K9 Top Tales

In this episode, Kevin Sheldahl shares his decades of experience as a K9 Handler and Trainer for the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department in New Mexico and now as owner and trainer for K-9 Services (www.k-9services.com).

During the episode, Kevin uses some terms which may not be familiar to some listeners so the definitions are provided:

DM - Degenerative Myelopathy/disc disease | FTO - Field Training Officer | Clever Hans - the horse that could do math or could he? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans | Schutzhund/IPO/IGP - a dog sport involving Tracking Obedience and Protection work http://www.schutzhund-training.com/ | WUSV - World Competition for Schutzhund/IPO/IGP German Shepherds https://www.wusv.org/en | KNPV - Royal Dutch Police Dog Competition https://leerburg.com/knpvbob1.htm | SWGDOG - Scientific Working Group on Dog and Orthogonal Detector Guidelines https://ifri.fiu.edu/research/detector-dogs/swgdog/

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Happy Training all!

Sonja Nordstrom

www.sonjasdogtraining.com - for your personal training needs both in person and remote as well as Detection/Nosework/SAR Seminars

www.heimdallrk9.com - for your personal/executive/family protection K9 needs.

Welcome to the K9 Top Tales podcast where you will hear exciting, interesting, and at times heart-wrenching stories of these K9 warriors, protectors, rescuers, and crime fighters directly from their K9 handlers and partners. This Podcast trailer includes an introduction to your host, retired FBI Special Agent and K9 Handler/Trainer of 25 years, Sonja Nordstrom. You can learn more about Sonja and her K9 training and protection K9 sales services at the following websites:

Heimdallr K9 Services: Providing trained dogs of the highest quality for executive, family, and personal protection. Top tier dogs | hands-on selection, | personalized delivery and training | continued support | professional team | ethics and experience you can trust. www.heimdallrk9.com

Sonja's Dog Training: Customized Training for your one of a kind dog. Specializing in behavior, relationship, trust, and precision communication. Now offering virtual online Zoom and Facetime sessions or telephone consults. Also offering Nosework/Scentwork workshops, virtual private sessions, and SAR/Detection seminars. www.sonjasdogtraining.com

Great Basin K-9 Search and Rescue: GBK9SAR is a non-profit 501(c)(3) volunteer organization with operational members in Summit, Utah, Weber, Morgan, and Salt Lake Counties. Our mission is to train K9/Handler SAR teams and certify them to the highest standards in order to provide K9 SAR services— at no cost — to public safety organizations throughout the Intermountain West. www.greatbasink-9sar.org