Canada’s Top Trainer, Elite Decoy, & Police Vendor Mike Nezbeth has a wide range of experience in all things dogs. He is the owner/founder of GrassrootsK9 in Toronto and GrassrootsK9 in Maryland. He’s also an established Police Vendor who carefully selects ideal candidates that would make strong, level-headed, and confident members in the police force and trains them to go into duty whether it be for detection, tracking, bitework, etc.

Mike has a background in Psychology and Sociology which has played a role in his thorough understanding of operant conditioning. He is also passionate about training real world experiences which led him into the police world.

In this live we discuss:

- Police Vendor Role

- Qualities to look for in candidates

- Puppy selection

- ‘Activating’ a dog

- Proactive vs. Reactive

- Most expensive dog 😅

- Ideal bite grips

- Bitework foundation

- Bitework Exercises

- Backties and Bunjee training

- The difference between operant & classical conditioning

- Markers

- Behavior questions

- Scentwork

- Favorite Memory & a lot more.

Thank you so much, @k9_mike! Good luck with the puppy search and hope all goes smoothly crossing the border. We don’t want another Vito situation!