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These people probably table train too (also STPUID!! STUPID!! STUPID!!)To make my point we need to examine the end product that we all want in a protection dog. home dog training Dog-obedience-training-book. This is an animal with good temperament, strong nerves, and a solid grip. One that will protect our family, but is not dangerous to be around. This picture does not come from starting your training in defense. home dog training Puppies pictures. To wait for a young dog to mature so it can start training in defense before prey can be compared to taking a child out to teach him how to ride a bicycle. It's like we would expect him to ride on two wheels first and then once he has that mastered that skill we put the training wheel on. That would be a little crazy. home dog training German shepard dog. But that is exactly what these people are saying when they tell you to work your dog in defense before working him in prey. Young dogs need to learn the skills of biting before they can put them to use. These skills are learned in prey training. In addition to biting skills, the dog needs to learn to feel confident and comfortable in his protection work. This confidence is first developed in prey training. The first stages of defense are inherently uncomfortable for any dog. The first stages of defense are a scary place for a young dog to work. If a dog with weak nerves is exposed to this defense work without having learned any skills to defend himself, he is going to go into avoidance. This is exactly how many inexperienced trainers ruin dogs. They take a maturing dog out and immediately work the dog in defense. After all, it's quick and easy. They threaten the dog, it gets its hair up a little, it barks aggressively and voila - the dog is doing instant protection work -- WRONG! Unless you are one of the lucky people to have a dog that has very strong nerves, this dog that has just been worked for the first time in defense is stressed to the max. What needs to happen with young dogs is to have an evaluation of the dogs nerves and drives. When we study temperaments, we see a number of different types of dogs:Dogs with good nerves and strong prey driveDogs with weak nerves and strong prey driveDogs with a high threshold for prey and a low threshold for defenseDogs with a high threshold for prey and a high threshold for defenseEach one of these categories needs to be trained differently. The basic threat of training that runs through each category is that they all need to have a foundation in prey. A dog with good nerves and good prey drive needs to be moved into defensive training at an earlier age than a defensive dog. We run the risk of creating a problem with these strong nerved dogs by allowing them to become so comfortable working in prey that they have to physically hurt to flip them into defense. Where as if that same dog had been taken into strange environments (once its prey had been set) when it was a little younger and worked in light defense, this problem would not have developed. The point here is that there is no type of dog that needs to be started in defense. There are a group of people on PD-L who have herding dogs (Border Collies, Great Peryanese) that have recently claimed that because their dogs are so aggressive towards predators, they must have defense.
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