About Edmund De Run

 “In my opinion, dogs are called Man's Best Friend for their faithfulness. They are friends for life, with bonding, love and trust,
"The joy of dog training can only be experienced when you work with the canines.” 
– Edmund de Run

DOG training is the process of teaching skills or behaviours to a dog. This can include teaching a dog to respond to certain commands, or helping the dog learn coping skills for stressful environments.

Edmund De Run, who based in Petaling Jaya, has been a professional dog trainer since 1970; and is still training dogs, and is a full-time dog breeder.

Trained under Harry Darbyshire of Mountbrown Police Dog Kennels in Surrey, England; and Bowesmor Kennels for working dogs, Edmund has bred, trained, and supplied working dogs for the Police force, Army, RAF, and public over the years.

In 1973, he imported 22 dogs in one shipment as his breeding stock, to breed top quality working bloodlines.  Edmund also supply working dogs to the police, for the purpose of patrolling the city, and working with the field force. 

In November 1979, Edmund made headlines, when his trained dogs helped solve theft cases in a tin mine area. He also supplied bomb dogs for CHOGM held in Malaysia several years ago.

Edmund said: “I recalled learning to train dogs as a youngster in basic obedience, when my dad had German Shepherd dogs and puppies.  I went into the business when I did my training in kennel management and working dogs. Whilst working in the United Kingdom with top breeders and trainers, and seeing their success, I was encourage to do so myself.”

Edmund said there are various methods of dog training with different objectives including:  basic obedience training to specialised areas including law enforcement, military, search and rescue, hunting, working with livestock, assistance to people with disabilities, entertainment, dog sports, detection dogs, and protecting people or property, like guard dogs.

“Dog training often includes operant conditioning, classical conditioning, or non-associative learning to have the dog performing a desired behavior or skill,” said Edmund, adding he is grateful to learn from top trainers in UK and Germany, who gave him the inspiration.”

“I worked in UK for many years with Darbyshire, who arranged for me to visit several Police Dog units and breeders. He also introduced me to Frauline Stephanitiz, (the daughter of Capt Von Stephanitiz founder of The German Shepherd Dogs in Germany, his dog was  No.1 registered with the German Shepherd Club).  The advice and experience shared by Stephanitiz gave me great knowledge.

 “I also trained at Germany Kennels under Paul Bockel. Beside the training, I was fortunate to work with the government and other private establishments.”