GENETICALLY ADVANCED WORKING DOGS

Burns Group International Counterterrorism Training Center’s K9 Division specializes in professional canine training, and breeding world-class working military, private military company (PMC), conservation, border protection, law enforcement, personal protection, and sport dogs.

We believe that national security should not be outsourced and to produce the best working dogs possible, you must start with dogs with outstanding genetics that possess an almost unmanageable amount of drive, power, and courage for your breeding program, then raise the puppies with absolute commitment and attention to detail during the first 14-months of their lives. All our dogs come from the very finest European working bloodlines and are bred and born in the United States of America. We use only the highest quality dogs available and will only breed dogs that have passed the most rigorous health and temperament testing. Our puppy program prepares our pups for almost every possible environmental stress they will encounter in the line of duty, to ensure stability and performance.  Please take a look at our Breeding Program page for more information on our breeding program and purchasing one of our puppies. 

Our expert canine trainers and instructors are required to complete 40 hours of continued education each year, which ensures we are constantly evolving as trainers and instructors and providing the best quality dogs and training available. Our instructors have been blessed to have trained with some of the very best working dog trainers and behaviorists in the industry, and it is our goal to share the knowledge we have learned with those who are truly interested in becoming better trainers, handlers, and owners. Our classes teach students mechanical skills and a thorough understanding of animal behavior which is essential to effectively and efficiently communicate with dogs in a way that is clear and concise. Several classes are currently available with more being developed each year. Click on each class’s page for a detailed description of the materials covered and to enroll.

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MILITARY, LAW ENFORCEMENT & TACTICAL WORKING CANINE SALES & DONATIONS

Tactical Canines are a critical asset for Military, Law Enforcement, Security and Government organizations, at-risk persons, and Burns Group International Counterterrorism Training Center’s K9 Division is proud to offer some of the finest tactical canines in the world to help you address the increasingly demanding requirements of today’s uncertain world.  We breed and source only the best European working lines, and our dogs are meticulously selected to ensure their train-ability, sound temperament, drives, and sociability. The dogs selected for our Military, Law Enforcement, Security, and Government Training Programs come with an industry-leading two-year health guarantee, current vaccinations, microchips as well as hip, elbow, and spine x-rays.

Our training philosophy is relationship-based because we believe this develops a more loyal canine that will not quit in the moment of truth, and our training curriculum is science-based, research-driven, realistic, and designed to develop truly well-rounded, sound, and reliable working canines that you can count on. Our handler and maintenance programs allow you access to high-quality education that will help ensure the handler and canine have the most significant impact possible in the field.

Whether you are looking for “green dogs” for an in-house training program or a fully trained military, police, single-purpose, dual-purpose, multi-purpose, or personal protection canines, we offer a variety of world-class tactical canines and training programs to serve you, and we are happy to tailor a canines training and develop training programs to meet your agencies mission requirements. Both the dog and handler are trained to national standards in compliance with the most current case law. We offer the following types of tactical working canines to Military, Law Enforcement, Security, and Government organizations:

Single-Purpose Canines Price: Contact us

Used for one purpose only, for example locating explosives or narcotics (or in the case of combat tracking dogs, humans). Single-purpose dogs don’t need to be aggressive and can be all nose, no bite. Some single-purpose dogs might get naturally protective, but as most handlers of dogs like Labs will attest, they’re more likely to lick you to death. These dogs are trained to locate either drugs or explosives – never both. You don’t want to have to guess if your dog is alerting to a stash of heroin or a pressure-plate IED.

Dual-Purpose Canines Price: Contact us

Dual-Purpose Canines do both patrol work (protection, aggression when needed) and detection work, along with some basic scouting. Scouting is the ability to track human scent through the air.

Multi-Purpose Canines Price: Contact us

Most often used by Special Operations personnel and O.G.A.’s, the Multi-Purpose Canine (MPC) is extremely high-drive, confident, physically and mentally fit, and can do everything a Patrol Explosives Detection Dog can do, as well as to conduct assault, parachute, rappel, and or maritime operations, wear goggles, booties, helmets and specialized tactical equipment such as night-vision or infrared cameras, etc, and they are often trained to work silently via hand signals and lasers, and much more. MPC’s are extremely resilient, environmentally sound, and almost unflappable under extreme stress. No matter what your mission requires we can deliver the Multi-Purpose Canine that is well-balanced, reliable, and will easily integrate into your team and contribute to operational success.

