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Built on Passion.
Proven Through the Work.

Sufian and David with their dogs after competition

Sufian Rahim & David Parrish — Owners and founders of Superior Protection Dogs

Superior Protection Dogs was built from a shared passion for exceptional working dogs and a belief that true protection should never come at the expense of stability, temperament, or family life.

David is Texas born and raised, while Sufian comes from the North Jersey and New York City area before making Texas home. For more than a decade, both have been deeply involved in the world of protection dogs as trainers, competitive handlers, and high-level decoys.

Our experience in the suit is one of the defining advantages behind how we evaluate dogs. We have decoyed in sport, training, police K9 work, and family-protection environments across a wide variety of breeds and temperaments. That hands-on experience allows us to feel what cannot always be seen from the outside: a dog’s intent, confidence, nerve, commitment, clarity, and ability to perform under pressure.

We believe exceptional dogs should be proven, not simply presented. Every dog we consider is evaluated beyond appearance, pedigree, or a polished demonstration. We want to understand the complete picture — how the dog responds when challenged, how clearly it thinks under pressure, and whether it possesses the character and stability required for real-world protection.

We are also family men. Sufian is a father of two, and David is married and comes from a large, close-knit family. Because of that, we understand that the ideal protection dog must be just as trustworthy in the home as it is capable in a serious situation. A truly exceptional family protection dog should bring confidence, companionship, and peace of mind into everyday life.

Our approach is simple: pair elite working ability with exceptional temperament, then place each dog with the right family.

We are trainers, decoys, competitors, husbands, and fathers — and we personally put in the work to ensure the dogs we represent are worthy of the families who trust us.

Where You Can Check Our Record

Sufian and David have spent years in the suit, not just around it. A decoy is the person who gives a dog something real to react to: real pressure, real timing, real consequences. From inside the suit you feel what a camera cannot record — whether the dog drives in or shortens up in the last stride, whether the grip is full and settled or shallow and frantic, whether it comes back clear-headed after pressure or stays lit up.

Being in the suit is also how you read what a dog actually inherited, because character does not show itself in a resting state. It comes up under pressure — and someone has to be skilled enough to apply that pressure correctly and read honestly what comes back. Get it wrong and you either miss a problem that was always there or create one that was not.

Competing as sport decoys sharpens that skill in a way that working only our own dogs never could. It puts us in front of dogs and handlers we do not control, judged by people with no reason to go easy on us. It is not a complete picture of any one dog, and we do not treat it as one — but it is real pressure, tested in public, and it makes us better at reading every dog that comes after.

Decoy work is also the one part of our background you can check without taking our word for it. The Protection Sports Association publishes the club, the town and the dates for its sanctioned trials, along with the decoys working them. Our names are on those listings. Here they are — and the link below goes to PSA’s page, not to ours.

The suit teaches one more thing worth saying here: whether a dog has an opinion about the person or only about the equipment it has been paid on. That question has its own guide — whether a dog trained on a sleeve will engage a person in street clothes — written from the same place these paragraphs are.

Lost Creek Working Dog Club
Benton, Arkansas
October 9–11, 2026
Listed decoy: Sufian Rahim
Arkhein PSA
Snyder, Texas
September 26–27, 2026
Listed decoys: Sufian Rahim and David Parrish
Canis Fortis Sport Club
Lometa, Texas
April 25–26, 2026
Listed decoy: David Parrish

PSA certifies its trial decoys through its regional directors and a Director of Decoys, so a listing is a judgement someone else made about us rather than a title we handed ourselves. Club, town and dates are copied from that listing exactly as they appear there — we have not added a trial PSA does not list, and we do not call any of these a championship or a regional title, because PSA does not. It is the same standard we would hold a dog’s paperwork to, which is why we set out what a sport title actually certifies, and what it stays silent about.