Description

In this episode, Kevin Sheldahl shares his decades of experience as a K9 Handler and Trainer for the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department in New Mexico and now as owner and trainer for K-9 Services (www.k-9services.com). 

During the episode, Kevin uses some terms which may not be familiar to some listeners so the definitions are provided: 

DM - Degenerative Myelopathy/disc disease | FTO - Field Training Officer | Clever Hans - the horse that could do math or could he? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans | Schutzhund/IPO/IGP - a dog sport involving Tracking Obedience and Protection work http://www.schutzhund-training.com/ | WUSV - World Competition for Schutzhund/IPO/IGP German Shepherds https://www.wusv.org/en | KNPV - Royal Dutch Police Dog Competition https://leerburg.com/knpvbob1.htm | SWGDOG  - Scientific Working Group on Dog and Orthogonal Detector Guidelines https://ifri.fiu.edu/research/detector-dogs/swgdog/

Here is the episode outline:

• 1:35 - Kevin's Start in K9
• 10:15 - Breed of Choice and Selection
• 16:30 - K9 LIability
• 25:30 - Bernalillo County Sheriff's K9s
• 27:30 - First Capture with K9 Dolph
• 37:00 Getting Fellow Officers On Board with K9
• 39:00 The SWAT Mission
• 45:20 National Forest Search Mission
• 56:30 Use of Markers for Detection Training
• 1:07:00 - Advice for the new or aspiring Handler
• 1:12:00 - Best Gear - ECollar
• 1:16:13 - Compulsion in Patrol K9 Training
• 1:17:00 K-9 Services Info
• 1:22:00 K-9 Services Facebook Page as a resource
• 1:24:00 The Last Dog and closing remarks.

I hope you enjoy the episode and will take the time to leave a kind review and share K9 Top Tales with your friends. 

Happy Training all!

Sonja Nordstrom

www.sonjasdogtraining.com - for your personal training needs both in person and remote as well as Detection/Nosework/SAR Seminars

www.heimdallrk9.com - for your personal/executive/family protection K9 needs.