You may already know James as the bite-work writer for K-9 Cop Magazine, if not, please take a moment to review his below listed resume as well as a personal greeting from James himself.

A message from World Class Canine's training director James Allen:

Allow me to take a moment to explain my theory and qualifications as a canine trainer.  I started training dogs professionally almost fifteen years ago and have successfully trained over 1500 dogs for a variety of applications such as; police service, obedience, personal protection, dog sport, agility, tracking, detection, search and rescue and general problem solving. 

I have served several law enforcement agencies as a head instructor, training specialist, unit master trainer and decoy.  I am the National Training Director for World Class Canine, the Northern US Training Director for K-9 Perfection and am the feature bite-work writer for K-9 Cop Magazine.

Choosing the right dog trainer will positively impact your relationship with your dog, along with your dogs overall well being.  However, choosing the wrong dog trainer can have devastating consequences on your dog and your wallet.  There is no blue print for dog training.  A good dog trainer is able to read each dog individually and apply the right method of training to suit the individual dog.  This can only be accomplished by training a large number of dogs for a variety of applications.  Beware of dog trainers that only have experience attending another dog trainers, training school.  You cannot truly learn to train dogs by taking a class or reading a book. 

Since moving back to Michigan, I have witnessed a low standard of dog training and knowledge, by various so-called dog trainers in our area.  As a police officer it always upset me to witness another officer not serving the public properly, the same goes for dog trainers, who take your money, but don't deliver.  The only way to become a real dog trainer, is experience and proper apprenticeship.  All novice and untrained dog trainers will make mistakes early in thier career, which will come at the expense of your dogs permanent temperament.  You don't want to pay the wrong dog trainer to improve your dog, only to permanently ruin it. 

Recently, a local trainer that is advertising protection training asked me to decoy their personal demonstration dog.  The so-called trainer has been pumping this dog up in front of potential customers and leading them to believe he was the real thing.  The dog trainer explained to me how tough the dog was, but didn't even know what fight and prey drives were.  I already knew this dog was not properly trained and would only bark, not bite!  I put on my protection dog training suit and challenged the dog.  As I thought, he would not even bite me and was totally unable to perform the simplest protection work, yet this trainer charges customers to train their dogs, when they don't even know what a real protection dog is!!!!!  When I asked them where they learned how to train dogs they informed me that they took a class at another dog trainers school.  That won't cut it in this industry folks!!!!!  A responsible dog trainer studies for years under actual dog trainers, instead of trying to wing-it, at the expense of all of their future customers.

In closing, please take careful consideration in selecting the proper dog trainer and demand a resume.  There are other good dog trainers in our area, but you have to be careful and by all means demand a resume.  You may contact me personally anytime by email at  , or by telephone at 269-718-7648.  Please take a moment to review my resume below and customer testimonials in the navigation bar, located in the upper left corner of this page.  Thank you and I will be happy to exceed your needs as a dog trainer.

Sincerely,
Master trainer James Allen
World Class Canine

__________________________James Allen's Resume__________________________________

Master K9 Trainer/Breeder James Allen

 Diverse and successful experience in dog training with knowledge of these key areas:

 

Police Service Training   <  Civilian / Estate Protection <  Obedience <  Problem Solving

 

Tracking and Detection… Personal Protection … High Pressure Decoying… Drive Building… Law Enforcement and Civilian~ 

Versed in tactical field operations

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Qualifications Summary

 

§  In former role as the K9 unit training specialist with the Marion County Sheriff's office K9 unit, areas of concentration included: preparing lesson plans and scenario's for two training days a month.  Training 12 service dogs on and between group training days.  Heightening the canines fight, prey and defensive drives.  Teaching proper decoying techniques, advanced decoying and conditioning.  Teaching ground disruption tracking, winding  and detection.   

 

§  Other roles within the department have included: work as a mobile field force operations specialist, warrants / fugitive specialist, patrol officer and member of numerous task forces and undercover units. 

 

 

§  Specialized proficiency as an agency K9 trainer and independent K9 business owner; as a professional trainer service K9s for apprehension, personal protection, tracking and detection.  Training provided for numerous law enforcement agencies and K-9 units.

 

 

§  In former role with kennels K9 Home Defense and K9 Partners, daily activities included: obedience training, tracking, personal protection / estate protection, police dog training and sales, service dog breeding, housebreaking, K9 detection, problem solving, competition preparation, handler and trainer instruction.

 

§  In current role as the Training Director of World Class Canine and the Northern US Training Director for K-9 Perfection duties include: freelance law enforcement training in the areas of man work, apprehensions, tracking, detection, handler / canine tactics, bite work, scenario based training and obedience.  Civilian /estate personal protection, obedience and problem solving training .  Police/Protection/ Estate dog sales, brokering and breeding ref: Belgium Malinois, Dutch Shepherd, German Shepherd, Donovan, Whalid Ali and Bullois dogs.  Drive building, home invasion, all breed obedience, aggressive dog rehab and special scenario training.  

 

Profile / Strengths

Over 1500 dogs successfully trained for a variety of applications in a career spanning nearly fifteen years.

 

§Background reflects success in U.S.P.C.A, K9 Pro Sport and other competition

§Malinois, Dutch Shepherd and German Shepherd specialist

§Accomplished breeder of numerous highly decorated and titled working dogs.

§A proven street record of K9 success in high pressure real life scenario's

§Has hosted numerous multi-agency training seminars

§Monthly Contributing writer for K9-Cop Magazine

 

Relevant Experience

§  Deputy Sheriff/ K9 Training Specialist , Marion County Sheriff’s Office

§  Police Officer Holly Hill Police Department

§  Training consultant/Master Trainer for numerous Police agencies                                                                                     

§  Lieutenant Trainer/Northern Director, K9 Perfection, Ocala Florida and Southwest Michigan                             

§  Training Director, K9 Home Defense, Ocala Florida                                                                     

§  Training Director/Owner, World Class Canine, Three Rivers, Michigan/Ocala, Florida                                                          

§  Founder of the NNPDA                                    

§ Feature Bite-work writer, K9 Cop Magazine 

§  Experience successfully rehabbing dogs for the Humane Society and the private sector                                                                                             

 

Achievements / Awards                  

§ Over 250 Fugitive arrests in 2007

§  Marion County: Certificate of Commendation: capture of armed robbery suspects

§  Marion County: 5-time District Top Producer Award winner: highest arrest activity

§  Marion County: 7-time Eagle Eye Award winner: above and beyond (normal duty) actions

§  Marion County: Numerous Letters of Appreciation from citizens within Marion County

§  Police Officer Academy: Dean’s List – 93% academic average: Honor Award winner                                                                    Numerous K9 titles and championships
§ Breed the K9 Pro Sport runner up in the 2007 world championships
§ Proven law enforcement K9 training results and experience
§ Proven civilian estate protection training results and experience

World Class Canine is located near Three Rivers, Michigan and the greater Kalamazoo area.  World Class Canine is approximately and hour and fifteen minutes South of Grand Rapids, Michigan, an hour and a half East of Chicago, Illinois, two hours West of Detroit, Michigan and an hour North of Elkhart, Indiana.  You can reach us by telephone at 269-718-7648, or by email at jamesallen4692@yahoo.com/.  Thanks for visiting our site.