Ascension Canine Training

13/11/2025

GAK9 Proximity Alert Training at ATK9 🐕‍🦺

This is a simple clip of a very abbreviated session introducing the proximity alert. This training realistically needs to be done over a couple of weeks but I had one day class (repeat several times) with groups of students at ATK9.

12/11/2025

"There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast."

- Charles Dickens

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10/11/2025

Happy Monday, hope you all had a better time than Chris had at ATK9 🤕

📷 O&J Wikner Photography

09/11/2025

The best dog I ever raised - Military Police Dog Dirk 🫡

I didn't appreciate just how phenomenal this guy was until years later. What an absolute weapon he grew into. Couldn't be prouder of my boy.

07/11/2025

Hope everyone is having as good a Friday as this dog is having post track 🍻

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06/11/2025

Live ☯️Laugh😂Love🥰

It's just dog training everyone, chill. I enjoy throwing flash bangs, seeing decoys bit, ambushes sprung with the best of them. The former infantryman in me loves that stuff.

What I enjoy more are the bits in dog training where I am hanging out with my friends, working with amazing and passionate handlers and their dogs, and getting training outcomes in an enjoyable way.

Dogs are intrinsicly fun animals, they love doing stuff. I just try and match the vibe.

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05/11/2025

Always a pleasure to see teams working 💪

Suellen (handler) and Buzz (doggo) are a great team who have some impressive tracks under their belt.

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04/11/2025

Tracking through a flock of sheep 🐏

Recently whilst conducting a GAK9 Train the Trainer course for Corrections Victoria, I demonstrated with my personal dog Gaston some techniques regarding progressing into extremely high distraction / contamination environments.

We were fortunate to have a field accessible for training which is full of several hundred head of sheep, which made deliberately tracking in their vicinity easy.

Gaston does well and works through the heavy distraction with ease thanks to the steps taken using the GAK9 system.

(Posted a second time as FB error prevented it from being viewed on original post)

03/11/2025

Rule 1 - Know What You Are Doing
Rule 2 - Look Good
Rule 3 - If You Can't Achieve Rule 1, Refer to 2

Northern however, has no issues with any rules, and easily achieves Rules 1 and 2 - what a stunner and a clever tracker 😍

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21/10/2025

I love training handlers and their dogs 🐕‍🦺

Whether it be a working dog handler who faces armed threats on tracks (and has been shot at before) through to retirees looking to stay active and provide their dog with stimulating fun - I am just passionate about teaching functional tracking skills.

04/10/2025

USA bound ✈️

This is a significant milestone in my time training dogs. I'm thrilled to be the first Australian invited to instruct at ATK9.

Teaching what I know about reading dogs when tracking in order to gain the advantage over armed adversaries is something I'm deeply passionate about.

The audience (US Police from across the country) face profoundly dangerous conditions and I hope the teams I work with will leave my class even more capable to defeat the threats they face.

INTERPRETING K9 BODY LANGUAGE ON THE TRACK & DEVELOPING THE PROXIMITY ALERT 🚨