John Lutenberg is the owner and training coordinator for the Canine Training Academy. John has over 30 years experience training and working trailing, detector and patrol K9s. He is currently employed with the Colorado Department of Corrections 
and supervises the training of 17 dog teams statewide. John also serves as an active K9 handler for the CDOC escape team He is recognized as an an expert witness in the state of Colorado where he has testified in court for criminal cases involving man tracking and trailing deployments.
John served in the US army at Lackland Air Force base as a K9 trainer and an assistant army liaison from 1969 to 1971. During that time, he assisted in the training of numerous K9s for military use. He participated as an instructor and performance evaluator and advisor for the California P.O.S.T Bloodhound tracking class in 2002, 2003 and 2004. He assisted the Mara Conservancy in training two Bloodhounds and 8 dogs handlers for its Anti-poaching unit in Kenya, Africa in 2009. John is currently a member and certifying official for the Colorado Police Canine Association.
Over the years he has assisted local, state and federal law enforcement agencies on criminal cases and SAR missions with his trailing dogs and patrol K-9's.His accomplishments as well as his training techniques are recognized and respected around the nation by many K9 handlers. He has a along list of captures to his credit and has participated as an instructor for numerous trailing dog seminars around the country where he shares his real world deployment experience and training methods. John enjoys attending different tracking and trailing seminars around the country always hoping to learn something new.