Quality Pet Dog Training from a Current Experienced and Successful Police K-9 Handler and Evaluator.
11/25/2024
Back in the day where it all started with my man Bono. I’ve gotten to be a part of a lot of cool stuff and make a lot of great friends in my 10 years (and counting) of being a K9 handler. Tri State Canine Blosser David is still putting out the best of the best canines, and anybody that can put up with me for 10 years definitely deserves a medal or a trophy or something.
Steubenville Pd. Rob Cook and K9 Bono and I after state cert today. The team is ready to make some new friends in their city! Good Luck Boys!
11/05/2024
My sidekick ready to hit the fields.
09/28/2024
BARBARA, as fun to train as she is pretty.
The Training You Need for the Dog You Want
09/22/2024
Congrats to the newest 6 Week Basic E- Collar Obedience grads, OLLIE and his human. OLLIE’s human came in with clear and reachable goals for what she wanted to accomplish with OLLIE. We developed a plan to work toward those goals and they crushed it every week. We know they will continue to grow and be successful and as a result, OLLIE will be able to experience more of the world.
The Training You Need for the Dog You Want.
08/09/2024
In 2015 I had the opportunity to hear a man named Bart Bellon speak at a K9 conference I attended. His ideas regarding dog training and the perspective he brought intrigued me. That started me on a path of seeking out and consuming every bit of information from him that I could find. For years I had wanted to attend his NePoPo Silver School. But, with kids, running my own dog training business, and holding down a separate full time job, things never were able to line up for me to attend. So when Bart and Michael Bellon started their Online Silver School, I had to jump on it. I’m now a NePoPo Online Silver School graduate and have taken another step in my quest to gain as much information as possible to be the best K-9 handler and dog trainer I can possibly be.
07/26/2024
The look of “We’re not done playing ball yet…”
07/12/2024
Chloe is here for a 3 week board & train. She’s such a good looking dog. I’m going to try to be better about making posts so her progress can be seen.
The Training You Need for the Dog You Want.
06/10/2024
Just got done running her ass off and couldn’t be happier.
04/30/2024
Words can’t express how proud I am of this team right here. Welcome to the most rewarding/ frustrating career path you can possibly imagine… Go get em Meya and K-9 Riot!
04/24/2024
TEAMWORK… She does the work, I try not to get in her way.
04/12/2024
This goofball has made training a blast. Food motivation for days and so much energy.
The Training You Need for the Dog You Want.
04/09/2024
The one who calls all the shots around here…
04/03/2024
Board & Train pup TOBY having a great time discovering his actions can cause the human food dispenser to activate.
The Training You Need for the Dog You Want
03/06/2024
The possibilities are endless when the owners keep up on things after their dog returns home. We can set the table, but if when your dog returns home you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you always got. If you make some changes and put forth the effort until the behaviors you want from your dog become habit, the sky is the limit. Duke is living his best life and getting to enjoy everything his world has to offer.
The Training You Need for the Dog You Want.
02/14/2024
The look I get from Xena when I’m not fast enough with the food dispensing…
The Training You Need for the Dog You Want.
02/12/2024
The semi- retired Daddy’s Little Monster, AKA: Puma Geel.
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I’m Rob Cook and my love for dogs goes back as far as I can recall. There’s never been a time in my life where my world did not include dogs. Initially, just as family pets as a young child. My curiosity for working with and training dogs began at around 11 or so years old when I began hunting with my father. We’d get up early and head out to the fields in search of pheasants, and I’d see these other hunters out there with their bird dogs and I’d be amazed at the energy and capabilities of these dogs. The hunting, pointing, flushing, and retrieving abilities I observed in these animals captivated me. At that time in my life, we had a couple dogs as family pets, but not a hunting dog. It took about 4 years of constant begging and pleading, but I finally talked my folks into letting me get my first bird dog when I was 16. Bo was a 2 year old German Shorthaired Pointer my father found for sale in a local newspaper classified ad. The owners decided they didn’t have time for him and needed to find him a new home. I’ll never forget the day we went and picked up Bo. I couldn’t have been more excited. I thought I had just obtained the ticket to bagging endless daily limits of pheasant. Looking back, I was lucky Bo was blessed with a lot of natural hunting desire and ability because I had no idea the process, time, effort, dedication, and patience involved in training dogs. I was learning as I went along. Bo ended up taking to my father much more so than he did me, which frustrated me. But, it ended up being a blessing in disguise, because it afforded me the opportunity to stand back and watch him work and interact with my father. It was during those hunting trips watching Bo work that my interest in observing dogs, how they work, and especially how they communicate really began. Bo is long gone now, lost to cancer while still in the prime of his hunting years, but I credit him for sparking my interest in the dog training world.
Fast forward several years and dogs later, and I became a police officer with a local police department in Ohio in 2006. In 2014, the department decided to start a K-9 unit, posting a position for one K-9 handler. I applied and was fortunate enough to be awarded the position. Becoming a K-9 handler was the greatest thing I could have asked for, allowing me to blend my loves for law enforcement and dogs. Being a K-9 handler has allowed me the opportunity to work with, observe, and learn from some of the most amazing trainers, dogs, and K-9 handlers that can be found anywhere. This unique experience has helped me to further develop my ability and passion to read and communicate with dogs, as well as further enhanced my respect and appreciation for the loyalty and abilities of the canine species.
If you want to want to truly develop an appreciation for the canine species, have one save your life, or at the very least protect you during a serious physical confrontation with another human being intent on doing you harm.
All of this I have described has brought me back full circle to where it all started for me as a young boy: FAMILY DOGS. The field trials and competitions that are so popular with so many sporting dog lovers was never something that interested me. Not that I have a problem with the competitions at all. I think they’re great. They’ve just never been my thing. All I’ve ever wanted to do was enjoy the satisfaction of watching my dogs do the things I’ve trained them to do or at the very least helped shaped them to do using their God given abilities. My desire is to help the relationship between dog and owner to reach its maximum potential so you and your dog can enjoy the real world together. Real world obedience, good manners, and calmness are the foundation of what I strive for between owner and dog. My love for sporting and working dog breeds has given me the experience in handling and working through issues with high energy, stubborn dogs. Too often dogs end up at shelters or euthanized because owners do not know how to deal with issues. If I can help keep dogs out of shelters and improve their quality of life, my mission is complete. My greatest satisfaction would be to help you improve your relationship with your dog.
To me, dog training is something that is never fully mastered and there is always room to learn, grow and develop. My desire to grow, develop, and blend what I have learned from various sources over the years is an asset I believe you as a dog owner can benefit from. Let me help your dog ownership experience reach its MAXIMUM POTENTIAL!
