The Importance of the “Out” 

• What is the “Out”?
• Why many agencies don’t care about it...training weakness...the dog isn’t as “hard”
• Why you should have a solid “Out” 
  • You may want to deploy and run 
  • You may need to protect other people, like children 
  • You may have multiple attackers 
  • You may send the dog and realize you don’t have the right to bite that person 

Stop being a Bitch (pun intended) and use a Prong Collar (EXPLICIT!!)

• TRIGGER WARNING!! EXPLICIT!!
• One of my clients is Elliot Hulse, he trains with me regularly and has one of my pups. 
  • Kevin Mi said, “Why do you use this animal abuse prong collar?” With the sad, head down emoji… 
    
    
  • What I wanted to say was, “I don’t see how such a dumb ass pussy would want to follow Elliot. Man up and stop being a little bitch. Maybe it was your girlfriend who posted this under your name. If so, she probably needs the prong collar.” 
    
    
  • What really pissed me off though was that he was talking negative about something he knew NOTHING about. 
    • Don’t be a fucking dumbass!! If you know nothing about something, then keep your fucking mouth shut! What is wrong with all these fucking assholes out there who feel like they have to shit out their mouth about things they know nothing about!?!? 
  • So let’s talk about the prong collar and why I believe its the best and most humane collar available, especially if you are training working dogs.
    
    
  • HISTORY
    
    
  • CLIP INTO BOTH RINGS
    
    
  • PRONG COLLAR NEVER PENETRATES THE DOG’S NECK
    
    
  • STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THE PRONG IS SAFER THAN CHOKE COLLAR
    
    
  • PRONG COLLAR IS THE MOST NATURAL FORM OF CORRECTION … OTHER THAN BITING THEIR NECK! 
    • AND WHILE MY WIFE MIGHT LIKE THAT KIND OF CORRECTION, IT CAN BE DANGEROUS TO DO WITH A PROTECTION/WORKING DOG 

Canine Biathlon

• What is it?
• Where and When?
• Why you might want to do it
• How can you register?

US Canine Biathlon
https://www.facebook.com/caninebiathlon

Logan Haus Kennels Annual Mud Run
https://www.loganhauskennels.com/k9-mud-run

How to Develop a Bond with Your Dog

• Why it’s important 
• Time
• Touch
• Stress

In part 3 of Getting Into Protection Training, we are going to discuss...

• Recall & Out
• Advanced fighting

In this episode, we discuss part 2 of how we bring our dogs into protection training.

Stress Inoculation

Intermediate Fighting

Let's start talking some nuts and bolts. I go through our process of bringing a dog into protection work in this podcast. It ended up being a 3 part series.

In part 1 we cover:

  - Bring out a Puppy

  - Building the Bite

This is a discussion on our blocks to learning and development

• People are afraid to be offended
  
  
• People are afraid to be wrong, especially when they lived according to a belief for a long time
  
  
• People are afraid to be rejected or feel rejected
  
  
• People are afraid to have their beliefs questioned
  
  
• People are afraid to modify their own beliefs to match reality
  
  
• The dog world is complex - people get passionate - they believe they know something about this craft - they are afraid to open their minds

• Decoy 
  • Bite and hold 
  • Trainer is training, decoy is decoying 
  • Very little fight 
  • Low level stress 
• K9 Sparring Partner 
  • Target threats / weapons 
  • K9 SP is the one training the dog 
  • How to fight a human 
  • Moderate to high stress 

Why is it so difficult for people to think outside of their experience?

• NORMALCY BIAS
  
  
• You are conditioned 
  
  
  • Pros of conditioning 
  • Cons of conditioning 
  • How are you can control your conditioning