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Training a puppy to pay attention is one of the most fundamental exercises you can teach dog. Teaching them to pay attention around distraction is perhaps one of the toughest things you can do, especially with a puppy. The challenges presented by the distractions present in a dog park are numerous and unpredictable.

Sit Means Sit trainers love to train their dogs in dog parks as this is perhaps the most difficult situation to get your dog’s attention in. In the video below, Ashton Fitz-Gerald and Fred Hassen head to the local dog park in Las Vegas to train Ashton’s four month old puppy Phender around some extreme distraction.

Obviously with any puppy training, you want to begin teaching your dog to pay attention in an environment with little to no distraction. As the dog learns the ‘Art of Attention’ around little to no distraction, you can begin to add more distraction to proof the attention exercises. Beginning with distractions on a small scale and introducing new distractions individually you can begin to desensitize your puppy to them. As the dog can handle a variety of distractions individually, you can begin combining distractions to further proof the art of attention in your puppy. When the dog is capable of paying attention around multiple distractions in one environment, you can begin to proof the art of attention exercises in new environments, going back to the basics of introducing distractions individually, then progressing to multiple distractions. We have a great article outlining the ‘Art of Attention’ written by Sit Means Sit CEO Fred Hassen and Phoenix Dog Trainer Toni Drugmand. Read the article here

Teaching a puppy to pay attention can begin right away at home. There is no special training needed, just a leash and some really tasty treats. It’s easy to teach your puppy to pay attention to you with food around basic household distractions such as doorways, or even toys and trash cans. There are a lot of little things that puppies like to get into in the house. Why not take advantage of these training opportunities and teach your dog to pay attention.

The key to the art of attention is setting your dog up for success, but more importantly teaching him how to channel his energy using lures or rewards that are considered valuable to the dog. Treats and toys work very well for this, and second to the reward-based attention tools it can be very advantageous to use additional training tools to provide the physical connection of touch with your puppy or dog. Leashes and training collars (flat collars or remote dog training collars) can provide the ability to ‘touch’ your dog to cue him to pay attention to your reward-based attention tools. By linking a light tug on the leash with food and your verbal command, you can connect the attention from the treat, leash and verbal command together to create the strongest picture possible. While working to maintain this attention around distractions, it’s mostly a matter of distracting the dog with these attention tools to teach them how to filter out distractions on command.

Obviously we do not want our dog to always ignore distractions (such as with a protection dog, or a pet dog). We like to be able to allow our dogs and puppies to be dogs and play when we release them from command.

The video below follows ‘Phender’ at age 4 months during a visit to the dog park. You will see our trainer using a variety of attention tools to maintain and regain the puppy’s attention around other dogs in the dog park. Ashton (our trainer) uses treats, toys (a tennis ball) and a Sit Means Sit dog training collar to maintain his puppy’s attention while at the same time maintain a truly happy and relaxed attitude in his puppy.

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Training a young 5 month old puppy to do a bark and hold exercise for police k9 work, personal protection or even dog training sports such as Schutzhund involves a delicate balance of desire and control. Putting too much pressure or too many expectations on a puppy at a young age can result in excessive stress and confusion which can lead to a reduction in your puppy’s confidence, understanding, and most importantly their motivation.

Ashton Fitz-Gerald is featured in the video below demonstrating how he teaches a puppy to learn a bark and hold command with enthusiasm and intensity. Phender is taught to ‘guard’ on command using a puppy bite-sleeve, 15 foot dog training line, a remote dog training collar and some very enticing treats.

The goal of a bark and hold command is to be able to have the dog begin barking repeatedly and intensely until given the command to either bite, or come back to the handler. Obviously with a young puppy, it is important to give the puppy confidence throughout all of his training sessions by allowing him to explore options while the handler is guiding and shaping the dog’s behavior toward the ultimate goal of the dog trainer.

Ashton is teaching Phender two things in this video.

