Highland Canine Training Center recently came out with a K-9 containment video that is outstanding. It is an 11 minute video that explains to road officers and supervisors how to properly contain a fleeing suspect through a perimeter and how a tracking/trailing dog works. It is meant to be shown as roll call training. This [...]

In January 2009, I was approached by a Commander in my police department that asked me if I could find someone willing to donate a dog that could be trained for police work.  I then asked him for which police department.  He stated “ours of course!”  I was surprised to hear that being that we are [...]

A couple of weeks ago we were training our police K-9s at our firing range.  It was approx. 95 degrees outside and not a cloud in sight.  As training went along through the day, I could tell that the dogs were not working as effective as they usually do.  One of our new handlers came up [...]