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- 407-766-9727
- dorian@summitanimalhealth.com
Every service dog we place — and every dog in our upcoming group — is selected and trained by Colina Canine Center in Rionegro, Colombia, just outside Medellín.
Colina Canine Center is a specialized canine training center with more than nine years of experience in training and behavior modification. Their philosophy matches ours: every dog is unique and deserves personalized tools, time, and patience.
This partnership is personal. Colina is where our founder, Dorian Farmer, got his own family’s personal protection dogs — and it is where Cairo, our first placed service dog, was selected and trained. When we say we trust these trainers with a veteran’s future partner, we mean it literally: we trusted them with our own family first.
Preparing a dog for service work takes months of daily, expert handling. Colina’s team does that work for every dog in our program, and they stay involved through placement and the handler–dog bonding process — including hosting our recipients in Colombia to build the bond before a dog ever comes home.
A veterinary-led team that knows every dog by name.
A veterinarian and specialist in ethology — the science of animal behavior — Felipe owns and leads Colina Canine Center. He directs the team responsible for each dog’s welfare and progress, and his clinical approach means training decisions are grounded in both medicine and behavior science.
One of Colina’s trainers and our go-between in the United States, Andrés keeps the partnership moving day to day — coordinating dogs, travel, and communication between the training center in Colombia and the veterans we serve here at home.
Service dogs, protection dogs, breeding, and behavior — all held to the same standard.
The same team that prepared Cairo prepares every dog in our program — intensive, daily work tailored to each dog, because no two dogs learn the same way.
Colina develops stable, highly trained protection dogs for families and individuals — dogs that perform when it matters and fit into real life when it doesn't. Our founder's own family protection dogs came from Colina.
A selective breeding program built on top French and Belgian working lines, with puppies evaluated one by one from their first days for temperament, tolerance, and resilience.
A veterinary-led behavior clinic treats the whole dog — including behavior problems rooted in health — so training is built on understanding, not force.
Stable, highly trained dogs that perform when it matters and fit into real life when it doesn’t.
Bite-suit engagement work
Sleeve work over the barrel
Ground apprehension exercise
The dogs that come to our veterans start here — selected as puppies, raised and trained daily by Colina’s team until they’re ready for the advanced service-dog work our program requires.
Early days — puppies evaluated one by one
Responding to a hand cue
Working at the trainer’s side
Colina’s newest work pushes a dog’s nose into a place no eye can go: the fields themselves. Their teams are training dogs to detect fungus and pest problems in crops and ornamental plants — avocados, flowers, palms, chrysanthemums, orange trees, and just about any vegetation with a problem — finding it before it’s visible to the human eye.
Caught early, a fungus or infestation is a treatment plan. Caught late, it’s a lost harvest. The same selective breeding, early evaluation, and disciplined training that produce our service dogs also produce these detection teams — and Colina is getting very, very good at it.
Trained detection teams that locate fungus and pest activity in avocado groves, flower and chrysanthemum operations, palm plantings, and citrus — surfacing problems while they're still small enough to solve.
These dogs come from the same breeding program and the same training philosophy as the service dogs headed to our veterans — selected, evaluated, and trained one dog at a time.
If your family is considering a personal protection dog, or you’re looking for serious, professional training, talk to Colina directly. They listen first, select carefully, and stay involved long after a dog goes home. It’s the same care they put into every dog they train for our veterans.