1. He is learning to bark on command at an object
2. He is learning to turn his attention away from the object and on to the handler

Phender has already had quite a bit of practice barking in order to get to his reward (the puppy bite sleeve). In the event Phender does not bark intensely on command, Ashton can easily encourage the barking by moving the sleeve to excite the puppy into barking. During the teaching phase for a bark and hold, the dog needs to become conditioned that when he makes any noise at all, he gets his reward. It begins with rewarding any noise at all, then progressing to rewarding only the deep barks, then progresses to building up the dog’s intensity and time he barks by lengthening the amount of time the puppy is required to bark in order to get his reward.

While teaching the puppy to guard and then to stop and watch the handler on command, a long line is used to maintain the puppy’s guard on command and to stop him from grabbing the reward before the handler allows it. This enables the handler to maintain control over which behaviors give the puppy success. The treats are used to bring the puppy’s attention back onto the handler when desired, along with the Sit Means Sit dog training collar.

The puppy has already been taught the ‘tap’ or stimulation from the remote dog training collar is connected with food, so he is very willing to turn his attention to wherever the handler desires. Check out this puppy training video with Fred Hassen showing how you can link the dog training collar with food.

By redirecting the puppy’s attention from the sleeve to the handler without conflict, you gain the ability to control the dog’s attention while still maintaining desire. The same can be said of reversing the roles. Teaching the dog to look at another target (i.e. a bite sleeve) without force or conflict creates a much more effective learning scenario for the dog. The key is being able to tap into your puppy’s desires and move his attention from one item of value to another seamlessly and without conflict or confusion.

Watch the video below to see this beginning phase of a remote bark and hold with a young 5 month old puppy. We’d love to hear your opinion on this video, as well as any of our other dog training videos. Please feel free to leave a comment below.

Related Police Dog Training Video
Check out this police dog training video showing what a remote guard and bark command looks like when it is a finished command. The dutch shepherd dog in this video is demonstrating looking at the handler, then looking at a suspect, then looking back at the handler. All of this on command, at a distance. We even throw in another police dog doing drug searches while this is going on.

The following dog training video contains a straightforward opinion of using an electronic dog training collar to train your dog. A veterinarian brought his 7 month old chihuahua to Sit Means Sit for dog training classes. During a quick intermission during his second lesson, we got a chance to ask this veterinarian a few questions about his experience training his dog with a remote dog training collar.

Veterinarians around the United States have been training their personal dogs, and recommending Sit Means Sit dog training to their clients for years. Safety is a big concern for many pet owners considering training their dog. Nobody would put a dog training collar on their dog if it was going to hurt them. Certainly, not a veterinarian with a 7 month old chihuahua. The truth about electronic dog training collars disturbs many people who want to see these tools banned. Those people are usually the ones that relay myths about ‘the collar will shock your dog’, or share a story about a dog that had his neck burnt by a remote dog collar. The fact is, remote dog training collars cannot burn a dog. It is physically impossible to use these devices to damage your dog’s body using the electrical stimulation.

Sit Means Sit firmly believes in safe dog training. The technology we employ is 100% safe for dogs and humans. The Sit Means Sit dog training collar uses state of the art digital technology to control the output from the collar to prevent it from harming your dog. The technology that is utilized in the construction of our collar is similar technology to “electronic muscle stimulators” and “TENS” units. You may be familiar with the use of these devices in the medical field (they are very common in the Chiropractic and Physical Therapy fields) or perhaps you’ve seen devices advertised on TV as “electronic muscle massagers”. These devices essentially use low-level, adjustable electronic stimulation to create muscle contractions. In the medical field, they are used as tools to help alleviate pain, promote blood circulation and encourage healing.

In the dog training field, specifically Sit Means Sit dog training, remote dog training collars are used as a tool to provide a remote controlled cue. The cue is designed to neither cause pain nor to disrupt the dog’s emotional state, but rather to function as an adjustable “tap”. The approach used by Sit Means Sit trainers is to treat the “tap” from the collar as a cue for the dog to pay attention. This is no different than tapping a person on the shoulder to gain their attention. The goal of tapping them on the shoulder is not to hurt them or cause emotional distress, but rather to let them know that you want to communicate something to them.

