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This video shows Fred Hassen, demonstrating his Sit Means Sit dog training his K9 Nash at the 2010 Invictus ‘Law Dog’ event. Police dog handlers from around the United States were in attendance at this event.

Sit Means Sit CEO and Founder, Fred Hassen and staff trainer Ashton Fitz-Gerald from our corporate office in Las Vegas, Nevada were asked to perform a demonstration at this event during the lunch time hour of the Sit Means Sit Police Dog Training approach. Fred happened to arrive at the host hotel a little early, and found himself doing a private demonstration for a police dog trainer in the front parking lot.

We at Sit Means Sit believe that to have a truly effective and strategic police dog and handler team, authorities should use every possible advantage they have at their disposal. Sit Means Sit are leaders in the remote collar dog training industry, and have a proven track record of producing outstanding dogs in any discipline. The videos provided by Sit Means Sit help to shed some light on the scope of what a police dog trainer or handler can expect to gain from our Police K9 School held at our corporate headquarters here in Las Vegas.

Here’s what you can exepct from our Police K9 School:

• Instruction and hands on application/integration of remote dog training collars (e-collars) into a K9 training program.
Total control over a police dog in ANY environment, without sacrificing desire
• Gain the ability to manage your police dog more efficiently making him a more effective deterrant and partner
• Diversification of your police dog’s understanding of bite technique to improve his performance in static situations, multiple assailant scenarios, as well as building his ability to subdue an assailant around a variety of environmental distractions.

Most importantly, your police dog team will gain the confidence to:

Most importantly, perform all this off leash at a distance, and in a politically correct fashion

Contact us today for information about our Police Dog Training School. (This program is limited to active duty K9 handlers)

This is an advanced retrieve training drill where the dog remains in a stationary position while still having the ability to pick up and drop thing while remaining in the same place.

A hunting dog retrieving bumper was used to show the ability to have the dog stop mouthing an object from a distance, or ‘remotely’ as well because the dog does mouth this particular object.

Having the ability to control your dog while at a distance is not only important for your dogs safety, but can also help with advanced dog training as well.

Yes, some dogs can almost fly, as we all see here at a Police K9 seminar that Sit Means Sit held in Everett, Washington.

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In this dog training video, Darin Shepherd from Sit Means Sit Dog Training Atlanta Georgiashows one of the many advantages of the Sit Means Sit Dog Training system which allows you to get to a dog from anywhere, and to do it immediately.

This is obviously more efficient than having to go up next to the dog, because you could do it from anywhere, would not have to raise your voice, and would be able to adjust things instantly according to the temperament of your particular dog, or even during the changing of your dogs temperament in an isolated instance.

Our dog training system makes this information much more transferrable to owners and families than any other way, and provides a clearness in the dog’s learning that is unmatched.

Notice also how Darin is able to maintain enthusiasm with his dog ‘Bauer’ which is vitally important in dog training.

Darin was also one of the feature presenters at the 2009 HITS Police demonstration.

Police K-9 Handler Bob Campanile from the Sit Means Sit Ocean County New Jersey dog training location, is seen here at a 2008 USPCA Region 15 PD1 Trial. This is a video from the “Criminal Apprehension” phase of the trial. No training aids of any kind are allowed on the dogs at these trials, and at many other types of dog training competitions of various other disciplines as well. Dogs are living, breathing creatures and do not always listen the first time every time, so having your highest rate of reliability in practice is always best to keep those percentages as high as they can be. There are 3 different phases in this trial, and Bob took 1st place overall at the event.

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Sit Means Sit Palm Beach Dog Training owner Bob Burnell, is seen here doing a demonstration at the 2009 South Florida Police Expo. This is the 2nd year in a row that Sit Means Sit has done demonstrations at this event, and the crowd had a great time watching the happy dogs perform, and how Sit Means Sit is revolutionizing the world of dog training!

Watch Bob also perform with his 3 1/2 month old puppy at this expo.

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Fred Hassen is seen here with 16 month old “Nash” (Belgian Malinois), showing the beginning transition changes of ‘Sit’, ‘Down’ and ‘Stand’. The ‘Stand’ command is also used in the retrieving world as ‘Whoa’, but the concepts are the same. This is only the beginnings, and Fred will have another video soon with dog steady off a ruler, for a better comparison. Just the beginning with a bigger target.

