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

Columbia, MO- March 01, 2008- The winners of The 2008 Davey Awardshave been announced by the International Academy of the Visual Arts today.  Canine Training Systems most recent offering, On Target: Training Substance Detector Dogs with Randy Hare: Detection 3, has been selected as a 2008 Davey Silver Award Winner.  Canine Training Systems is the leading provider of broadcast quality instructional training titles for sport, service and companion dogs.

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The Davey Awards is an international creative award focused exclusively on honoring outstanding creative work from the best small firms worldwide. The 2008 Davey Awards received over 4,000 entries from ad agencies, interactive agencies, production firms, in-house creative professionals, graphic designers, design firms, and public relations firms.  The Davey Awards honors the achievement of the “Creative David’s” where strength comes from ideas, intelligence and out-of-the-box thinking, not a “Giant’s” bankroll.  Great work is about fresh ideas and exceptional execution, not the biggest budgets.

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

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doug@caninetrainingsystems.com