The “tap” delivered from the Sit Means Sit Collar is a highly adjustable sensation that can be set to levels that are often imperceptible to people. Obviously the adjustable nature of the dog training collar is necessary because some dogs are sensitive, while others are quite tough. There is no way to determine what levels your dog will respond to until you begin to train them with a collar. Another reason why the collars are so adjustable is because distractions from the environment are never consistent. Relate this to training with a treat. How many times will that treat work perfectly indoors, but fails to maintain your dog’s attention when a cat is running by. Sit Means Sit has found that dogs can be taught to pay attention around extreme distractions very effectively. Just check out our dog training video portfolio to see for yourself.

During the fundamental Sit Means Sit dog training, the dogs and handlers are taught how to condition their dog to the collar in a constructive and positive manner. By adjusting the level of the collar appropriately for the dog and the situation, as well as linking the tap from the collar with an item of high value, we can effectively teach the dog that the “tap” from the collar is related to something of value. This approach to fundamentals allows for a smooth transition into distraction training and off leash control through attention to command. Read our dog training article “The Art of Attention” by Sit Means Sit CEO Fred Hassen and Sit Means Sit Trainer Toni Drugmand for more information.

Any dog can trained using the Sit Means Sit dog training collar. With variable intensity, and our special small dog adapter, the Sit Means Sit dog collar can be adapted to any dog of any size, breed or coat type. Watch the video below for a veterinarian’s opinion on using an electronic dog training collar and the Sit Means Sit dog training method.

Check out this article featuring Dr. Kathy Allen, DVM on the use of electronic dog training collars in your dog’s training.

Do you have an opinion on training your dog with an remote dog training collar? We’d love to hear it! Please leave a comment below.

This puppy training video follows Ashton Fitz-Gerald of Sit Means Sit with his five month old puppy ‘Phender’. Today Ashton is demonstrating how to get your puppy comfortable with staying on a dog bed, in this case it is one of the dog cots that we have available through our online dog supplies store.

You can begin to train your puppy to stay on their bed by beginning with teaching them to go to their bed whenever they eat, or get a treat. It’s very straightforward to guide your dog to their bed using a treat or leash. By feeding, watering and playing with your puppy on their bed, it will develop a connection in their head that good things come when they are on their bed.

Once the dog bed has been linked in the dog’s mind with something of value, it becomes easier to reinforce the concept of staying. By bringing this concept into a formalized dog obedience routine it becomes easy to develop reliable control over your dog, and is a lot easier to train them to stay.

In the below video, Ashton shows us how the concept of having a puppy stay on the bed can be further enhanced by using a Sit Means Sit dog training collar in your dog’s training. Phender already understands the link between the tap from the dog collar and things of value such as food, toys and treats. This makes the transition to staying on his bed fairly easy too. The Sit Means Sit dog training collar allows us to maintain a puppy’s attention, even out when we are out of sight, inside a building. Ashton demonstrates how you can begin building on your dog’s attention using the Sit Means Sit dog training collar with treats and a place cot.

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One of the most common dog problems that we encounter with our clients are dogs that pull on the leash. Many times, even well behaved dogs are terrible when they are on a leash. Some people choose to simply take their dogs off leash, but let’s be realistic. Are you willing to risk getting a citation for having your dog illegally off leash in public?

The challenges faced with teaching a dog to walk politely on a leash without pulling are numerous. They can ultimately be broken down into two broad categories:

1. The distractions and prospects of the outdoor world are numerous
2. Dogs have a naturally occurring opposition reflex

Distractions

When you leave your house, suddenly and automatically the distraction level that you have to contend with spikes. Dramatically. With this increase in the distraction, many times it means your dog’s level of attention to command drops dramatically too. The challenge is of course, that with all the prospects of new smells and new things to explore, each step you take validates your dog’s desire to pull. Every step he takes brings in new smells and new things to explore, thus rewarding your dog for pulling.

Opposition what?