This police dog video is from the 2009 Police K9 Magazine HITS demonstration day that was held in Louisville, Kentucky. HITS brought K-9 handlers from all over the world for this event. This is part of the Sit Means Sit demonstration that features Darin Shepherd, owner of our Atlanta dog training office, and Sgt. Jerry Turning, who is the owner of our Central New Jersey office, and from the Tinton Falls K-9 dept. showing a variety of off-leash skills, and even running dogs right past each other while the other remains calm.

This Police Dog Video also shows Sgt. Jerry Turning doing some bitework and scentwork in conjunction with each other, and has become the standard norm for the Sit Means Sit training system to show these types of things on a regular basis. Here is another Police dog video of Sgt. Turning doing a similar thing at Invictus in Las Vegas.

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Have you ever wondered what the main ingredient in having a happy, reliable dog? The main ingredient is for the dog to be attentive and alert, and that’s what contributes the most to him having his energy filtered in the right places. An attentive, alert dog can work anywhere, and for a much longer period of time.

Why do working dogs fail at tasks? Sometimes it can be from poor dog selection, which is basically picking a dog that is not genetically suited for the tasks that need to be done, but in most cases it is the dogs failure to pay attention. Whether it’s a pet dog or a working dog, a dog’s attentiveness opens up a whole world of freedom where it can comfortably go in any environment, because when you step out your front door, you have to control your dog because in a lot of instances you cannot control the environment.

In the video above, Sit Means Sit CEO Fred Hassen is seen working his dog in front of a Marriott hotel in Kentucky, and enjoying the freedoms that an attentive dog brings to both handler and dog.

Toni Drugmand from our Sit Means Sit office in Phoenix, does the announcing in this clip, and also shows her dog ‘Wally’. Alfredo Rivera, one of the owners of Sit Means Sit Franchise Inc, also shows his dog “Puma”. “Puma” also swept the board at the dock diving that was held at this event. Little ‘Stuff’ the Pyranean Shepherd is seen here as well.

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Fred Hassen is seen here with his 15 month old Belgian Malinois “Nash”. Fred shows the dog ‘Begging’ for a bite, and also the same command is used near the end of the video to show the dog delivering a retrieve to his hand. Commands are very versatile in dog training, and in this instance can be used to steady the dog even further in distracting situations.

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Luciano Aguilar, from the Sit Means Sit Los Angeles dog training office is seen here with his dog ‘Ajax’ showing great control and training ability during a demonstration at a public event in Long Beach California. Nothing like real, live,
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Sit Means Sit dog trainers demonstrate using the SMS system to have the ability to combine scentwork, with even the most severe of distractions. Sgt. Jerry Turning, Fred Hassen, Alfredo Rivera, and Ashton Fitz-Gerald are in this video. This demonstration was at the 2009 Invictus law dog event in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Watch Sgt. Turning also do this demonstration at the HITS demo day show in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Fred Hassen, Sgt. Jerry Turning, Alfredo Rivera, and Ashton Fitz-Gerald are shown here doing demonstrations at the Invictus Law Dog 2009 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Having control of your K-9 during the face of distraction, were just some of the demonstrations that these Sit Means Sit dog trainers were showing.

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Sit Means Sit trainers Lisa Myers, Kristin Zimmerman, and Carla Collins teaching a search and rescue seminar to the members of FEMA’s NYTF-1. The dogs in this video are all urban disaster live human scent dogs and are seen working on focus on the “victim” hidden in the barrell. With the Sit Means Sit method of training, you can focus your dog’s attention no matter what the surrounding distractions.

Fred Hassen with Rex doing some beginning bitework. Having a firm foundation of dog obedience training really helps in progressing a long that you can have control of the situation. Being in control of your dog transfers over to just about anything that is done with a dog.

Here is a video clip of an active police dog doing remote work of barking, biting, and showing very good self-discipline.

Sgt. Jerry Turning and Fred Hassen are seen here showing remote bark and holds, and a variety of discipline and control exercises. Tremendous discipline without lack of desire are things that are important in Police K-9 dog training in having the dogs perform their tasks. This demonstration was held at a seminar for the Houston Metro P.D

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Fred Hassen is seen here with his 19 month old Belgian Malinois ‘Rex’, demonstrating a remote retrieve, an ‘out’ command, and a ‘place’ command all rolled into one!

