Would you recommend a personal protection trainer in my area?

I am sorry I do not recommend trainers that I am not personally familiar with. I also do not network with these people. I work as a Police K9 officer and work with other departments, but I do not know any personal protection trainers in WI or MI that I would recommend.I can tell you that you are walking through a minefield of inexperienced people when you go out looking for a qualified honest personal protection trainer. My advice to people like you is to become educated in the process of this work, learn the training steps a dog must go through. Then when you interview a trainer and ask to watch him work a dog you will see if he is experienced or a WANNABE. You can learn from the tapes I have produced, get:The First Steps of Bite Training explains the importance of bite development and the steps a dog as young as 6 months of age must go through before it can be ready for more serious defensive training. I would suggest that you read the description of this video on my website. If you are not 100% sure of the drives that I refer to, I would direct you to the articles I have written on this subject on my web site.

The First Steps of Defense is the video that shows how to move a dog from bite development into the more serious work. All dogs that are going into more specialized training (Police Service Work, Schutzhund Work or Personal Protection Work) need to go through this phase of training before moving on. These will take you a long way down the road to learning about this work.