The world’s most expensive breed of dog – bred specifically to protect people – will perform at an exclusive event in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night.
How to Keep Your Home and Family Safe in LA is an event hosted by the Young Presidents’ Organization and billed as a seminar where members and their partners can learn how to protect their homes and families from harm.
Dr. Jason Halbert, a behavioral scientist and former executive at Snap Inc. (the parent company of Snapchat), and Nathan Hochmann, a candidate for Los Angeles County District Attorney, will speak at Wednesday’s event.
Kim Greene, a former political adviser supporting former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who worked with the United Nations on the reintegration of ex-combatants, will also be in attendance. She is also the founder and CEO of Svalinn, a company that exclusively breeds, raises and trains protection dogs on a ranch in Livingston, Montana.
The company, which Greene founded while living in Kenya in 2005, says it has bred and trained over 300 dogs with “a specific blend of the most sought-after traits from very old bloodlines” in use worldwide. Svalinn dogs are a mix of a German Shepherd, a Dutch Shepherd and a Belgian Malinois.
Three of the dogs will be present at the event.
“Many so-called ‘guard dogs’ are trained for competitions … we are not interested in sports or games,” Svalinn’s website states. “Our focus is to develop loving and loyal companion dogs that are also exceptional deterrents to a potential threat, and instant protectors should you or your family ever be in imminent danger.”
Svalinn only sells fully trained adults aged 2½ to 3½ years. They cost a pretty penny — about $150,000 to be exact — but that’s because customers are paying for “guaranteed peace of mind,” according to the company.
More information about Svalinn can be found here.
The Young Presidents’ Organization is an organization consisting of over 35,000 top executives from around the world.
The event comes amid a spike in crime in the Los Angeles area; data released this year by law enforcement officials indicates that property crime rose 3.5% between 2022 and 2023, while a separate report says Los Angeles had one of the highest homicide rates in California last year.