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Sit Means Sit dog trainers Fred Hassen and Ashton Fitz-Gerald recently presented a Police and Protection K9 dog training seminar in Sonoma County California.

There were a multitude of K9 dog handlers from Santa Rosa as well as the rest of Sonoma County at the seminar. Over the course of the two day seminar, many of the dog handlers gained a lot more confidence in their ability to control their K9s around heavy real-world training scenarios.

This video highlights one K9 team who previous to our seminar were unable to perform advanced K9 training scenarios such as call offs and directional casting during protection work. The necessity of having off leash control over a K9 is quite apparent when you get into situations where a task is needed to be performed but there is strong distraction to contend with.

Giving control back to the handler to make decisions about when and where it is appropriate for a K9 to bite is crucial in the effective use of a K9 as a police tool. Real control without the sacrifice of desire is what has made the Sit Means Sit Police K9 School program so effective for active duty K9 handlers.

For more information about the Sit Means Sit Police K9 School visit: http://www.SitMeansSit.com/

Jerry Turning, a Sit Means Sit trainer, and a Police K-9 handler in Tinton Falls New Jersey, explodes some of the myths about remote collar training, and what can actually be done when the Sit Means Sit dog training system is applied in conjunction with Search dog training and advanced methods of remote collar work that Sit Means Sit dog training provides.

Having the ability to move a dog in and out of drives efficiently, and with a high degree of efficiency is what gives any dog trainer an edge in any sort of dog training. More videos on Sit Means Sit police dog training.

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Dogs jumping is an exciting thing to watch. The actual dog jumping behavior shows the true athleticism in a particular dog and especially in the Belgian Malinois breed that you see in this
video. You will see the dog jumping up and over a person seated in a chair. You may not like a dog jumping on you but watching them jump over you might be a different story.

Training your dog to jump using the Sit Means Sit Dog Training system would obviously make things easier since most jumping behaviors involve the dog being away from the owner,
and keeping a line of communication open often comes in handy during the training phase of a dog jumping whether he is jumping in water, jumping in snow, jumping over a barrier, or any
dog jumping games he may be playing.

The Sit Means Sit dogs that are seen jumping in this video are ‘Rex’ and ‘Bo’, both Belgian Malinois’ and this was done in the midst of some demonstrations that were held at a ‘Broomfield days’ event
in Denver Colorado. ‘Rex’ was 15 months old and ‘Bo’ was 22 Months old at the time of this video.

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Congratulations to Bob Campanile, Sit Means Sit dog training location owner from Ocean County New Jersey, and his 3 1/2 year old Belgian Malinois named ‘Kramer’. As you may know Bob is also a full time police K9 trainer/handler with the Stafford Twp. Police Department in NJ and competed in the United States Police K9 Association National Championship Police Dog Competition. Over 100 of the top K9 teams competed from all over the country and Bob finished 3rd overall with a score of 683 out of 700!! Additionally, in the individually categories, Bob Campanile finished 3rd place in search work, 3rd place in obedience and 3rd place in protection. Usually Police dog training teams are higher in one category than others, but this was a very rock solid, consistent finish across the board. 2 years ago, Jerry Turning from our Sit Means Sit Central New Jersey location placed 5th overall in this event. Jerry Turning did not compete this year. Click HERE for more Sit Means Sit Police Dog Training.

David Smith, Jon Langdon, Ryan Paddock, and Dave Skoletsky, show a great exhibition of desire, control and self-discipline on the part of 3 of the Sit Means Sit dogs in this demonstration.

Of course the Sit Means Sit dogs work very well without their Sit Means Sit remote dog collar on as well, and they demonstrate it daily for people. Fred Hassen’s dog ‘Bo’ is seen here. Read more information on dog’s working with and without a collar on HERE.

Dog training distractions can come from any place at any time in the real world. In this dog training video, we see Alfredo Rivera with his dogs ‘Puma’ and ‘Leon’ providing some distraction for one of the Sit Means Sit dog training classes. The people in the video are practicing their ‘down’ command through some imaginative distraction. In the second part of the video, you will also see 2 of the dogs laying down right at the base of the jump. Fast moving dogs and action provide much distraction for dogs. Having the ability to remotely control your dog, and being able to problem solve in an instant, and teaching clients how to do it effectively and efficiently, is what always keeps Sit Means Sit dog training on the cutting edge.