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    Goliath
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    Goliath
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    Goliath

    By Bob Taylor

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    I am a dog trainer and behaviorist who, as a National and World Dog Sport Champion traveled throughout the world. I did so competing with my dogs, and being invited by different countries, to do work with their dogs. Therefore as the California Superior Court K9 Expert, and Behaviorist, I have been deeply involved in training dangerous, and aggressive dogs. This book is the true account of several such dogs, and their dog training. It involves dynamic case studies of several dogs, and an inductive look into their behaviors. The stories are heart warming and exciting, and will keep you reading.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Taylor
    Release dateApr 10, 2014
    ISBN9781310103766
    Goliath
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    Bob Taylor

    I started my career with dogs as a Los Angeles Police Officer, decoying several of their dogs, and being used for Search purposes. They used me because for some reason their dogs loved to bite, and find me. After I retired from LAPD, I was hired by the City of Long Beach, as an Animal Control, where I was given my own shift, and worked with Emergency calls, Cruelty Complaints, and Injured Dogs. •It was during this time I finished my bachelors in Philosophy at Cal State Long Beach, and •Started purchasing, training, and placing an American Pit Bull Terrier, every week. •I also became involved with the Golden State, and the Southern California Pit Bull Club(s). •I also operated a Gymnastics Clinic (Something I had done since my sophomore year in high school WITH THE Whittier YMCA, and sent two students to the Olympics). •During this time I read every book printed I could find on Dog Training, including the works of Dr. Michael Fox (about wild dogs), and Dr. William Campbell, The American Veterinarian Association’s 35 year chosen Psychologist, (DOGS AND BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS), and went on to contact him, and corroborate my dog training, using his Psychology. •I entered the “CAREER FOR DOG TRAINERS” WITH Steve Cobb, (a self-proclaimed national AKC Obedience Champion, from Miami Florida, and out of some 5000 students finished in first place. •I quit Animal Control and went into Professional Dog Training the day I graduated from the School, (June 15th, 1978). •I started protection training, working with Soren Paulson (along with Bob Eden) of the Long Beach Police Department, using their Police K9 dogs to learn how to decoy. •I went on to train with Serveral different Departments throughout Southern California. •I quickly became the top In-Home Dog Trainer in California. •In 1985 I created Orange Counties first Licensed Dog Training Facility. •I was elected the Vice President of the Orange County Commercial Kennel Owners Association. •I also became the Orange County Dog Behaviorist with Administrative Chief Ron Hudson, and Director Lyn Liberio. •In 1986 I was Honored as the California State Superior Court K9 Expert for my work helping to create the Dangerous Dog Laws. •As such I also became a consultant for the Southern California Animals Control Officers Association, and the Southern California Police K9 Officers Association. •I n 1987 we began competing in SCHUTZHUND dog sports, and went to the Nationals. •In 1988 we took second, third, and fourth place at the German Shepherd National Schutzhund Championships. •In 1989 I took the U. S. Open National Schutzhund 3 Championships, and the National Master Tracking Dog (FH) Championships, 1st, 2nd, and 4th place. I did the same thing for the next 6 years. •During this time I trained over 50 dogs for people with Neurological and Physical Disabilities For private clients, and several for The-Make-A-Wish-Foundation. Every dog I have ever used as a Service Dog, with the exception of the German Shepherd pups I have personally bred and raised, came to us as a rescue dog. We have saved the lives of thousands of people, and thousands of dogs as well. Accomplishments •Ex(Retired) Los Angeles Police Officer, •Ex(Retired) Long Beach Animal Control Officer. •CONSULTANT: Southern California Animal Control Officers Association •CONSULTANT: United States Federal Post Office, & So Cal Edison. •Retained as Manager of Animal Services by Samsung Electronics, Seoul South Korea. •Over 28 years CALIFORNIA’S SUPERIOR COURT CERTIFIED K9 EXPERT •Helped create the “Dangerous Dog” Laws for the State of California •Worked on several dozen cases in SUPERIOR COURTS and ANIMAL COURTS throughout California involving dog bites and vicious dogs, nuisance dogs, etc. •Have worked with Los Angeles, River-side, San Bernardino, and San Diego District Attorneys, and Public Defenders Offices from 1985-2013. •In the past six years retained to testify with three murder trials involving dogs. •In 2008-2009 was retained to handle a case in Long Beach California for the owners of a rescue Shelter, which resulted in the Director of Animal Control having to retire. •Rehabilitated and trained over 1,000 dangerous dogs. •Titled over 50 dogs in the sport of Schutzhund. •18 TIMES United States National Dog Sport (Schutzhund/Police K9) Champion for Tracking, Obedience, and Protection K9 training. •4 times National Tracking Dog Champion (1st, 2nd, and 4th out of the top 57 trackers in America in 1989, 1990, 1991, & 1992). •Awarded the “Merit of Honor for Outstanding Contribution to the German Shepherd breed in America”, by the German Shepherd Dog Club of America-Working Dog Association •Qualified 12 Times to represent The German Shepherd Dog Club of America at the World Meisterschaft (Championships). Trained the highest scoring female at the World Championships. Trained several other National and World Championship Champion K9s. •Extensive education with several UNIVERSITY (Long Beach State University, LA & LB City Colleges) & College Degrees. •Author of 8 published kindle books on Dog Training and Dog Psychology. •Owner/Operator DOGWISH, Inc. 10 years. •In 2006 Bob Taylor was awarded the “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Journal of Longevity Magazine, for his work with the Disabled. •Red Cross “American Hero” for 2006, by Dr. David Kelso, PhD, VP, AMERICAN RED CROSS. •Make-a-Wish Foundation Vender of the Year 2009, 27 years of service, and over two dozen Service dogs. In 2013 we trained a dog through Make-A-Wish Foundation, for a 2 year old girl with seizures, and multiple comatose periods, to regulate her seizures and keep her awake and healthy.) •In 2007 and for four consecutive years Bob was retained to return, and trained special Police Dogs that he bred, raised, and personally trained, to guard the homes of several actors and high profile VIPs on 3 different Caribbean Resort Islands. •Bred, trained, and placed over 150 Service Dogs for people with Neurological Disabilities including: Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, Severe Anxiety & Panic Attacks, P.T.S.D., Mitochondrial Disease, Cerebral palsy, Prader Willi’s Syndrome, and several other related disorders, Seizures and related disabilities, etc. •Consultant for the State of California Board of Education, Department of Developmental Disabilities (presently this have a pilot program and am training many dogs through the State Regional Centers), to train for the public, and for Public School Special Needs Teachers. •Involved in Research with the University of Riverside, Professor Choe, concerning the special scent discrimination abilities of Dogs for Detection •Placed a German Shepherd with Bradley Davis of Providence Support Services, in September of 2012, a facility with 28 adults with Development Disabilities and Seizures. The dog has stopped from night seizures for the first time ever, and reduced his day seizures significantly. She indicated seizures in 7 people her first day at the facility. She has helped Brad “wake up” and become cognizant, responsive, and articulate. Bob Taylor is currently involved in: 1. a pilot program with the State of California, Board of Education, Department of Developmental Disabilities to place Service Dogs with: a.families through Regional Centers b.Public School Special Needs Teachers 2.Research with Leading Universities (University of Riverside & Irvine) on Scent Detection, (Bed Bug Detection K9s), using his own trained dogs 3.Placing hundreds of Service Dogs throughout America, etc., with The Dog Wish Incorporated, a Non-Profit that he founded and runs, as the President of the Board of Directors. 4.Has obtained Certification on Dementia and related Neurological concerns, including caregiving, from 3 prominent Universities, including Duke University, John Hopkins School of Nursing, and the University of Tasmania in New Zealand.

