Personal Protection Training

This is the area where you can start for information on personal protection training in the 'Foundation Style" of dog training.  As you know this web site is a work in progress.  Will it ever be complete?  Probably never, as I plan to forever add information to the site and update as the method evolves.

For now I am going to use this section to start adding information that everyone should know that is interested in the subject of personal protection dogs.  For the serious professional trainer, you can use the information found on this site to see how I do things and what i teach if you care to help represent the same standard.  As we know there are very few standards in dog training and it is very difficult for a dog owner to know what they are getting into when they hire a trainer.  It is good to have credentials, but it is unlikely in your area that there is any law that requires any such thing.   This is an attempt to put out some common knowledge and standards that if a trainer wishes to follow he/she can say they use the "foundation style" of dog training - which over time will hopefully represent a dignified, respectful way to train a personal protection dog (or any dog for that matter)- without  any abuse and with results a trainer can stand by and be proud of.

If you are not a professional or experienced trainer and are a member of this site - this section is not designed to show YOU how to train a personal protection dog YOURSELF.  It is in fact a place where you can gain knowledge in how to prepare your dog for such formal training and to help you recognize a trainer that understands how to finish the job humanely and effectively.  Personal protection training is something that absolutely requires an experienced trainer with the proper safety equipment.  As the site grows if you are interested in persuing this type of trainer - the list of recommended trainers should grow as like-minded trainers start to reach out to each other to improve upon a common standard based on quality and values instead of arguing rights and wrongs.

You may ask yourself, “Why does K9-1 specialize in what seems to be such extreme opposites?”

 Considering a large part of our work is aggression rehabilitation and solutions for animal shelters, why in the heck would we be training personal protection dogs?

 The answer is that a large proportion of the most serious accidental dog bites out there come from dogs that were originally obtained to have at least some personal protection use – even if it was just to be a deterrent to crime within that owner’s home or property.

 We do believe this to be a just reason for obtaining a dog and if we educate the public about how to have a dog for this purpose correctly and responsibly we can in fact lower the amount of accidents that occur from lack of proper knowledge and misconceptions.

You can click to move forward to reading about some common misconceptions and myths about personal protection dogs.  Click here