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Tino Schmidt

Special-Dog-Center-Schmidt

Tino Schmidt has been training and breeding dogs since childhood; in 2010 he founded Special-Dog-Center Schmidt. Tino's dog training methods are based on positivity. All training activities are a positive experience for the dog resulting in a happy, healthy, well educated companion and protector. 

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Professional Experience

1990 - Current

  • 1990 Police officer of the Riot Police Saxony Germany.

  • April 1993 – September 1999 Mission officer in the Special Mission Command Saxony (SEK)

  • October 1999 – 2002 Trainer at Canine Officer School in Naustadt/Saxony.

  • 2000 Tino Schmidt was ordered by the Saxony Ministry of the Interior as an expert in the dog nature for the execution of the law for the protection of the population from dangerous dogs.

  • 2002 – April 2004 unit leader and trainer of the K9 unit Grimma.

  • 2004 – April 2005 further working as a canine handler and trainer.

  • April 2005 Tino Schmidt realized the project “Service Dog for Special Mission Situations” with the Special Mission Command Saxony and was working at the same time as trainer and examiner for the special operations dogs of the southern rail (Austria, Switzerland and certain parts of Germany).

  • 1st May 2008 withdrew voluntarily from the Saxony Special Mission Command.

  • June 2008 Special-Dog-Center Schmidt founded.

  • Competition participations: national and international competitions for service dogs (Swiss-Open, Holte-Stuckenbrock, Hanover, Holland - KNPV ...)

  • Training dogs for law enforcements in Germany and other nations, as well as their military.

  • Training service dogs; 

    • Airport and air freight detection​

    • Police (including boarder and federal police)

    • Military and Military Police

    • Customs

    • Regulatory Agencies

    • Private persons

    • Security service providers

    • Ports

    • Sporting dogs

    • Private persons and families

Qualifications

Expertise in dog training is proven by the results, and also in the continuing education and certifications. 

Tino Schmidt

  • Service K9 trainers

  • Examiner of police service and special operations dogs

  • Police K9 handler for narcotics detection dogs, explosive detection dogs, protection dogs and special operations dogs

  • Permission in according to §7 German Law About Explosive Substances

  • Qualification certificate in according to §20 German Law About Explosive Substances

  • General knowledge about guns §7 German Gun Control Law

  • Expert in the field of canine

  • Inspection of trustiness in according to German Atomic Energy Act

  • German Security Validation Ü2

  • Permission for training dogs for protection purposes in according to § 11 sub. 1 No 2b German Animal Protection Law

  • Protection service assistant for IPO and service dogs

  • Trainer certification IGP (International Utility Dog Trials Regulation)

  • Background check according to § 7 Aviation Security Act

Our dogs' health.

The dog's health has always been our priority.

  • All adults over 2 years have certified hips & elbows and are DM Clear.

  • Sire and dams of puppies have certified hips & elbows and are DM Clear.

  • Puppies are sold with a 2-year hip and elbow guarantee.

  • Direct German top producing bloodlines.

  • Our dogs have multiple generations of certified hips and elbows.

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