WORKING DOG BOOKS

In this eBook, Helen King outlines her proven techniques for selecting a puppy to compete in your desired dog sport. Picking Your Performance Puppy is more than a book about how to pick a puppy, it incorporates diagrams, pictures, and videos to better show you the small details to look for when selecting the right puppy.

This is the first comprehensive manual for trainers, handlers, and instructors in all branches of all enforcement and the military. All aspects of the discipline are covered including a historic overview, canine scenting abilities, track scent picture, scent discrimination, training techniques, deployment tactics, equipment, record keeping, certification, and more. Tracy Bowling, with 40 years of experience, has developed a solid method that will help you achieve reliable tracking K9s.

"Red Dog Rising is a riveting account of one man and one bloodhound who shared a passion for one thing--following the scent trail of criminals. Join Jeff and Ronin through a mix of heart breaking, amusing, and seedy investigations and you'll experience justice from the end of the leash. This is a page-turner that you won't want to put down!"

Constant failure is not an option for me nor should it be for any handler interested in saving lives and solving crime. There was a time when I did not know what success in trailing was and I had to take a serious look at my K9 training protocols. The “Straightest Path” is nothing more than a simple and honest path to good trailing/ tracking training based not only on all of my experience in the field being successful, but also all of my failures. There can be no growth without both. I will outline my method for working trailing dogs, step by step, and with only one goal in mind: finding people. This program was designed for anyone handling a trailing dog and I have been teaching it now for over a decade. It is important to offer to others what was so generously given to me by many of the great handlers of the past and present. …Follow me, if you dare, to a path less traveled!

Tracking, of all dog sports, is the most mysterious to trainers while, seemingly the most natural to working dogs. Each year increasing numbers of people are finding that tracking is a multi-dimensional form of training, every bit as challenging or more so than other dog training. The AKC describes tracking as non-competitive, yet we know more good dog trainers are drawn to it each year.

After a century of service, American police dog teams have developed efficient, reliable tactics for detection and apprehension. It is important to publish these techniques in order to share what we have learned with new K-9 officers and administrators. Increasingly, dogs are called to find missing persons and victims of disasters such as the Pacific Rim earthquakes, some exceeding a momentary magnitude of 7.5, that trap or kill many people.

This book will teach you how to train your dog positively and with FUN too. There are three sections: The Principles, The Basics, and The Behaviors. Sheila Booth thinks of her dogs primarily as companions and hopes that you will take her approach the same way as well, even when training your dogs for competition.

This book then, is an in-depth look at the Malinois, its background, breed characteristics, training and usefulness as a police service dog. And of course, to discuss the Malinois without explaining the involvement of the KNPV (the Royal Dutch Police Dog Society) would not do justice to the development of the breed.

Today’s dog trainer can trace the roots of modern training to Training Dogs by Colonel Konard Most. Written in Germany in 1910, Training Dogs influenced how both dogs and trainers were taught in Europe and the United States for the next 50 years! It contains valuable and historically significant information.

This book will give you various techniques in tracking down wounded deer. There are chapters that focus on specific breeds that will help you in training your dog how to find that deer. John Jeanneny is a hunter, tracker, dog trainer, breeder of hunting wirehaired dachshund, author of many articles on blood tracking, speaker at numerous workshops and seminars, educator and Ph.D. scholar.

Whether you aspire to have your dog ready to help your community in case of a local disaster or you wish to select and train a dog to become part of a certified Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) DSD team, this is the first book written that tells you how to do it. Training the Disaster Seach Dog describes the step-by-step training methods that human-dog teams use to locate victims in rubble and is based on the author's 28 years of field experience.

This book is about developing and training a working dog by starting and working outward from the dog's mind. Where traditional training for sport and service dogs has centered on making the dog enter the trainer's world of thinking, this book reverses the process by examining how the trainer can take the dog's view of its world and mold it into a positive and confident relationship with the handler. Instead of force and incomplete training results, the reader will find there is an alternative.