2023
The “place” command can be a very useful with working dogs for many different reasons. It teaches your dog that it does not have to be right beside you at all times & to relax in a given spot. In this specific scenario, K9 Cappy is training to be a service dog so the place […]
Conditioning your Working Dog for Gunfire Neutrality
Feb 11, 2023
There are many reasons that gunfire neutrality is important for working k9s. These including safety of the dog, handler or anyone else in the area. Gunfire neutrality means that the dog does not pay attention to the gunfire at all. The dog should pay attention to the handler and the job they are performing while […]
K9 Tracking – The Working Dog’s Final Response during Article Searches
Feb 4, 2023
As with any type of working dog training we start by teaching the K9 the job we want them to perform. Once the dog understands what we want them to do, we fine tune the final response we expect from them. In the introduction to article searches, we initially starting paying the dog for simply […]
K9 Tracking – Introducing Your Working Dog to Article Searches
Feb 4, 2023
Tracking is great building block to several other things your working dog may train for including article searches. If your dog doesn’t know how to track, check out our posts on puppy tracks and also concentration tracks before beginning article searches. Once the dog has the basics of tracking, we are going to introduce them […]
K9 Tracking – Decreasing Odor in Concentration Tracks
Jan 28, 2023
As our working dogs gain understanding as to what we want from them, we increase the difficulty in the track. Adding turns and decreasing odor are just a few of the ways to make our concentration tracks more difficult. In this session, the dog has already been introduced to turns and we have lessened the […]
K9 Tracking – Increasing Difficulty in Concentration Tracks
Jan 28, 2023
In tracking or scent work, we expect the dog to rely on their nose and not their vision. In some cases, we have to teach the dog to actively sniff and not just drive forward. As we progress with concentration tracks we will increase the difficulty by adding turns and decreasing the scent. This will […]
K9 Tracking – Teaching the Scent Picture with Concentration Tracks
Jan 28, 2023
There are several steps in teaching a working dog to track. In previous videos we introduced a dog to tracking with puppy tracks. The next step is to move the dog to concentration tracks. Concentration tracks are tracks with a lot of odor that will teach the dog their scent picture. In this phase it […]
The Importance of Testing the Functionality of K9 Teams – Part 2
Jan 21, 2023
To be the best k9 team that we can be, we have to continuously train and this means assessing our weaknesses so that we can work through them. It is important to work with your dog, but also test the functionality of both you and your dog working together as a team. We set up […]
The Importance of Testing the Functionality of K9 Teams – Part 1
Jan 21, 2023
As a k9 team, we are only as good as the amount of work that we put in. For this reason, no matter if you are a newer team or seasoned veterans it is important to never stop training. To continuously progress in our training, we test the functionality of our teams working together through […]