An ‘opposition reflex’ is just a fancy way of saying that your dog does the opposite of whatever physical guidance you may provide. Basically the dog has a tendency to pull away from leash tension. A common technique people use to try to control a dog who pulls on the leash is to shorten and tighten the leash in their hand into a super-tight vice grip. This actually does the opposite of what the trainer wants, as it typically encourages the dog to pull more, and harder. How many times have you seen a dog on a choke-chain dragging their owner around, all the while restricting their breathing and potentially hurting themselves in the process. Common-sense would dictate that if something is choking you, you do what is necessary to remove the tension. In dog-language, common sense is to pull away from the choking sensation. Obviously, that doesn’t work.

The challenges faced with walking multiple dogs at once are the same, but doubled. There is also that competitive factor between the two dogs to get where they want to go first. Factor in the issue of dogs feeding of each others energy (basic pack mentality) and you’ve got some very difficult situations to deal with. As professional trainers, we recommend getting control over each dog individually to begin with, and then bringing the two (or three dogs) together as distractions for each other to proof the exercise.

The beautiful thing about training multiple dogs with a Sit Means Sit Dog Collar is the ability to control two or three dogs from one remote control. There is no need to fumble with multiple remote controls. The Sit Means Sit dog training collar features a programmable remote control allowing you to switch from single dog operation to multi-dog operation in the field and on the fly.

The video below features a Sit Means Sit dog training client from Las Vegas who was hesitant to call Sit Means Sit at first, however after only two lessons was more than pleased she did. She can now walk both her excitable golden retrievers at the same time without them pulling on the leash and dragging her around. More importantly, she has gained confidence in her ability to maintain her dogs’ training. Don’t take our word for it, check out the video from her second lesson below.

Check out our dog training client from Colorado training her three dogs off leash. We’d love to hear your feedback. Feel free to leave a comment and share your dog training tips.

This dog training video shows a couple of 14 month old Labradors learning to listen well while another dog comes running by them.
They are learning to be hunting retrievers, but the skills that they learned as young dogs in dog parks carry over to advanced training later.
You will be able to click on the link of the training earlier when one of them was younger and had fun learning this type of stuff around
distraction of a dog park at a young age.

Learning to use the Sit Means Sit dog training collar, and it’s thorough instruction by it’s trainers will give you the ability to communicate
to your dog from anywhere and help to assist you as a training aid for your dog to move along very quickly in his training.

Believe it or not, there are actually dog trainers out there that believe that there is no way that a remote dog training collar could ever have any sort of positive connotation.
Now I know that in this day and age of technology, that’s pretty hard to believe that those people still exist. Especially when you consider the fact that I wrote an article on it 10 years ago, so it’s not like Sit Means Sit dog training just started this yesterday.

It’s easy to understand though how someone not familiar with us, and has never been a client or has never even been around a successful remote dog training
program such as ours could think such a thing. Then again, that’s why Sit Means Sit is always on the cutting edge of training. So can a remote be linked with food?
Of course, and like always we will show you.

Here is another example with a 3 1/2 month old puppy.

Training a dog to walk with a muzzle on can present problems. It is hard for a dog to concentrate on even simple obedience if his behavior and energy on entirely focused on trying to take the muzzle off, and that is normal if the dog has never had a muzzle on before. These same principles would apply if the dog was wearing a muzzle as well. In this daily dog training video, this West Highland Terrier has a few aggression problems, and also gives the owner difficulty when having his nails cut.

Here is a video with a much more aggressive dog in a muzzle.

Sit means Sit dog trainer Ashton Fitz-Gerald eases the dog into comfortably walking in a very short time and also transfers the knowledge successfully to the owner very quickly.
Speed in learning is accomplished very quickly using the Sit Means Sit dog training system and the Sit Means Sit dog training collar.

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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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Chris Flegler from our Sit Means Sit dog training location in Australia, has even his 4 year old son in control of their dog with the Sit Means Sit dog training system. Sit Means Sit has had huge success in getting entire families involved with training as they see such tremendous results immediately, that they want to have even their kids involved!

