by JerryTK9 | Jul 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Breischaft, a retired police detective and entrepreneur, recently launched a new company called Stealth Vigilance that offers drug detection services to private schools, parents who may suspect their child is using drugs, or businesses that want to make sure...
by JerryTK9 | Jul 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Drive Neutrality There are times in training where we need to not just cap drive temporarily, but reduce the dog’s arousal in prey to a lower level. In the sport of PSA (Protection Sports Association) for example, decoys are present on the obedience field. In PSA 1,...
by JerryTK9 | Jul 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Dispatch alerts the K9 Unit that a homeowner sees a man fitting the description of the suspect in a nearby liquor store robbery: Caucasian, male, jeans, red baseball cap, and running into his barn from the direction of the robbery. Perimeter has been set up, and...
by JerryTK9 | Jul 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
If you think about it, it’s kind of a dirty trick to take a species that naturally chases moving objects, eats whatever it comes across, bites to argue, and then announce all these as behavior problems.” Jean Donaldson Understanding systematic desensitization is...
by JerryTK9 | Jul 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Train within a system The Electronic training collar (e-collar) is not a problem solver device. There was once a time when trainers slapped on the e-collar before certification and meted out hard corrections to “clean up” a dirty dog. Those days should be long past....
by JerryTK9 | Jul 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Teaching both the building search and the area search exercises is a staple of all patrol dog training. The building search consists of a “cold” start where you can roll up to any building and send your dog in for a search without any indication from the subject that...
