This is a great video clip that we shot at a Police K9 training event held just outside Raleigh, North Carolina. Fred Hassen and I traveled to North Carolina where we met up with Sgt. Turning and Chief Turning of the Tinton Falls, NJ police department. They were here to assist us with getting control over about 20 police k9 teams.

There was a variety of dogs at the event, and some were young, some were old. I was actually quite impressed with the calibre of dogs that were at the seminar. Most of the dogs were absolutely incredible dogs if not all.

This video follows along with the training from day one to day three of a very aggressive dutch shepherd (I can relate). This dog was so equipment oriented that any time a muzzle was put on him, he would immediately go into fight mode and start clobbering anyone nearby. He was somewhat handler aggressive as well. The first step was to get him understanding the language of the collar, and focus his attention more. By day three you can see a dramatic improvement in his understanding, and we started building on his understanding and teaching him to focus where we wanted, not where he preferred to go.

At one point you can see some of his equipment fixation return when he tries to bite a sleeve lying on the ground. There’s still a lot of work to be done with him, but we only have three days to clean up years of garbage.