This course has in-depth and detailed segments on a wide range of topics such as conditioning a dog to wearing a muzzle, training the decoy, and training scenarios that reflect real world deployments for police dogs.

Common Skills Used in Various Dog Sports include Heeling, Retrieving, Jumping, Scent Discrimination, and the Send Away. Many Protection & Obedience Sports use these skills in various ways. Michael teaches how to introduce these skills to your dog and tailor their development to your preferred Dog Sport.

The goal of this training course is to cover Andrew Ramsey’s methods for teaching a detector dog obedience to odor and a focused response. These are very important skills that every detector dog should know.

Combining proven technique with modern technique. We use tried and true methodology and modernize it for a broad audience of practitioners.

This course covers the beginning stages of Detection Sports training. It is perfect for professional trainers and hobbyists alike.

Does your dog take you for a walk?  Are your arms and shoulders tired after you return home?  Do you dream of being able to take a nice, relaxed walk with your dog at your side? If you answered yes to any of these questions then it's time to take our Loose Leash Walking course with instructor Tyler Muto!

The goal of this course is teach you how to turn play into a productive tool in your dog training program. It is designed to teach new dog trainers how to train their dogs to understand the rules of play.

Even the most advanced concepts in dog training require a solid foundation, and the Principles of Dog Training with Michael Ellis is going to give you that foundation.  The skills learned throughout this 15-module course are going to carry over into every aspect of your training program and handler relationship. This course has 187 lecture videos and 284 bonus past student videos, totaling to 16 hours of content to watch.

This second course is a continuation of Michael Ellis’s Principles of Dog Training I. This advanced 6-module program empowers you to refine your skills and tackle more complex training scenarios. This course contains 179 lecture videos and 120 student videos, totaling to 10 hours of content to watch.

This $250 course will consist of video footage and concepts presented at Michael Ellis' three day seminar at Leerburg in December 2019, which was organized according to the way Michael teaches his classes at his school for dog trainers in California. Concepts are demonstrated by dogs at different ages and levels of training who were pre-selected by Michael based on handler-submitted videos to ensure they would be a good fit for each lecture concept.

240 Video clips - 19 Hours of Video Total