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LESSONS & EVENTS

CIAK9 offers private lessons, workshops & seminars to help with training challenges, dog-handler team development, and much more!

PRIVATE LESSONS

Private training is perfect for working on specific training challenges, increasing your team's performance, or for problem solving particular detection tasks. 

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Additional details

  • Available Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays

  • Time: 8am-5:30pm, by appointment only

  • Locations:

    • CIAK9 Training Center

    • Weitendorf Agricultural Education Center in Joliet

  • Cost: $300 per 2-hour lesson 

We also offer training at a location of your choice. Please contact us for details!

UPCOMING EVENTS

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An Evening with Bob Bailey

​Join us for a chance to meet with and speak to a true legend of animal behavior and training. Bob Bailey will be telling us stories of his historic expertise, experiences and answering your training and behavior questions.
 

  • Date: Thursday March 27th, 2025

  • Time: 6:30-9:00pm

  • Cost: $150/person, 20 spots available
    Price includes beer, wine, soft drinks, and hors d'oeuvres finger sandwiches

 

Event Location: Holiday Inn Express, 1240 Dement Rd, Rochelle, IL 

  • Hotel phone: 815.562.9994

  • Discounted hotel rates available, use code “Evening with Bob.”

  • 2019-2018
    2019 Events Jan 1 – 13, 2019: Migoori, Kenya: security dog evaluations 18, 25 Jan 2019: Police dog detection evaluations (private) 1, 8, 15 Feb 2019: Police dog detection training (private) 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Mar 2019: police dog detection training (private) 5, 12, 19, 26 April 2019: police dog detection training (private) 13 – 14 April 2019: Competition NoseWork (Chicago, IL) 3, 10, 17, 31 May 2019: police dog detection training (private) 21 – 26 May 2019: Pacific Northwest Police K9 Detector Dog Conference (speaker) 7, 14 June 2019: police dog detection training (private) 20 – 23 June 2019: Private competition K9 detection training seminar, PA 27 – 31 June 2019: Competition NW / seminar and private lessons, Lansing, MI 2-3 July 2019: police dog detection training (private) Detroit, MI 5 July 2019: police dog detection training (private) 6-7 July 2019: private lessons, Leland, IL 11 – 16 July 2019: Don Blair Targeted Detection Seminar: Canine Search Initiative, Nashua, NH: caninesearchinitiative@gmail.com 19, 26 July 2019: police dog detection training (private) 27 July 2019: private lessons 29 July 2019: police dog detection training (private) 1-5 Aug 2019: police dog detection training (private) 9, 12 Aug 2019: police dog detection training (private) 13 – 16 Aug 2019: Guest Speaker: HITS, Chicago, IL 19 – 23 Aug 2019: Basic Human Remains Detection Course (private / full) 24 -25, 31 Aug 2019: Private Lessons, Leland, IL 5 Sep 2019: police dog detection training (private) 6-8 Sep 2019: Competition NW 13-15 Sept 2019: WAGS, Chicago, IL 21-22 Sep 2019: Seminar and private lessons, Leland, IL Sept 26 – 29, 2019: Advanced Detection Dog Training Seminar, Front Royal, VA 1 – 4 Oct 2019: K9 Explosive Detection Police Recertification 7, 21, 25, 28 Oct 2019: police dog detection training 11 – 14 Oct 2019: Private sessions 17 – 20 Oct 2019 Canine Search Initiative Targeted Detection Training, New Hampshire 25, 28 Oct 2019 Police training 29 Oct – 1 Nov 2019: APDT National Conference Speaker, Portland, OR 2-3 Nov 2019: Competition NW, Chicago, IL 2018 Events Jan 20 – Jan 21, 2018: Private Training sessions in Leland, IL Jan 28, 2018: A Problem Solving Day with Don Blair presented by 4G&TB at the JJC Weitendorf Agricultural Center, 17840 W. Laraway Rd. Joliet, IL. Feb 3 – Feb 4, 2018: Private / Semi-private training sessions in Leland, IL March 24 – 25, 2018: Fundamentals of Canine Detection & Problem