Our dogs are trained by Dr. William “Bill” Ellinger in Phoenix, Arizona. Bill has over three decades of extensive experience in training Police K9’s, Executive Protection dogs, Family Protection dogs, Personal Protection dogs and Service Dogs and excels in training all disciplines. He studied Animal Behavior and has a PhD from Michigan State University. Bill is a certified agitator and judge for the Canine Civil Defense League (CCDL). He is a certified decoy and judge as well as Director for the North American Dog Sport Federation (NADF). Bill is also a certified decoy for Iron Dog, and was the Southwest Regional Director for the Protection Sports Association (PSA) and Regional Select Decoy for PSA. He has trained and titled dogs at the National and World levels for Schutzhund, French Ring, Mondio Ring, PSA, CCDL, and NADF. Bill has studied under many of the greats in each sport, both in the USA and abroad, from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. He knows dogs, and has vast experience in training and competition. Bill knows how dog’s minds work, and his training techniques are thorough and humane. The dogs love him, respect him, and respond to his advanced and refined training abilities. Over the past 30 years Bill has developed a proven system for training dogs to the highest level to serve in the most rigorous public environments. Our team of trainers train alongside Bill, and are explicitly schooled in Bill’s training techniques that focus on dogs with excellent obedience, unsurpassed social behavior, bravery and confidence to engage any threat, and the discipline and intelligence to judge real threats.