Schutzhund: Theory and Training Methods

About the Authors

Susan Barwig holds master’s degrees in both education and psychology, and currently teaches in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Colorado.

Ms. Barwig’s hobby for many years has been dogs, and she is involved in all kinds of training, having enjoyed great success in training dogs for tracking, obedience and protection. She has entered her own dogs in international Schutzhund competitions for three consecutive years, traveling as a member of the American team to Belgium, Italy and Hungary.

In addition to working with her own dogs, Ms. Barwig is the author of Schutzhund (which in its original version won the Dog Writers’ Association of America’s “Best Technical Book of the Year” award), and the editor of The German Shepherd Book. She is also the editor of The German Shepherd Quarterly. As the founder and president of Canine Training Systems, Ltd., she produces specialty dog training videos on a variety of dog sports.

Steward Hilliard began training working dogs in 1980. He has taught a number of seminars across the United States on canine behavior, Schutzhund and Ring Sport, as well as police and protection dog training.

From 1984 to 1989 he served as training director of the Rampart Range Working Dog Association of Denver, Colorado. That training program produced many handler-dog teams titled in Obedience, Tracking, Schutzhund, Ring Sport and United States Police Canine competition, including two world championship Schutzhund competitors.

He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Colorado at Denver and is studying for his doctorate in biopsychology and animal behavior at the University of Texas in Austin.