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      Goliath - Bob Taylor

      GOLIATH

      By Bob Taylor

      Published by Bob Taylor at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Bob Taylor

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      The greatest challenge facing every individual on the planet is not the question of survival, but the question of life. Though I have spent years studying ancient history, societies, religions, philosophies, mankind from beginning to end, and God from before time to eternity, the greatest answers I have found lie in the personal relationships I have encountered with my dogs.

      Dogs have an ability to reach out, to touch our humanity with truth and meaning we find nowhere else. We owe a great deal to our K-9 counterparts, most of who will probably always remain on tab because of our ignorant, selfish, lack of appreciation.

      The luckiest parts of my life have all related to my many dogs, for which I have great love and affection. The following is written, somewhat, from a compulsion to share the truth with others that I have been fortunate enough to experience myself.

      I have spent a good part of my adult life, studying, researching, and working with the minds and corresponding behaviors of dogs from all over the world. Most of that time the work I accomplished was done, outside from my travels, in facilities that I have either built or helped build, in several different parts of the world.

      Our training facilities have always been a haven from social pandemonium, an oasis of peace and life where we have stepped back, and lived with our dogs. Our clients seem to enjoy coming to train, and to be there, away from their crowded, hectic world, enjoying a world we have created with our animals. During this particular time we lived in a location, specifically located in the far corner of San Bernardino County, right against the county line. We developed a 10-acre parcel of property in the middle of a large undeveloped area of desert, carefully chosen for our training needs and desires.

