I recently had an opportunity to conduct a protection and decoy seminar in Jundiai, SP, Brasil. The seminar was for Police, Military and civilian handlers and dog trainers. The seminar was a huge success and everyone had a great time. The culture amongst the Brasilians is quite different from that typically seen here in the US. Below are a couple of articles that appeared in the Jornal de Jundiai. The translated version of each article is listed below it.

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We recently had the opportunity to teach a three day search and rescue seminar in Meridian, MS. The three day course covered practical hands-on training as well as lecture on an Overview of Search Dogs, Training and Handling Search and Rescue Dogs, Basic Cadaver Training, Water Cadaver Training and Advanced Human Decomposition for Cadaver Dog Handlers. The three day seminar was a huge success with a great number of teams, handlers and states represented.

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It was a lot of fun this past weekend doing my very last seminar for the open public in Cleveland Ohio. After 10 years of constant travel, and getting to see a good part of this country and other places as well, and getting to work with literally thousands of dogs, it is time now to channel those energys more into all of our students that have been doing so well, and into the police world which we have seen the high demand for. I will be doing police seminars still, and am looking into having more time to do that now, a long with our upcoming police K9 school on remote training. This will also give me a bit more time for our video series, that we get a constant flow of requests for. We actually did get to recently release the very first video of that series, which is teaching dogs to swim and is available though our online store. I remember the very first seminar that I did quite a while back at Pam Green’s in Tucson Arizona, that had about 50 people there, and actually had a few people that went on to open Sit Means Sit dog training businesses years later. I remember a lot of people telling me that the general public would never accept remote dog training, but in actuality, I never really did have much problem once we got in front of the people and they got to see my dog, and I had the chance to do a demonstration with their dog as well. The general public never argued the results for the most part, and how much easier it made their lives for themselves and their dogs. I knew right from the beginning that it was going to develop into a very big thing with the help of others, and we are still in our infancy stages. I wanted to personally thank all of the people over the years that stopped by to see our program, and will still get to see it through all of our locations that I have a huge hand in personally developing. It was fun with the humane society’s, Veterinarian schools, remote collar companies, and many, many other groups that pretty much kept me busy for a good 40 weekends a year for a while. I have some very fond memories of all the upgrades that we made over the years.
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Highland Canine Training will be conducting a Dog Behavior and Training Seminar for the members of the Humane Society of Iredell on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 from 3-6pm in Statesville, NC. The purpose of the seminar is to teach the fosters and volunteers of the humane society how to better evaluate dogs for placement in foster homes as well as homes with families. This seminar will also teach the volunteers how to properly communicate with dogs and how to understand what they are telling us. The course will also teach how to recognize signs of stress as well as aggression in dogs. We will also cover some dog training methods and techniques during the seminar. We will explain the different types of training equipment that is used, as well as a variety of training methods that may help make these foster dogs more adoptable.

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Highland Canine Training is happy to announce that we have been invited to return to Brasil to teach another great seminar. Our great friends in Brazil have invited us to conduct a three day seminar on Protection and Decoy Work and another three day seminar on advanced Search and Rescue techniques. As some of you know we conducted a three day Basic Search and Rescue Fundamentals Seminar last September in Brazil and had over 50 attendees. The seminar was a huge success and we really enjoyed the trip.

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