My name is Andy Jimenez and I started Falco K9 Academy when I was a handler and the in House K9 trainer for Anaheim Police Department in California. At the time I was trained to use mostly harsh training techniques to teach and maintain behaviors in our dogs. I saw that most of the police dogs were working out of fear most of the time. I felt strongly at the time there had to be a better way. When I was asked to be the trainer for the unit I was determined to change the way we trained our K9 partners.


I immediately began using mostly motivational forms of training and very quickly saw a change in the dogs AND the handlers. Everyone was enjoying training so much more.

The dogs were working with more gusto and purpose and the handlers were having fun. Because of this we were able to be more creative in our training by putting in more tactical situations and real life scenarios.

The most important part of this for you is I was able to develop a training system for pet dog owner’s that was just as motivational and even more fun! This holds true from basic obedience students to the home protection team.

One of the best parts about our training is that we don’t use just one type of tool to train your dog. I realized long ago that every dog and human are unique and not one tool works for every one.

Obedience