SWAT/Special Operations Canines Price: Contact us

Both the dog and the handler are trained to national Law Enforcement, Department of Defense, or Department of State standards, and the curriculum can be tailored to meet your mission-specific requirements.

Patrol & Criminal Apprehension Canine Price: Contact us

Both the dog and handler are trained to national standards in compliance with the most current case law. Their control work includes a verbal out, calling off a suspect, and off-leash control around the decoy/suspect. In addition, the canine is trained to search buildings and outdoor areas to locate and apprehend suspects while off-leash which reduces the likelihood of violent interactions and officer-involved shootings by creating distance between the officers and the suspects. Our Patrol and Apprehension Canines are also trained to locate items that contain human scent and indicate their presence by laying down next to the item to help preserve evidentiary value. Price includes 20 hour handler education and integration program.

Detection Canines Price: Contact us

• ADD (Accelerants Detection Dog)

• NDD (Narcotics Detector Dog)

• EDD (Explosive Detector Dog)

• PEDD (Patrol Explosive Detector Dog)

• PNDD (Patrol Narcotics Detector Dog)

• TEDD (Tactical Explosive Detector Dog)

• SSD (Specialized Search Dog)

Tracking & Trailing Canines Price: Contact us

• PTD (Patrol Tracking Dog)

• CTD (Combat Tracker Dog)

• TTD (Tactical Tracking Dog)

Search & Rescue Canines Price: Contact us

• SAR-K9 Level 1

• SAR-K9 Level 2

• SAR-K9 Level 3

Conservation Canines Price: Contact us

• Single-Purpose

• Dual-Purpose

• Multi-Purpose

Executive Protection Canines (Level 1) Price: Contact us

Trained with family and work in mind, these dogs have hundreds of training hours in obedience, home training, protection, tracking, and socialization and are intended to augment your security as well as lifestyle. We offer custom training programs to tailor the dog to meet your unique needs. The purchase price includes a 20-hour owner/handler education course that will ensure you have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to succeed with your new four-legged bodyguard.

Executive Protection Canines (Level 2) Price: Contact us

With more advanced training in obedience, home training, protection, tracking, and socialization than our Level 1 Executive Protection Canines, our Level 2 dogs also have training in building searches, defense in and around a vehicle, as gunfire desensitization training. We offer custom training programs to tailor the dog to meet your unique needs. The purchase price includes a 20-hour owner/handler education course that will ensure you have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to succeed with your new four-legged bodyguard.

Maintenance Training:  $5,000 per year for up to three (3) BGICTC purchased canines.  $3,000.00 per year for each additional canine.  Includes 16 hours of training per month.

Tactical Canine Donations

As a non-profit organization, we are proud to donate tactical working canines to law enforcement, fire, and anti-poaching units whose agency has a need for a canine but their budgets cannot afford the purchase of a canine however, they can support the costs associated with the care, health, and welfare of the canine as well as the necessary handler education and maintenance training. Interested agencies should contact us regarding the application and award process.

CANINE TRAINING, CLASSES & SEMINARS

BGICTC’s canine trainers and instructors are passionate about creating the very toughest, most reliable, most balanced, and effective tactical canines in the world.  Over the last 17 years, we have been extremely fortunate to train with some of the absolute best working dog trainers, canine behaviorists, and decoys in the industry.  Our goal to share our knowledge and experience with others who are passionate about understanding canine behavior and becoming better trainers.  We believe in a relationship-based training philosophy and our classes teach students the theory, mechanical skills, and a thorough understanding of animal behavior that will allow them effectively and efficiently communicate with dogs in a way that is clear, concise, and will achieve results.   To ensure we stay at the forefront of canine training, our instructors are required to complete 40-hours of advanced continued education per year.  This ensures our instructors and training programs are constantly evolving, and that we are able to offer the best education and value to our students.