Solving: Hawthorn Mall, Vernon Hills, IL April 10 – 13, 2018: Fundamentals of Detection and Problem Solving with Don Blair, Front Royal, VA: LoganHaus Kennels May 14 – 18, 2018: Logan Haus Kennels Detection Course (4 week): 1 week Guest Instructor. June 23 – 24: Seminar. Planefield, IL July 11 – 15 2018: Don Blair Semi-Private Sessions and Detection Seminar: Hollis, NH July 23 – 25, 2018: Law Enforcement Seminar: Detroit, MI Aug 18 – 19, 2018. Detection Seminar: Highlands, Kentucky Sept 29 – 30, 2018: Private Detection Seminar: Illinois. Oct 5 – 8, 2018: Targeted Detection Seminar: New Hampshire. Oct 16, 2018: CHI Police Training Oct 20 – 21, 2018: K9 Nosework Seminar, Toledo, OH Nov 9 – 11, 2018: Detection Seminar. Hosted by J&R Kennel LLC, Toms River, NJ
  • 2017-Older
    2017 Events April 8-9, 2017: Snifftacular: http://www.foryourk9.com/index.aspx, Melrose Park, IL July 7-9, 2017: Semi-private Sessions for Canine Search Initiative, Hollis, NH Aug 11-13, 2017: Semi-private Sessions for Canine Search Initiative, Hollis, NH Oct 6 – 8, 2017: Seminar at Canadian Canine Training: Sherwood Park, AB Canada Oct 14-15, 2017: K9 Detection Problem Solving: JCC Weitendorf Agricultural Center, 17840 W. Laraway Rd, Joliet, IL Oct 30 – Nov 3, 2017: Fundamentals of Canine Detection Training and Problem Solving. Logan Haus Kennels, Lewisburg, WV 2016 Events May 15, 2016: Seminar at For Your K9: http://www.foryourk9.com (sold out) May 21 – 22, 2016:Private detection seminar at Grand Central Nose Work Club, Joiet, IL May 28: Detection Seminar: Fur Better Fur Worse, Iowa Working Dog Seminar: http://www.canadiancaninetraining.com Seminar: Texas (Law Enforcement) Aug 26 – 28, 2016. New England: Working/Sport Dog Seminar: Don Blair / Mike Suttle (Logan Haus Kennels) 2015 Events March 27 – 29, 2015: Sniffacular Conference: Don was featured at a working seminar and providing training in: Motivation, Training Exterior Searches using Point to Points, Developing Search Plans, Vehicles Searches and more! At For Your K9 in Melrose Park, IL April 1 – 8, 2015: Working Seminar in Protection, Tracking and Detection at the Canadian Canine Training Center: Edmonton, Canada. June 20-21, 2015: Training Scent Detection. Littleton, MA October 9-11, 2015: Training Sessions with Don Blair: Southern NH. Evening lecture: Oct 9 at 6:00 pm; Detection Training Day: Oct 10, 2015 and Semi-private sessions (suitable for small groups of 2-3 people) to trouble-shoot issues in obedience or detection work. Nov 30 – Dec 2, 2015: Colombian National Police Training Seminar. Bogota, Colombia 2014 Events April: Maine Search and Rescue Dogs (MESARD): Closed SAR Seminar (Maine) May: Police K9 Trials: team coaching (Texas) June 14: Private training sessions (Illinois) June 20 – 22, 2014: SPARCS (Society for the Promotion of Applied Research in Canine Science): Newport, RI: Attendance. For more information, please see the SPARCS Website. July/Aug: NH Working Dog Seminar (New Hampshire) August 21 – 24, 2014: Training Seminar at Canadian Canine Training November 2014: McLean County Emergency Management K9 Operations Team Seminar (closed to external participation) 2013 Events Sept 2013: Search Dog Organization of North America (SDONA) Building Search for Disaster Dogs (New York)
Past Events
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testimonials

 What a great weekend! Once again attending a seminar with detection guru Don Blair. Don’s clear instruction and knowledge resulted in huge improvements in the dog/handler teams from July. Then there was the incredible transformations in the dogs from Saturday to Sunday!

Thanks for another outstanding presentation at For Your K9 Friday night. You gave us a lot of excellent ideas to think about and incorporate into our training.  You could also give courses on how to give a workshop. You are always organized, on time, on task and highly efficient.

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