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Welcome to this video clip, the second in an ongoing series. This one features an exercise known as the ‘Long Down’ and is without doubt the least action filled of any in the series. I thought I’d get the bits that appear boring out of the way first. The purpose of the exercise is to allow a handler to leave his dog in the down (the [... continue reading 'Police Dog Training 2, The Long Down'] This post is the first in a series of short video clips of me training Police Dog ‘ACCO’ back in 1984. The quality is not great, it was shot on VHS throughout the course and includes rare footage of me with hair. A client kindly put the tape, which was showing it’s age, onto DVD for me. The clip in this segment shows Acco walking to [... continue reading 'Police Dog Training, Heelwork and Distance Control'] Well it’s finally happened, the lunatics have taken over the asylum. I read with horror in the newspapers that North Wales Police are going to muzzle their dogs to protect suspects from bite injuries. Instead the dogs are going to be trained to butt the suspect! Why? You might ask yourself, I certainly did. Well of course it’s to safeguard the suspects human rights and to [... continue reading 'Headbutting Dogs'] I’ve been thinking over the last couple of weeks with reference to the recent spate of bad publicity about dog attacks on people. These have been a godsend to the anti-dog lobby. When I looked back over the many years that I’ve been involved in both dogs and law enforcement I realised that there was, in many cases, a common thread running through dogs involved [... continue reading 'What’s in a name?'] | |||||
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