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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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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 training holds our annual ‘Main Event’, which is a gathering of the Sit Means Sit dog training business owners from around the country. Everywhere from San Diego California to New York City and in between, and this year our Australia location owner was in attendance as well!.

This Video is a montage of clips from our 3 day event that covers lots of training to keep our trainers constantly on the cutting edge of our results oriented dog training businesses. We even got to tie in a very fun dock dogs event!

For those of you wishing to become successful professional dog trainers, we hope to have you next year at our annual ‘Main Event’, and look forward to welcoming you to our family!

Lyndie, a Sit Means Sit dog training client, shows how she can control 4 of her big Rottweilers in one of the Sit Means Sit dog training classes at once. The Sit Means Sit dog training system, has made it feasible to have control of multiple dogs and to level the playing field of strength factor when controlling strong dogs, and has made it so the general public can attain it as well. In this video, you see Lyndie go around a room full of dogs and pick up each one individually, drop them all off individually, jog briefly with them, and stop before an open door.

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Lianne Hassen, Ashton Fitz-Gerald and Dave Skoletsky bring their dogs through the crowd at Rolex 2008 Kentucky for a tough challenge. This challenge was all in fun and if one of the spectators Distracts ‘Tank’, ‘Pharoah’ or ‘Beck’, they got to win a ‘Sit Means Sit’ Dog Training prize of a T-shirt or gift certificate. Kids and adults both had fun with this. This Rolex 3 day event brought people from literally all over the world, and Sit Means Sit dog training did some entertaining of the people. Sit Means Sit dog training is the largest U.S. based dog training company in the history of the United States, and has locations all over the U.S. and abroad. Sit Means Sit franchise owners come through the Dog Training School located at the home office in Las Vegas, Nevada, and go on to open their own Sit Means Sit dog training businesses and begin a fantastic career. Sit Means Sit always shows the quality of the product that they have by showing their dog’s training

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Sit Means Sit dog training was one of the corporate sponsors for the ROLEX KENTUCKY 2008 3 day event. Thousands of spectators flocked to this marvelous event, and Sit Means Sit dog training did their part to entertain many people at this Lexington Kentucky show. This dog training and horse video clip shows some excerpts of Sit Means Sit, and the horses strutting their stuff. With Sit Means Sit dog training being the largest U.S.A. based dog training company in the history of the United States, and a long with events like these, make it easy for Sit Means Sit dog trainers to have lots of exposure both Nationally and Internationally as well. The Rolex show is also an NBC televised sporting event, and is the only 4 star, 3 day event held in America. Sit Means Sit now has open a police dog training remote collar course for k9 handlers as well.

Sit Means Sit dog training did not become the most successful U.S. based dog training business in the history of the United States by accident! Sit Means Sit was determined to raise the level of consciousness of the dog training consumer by letting them see the work of our trainers, and with their own dogs before making any decisions! With the advent of modern technology and the Sit Means Sit dog training collar, Sit Means Sit dog training took their product to the streets, knowing that the best and most humane dog training system needed to be seen by everyone.

With the company putting together many, many locations in a little over 2 years, and accomplishing National Championships in dog sports, perfect obedience scores, and bringing the pet owner to a level of fun, obedience and self-sufficiency that has never before been seen in the dog training industry, and accomplishing it with experienced trainers, and with trainers with no prior background. Sit Means Sit dog training franchise has become not only the dog training model, but the business model as well that is being envied by both the dog training community, and the business world. Rarely do businesses come along that revolutionize an industry like Sit Means Sit dog training has!

In this dog training video, students are seen here even before their graduation learning to have their dogs off-leash in a very distracting, and close quartered environments, not only performing at a high level of efficiency, but more importantly, happy as can be. They don’t even allow you to raise your voice!! No messing around, go right to the head of the class with Sit Means Sit dog training.

