Canine Training Systems' On Target: Training Substance Detector Dogs with Randy Hare: Detection 3 has been selected as a 2008 Silver Telly Award.

Columbia, MO- January 1, 2008- Canine Training Systems, the leading provider of broadcast quality instructional training titles for sport, service and companion dogs, today announced that The Telly Awards has selected their most recent offering, On Target: Training Substance Detector Dogs with Randy Hare: Detection 3 as a 2008 Silver Telly Award Winner.

Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and web commercials, videos and films. The Telly Awards annually showcases the best work of the most respected advertising agencies, production companies, television stations, cable operators, and corporate video departments in the world. The Telly Awards is a widely known and highly respected national and international competition and receives over 11,000 entries annually from all 50 states and many foreign countries.

Earning a Telly Award is a significant creative achievement. The judges rate each entry on a 10-point scale.  Generally, entries with a score from our judges of 9.0 or higher are awarded a “Silver Telly” statuette, our highest honor.  Based on the ratio of winners over the past several years, approximately 7 to 10% of entrants are chosen as Silver Telly Award winners. We are very proud of our distinguished winners.  Other Silver Telly winners include:

Booz Allen Hamilton, Turner Studios,evans hardy + young,Jack Morton Worldwide,BSX Digital Productions,Michigan State University,Quigley-Simpson,The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.,FOX SPORTS NET, Nickelodeon,PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Bass Pros Shops Film & Video Productions,Lockheed Martin,Miami Dolphins Ltd.,Vox Pop Films,AEG Network LIVE, Kansas City Chiefs, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts,Outdoor Channel, Time Warner Cable, Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Cause & Effect Productions, Inc., The Lighthouse Film Company,Eveo, Inc.

On Target: Training Detector Dogs with Randy Hare: Detection 3 is the third in the Award-Winning series with Randy Hare. Randy Hare’s approach to Substance Detector Dog Training is groundbreaking.  The only Award Winning series of it’s kind; Randy’s approach is decidedly unique, proven and applicable to any substance whether narcotic, explosive or biological.  In this title Randy Hare demonstrates his techniques for completing the active alert response and builds upon the critical Objectives 1 through 8 taught in titles 1 and 2 to complete training in real world detection scenarios.  In addition, Randy demonstrates in detail the modifications for Objectives 1 through 15 in training a passive alert response dog.

“Randy Hare's odor detection training program is brilliant! He masterfully engineers the powers of operant and classical conditioning to create a motivated, reliable, and highly accurate detection dog,” states Pamela Reid, Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist and Author of Excel-erated Learning! How Dogs Learn and How Best to Teach Them.  “Hare turns traditional training on its ear by taking all the factors that can mess up a dog and building them right into his program so that he ends up with a dog that understands its job completely independent of its handler.”

Product Highlights

            • How to incorporate additional target substances in to the training program

            • The “Oral Game” 1 & 2 and Problems of Access and Puzzles  

            • Vehicle Searches and the Oral Response

            • Including the Final Response in Vehicle and Building Searches and On Leash

               and Directed Searches.

            • Training the Passive Alert Detection Dog Objectives 1-15 (Selecting a Dog,  Teaching the Target Odor-Reward Association etc.)

            • This production is a professionally authored and replicated DVD for

               playback on the widest variety of consumer equipment.

Pricing and Availability

On Target: Training Substance Detector Dogs with Randy Hare: Detection 3, is immediately available through the Canine Training Systems worldwide reseller channel and direct from the Canine Training Systems website at www.caninetrainingsystems.com for an MSRP of $79.95.  The website contains a detailed outline as well as excerpts from the 77 minute title.

About Canine Training Systems

Founded in 1987, Canine Training Systems is the worldwide leader in instructional titles for pet owners, dog sport competitors and industry professionals.  The company’s success lies in its ability to couple with the experts in service, sport and companion dog training and deliver their techniques to consumers through the most up-to-date delivery formats.  With the strength of their growing expert list, no other organization in the market place can offer the variety of techniques, disciplines, depth of knowledge or quality of product that Canine Training Systems provides it’s worldwide customer base.

Canine Training Systems Press Contact

Douglas Calhoun

+1(573) 214-0900

doug@caninetrainingsystems.com