MILITARY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, SECURITY, AND OGA CANINE TRAINING PROGRAMS

Some of our most popular programs include:

·         Master Canine Trainer Academy

·         High-Risk Canine Assisted Tactical Tracking

·         Decoy Development School

·         Explosives Detection Dog Development School

·         Accelerant Detection Dog Development Course

·         Obedience & Agility

·         Single-Purpose, Dual-Purpose, and Multi-Purpose Canine Handlers Courses

·         Person-Borne Detection Canine Handlers Course

·         Homemade Explosives (HME) Detection Canine Trainer:  From Imprinting to Deployment

·         SWAT K9 Integration & Tactics

·         SAR K9 Development School

CIVILIAN CANINE TRAINING PROGRAMS

We provide a broad spectrum of professional canine training services in Wenatchee, WA, and the surrounding areas, including private and group lessons, as well as behavior modification, and specialized classes.

We have a reputation for diagnosing and resolving problematic dog behaviors including severe aggression or fear behaviors which many other trainers are unable or refuse to deal with.  To put it simply, we have fixed what others have claimed was unfixable. The highest compliment we can be paid is when clients choke up a little and tell us “You saved my dog!” 

We work with all breeds and ages of dogs but specialize in dogs that other trainers consider difficult to train or impossible to rehabilitate and have successfully rehabilitated dogs that other “experts” have suggested be euthanized.  We help you understand what your dogs’ triggers are, why they are occurring, then through progressive behavior modification, we correct its undesirable behaviors and teach you how to maintain the desirable behaviors.  Our proven relationship-based, science and research-driven training philosophy help us achieve the best possible results for our clients and their dogs.

PRIVATE LESSONS

If you have the time to dedicate to your dog’s training to accomplish your goals, private lessons are a great way to get the training for your dog that you want. With our private lessons,  BGICTC’s trainers come to your home once per week for approximately one hour.  We begin by discussing your goals for your dog and develop a training program that will help you reach your goals.  Each week we review the skills from the previous lesson, assess your development, provide feedback and suggestions, and teach a new skill to develop for the following week’s lesson.   Our trainers will teach you to train and work with your own dog and will help you develop the knowledge, confidence, and skills to successfully develop a reliable, balance, and well-rounded dog.  That said, with private lessons, you are required to do your “homework” throughout the week to make sure that the dog’s training is progressing, and you will get the results that desire. Please feel free to email us if you have any questions. We offer the following private lessons:

BASIC ON-LEASH OBEDIENCE (6 WEEKS)                             Price:  $650

Our Basic On-Leash private lessons meet once per week for six weeks. During this course, our professional trainers will teach you how to train the sit, down, stay, come, heel and place command on leash. We will also teach you how to stop problematic behaviors such as jumping, barking, barging out the door, counter surfing, and pulling on the leash. We take you through all the phases of training, learning, correcting, proofing, and maintenance phase to ensure that your dog will perform reliably. During this course, we will work with your dog in your home, go for walks in your neighborhood and teach you how to deal with the distractions of the environment in which you and your dog live.

ADVANCED ON-LEASH OBEDIENCE (7 WEEKS)                                             Price:  $950

In this seven-week private course, our trainer will teach you how to train the sit, down, stay, come, heel, and place commands off-leash for complete control. In addition, we teach you how to stop behaviors such as jumping, barking, barging out the door, counter surfing, and pulling on the leash when walking. Just like our Basic course, our advanced private lessons take you through all the phases of training, learning, correcting, proofing and maintenance, to ensure that your dog will perform reliably. Lessons will involve work with your dog in your home, go for in your neighborhood, and we teach you how to deal with the distractions of the environment in which you and your dog live. We can also arrange to work with you and your dog at the local parks and other places where you may commonly take your dog to ensure that they will perform appropriately in all the environments you enjoy.

PRIVATE BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION PROGRAM (6 WEEKS)                                        Price:  $750

This course is customized to the needs of the client and dog and meets once a week for six weeks, however, depending on the severity of the issues it may take more than one six-week course to resolve the problem behaviors. Our Private Behavior Modification program can deal with issues such as housebreaking, biting, fighting, dominance aggression, fear aggression, resource guarding, dog-bullying, phobias, nuisance barking, separation anxiety, neuroticism, and destructive behaviors. Our trainers have years of experience in rehabilitating these types of behaviors in a variety of breeds and we are confident that we can find the solution you are looking for. We utilize proven, applied behavior analysis, scientific techniques, and sound operant conditioning principles to ensure that behavior problems are resolved in a safe and efficient way.

