This course provides a police K9 handler, K9 supervisor, or officer looking to assist their department with decoy work, with the knowledge and confidence to decoy for working dogs.
This is a working class where students engage in both classroom learning as well as practical applications of learned concepts under the supervision of experienced trainers.
- History of the species canine
- History and progression of dogs in police work as well as military work
- Canine behavior
- How the dogs learn
- Training equipment to include bite sleeves, bite suits, gauntlets, helmets, hand protections, undercover sleeves, prosthetics etc and their specific use scenarios
- Agitator safety
- Dog safety
- Building dogs’ drive
- Reading dogs behavior
- Proper reaction/movement to dogs’ behavior to enhance dogs’ skills
- Proper reporting of dogs’ behaviors/actions to handler/trainers
