Police and Military K9 Videos

Kevin Sheldahl has been involved in police service dog training for nearly 30 years. He has served as a police K9 handler, as well as an instructor. Over the course of his career he has trained over 200 Police K9 handlers and dogs, from the beginning all the way to deployment ready. In addition to handling an operational dog, Kevin also certifies police service dogs for several major police departments throughout the country. This DVD will take a look at police K9 certification standards and

This video assumes you understand the basics of bite training. If you have never trained a protection dog - we recommend you first purchase our video "The First Steps of Bite Training" or "Training Personal Protection Dogs." Many police departments waste thousands of dollars in officer training time with dogs that should never have been selected as a patrol dog. Our tape on training a police service dog shows how to test a dog to determine if it has the necessary drive to do police work. Some do

This photo is of a local Narcotics Officer with Ed Frawley. They are holding 1 lb. of meth found by Ed's K-9, Gabby. The drugs were found hidden in the trunk of a car during a normal vehicle search. These drugs would never have been located without the dog, there had been no intelligence that this car had dope in it. Using a Narcotics detection dog (drug dogs) is "the most unobtrusive method available to search a suspects vehicle, house, or belongings." The goal of every narcotics dog handler

One of the most dangerous tasks that any K9 handler faces is a felony building search. Training a police service dog to search buildings is also one of the most difficult jobs that every K9 handler faces. This police K9 training DVD was done with the help of Kevin Sheldahl. Kevin is an International Police Dog Judge for WPO, DPO and PSP. He is also a full time K9 handler and head of K9 training for a large Sheriff’s Department in the South West. The goal of our video is to show new polic

This training video deals with "Muzzle Fighting" for Police Service Dogs. Working in muzzle is one of the least understood exercises in bite work. In 1985, I produced my first Police Service dog video. In it we covered 10 minutes of muzzle work. Since then we have learned a lot about this training. This new video is 1 Hour and 20 Minutes long and takes the viewer step by step through muzzle fighting. The reason we chose the term "muzzle fighting" is because there is a real difference between

A recent e-mail that I received concerning this video made me realize that I needed to go into more detail on the content of this video. The person that e-mailed me was very concerned that novice sport trainers would watch this video and think that this is how to train a sport dog the bark and hold. That is not the purpose of this video. So, I need to stress that this video is directed towards police service dogs, not sport dogs. A novice trainer needs to understand that there is a difference

This is the first of our 2-DVD series with Mark Keating on decoy work. The first DVD, "The Mechanics of Working a Dog in a Suit," is currently available for pre-ordering, and will be completed within the week. The second DVD will be available soon. This series of training DVDs has two purposes: The first is to teach decoys correct and safe training concepts in a bite suit. The second, just as important purpose, is to teach dog handlers exactly what, why, and how a decoy should work a do

Basic Suit Presentations and Targeting with Mark Keating is the 2nd DVD in our series on decoy work. This DVD picks up right where the first DVD, The Mechanics of Working a Dog in a Bite Suit, left off. After watching the first DVD, you should have a basic understanding of what to do while the dog is biting you. Now that you understand the mechanics of working the dog, you need to know how to present the dog with the right picture so they will bite where you want them to. In this DVD you will le

In the 3rd DVD in our series with Mark Keating, you will learn how to take the targeting skills from the 2nd DVD and apply them into catching dogs. Catching dogs on a suit is the ultimate goal of anyone learning to do decoy work. The skills taught in this DVD will give you insight into how to properly absorb the impact of a dog being sent off leash from a distance. In the DVD, we will cover upper and lower body, as well as front and back catches. This DVD picks up right where the 2nd DVD left of

Police canine training programs need to simulate actual street situations. In this 1 hour and 33 minute video, we set up a number of common scenarios that have actually happened with Canine Teams. We show what happens when the average Police Service Dog is placed in these situations. We recommend several changes to training programs that will compensate for past mistakes. You will see how these changes result in a safer situation for the officers and their dogs. When a Canine Handler responds

