*See news updates below introduction.
ARE YOU THE PACK LEADER?
Before you can do anything really successful with your dog you have to be the pack leader. You might do okay in certain areas if you are not, but you will never be really good or great at anything unless you are. .
We offer theory training, pack leadership work, specialized courses, even basic obedience. We make house and farm calls. For search work, we are on call 24.7. We are the personal trainers of the dog world, and can help you with everything from nutrition, to what top spot to use, to what antibiotics not to use. Many things your vet will not tell you. Visit my training services page for more details but here are some things we can do for you.
· All Obedience Levels
· All Scent Work, including scent games
· Search and Rescue
· Personal Service Dogs: hearing-psychiatric-mobility
· Lure Coursing
· Weight Pulling
· Sport Sledding
· Behavior Modification
· Pack Management
· Apprenticeship Programs adults and juniors
· Horses and dog in harmony & horse and farm management
· LOST/STOLEN PET SEARCH DOGS to your rescue 24/7 (US only), human and animal searches
Also:
Offering legal consulting for attorneys, and expert witness testimony. We can be part of a defense or prosecution team. Our team has been proudly accepted by "The Round Table Group", which is a company that attorneys use to get expert witnesses for their cases.
Offering "Puppy Boot Camp", where puppies get the value of a real pack, and 24/7 training. This is in my home, so no kennel for my boot camps. Great for puppies pulled from litters to early, and those puppies that just have very bad manners.
Offering "Puppy Parties". A 3-stage concept that allows puppies to learn to socialize safely in a controlled environment, meet adult dogs and respond correctly, and close with obedience. All along you learn why your puppies do certain behaviors. You also learn about basic drives and instinct at my puppy parties, and the value is unmistakable.
Hi Dog Lovers,
The picture that graces most of the pages on this site is my very loving pack of Rhodesian Ridgebacks. All have jobs to keep them mentally and physically healthy, and it keeps me young. Four are search and rescue dogs and the fifth is the City of Chesapeake "CERT", Community Emergency Response Team's Mascot, and Animals in Disaster advocate, as well as a Therapy Dog. It is important that if you are going to have a dog, to do something with them. It does not have to be complicated, but can be as simple as an everyday walk that we can help you turn into an adventure.
I have been training dogs for 45 years. However, that was my secondary career for many years with law enforcement being by primary job. I retired in 1999 as a Master Police Officer/Detective, and have been doing volunteer K9 Search and Rescue full time since then. I have trained many disciplines with some of my favorite being extreme sports and scent work. Because volunteer search work is an expensive endeavor, I formally created Kustom K9 Training to enable me to continue. ALL my profits go to support the training and support of my search and rescue dogs. This allows me to continue volunteering for law enforcement, but to also help others get into the field of search and rescue, which can be very politically charged. It also allows me to expand into providing lost pet search dogs, and for the training of service dogs both for mental and physical needs.
We offer unusual ways for you to really enjoy time with your dogs, and if you are a professional breeder we can help you get working dog titles on your dogs to enhance your breeding lines. This is just something not normally available to breeders. Besides search and rescue scent work, we can also assist with the development of a unit. Search and Rescue is an industry that is extremely hard to be successful in, and we can increase those chances dramatically.
I would like to emphasize that the 100% of my profits go towards the support of my Search and Rescue K9s. I have current certification certificates on hand, and you are welcome to come interview me, and get scent work demonstrations. When you employee us to help you with your dog, you are also helping me to continue lifesaving volunteer work.
P. S. Please read our updates below.
Kim Willis, Retired Master Police Officer/Detective
K9 Master Trainer
Professional K9 Search and Rescue
kustomk9training@cox.net
757-421-0446
NEWS updates January 2010
Both myself and Mr. Bennett have been accepted by "The Round Table Group". This is a professional organization for lawyers where they can go to find expert witness. We are not listed as expert witness for dog bite cases.
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Coming soon: Profile of my search dogs, Links and Resource page, Health & Nutrition, and a page on the Top Ten Mistakes Dog Owners Make
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