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

Columbia, MO- August 11, 2008- Canine Training Systems, the leading provider of broadcast quality instructional training titles for sport, service and companion dogs, today announced that The Ava Awards has selected their most recent offering, On Target: Training Substance Detector Dogs with Randy Hare: Detection 3 as a 2008 Ava Awards Gold Winner.  The Gold Award is presented to those judged to exceed the high standards of the industry norm.

The Ava Awards recognizes outstanding work by creative professionals involved in the concept, writing, direction, shooting, and editing of audio-visual materials and programs.  Entrants include video and film production companies, web developers, advertising agencies, PR firms, corporate and government communications departments, producers, directors, editors and shooters.  Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.  There were 1700 entries from throughout the United States and several foreign countries and approximately 12 percent were Gold Winners.

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