      Our House was located in the center of our facility and sitting in the living room we could look out on entire 30 mile panorama of mountain, sloping down into the high desert area, and dropping down into dry lakebed valley, and it was beautiful. It gave you a feeling of being centered. You could watch the red sun reaching up to rise over the eastern mountains in the morning, turn into brilliant daylight, and go down, folding into the western hills, in the beautiful, almost dazzling desert evenings. The stars came up as clear and bright as to give the sand an effervescent glow. The living room was located on the end of our house, which set five foot above the desert floor, and walls were covered with windows on the three sides facing outdoors. The windows were framed with custom-made wooden shutters designed to let the light in as desired, and to focus it exactly where you wanted it to go. It was a great room, and our clients enjoyed sitting and being there as much as we did. It was a place to talk, and sale dog training, dogs, and puppies. We would sit at night, and in the morning, and watch the life of the desert oasis we had found, set back from everything around us. A railroad a half-mile to the north on one side, and an aqueduct a half-mile to the south, rose up from the desert floor and offered us acres of protection from the world outside. Because the properties next to us had never been developed, for a square mile we had nothing but our facility, and desert flowers, shrubs, trees, cactus, and yuccas, and it was wonderful; a beautiful oasis where plants, trees, and wildlife flourished.

      We watched Robin, an ex-client and now just a good friend, who was also the martial arts instructor for the nation’s largest Sheriffs’ department, as he pulled into the facility, past the front gates and the training fields, to our front door. He had called, and was bringing us a Rottweiler he had been given by a friend in the department, who was just too much for the man to handle. He pulled up to the front porch, walked around the car, and looked us face to face with a slightest cat grin, as he opened the door of his car. It was obvious that Robin felt he was giving us something special.

      As the dog bounded out of the car, there in front of us was the largest, tallest, thickest, huskiest Rottie typed dog I’d ever seen. He just kept coming. Being that close to an animal of that incredible size, bear like coat, and musky smell, actually took your breath away, and left you dumb-founded. He stood up and towered over Robin. It was unbelievable! Where in the world did they find that dog? How did he get him into the car? How did he drive with the dog in the car?

      By this time Robin was laughing, as he, trying to maintain balance stated, He’s a year, and a half old, and he’s...all...yours! His uniform shirt and pants were already half soaked with slime, his face was dripping, and I was waiting for him to ask for help, which didn’t take long. The joke had quickly turned on him. After all, he had the leash! I was laughing so hard I almost tripped myself as I quickly approached Goliath, (the name we gave to our new monster of a dog), and slipped a leather collar, reserved for the occasion, barely, around his thick, hulky neck. His dank, bitter breath almost took you out. I then hooked him up to a tow truck chain I had secured to a thick stud, well cemented into the ground, and attached to our front porch. We then brought out a towel, and laughed as we dried off poor Robin, who just stood there looking, with raised eyebrows, at the unbelievable monstrosity that stood before us. It was like we were viewing a freak of nature, more Bear than dog. Thank God he hadn’t filled out yet! Then the vision of Goliath, filled out, at full stature came to my mind. I’d always wanted my own grizzly; it was like a dream-come-true!

      Obviously, I started training Goliath right away. You had too! He had the maturity of a six-year-old boy, and the size of a giant. He stood over 6 feet 3 inches tall on his hind legs, with a head that was as wide as it was long; and he was still a pup! Thank God he was as friendly as he was big. Goliath wanted a buddy to play with, and it was obvious that nobody had ever said, No, to him about, just anything. I mean, the joke about Where does a 200 pound Rottweiler sleep? Wherever he wants too’ is no joke! This dog had never experienced a parameter. He was just a wild, goofy kid, looking for somebody to play with, be with, and feed him. All three were impossible tasks.

      I had trained hundreds of Rotts, like Goliath, but smaller, with all types of temperaments, dispositions, and different levels of instinctive assertiveness, from friendly pets, to actual World Champion Police and Schutzhund trained dogs. These Rottweillers, were all different and possessed a complete kaleidoscope of physical and mental structures and confirmations. Luckily, because of my involvement with dog sports, I had been able to work with and train some of the best working Rotts in the world, and I knew the behaviors to look for. I could also see into the many characteristics which made up Goliaths’ personality, and was prepared for the challenges that Goliath posed in helping him to develop himself into a truly wonderful companion and working dog, which he was meant to be.

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