I recently saw an article which raised questions about scent line-ups conducted by police dogs. This article was brought to my attention by a friend who had some questions about the article and video that they saw, based on the fact that they encounter these line-ups in their work. Below is the video [...]

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Highland Canine Training offers intensive and highly educational schools for dog trainers. Our programs teach students innovative methods of training dogs and gives our students everything they need to start their own dog training business. We offer training courses for basic dog obedience, advanced dog obedience, a Canine Training and Behavior Modification Professionals Course to [...]

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We are proud to announce that Highland CanineTraining, LLC has expanded to Atlanta, GA and the surrounding areas. Ray Figueroa will be operating the Metro Atlanta area training programs.
Ray is a police canine trainer and instructor in the Metro Atlanta area where he also serves as a full time police canine handler. [...]

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We trained a dual purpose police dog that is now working at a department in Alabama. The dog was trained in narcotics detection, police patrol, handler protection, tracking, article searches, agility and obedience. I trained with the dog almost every day for several months before it was eventually sold and went to Alabama. Now this [...]

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There is no time like the present to get started on a new career , start your own business, or simply do what you love everyday. Many people adore our four-legged friends and are intersted in pursuing a career in the dog training industry. My advice, is to go for it, there [...]

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As many of you know we do a lot of pro bono work to give back to our communities.  It is a wonderful feeling to give a police/sheriff department or individual that may not otherwise have to opportunity to work a dog,mostly for financial reasons a shot at it.  Highland Canine Training donated the first [...]

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Many of you have heard from multiple dog trainers and veterinarians how  important socialization is for puppies and adult dogs.  Puppies need to be around different dogs and people of all shapes and sizes to get over any fear of the unknown.  Even your working dogs for both Police and Search and Rescue need to [...]

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I’m sure many of you remember our student Kostas Kilias from Athens, Greece last year, he is in our video for our trainer’s course program.  Kostas is a very knowledgeable dog trainer and very passionate about his work with dogs, he taught our team just as much as we were able to share with him.  Kostas has [...]

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As many of you may know, our blog has been down for about a week.  We’ve received alot of calls about the problem and have been working diligently to try and fix it.  First the good news, we got the blog up and running again.  The bad news is that we lost all of the [...]

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