Viewing a Customer’s testimonial video that was produced at the time the Protection Dog was delivered adds great value to the company. But to have a customer send a video testimonial 6 months after the delivery adds even more to the company’s credibility.

The ability to contact previous customers that have purchased a Personal Protection Dog from a company that you are interested in doing business with is a plus to any potential customer. To have customers that are willing to respond to questions about their experience with us is of great value to our business and we hold them in high esteem at Vom Fieldcrest Shepherds.

Testimonials associated with Personal Protection Dogs for Sale are very important to the success of our business. I hope you will read our testimonial page and view all the videos from our dedicated customers as you do your research from a variety of Protection Dogs, Home Protection Dogs, Family Protection Dogs, or our elite Executive Protection Dogs that are available.

Please contact Vom Fieldcrest Shepherds if we can help you in your selection process.

Thanks

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Multiple Aggressors Part I

In Protection Dog Training we start with breaking each exercise down to its smallest component. The first topic in the “5 Critical Concepts” is Multiple Aggressors. Every encounter will not lead to full engagement or utilize the full potential of your Personal Protection Dogs skills. When is it appropriate to release your Protection Dog to go to full engagement mode?  Understanding our way of training and how we approach this topic is important in your handling and owning a Personal Protection Dog.

Understanding the ultimate purpose of a Personal Protection Dog, Family Protection Dog, or Executive Protection Dog is, for the purpose of this article, to keep you and your family and others safe. Keeping you safe may mean alerting you to approaching danger, immediate or immanent. Reading and understanding your Protection Dogs body language is very important and will be a topic for another article. Protection Dogs are about your personal safety.

Multiple Aggressors can be two or more individuals that have intent to do you or your family harm, directly or indirectly, in the act of another crime. This can be in your home, in the park, on your property, at the grocery store, or anywhere that you can imagine. We have to train all of our Personal Protection Dogs to be able to ward off multiple aggressors. The Protection Dogs owner has the ability to make decisions based on our training system. We train you how to clearly decide whether to fully engage the aggressors or not. Remember not all encounters, even heated encounters, will result in you needing to bring your Protection Dogs training into full engagement.

All of our Personal Protection Dogs have been fully trained in three levels of defense. This will give you options when you are not sure if you need to release your dog for full engagement. At the time of delivery we will show you how to utilize all of the Protection Dogs training, including the three levels of defense.

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Here are just a few examples which make VFS a strong choice when selecting Personal Protection Dogs from a company:

Vom Fieldcrest Shepherds delivers your dog to you and spends three to four days with you to ensure your entire family is able to operate your new Personal Protection Dog.

We are one of the only companies that provide you with a three year extended training package. We will return to your location one time a year for up to three years to help you maintain the training integrity of your Personal Protection Dog. We will stay for three days for the refresher training.

We are the only company I know of that provide you with a hip and elbow guarantee up until the Protection Dogs 8th birthday.

All of these key components are anchored in Vom Fieldcrest Shepherds core values to create a winning combination for you and your Personal Protection Dogs success.

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This consumer driven approach goes beyond Family Protection Dogs, combining the aspects of a stable dog with great nerves with a dog that has elite training and fits into a family. It can also work in a security environment with multiple dogs and different handlers. This is an extension of what Family Protection Dogs already provide yet has much more extensive training over a wide range of areas that have not been fully addressed in our industry.

I list the Three Levels in our Executive Protection Dogs program on the drop down labeled “VFSK9S Training”. We provide contractual training packages associated with each Level in our Executive Protection Dogs program. Executive Protection Dogs meet the family’s social needs without sacrificing performance.

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Now that you have had a chance to view those videos and gain some understanding of the training, we still have not answered all of your questions about Family Protection Dogs or Home Protection Dogs with children or other animals in the house. We must start with a dog that is stable. What are stable dogs that will work for Family Protection Dogs and Home Protection Dogs? We select a dog that has a clear mind, solid nerves, great temperament, and has a great pack structure in its DNA. It has been exposed and tested for environmental and social impact on these factors.

The DNA factor can be researched by the dog’s pedigree to some degree and proofed out by the Selection Testing Phase for verification. The Selection Testing Phase for the Family Protection Dogs and Home Protection Dogs, and all of the Protection Dogs for Sale on this site is a very critical component to our success at VFS. Our Selection Testing Processes are verifiable standards that I have developed and used over many years. They are proven to be very successful in determining the right dogs for Home Protection Dogs and Family Protection Dogs in our program.