Observation and diagnosis are critical to understanding the behavior and cause, and the first crucial step in the successful rehabilitation of the dog is the first step to successful rehabilitation. No two dogs are alike, so we begin the process, we will conduct an initial evaluation and behavioral analysis interview to properly diagnose your dog’s issues and determine the root causes of the problems, from which a behavior modification program is then customized for each individual dog and their owner. 

If you are experiencing behavior problems with your dog and have questions or want more information on our canine behavior modification programs, feel free to contact us.  Unfortunately, we cannot resolve your problems or diagnose behavior over the phone, but we will schedule a time to evaluate your dog free of charge. Based on this evaluation, we will be able to better suggest a dog behavior modification program that will get you the best results.

IN-KENNEL BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION PROGRAM (6 WEEKS)                               Price:  $2,750

For those or do not have the time or do not want to take time away from their busy schedules needed to resolve their dogs’ behavioral issues, BGICTC offers In-Kennel Behavior Modification programs.  This program is a minimum of six weeks and is intended for those needing to resolve severe behavioral issues while the dog stays with us.  Upon pick up owners will work with the trainer, one-on-one to learn how to work with their dog, understand the process that went into rehabilitating them, and how they can keep the problem behavior(s) from recurring.

GROUP LESSONS

Our group canine training classes are excellent for those looking for a more economical training solution. We offer Puppy, Basic, Advanced, and many specialized group classes. Our group classes are a great way to socialize your dog with new people and other dogs while under the supervision and guidance of a professional canine trainer and behaviorist.  Group courses run for six weeks, are held weekly, and last for approximately one hour each class. Please take a look at our Upcoming Classes page to find a class that is right for you.

GROUP CLICKER TRAINING FOUNDATION PROGRAM (6 WEEKS)                    Price:  $125

This class is one of our core classes and a prerequisite for a number of our other advanced classes. It teaches students the theory, knowledge, and mechanical skills for applying a clicker as a form of operant conditioning to better communicate with your dog to shape and build complex behaviors. 

GROUP PUPPY FOUNDATION PROGRAM (7 WEEKS)                          Price:  $165

This program is designed to get dog owners and their new puppies off to the right start and teaches socialization, training the basic commands, proper play, proper exercise, owner responsibility, and provides tips integrating the puppy into your family and home.

GROUP BASIC OBEDIENCE PROGRAM (6 WEEKS)                                Price:  $140

Without a doubt our most popular civilian group class offering, this course is the place for every dog and owner to start their training.  This six-week class teaches dogs and owners on-leash skills such as sit, down, stay, come, heel, place, and basic socialization with other dogs and people. In addition, this class will help owners deal with problems such as pulling on the leash, jumping on people, etc.

GROUP ADVANCED OBEDIENCE PROGRAM (7 WEEKS)                              Price:  $165

Without a doubt our most popular civilian group class offering, this course is the place for every dog and owner to start their training.  This six-week class teaches dogs and owners on-leash skills such as sit, down, stay, come, heel, place, and basic socialization with other dogs and people. In addition, this class will help owners deal with problems such as pulling on the leash, jumping on people, etc.

GROUP TRACKING & TRAILING PROGRAM (6 WEEKS)                              Price:  $175

This class is designed for those interested in competition tracking, AKC tracking, Search & Rescue, Conservation K9 work, or those who just want something to do with their dog in the great outdoors, and teaches the basics of tracking, odor theory, and basic principles of training tracking and trailing dogs.  There are no prerequisites for this course. Equipment is not included.

GROUP SCENT / DETECTION WORK PROGRAM (6 WEEKS)                             Price:  $225

Do you have a dog with a good nose and you want to put it to work? This class is a great way to teach your dog to use their nose to find odors whether it be for trial work, shed hunting, or real-world protective work to keep you and your family safe, students will learn the fundamentals of scent work from imprinting the odors to the final indication and search tactics and techniques. 

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