Shield-K9 Dog Training

The good thing about the internet is that you can see training all around the world. The bad thing is that inexperienced people can still be easily be fooled with slick content and pleasant words. The videos we post are for the most part sans slick marketing. I enjoy the process. It's not always clean, easy or conflict free especially when you are dealing with an older dog that has little to no training or even worse, bad training. I'm not selling you anything, either come o...r don't..watch or don't.. People that train with me don't do so because I suck them in with fancy marketing. They see the videos shot from my phone, run into one of my former clients walking their dog off leash or hear about us from someone that brought their aggressive dog and saw what we can do. Behavior issues, obedience, working K9, sport, we do it all. I won't tell you what you want to hear, I'll tell you what you need to hear. I won't cloak what we do in nice words to make you feel better. Just like our videos, I will tell you exactly what we are doing and why we are doing it. If you want sugar go somewhere else. If you want results you know where we are. https://youtu.be/bienRoR_ohQ

The key is frustration. Stop giving the dog freebies and teach him the only thing better then the ball is you and the ball together. https://youtu.be/uaPIyOk3CwI

K9 Kilo prepping for his job as an Executive Protection dog. Working on secondary control in the protection off lead.

Check out our new Focus Heel training video. https://youtu.be/A534ApWXqjo

Pressure IN Pressure OUT This is a method I use in bitework with some dogs to associate pressure with activation and also as a control mechanism. With more sensitive dogs, pressure can become a detriment to the dogs clarity and confidence. Using it like this can help the dog become stronger as he learns that pressure is nothing to be worried about, it can be used as fuel for the fire or to reinforce control based behaviors without causing unwanted suppression that degrades performance. I do NOT do this with every dog.

Stop messing up dogs on E Collars and Prong Collars!