Here are a few of the Selection Testing procedures we use to ensure you are getting stability in our Family Protection Dogs:

We put our dogs through a number of tests to determine stability and watch how they handle stress

We require all of our dogs to perform on slick surfaces and do complete engagement on the aggressor

We do the same as above in a dark room on slick floors

All of our dogs are tested under gunfire to insure no handler aggression

We test for social ability with adults and children in crowded areas and different settings

We test our dogs for multiple handlers for stability

We test our dogs around cattle behind a fence

We test our dogs on open staircases up to 2 stories

These are just a few of the Selection Testing Processes we do to ensure our Personal Protection Dogs for Sale will meet your needs. In addition to our testing our vendors perform Selection Testing prior to dogs coming to our kennel.

The best way to be sure the dogs you are considering are the right Family Protection Dogs, Home Protection Dogs, or Personal Protection Dogs, is to give us call. We will discuss your needs and if you have any particular requirements we can test our dogs from our pool of Personal Protection Dogs For Sale to be sure we are getting the right dog for your individual needs.

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I have only had this female pup from Tom for a week and I am very impressed with what I have seen so far. She is a confident and stable dog with great nerves, which has to be in place to be a great personal protection dog. Her socialization training so far is outstanding. She takes to new people well, both children and adults, showing no reserve. She has started to negotiate stairs and has been on several surfaces. She is in a collar now and has been introduced to a leash with no troubles.

And talk about drive. She has shown great hunt and prey drive. This pup is very mouthy and has quite a hard bite, which is a good sign for a personal protection dog. She works a tug and will stay on the bite. She plays with a tennis ball, Kong, rolled scent towels and anything else she can get her mouth on. She is already retrieving these articles and will carry them in her mouth without dropping and loosing interest. These traits are absolutely necessary in order to develop the character needed to train a personal protection dog. She is doing all this at nine weeks. She is a definite candidate for scent detection, and protection work. As a trainer of police service dogs I know some things just can’t be put into a dog. It has to come from genetics in order to develop a full-blown personal protection dog or detection dog.

Thank you Tom for this outstanding puppy. She has a great working career ahead of her.

Mitch Campbell
Police Service Dog Trainer
Topeka, Kansas Police Department

Some garages in are neighborhood had been broken into and things had been stolen. I didn’t want anyone braking in and steeling our things, or my baby puppies. So I told my husband if I could find a breeder or trainer who really knew their dogs, and was willing to teach us how to take care of the dog, and train a well rounded family protection dog, I would be more than willing to give it a try.

You have to understand I really didn’t think that I would be able to find that person I thought all GSD’s were snaky scary dogs that exploded at whom ever was in there path. Boy was I dumb!!!

So the search was on as I had promised my husband. I told him I would give it 2 months, and if I couldn’t find the trainer/breeder we were looking for in that time frame he would drop it and not bring up a German Shepherd again. He agreed.

I started my search by calling breeders but no one could really answer my questions. Then I got on the Internet and e-mailed breeder’s trainers of all kinds. They all had nice puppies/adult dogs but couldn’t explain what a person would have to do to keep up on the training that an adult dog already had.

It was 1 week before the 2 months was up and I came across Tom’s web site vom Fieldcrest Shepherds. I told my husband this is the last person I am calling. I called Tom and right away knew that this man knew what he was talking about and he really cared about finding the right dog for you, He also made sure you were the type of person who could handle and keep the training up on these dogs. Tom told us that he not only trained the dog he also trained the buyer. This really appealed to us, as we had no experience handling a working dog that has so much training. Up to this point I was actually scared of those big dogs not knowing much about them.

Well Tom took the time to teach me a lot, and find the perfect dog for us. My husband was very excited. We planned a trip to meet Tom and our new fully trained adult personal protection dog. Her name is Twiggy.

Now this was quite a trip with 8hrs driving from our home to Tom’s home in Kansas. We had a lot to talk about on our trip. Many things came up in the conversations such as, disbelief that this all was happening, fear of the unknown, and many questions we didn’t even think about before.

We arrived in Wichita and got to our hotel where Tom had made the reservations for us in advance of our trip. What a nice place to stay. Everything you would need is right there. Tom came and picked us up and took us to meet Twiggy. Tom was just what I had pictured a very well manned kind considerate man. He asked if we were happy with our room and if we needed anything else. We were very pleased and the price was very affordable.

