Training Program Comparison

When purchasing a fully trained dog knowing what you are buying is extremely important. For instance “Executive Protection Dog”, the most common term used within our field, has no meaning in and of itself. It is just a term used to describe whatever meaning a trainer or training center chooses to assign it. The same is true of terms used to describe exercises such as the “Secure” and the “Protective Escape”. They are just labels that we use to represent our training.

In our experience many companies are using our terms but applying them to European sport exercises. You can not compare apples to apples based on terms. You can only compare dogs, training programs or companies based on what the terms actually represents.

Knowing what each program consists of and making sure the exercises are provided in writing within a contract is obviously important. Your being able to have your dog perform those exercises for you on delivery is essential. If your dog doesn’t do it for you on the delivery there’s no reason to expect it to magically happen afterward.

An educated buyer is our best client.

Overview of Protective Benefits

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Advanced Handler Protection Exercises

Turn-on aggressively to an aggressive or passive threat

Advanced Fighting Skills

Useful in a home invasion or against a violent attacker

Protection from multiple violent attackers

Foundation Training in Protection

The following are foundation skills taught prior to our basic and advanced handler protection skills:

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Bite Development

Attack or Fallen

Full and hard bite

Drive Development

Defense imprinting, development of active prey, active aggression

Advanced Biting Skills

Bite comfortably front and back of legs, abdomen, outside and inside of upper arm/ shoulder

Integrating Skills

Integrating skills includes the types of threats, locations and circumstances; emphasis is placed on integrating advanced fighting skills including the use of sparring within muzzle attacks; also enables protection scenarios to be set up in everyday types of situations without equipment alerting the dog in advance to it being a training session

Basic Fighting Skills

Includes countering physical assaults through strategically transferring bite, strategic targeting, etc.

Integrating skills

includes the types of threats, locations and circumstances; emphasis is placed on integrating advanced fighting skills including the use of sparring within muzzle attacks; also enables protection scenarios to be set up in everyday types of situations without equipment alerting the dog in advance to it being a training session

Advanced Fighting Skills

Skills to overcome an adversary who fights through evasion, the use of static and dynamic obstacles, static and dynamic use of weapons, environmental stresses, etc.

Muzzle Attacks

Muzzle attack technique is taught in order to do protection training without the use of bite suits, bite sleeves including undercover sleeves.

Advanced Fighting Skills

Skills to overcome an adversary who fights through evasion, the use of static and dynamic obstacles, static and dynamic use of weapons, environmental stresses, etc.

Basic Handler Protection Skills

Once foundational training (imprinting and development of drives; biting skills, etc.) within the protection program has been completed handler protection skills are taught. These handler protection skills determine how the dog protects you.

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Protective Escape

Go from 0 to 10 instantly with intense aggression; remain at level 10 until told otherwise against a passive or aggressive threat; do so without pulling, walk backwards while showing aggression with owner holding collar

Attack

Instruction to physically stop threat

Release Bite

Release bite even in the midst of a fight

Aggressive Alert (Optional)

Go from 0 to 10 instantly with intense aggression; remain at level 10 until told otherwise against an aggressive or obvious threat

Protect Home & Property

There are two options: on-command or automatically. Which option usually depends on both lifestyle and personal preference. In either case once in the “Secure” mode no one is allowed to enter until instructed otherwise.

Advanced Handler Protection Skills

Advanced Handler Protection Skills are taught in our Executive Protection program as well as in our Elite programs. These advanced skills provide a variety of useful options as to “how” the dog protects you. Naturally, if faced with a serious threat the more options available to you the better.

As the advanced skills provide a more resourceful and secure way of responding to a threat, they are the preferred choice in such situations. In situations where someone only suspects a potential threat, advanced exercises like the Covert Secure are extremely useful.

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Directed Alert

The ability to specify who specifically to direct aggression towards; also re-direct the dog’s aggression as needed.

Directed Attack

The ability to specify who specifically to attack. Also re-direct the dog to attack another threat. (This is done without the need for your dog to return to your side or receive a command to release their bite.)

Secure (Optional)

Your dog will immediately come to your side; cling to it; position them self between you and anyone approaching regardless from which direction; do so while showing aggression; automatically attack if you are assaulted otherwise will wait for a command. The dog will actually walk backwards while beside you, if necessary, in order to position themselves between you and someone approaching from behind!

Strategic Secure

The same as the Secure exercise with decreased liability by using "Police" command. The "Police" command is followed by handler walking backwards with hands up in front of their chest while repeating "call the police, I'm afriad for my life, call the police".

Covert Secure

Same as Secure exercise but with covert command "knock it off". This covert command enables you to use your dog to deter a potential threat without appearing to be instructing your dog to do so.

The following formal and informal commands are given one time, said in a normal tone. Your dog will obey instantly, regardless of the situation, and completely off-leash.

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Automatic Wait

Automatically not cross specific boundaries without a command like property lines, end of driveway, doorways open to the outside; customized as desired

Wait

(Stay behind natural boundary such as doorway when leaving house, remain in car, etc)

Bedtime

Instruct to lie down on dog bed

Follow You

Temporarily stop what they are doing and come in your general direction

Release Object

Release object like a toy

Down (informal)

Go-to-the Bathroom

Go-to-the-bathroom on command; go to specific location in yard to go-to-the-bathroom.

Release

Free; no longer under command

Jump

Jump up (into vehicle, etc)

Recall

Return to handler

Down-in-Motion

Down on command regardless of moving towards or away from handler

Down/ Stay

Drop instantly and stay there until told otherwise (without the need for stay command)

Down

Sit-in-Motion

Sit on command regardless of moving towards or away from handler

Sit/ Stay

Remain in the sit until told otherwise; does not require a "stay" command

Stay within 6 Foot Radius (informal)

Relaxed Heel (informal)

Stay within 2 feet of left side

Sit

Heel

Dog walks with shoulder beside your left leg; automatically sits whenever you stop walking

Stay within 12 to 15 Feet (informal)