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Defense Dogs USA

At Defense Dogs U.S.A., we love dogs and believe they make the world a better place. By enhancing and refining the relationship between Man and Man’s Best Friend, we believe that we can also make the world a safer place. Our team brings diverse knowledge when it comes to not just importing the highest-quality breeds and training them, but training working dogs and their handlers.

We’re in the business of building long-lasting relationships between the dogs we train and their owners, and it’s our goal to supply every single one of our customers with superior dogs in every sense of the word—the best bloodlines, superior genetics, and extremely high levels of stability and toughness. Whether you’re in search of a working dog that will provide the best in canine protection for a specific group or unit, or a trained, mature companion to enjoy at home, you can count on superior, cutting-edge handler training that will maximize both your enjoyment of your new dog and its effectiveness in its new role.

Rodger Brown

A third-generation Mississippian, Rodger Brown grew up in Lauderdale County and followed in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather by serving in the U.S. Air Force. He also shared their love of dogs and began training them in 1977 as a teenager, specializing in waterfowl and upland hunting, obedience, and behavior modification.

Rodger greatly expanded his capabilities in 1991 by attending the Police K-9 Instructor’s School at Rudy Drexler’s School for Dogs in Elkhart, Indiana, and then went to work for American Airlines and Corvington Security, for whom he maintained, trained, and handled detection dogs to search for bombs and contraband on international flights.

After completing his tenure with American Airlines, Rodger returned home to open his own Police K-9 training facility in Meridian. In addition to placing dogs all over Mississippi, he trained them for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the Mississippi Department of Homeland Security, and police departments and sheriff’s departments around the state. During this period Rodger was the chosen trainer for “Project K-9,” a drug awareness program created by Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore, which gave him the opportunity to perform demonstrations and drug searches at elementary schools.

Rodger later traveled to Holland, Germany, and Belgium to learn European methods of Police Dog training, which led to his being entrusted with selecting and purchasing dogs he then trained for police departments all over the country. In 2009, he trained Explosive Detection dogs for the U.S. Department of Defense and Torres AES (Advanced Enterprise Solutions) at Camp Phoenix Central Command in Baghdad, Iraq, where his primary duty was to perform area searches prior to meetings and functions between high-ranking U.S. and Iraqi military and government officials.

Today, Rodger owns Specialty Canine of Mississippi and is a nationally-recognized Police K-9 instructor. Also a certified Reserve Police Officer, he has served the Meridian Police Department for a quarter century as a K-9 instructor. He founded Defense Dogs U.S.A., a K-9 contracting business that supplies trained dogs for military, police, and civilian applications. He recently had the opportunity to assist the U.S. Secret Service when Vice-President Mike Pence and his family visited the Meridian Naval Air Station, and he hosted the vice-president at his personal residence and facility when Mr. Pence inquired into obedience and behavior modification lessons for the Pence family’s own Australian Shepard.