We got to the place where Tom keeps his dogs and Tom asked us if we were ready to meet Twiggy. Much to our surprise Tom called Twiggy and she came running up to us like she has known us forever. Tom showed us how to work Twiggy, how to have fun with her, and how to discipline her. Twiggy is the most loveable, friendly dog yet she can work when it is time to work. The best thing about it is she does know the difference between work and play.

We spent a couple of hours that night with her, and the next day about a half of day with her when we decided it was time to take her home. Now you must know we have had dogs before and we raise little dogs Maltese and Yorkies, We put Twiggy kennel in the back of the truck and Twiggy in the front with us, and away home we went. Three stops and 8 hrs later we were home.

After returning home it was time to introduce Twiggy to our 5 little dogs. One of our dogs, a Maltese, has 2 puppies she is nursing, and the other, a Yorkie, has one puppy she is nursing. Since are little dogs live in the house up stairs Twiggy will have to share the yard with them when they come out. We decide to put Twiggy up in a 10×10 kennel in the yard for now.

All the dogs got along great through the kennel. I was not sure what she would do to the little dogs so we kept them apart. A few days later I was out in the yard with the little Yorkie puppy, who was 5 weeks old and Steve opened the gate. He and Twiggy just got back from a long walk. He didn’t see I had the baby out. Before I could grab the baby Twiggy was over to him and gave the puppy the biggest lick I had ever seen she cleaned that puppy like it was here own. What a great surprise! Now Twiggy comes in with the rest of the puppies. What a house full!

It was about 3 weeks after we brought Twiggy home, in the middle of the night she started barking a very loud firm bark. I got up just in time to see two guys running from our back yard. I don’t know if they were up to no good, but I do know that nothing was broken into. Our neighbors have had their garages broken into in the past but now that we have Twiggy there have been no break ins. We all love her. Are neighbors tell us that Twiggy hardly ever barks but when she does they know to check things out. She always has a very good reason and all of the neighbors feel much safer with our Twiggly wigglie taking care of us one and all.

Thanks Tom. Not only did you find us a German Shepherd you found us a new family member Thanks to you and your team for all the training you gave her and continue to give us.

Ruth and Steve

We live in the Appalachian Mountains bordering the National Forest. We needed an animal to assist us in protecting our small children. We have wild dogs, snakes, and transient bears that come in our area. Tom has and incredible ability of being able to match the correct dog with the particular needs of the owners. He did and excellent job with us.

We have been very pleased with our dog. She was trained in security, and is able to do search and rescue. She is a very smart obedient dog, and was an instant match with our kids.

I would highly recommend Tom and his staff for anyone interested in a German Shepherd for any reason.

Dane Lee MD
August 19, 2004

Tom Brown invited us to his home introduced us to his own dogs and left us with the following impressions: he was extremely knowledgeable about dogs, he would spend as much time as we needed to have our questions answered, and he was evaluating us as appropriate potential dog owners.

Tom told us to take out time in processing the information and to feel free to ask question at any time, as he would be sending us more information. We followed this advice for approximately two months.

Tom told us about a dog he felt would fit our temperaments and our lifestyle, and we met her. He advised us again to take our time before making a decision.

We ultimately purchased the dog and she has been in our family for about two months. She has exceeded our expectations in every way, and is as perfect a match as Tom believed she would be. Tom and his training staff are continuing to teach us how to achieve the great results with our German Shepherd from Slovakia.

Tom has a sixth sense about placing a dog with an owner, and he has a forthright manner that is refreshing.

Tom and his staff are professional and accommodating with a true sense of caring about dogs.

We were fortunate that our research led us to Vom Fieldcrest Shepherds, and we are very pleased to recommend their services.

William and Margaret Dye
Wichita, Kansas

Tom we would like to thank you so very much for all of your time and effort when you delivered Chaky to us in Boston, for without it, we would not have such a noble, intelligent, and agreeable dog.

Your natural gift of being able to listen to your customer’s desires and preferences and match them up with the ideal dog is truly something special. As city dwellers it was vitally important that stable temperament and calmness when not working be main traits necessary for us to enjoy our new companion and guardian. For this task you delivered us a dog that was just perfect.

Additionally, we found your visit with us to be remarkable. We couldn’t imagine getting to know Chaky and how best to handle him without your help. We will gladly serve as steadfast references for you and your dogs at Vom Fieldcrest Shepherds.

Many thanks,
Becky and Michael
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J. Michael Pierce Jr.
Land Home Mercantile, LLC
581 Boylston St. Suite 506
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: 617-262-9797