Personal Protection Training

Teresa and Kasch demo proper leash handling of a personal protection dog.

A couple sessions working on Nikko's Grip

Easily abused training method, the 'flank', properly demonstrated here to help Nikko become more serious

and overcome some hesitency in the bite.

Protection work with the agitation muzzle on Nikko.

Video explains advanced techniques to train a dog to higher confidence and reliability when protecting the handler.

The intensity gets increased another step.  More focus on the different targets, more 'switch'.

Here we demo how to get started on teaching the dog to defend the handler against multiple attackers.  One of my favorite vids!

This exercise is good for guard dogs in training at almost every level.  It gets the dog used to understanding when it is definitely OK to be aggressive at the person entering the door.

"Fritz" and "Milo" work on a place command at the door to be in position to protect the owner.

The dogs must wait until the owner says it is a threat. Milo also practices a "switch" command to follow the weapon from one arm to the next.

This video shows Zephyr starting to cross over beyond just threatening the agitator. A good video and technique for working with dogs that have some taboo about biting a human.

More confidence building with Zephyr outside in parking lot.

Very important video about how to introduce the CONTROL into the protection training.  This is where the hard work of bite building and the hard work of taking your dog through phase 3 obedience starts to pay off.  We demo a 10 month old German Shepherd during one of his first "bite and control" sessions here.