The directed search is one of the more important exercises that police K9 handlers must teach their dog. It's used in building searches and areas searches. If a service dog is to work safely off leash it must know the directed search. In today's society K9 handlers must have complete control over their dogs at all times. The training program for the directed search is an excellent way to accomplish this goal. In my video titled Training Building Search for Police Service Dogs I was only

There are 2 types of tracking, "foot step tracking" and "tracking thru drive." Foot step tracking is taught with food and a ball. It is designed for sport dogs. Tracking thru drive is designed for service dogs. Here the dog is taught to follow the track at a dead run and there is always a man at the end of every track. Tracking thru drive is the only way to train a police service dog. If you are a K-9 officer who trains his service dog with food & a ball you already know that you only catch 3

The hardest part about training a police tracking dog is finding track layers. Every time you ask a new person to lay tracks you have to go through the same ritual. You explain all of the basics and all of the terminology for what needs to be done. This video is designed to train your track layer. We cover how to walk a straight leg, double laying tracks, kicking corners, marking high to low vegetation, marking road crossings, marking fence crossings, and where to lay articles, along with

This 2 hour video was also done with the RCMP. In it we train a dog to track in a suburban and urban environment. In Level 1 Tracking (Video 205) we taught the dog to track in the country. The reason all police dogs must first learn to track in the country is because the country is relatively distraction free. We actually teach the dog to track in the country and then use a large part of the Level II & III teaching the dog to deal with the distractions of the city. In this video the dogs lear

This video deals with hard surface tracking (HST). In this video, you are going be able to see what can be accomplished with the right dog and the right training. The dogs in this video were filmed at the Nunspeet and Rotterdam Police Dog Schools in Holland. The instructors in these two schools are some of the best trainers in the world at hard surface tracking. Handlers that have never trained or never seen a good hard surface tracking dog are going to see some excellent tracking dogs in thi

This was one of the very first training DVDs that I did back in the early 1980's. The video was produced from video of a Bernhardt Mannel training seminar. Bernhard was a SV teaching judge. He was one of the first training/instructors to come to this country and teach the prey method of protection dog sports. He was in his early 60's at the time and has sin ce passed away. Bernhard did not speak English and it was difficult to find translators that understood the terminology of the dog spor

This tracking dog DVD was filmed over a 3 year period in Germany & America. It is one of the most comprehensive studies ever done on sport tracking (foot step tracking). The tracking video has had rave reviews from a number of different dog training magazines, including Front & Finish. The AKC even requested a copy for their Judge's library. This video uses all motivational methods to teach a dog to track. While we discuss the difference between motivational tracking and forced tracking, w

This video assumes a dog has already gone through bite development. This means you and your dog know and understand the material in our bite development tapes and DVDs. This tape provides the information needed to convert a Schutzhund dog or a dog with basic bite training into a Personal Protection Dog. The first portion covers German and English commands used in bite training; followed by discussions on safe equipment and dog handling during bite work; then basic tests for Personal Prote

Defensive dog training is the most misunderstood area of protection training. This is evident by going to any Schutzhund trial or looking at half of the Police Service dogs in this country. This training video is intended to help new (and old) trainers alike. Many experienced trainers get caught up in traditional sport dog training, which is weak in the defensive areas of training. This video will help all trainers recognize and get a dog started in the training of its defensive drive. The go

This DVD was produced back in 1999 with Bernhard Flinks. Bernhard is a German Police K9 handler. In the past 10 years training concepts and methods have changed. In my opinion marker training (read my free ebook on markers) has taken over the world of dog training and this video does not involve markers. I continue to offer the DVD because it does have merit as a different form of dog training. The majority of the work in this DVD uses a ball-on-string as a reward. Ten years after produ

In 1983 I produced my first bite training video titled "Protection Training the Beginning with Bernhard Mannel." In the 13 years that followed I learned so much more about protection training that I was forced to update that old video and pass this new information on to my customers. This is being done through this new training tape "The First Steps of Bite Training."