Product Description

Leerburg's Heavy Duty Police Fighting Muzzle is purpose-built for controlled muzzle fighting and high-intensity training scenarios used by law enforcement and military K9 units. Crafted from premium latigo leather, this rugged muzzle is designed to withstand the force and pressure of impact work while maintaining comfort and breathability for the dog.

Customers who have purchased a Leerburg muzzle have FREE access to CONDITIONING YOUR DOG TO A MUZZLE This course contains 31 short videos that explain using reward based training methods to condition a dog a to like wearing a muzzle.

Do not use leather conditioner on leather muzzles.

What is muzzle fighting?

It's a training technique where your dog wears a heavy-duty leather muzzle and engages a decoy wearing no protective equipment. The dog learns to punch center mass—ignoring arm or leg presentations—and detain at full intensity without causing injury. It builds confidence, drive, and teaches the dog to engage the person as a threat, not hunt for equipment.

Why use it over hidden sleeves?

Hidden sleeves are diagnostic tools—they test if your dog will bite without presentation cues. Good for scenarios like low-light building searches where the decoy positions behind a barrier. But they're only good once per session, maybe not even that if your decoy presents the arm.

Use them too often and your dog learns to hunt for the sleeve by sight or smell instead of engaging the threat. Or worse—develops presentation fixation, waiting for the decoy to offer a target instead of taking independent action. Running multiple dogs? You're burning through sweatshirts between tests.

Muzzle fighting eliminates these problems. No equipment fixation. No presentation cues. You can run drills repeatedly in the same session without losing training value—building real drive, confidence, and threat engagement.

It needs to be said that the wrong way to condition a dog to wearing a muzzle is to simply put a muzzle on the dog and put the dog in a dog crate, a dog kennel, or the back of a squad car and force it to get used to the muzzle.

Will that work? "YES" , but it will damage the relationship with your dog and it very well could end up damaging the muzzle because this stresses the dog so much, the dog may non-stop salivate, which then soaks the muzzle. It's like taking a leather muzzle and putting it in a bucket of water.

If you're a new police K9 handler learn how to properly condition a dog to wearing a muzzle. If you don't want to take the time it takes to do it correctly, then purchase one of our polymer-coated muzzles and force the dog to wear that muzzle. It's not what we would do, but at least when the dog salivates like crazy, it's not going to hurt the muzzle.

MADE IN THE USA

Leerburg leather products are works of art.

The cow hides used to make all of Leerburg's leather are hand-selected for Leerburg before tanning. We need and use the thickest hides available. Our hides go through over 85 steps in a tanning process that takes over a month. There are many types of Latigo leather that are made in Mexico, India, or Pakistan, but none can compare to the quality of Leerburg’s Latigo leather.

Once tanned, our Leerburg Leather is delivered to the Amish family that crafts our leather products right here in Wisconsin. Our 4 Amish craftsmen have been making Leerburg leather products since 1990.

WARNING

There are several Facebook groups run by well-intentioned people who are telling dog owners to get these HUGE, HUGE muzzles. These folks claim these monster-sized muzzles allow a dog more room to pant, but fail to take several important factors into account. Poorly fitting, oversized muzzles come off far too easily--making this downright dangerous advice, especially if you have a reactive or aggressive dog.

The last thing someone in this position wants or needs is for a muzzle to come off their dog when it is needed the most. Our advice is to be very careful about listening to people who lack experience with aggressive dogs.