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Fred Hassen demonstrates desire and control with his dog ‘Vegas’ inside the Beverly Hills Hilton. Being able to do these types of public demonstrations, is a true example of control in unplanned environments. The Owner of the Beverly Hills Hilton actually stops by during this demonstration, and a fun little bit of feedback is had by all. These demonstrations at the Hilton were done by Fred Hassen and Luciano Aguilar.

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Lianne Hassen is seen here during her perfect score in the ‘Excellent B’ division of AKC Rally. The Excellent B division is the highest division of Rally competitions. Lianne also went on to get another perfect score at the excellent level in her other performance for her title. Here is a video of the other perfect score as well.Here are some tidbits of information about Rally.

Excellent Level- this third and highest level of AKC Rally is the most challenging. The exercises here are not patterned, and your dog must know not only how to do a variety of exercises, but in the sequence that is presented on the particular day. Like agility, the handlers can walk the course to familiarize themselves without their dog before competition.
*Exercises are performed off-leash except for the honor exercise.
*There is a requirement of 15-20 stations, with no more than 7 stationary exercises.
*Handlers are only allowed to encourage their dogs verbally. Physical encouragement is not allowed at this level.
*The Excellent-level exercises include backing up three steps, while the dog stays in the heel position and a moving stand, while the handler walks around the dog.

Rally is a sport in which the dog and handler complete a course that has been designed by the rally judge. The judge tells the handler to begin, and the dog and handler proceed at their own pace through a course of designated stations (10 – 20, depending on the level). Each of these stations has a sign providing instructions regarding the next skill that is to be performed.

The team of dog and handler moves continuously at a brisk, but normal, pace with the dog under control at the handler’s left side. There should be a sense of teamwork between the dog and handler both during the numbered exercises and between the exercise signs; however, perfect “heel position” is not required.

After the judge’s “Forward” order, the team is on its own to complete the entire sequence of numbered signs correctly.

Unlimited communication from the handler to the dog is to be encouraged and not penalized. Unless otherwise specified in these Regulations, handlers are permitted to talk, praise, encourage, clap their hands, pat their legs, or use any verbal means of encouragement. Multiple commands and/or signals using one or both arms and hands are allowed; the handler’s arms need not be maintained in any particular position at any time. The handler may not touch the dog or make physical corrections. At any time during the performance, loud or harsh commands or intimidating signals will be penalized.

Rally Signs:

The signs may be any color and they include descriptions as well as directional arrows of exercises. Signs are numbered to make it easy to find the next station when navigating the course.

RALLY SIGNS: All signs are placed to the handler’s right side. The signs are large enough to be easily recognized when going through a course. The exercises designated on the signs will be performed in close proximity to the sign itself, either in front, back of, or beside the sign.

Excellent – this third and highest level of AKC Rally is the most challenging.
*Exercises are performed off-leash except for the honor exercise.
*There is a requirement of 15-20 stations, with no more than 7 stationary exercises.
*Handlers are only allowed to encourage their dogs verbally. Physical encouragement is not allowed at this level.
*The Excellent-level exercises include backing up three steps, while the dog stays in the heel position and a moving stand, while the handler walks around the dog.

A lot of members of the APDT (Association of Pet Dog Trainers) are involved in this exciting sport!

Here are some other links to Rally.

American Kennel Club – AKC Rally®
Rally is a sport in which the dog and handler complete a course that has been
designed by the rally judge. Learn more about Rally titles, regulations, …

American Kennel Club – Getting Started in Rally
AKC Rally is the new dog sport that is taking the nation by storm, a successful
stepping stone from the AKC Canine Good Citizen program to the world of …

Rally Regulations
[ pdf ] duct of AKC rally trials and shall apply to all persons. and dogs participating
in them, ….. Rally Excellent (RE) title or any AKC obedience title, …

American Kennel Club – Rally Judges Requirements
Personally owned, trained and titled a dog to an AKC Companion Dog Excellent
title (CDX) and trained and titled a dog to an AKC Rally Excellent title (RE); …

American Kennel Club – AKC Rally® Regulations
AKC Rally® is a sport in which the dog and handler complete a course that has
been designed by the rally judge.

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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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