Bob TaylorUnited States K-9 Academy

Las Vegas, Nevada · in-home training

The dogs nobody else
will take.I take them.

Forty-four years rehabilitating dangerous dogs and building psychiatric service dogs for people with autism, PTSD, seizures and traumatic brain injury. Certified K9 expert for California's Superior Court for thirty-eight of them.

Bob Taylor seated with two black German Shepherds
Bob with two of his working shepherds.
44years training, without a single break
1,000+dangerous dogs rehabilitated
47court trials as K9 expert, three of them murder trials
0convictions against Bob, ever

Four kinds of work, one trainer

Bob takes the cases most trainers refuse, and builds the dogs most programs have a two-year waiting list for. Everything is trained in your home, with your family, on your dog.

Bite history, aggression, liability

Bob helped write the law. Then he spent forty years on the other side of it, saving the dogs it was written about.

In 1986 Bob chaired the board, as Orange County's K9 behaviorist, that wrote California's Dangerous Dog Laws. He then began taking in the dogs those laws were aimed at — dogs that had already bitten, already been reported, already been scheduled for euthanasia.

He has rehabilitated more than a thousand of them. Only two could not be saved. If your dog has a bite on record and you have been told there is nothing left to try, call before you make a decision you cannot undo.

  • Aggression toward people, children, or other dogs
  • Dogs with a bite report or a dangerous-dog designation
  • Resource guarding, fear-biting, territorial attacks
  • Households facing a civil claim or animal control hearing
  • Honest assessment first — Bob will tell you if the dog can be saved

How the record was built

  1. 1986 — the law. Bob chaired the board, as Orange County's K9 behaviorist, that wrote California's Dangerous Dog Laws.
  2. Then the dogs. He began taking dangerous dog cases, and was appointed California's Superior Court K9 expert.
  3. Then the courtroom. Retained forty-seven times across every county in Southern California, including three murder trials.
  4. Then the people. After a friend's son with autism was suspended from school, Bob built the first Psychiatric Service Dog — and the boy went back, finished, and became a CPA.
Not one single court conviction.

In forty-four years of continuous training, Bob has never been taken to court and sued for failing to do the job. Honest, good-hearted, and more than fair — and the best at what he does.

Curriculum vitae

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  • Retired Los Angeles Police Officer
  • Retired Long Beach Animal Control Officer
  • Consultant, Southern California Animal Control Officers Association
  • Consultant, United States Federal Post Office
  • Consultant, Southern California Edison
  • Consultant, California Board of Education, Department of Developmental Disabilities
  • Retained as Manager of Animal Services by Samsung Electronics, Seoul, South Korea
  • Worked with the American Red Cross
  • Trained protection dogs for high-profile figures on three Caribbean resort islands
  • Over 38 years as a California Superior Court certified K9 expert
  • Helped create the Dangerous Dog Laws for the State of California
  • Several dozen cases in Superior Courts and animal courts involving dog bites, vicious dogs and nuisance dogs
  • Worked with over two dozen attorneys across Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego District Attorney and Public Defender offices
  • Retained to testify in three murder trials involving dogs
  • Never sued, and never convicted, in 44 years of practice
  • Six-time United States National Dog Sport (Schutzhund) Police K9 Champion — tracking, obedience and protection
  • Three-time National Tracking Dog Champion; first, second, third and fourth out of America's top fifty trackers in 1992
  • Multi-Master Tracking Dog National Champion
  • Titled over 50 dogs in the sport of Schutzhund
  • Merit of Honor for Outstanding Contribution to the German Shepherd Breed in America, German Shepherd Dog Club of America Working Dog Association
  • Qualified twelve times to represent the German Shepherd Dog Club of America at the World Meisterschaft — Germany, France, Belgium and Austria
  • National (18 X) Protection, Tracking and Obedience Champion (Schutzhund), and Search & Rescue Champion
  • Bred, trained and placed over 1,000 service dogs for people with neurological disabilities
  • Created the Psychiatric Service Dog, the Alzheimer's and Dementia Service Dog, and the Pre-alert Seizure Dog
  • Thirteen completed post-graduate programs of study in related fields
  • Over 1,000 service dogs trained, certified and successfully placed in the disabled community
  • Make-A-Wish Foundation Vendor of the Year 2009, with 27 years of service
  • Trained dozens of wild animals, and dogs for Universal Pictures
  • Rehabilitated and trained over 1,000 dangerous dogs

What people who hired Bob say

In my opinion Bob Taylor is the foremost trainer in his field.
Seymour Weintraub
President, Columbia/Universal Pictures; producer of Tarzan and other animal films
Bob Taylor on a training field with a German Shepherd at heel
On the field, where all of it started.

Why Bob started building service dogs

A close friend's son had autism. Through a mishap he hit a teacher and was suspended from school. His friend asked Bob for help, thinking Bob might be able to work with him — and he was right. The one word attached to the boy was autism. Bob studied it, went to work, and it worked.

Through that work, the high-school teenager learned to become self-conscious, to speak, to reason, and went on to be a CPA. Bob got him back in school, and helped him become successful.

A glamorised guide dog is quite different from what a true psychiatric service dog is. Bob knows, because he created it.

He then went on to become the leading service dog trainer for people with mental disabilities in America — and found that when training dogs with basic obedience, and re-naming them as service dogs, they still are the same dogs. The work is what makes the difference.

After thirteen post-graduate programs of complete study, Bob created the Psychiatric Service Dog, the Alzheimer's and Dementia Service Dog, and the Pre-alert Seizure Dog.

Talk to Bob about your dog

Bob answers his own phone. Tell him the dog, the history and the problem, and he will tell you honestly whether he can help.

Where Bob trains
In your home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Academy
United States K-9 Academy

Out-of-state cases and expert-witness work considered on request.