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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.

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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Fred Hassen is seen here with his young Belgian Malinois ‘Rex’, doing some fun Search and scent work games. These games can be fun for any dog, and teaches them to start using their nose to find objects that they cannot visually see. In this dog training video, the object is a bumper toy, but most anything can be used. This video was taken at the Pampered Pet Expo in Orlando Florida.

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Lisa Myers of our Sit Means Sit South Jersey dog training location, is shown here with her Search and Rescue dog’s ‘Sampson’ (Golden Retriever), and Rocky (Pitbull). Kristin Zimmerman and her young German Shepherd from the Sit Means Sit South Jersey location is also seen here briefly with her dog barking on the bark barrell. Search and Rescue people really have to get out there in the trenches for their training, and the places they have to go, and areas they have to be in on a regular basis is a very difficult job in saving people’s lives that are lost in all kinds of places. You will see Lisa here in the middle of Search training, having a little fun with her dogs also. Sit Means Sit dog training shows not only consistent high level working dogs, but believes that flash and style, and fun is all a part of dog training as well. Lisa is also seen here having fun with her Search dog “Rocky”, having fun biting a sleeve. Lisa also performs Search and Rescue remote collar seminars throughout the country as part of the Sit Means Sit seminar teams. Lisa level of ability in performing various behaviors with the Sit Means Sit collar is unquestionably seen in this video. Lisa’s Sit Means Sit South Jersey location, is one of many Sit Means Sit locations in the state of New Jersey.

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Sit Means Sit trainers working above with the NYTF-1 team.

On September 30, 2007 Search One Rescue Team, a volunteer K9 search team in the Dallas area, were called to assist the Ft. Worth Police department in locating a 73 year old man that had walked away from a nursing home. The man had dementia and had lived in the home for a couple of weeks. The nursing home called the police around 11 AM who in turn called upon the services of Search One Rescue Team. Upon arrival Search One deployed several K9 resources including a trailing dog and an air scent dog in the area west of the nursing home. In an attempt to have full coverage around the nursing home, Team Scooby was deployed in a wooded area directly behind the nursing home. The subject was found by K9 Scooby with assistance from his handler Carla Collins and flanker Terri Griffin. The man was found standing around by some brush. He was a bit confused but able to walk out with some minor assistance. When asked if he was surprised by the dog when he was found he said “No, that’s a good dog, a really good dog.”

Carla Collins is the owner of the Sit Means Sit Dallas dog training location, and her search dog Scooby has been trained using the Sit Means Sit dog training method. Carla and Scooby assist with Sit Means Sit basic and search seminars across the country.

December 8 & 9th 2007 – Sit Means Sit Trainers Pass Their FEMA Certification for Urban Search and Rescue

Carla Collins with K9 Scooby (Labrador Retriever), along with Lisa Myers and K9 Sampson (Golden Retriever), passed their FEMA K9 certification test at the Broward County Florida Task Force 2 location on December 8th and 9th. This was a re-certification with Scooby and the first time for Sampson. Lisa Myers, owner of the Sit Means Sit South New Jersey dog training location, has only had Sampson for 9 months, and he had no previous training. The Sit Means Sit dog training system has helped dramatically in getting Sampson trained in a much shorter amount of time, thus having him able to be able to work saving lives much sooner. The certification consists of search 2 separate rubble pile searches that have anywhere from 1-6 victims total on the piles. One pile is full access and can have 0-4 victims, the other has only limited access with at least 1 -4 victims. The dog is required to search this pile independently to find the 1st victim, after that the handler is allowed to access the pile but must stand at the area of the fine and direct the dog to search the rest of the pile. They handler may move to the dog only if it barks at another victim. Distractions such as food, worn clothing and live animals are hidden on the piles as distractions. The dog should not bark at these distractions, but if it does and the handler marks it as a find the team is failed.

Team Scooby and Team Sampson passed by finding all victims in the allotted time with no false alerts. There were a total of 14 teams testing and 13 passed over the weekend. In addition Team Aid’n handled by Denise Corliss and Team Dakota handled by Johnny Lane passed. These two have also used the Sit Means Sit dog training methods in training their disaster K9s.

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Here is Lisa Myers of the Sit Means Sit South Jersey location having fun with one of her dogs. Lisa is one of the many accomplished trainers in the Sit Means Sit organization, and also assists doing seminars on Search and Rescue, as well as having her established pet dog training business. This dog training video was taken shortly before a seminar featuring Fred Hassen and Lisa Myers in New Jersey. In this video, Lisa has only had this dog for a few months, but training is very fast and efficient with the Sit Means Sit dog training method.

Lisa Myers of the Pennsylvania task force, and owner of the “Sit Means Sit” Southern New Jersey dog training Branch, with her Search and Rescue Pitbull “Rocky”. Pitbulls, like any breed, are all individuals, and have individual temperaments that are evaluated for the field of Search and Rescue.

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