Baden K9, located in Canada, is the world’s most complete, real-life K9 training facility. They offer the K9 Task Force continued training and performance evaluation in numerous areas to include man tracking, explosive detection, elevated and sub-terrain work, cadaver recovery, collapsed building and debris pile work, rappelling, bite work, multiple target trailing, live fire and explosive detonation training, gun fire and range experience, performance under stress, and much more.
After the WTC 9-11 incident, the K9 Task Force began a search for a training facility that could offer the type of training needed for “re-programming” the team after working the WTC, but also prepare us for the next mission in this changing world. Our search, after months of looking and interviewing facilities, lead us to Baden K9. Our first class with Baden K9 was with Morgan, now retired, and the remaining primary handlers after 9-11, John and Jason. The training at Baden K9 was very demanding but very rewarding. This training changed the entire way that our team was to operate and train in the future, for at Baden K9 they prepare you for any type of situation you are expected to encounter, and for the K9 Task Force that could be anything world wide. When Morgan was retired in October 2002, the K9 Task Force knew of no place better than Baden K9 to purchase our new working dogs. At Baden K9 the dogs begin training at just 6 weeks of age and are mission ready at less than 8 months. The abilities of the Baden K9 dogs are incredible and the amount of training they have received overwhelming to all others. The K9 Task Force attended training with our new K9's in October 2002 and refresher training in 2003.
The training at Baden K9 is so intense and remarkable that no other school even compares. We have attended other K9 training facilities and at Baden K9 you spend a greater amount of time training and learn more in a week than you could ever at other K9 schools. Training is not just 9-5 at Baden K9 for you to track and train at any hour of the day and night enhancing your skills and communication with your dogs. The training philosophy at Baden K9 produces excellent dogs and handlers. Many myths about working dogs were instilled in our heads by other trainers and were wiped away and proven false during training with Baden K9 where it's you and your dog in the brush performing those missions many say are impossible. Through the classroom lectures, field application, rappelling down steep slopes into the Niagara Gorge, wading through mud and water, freezing, tracking by night and day, seeking shelter from live explosives, working through fire and smoke while crawling over debris where many would question why we would go through so much. We seek such demanding training for the real world missions are just as demanding and this training has proven itself already during our team's deployments and missions. We go through such because we are dedicated to providing the best in K9 services that may save the life of another.