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by Prager on 09 August 2016 - 06:08
On this video :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lRlrKPTlNQ
All I see is 100% sleeve work I do not even know whay it is presented in this discussion about civil dogs.

by Prager on 09 August 2016 - 07:08
Jyl yes you pointed it out before me . That is why I have reviewed the video. I will give credit where credit is due:). Thank you.

by BlackMalinois on 09 August 2016 - 07:08
This dog is in his drives in scenario what he has done many many times
with a sleeve on the arm from a decoy.
WOW It,s easy te sell "civil" dogs from the www to dog people this days.
No more saying... also interesting to read what people understand about "civil "dogs
realy is . So if dogs bite decoys without equipment by standard scenario he has done many may times we have now civil dogs. ...???
I don,t think so
Put him in a unknown suprise scenario, unknown helper with pain stress, noises. distraction
in dark etc etc than you will get more and better info about your dog.
A good dog will bite on sleeve,suit with or without protection it doesn,t matter
Too many people this days are too much focus about equipment...
I look more why the dog will bite what is his reason and his drives, behavior the total picture,,,,
by duke1965 on 09 August 2016 - 08:08
you cannot untrain geneticly civil dog with sleeve/sport training and say it lost its civil behaviour
recently sold an IPO3 dog to australia(police) and it had several live bites already, they claim its the best dog they had in long time
civil has NOTHING to do with training
Also Hans, not every dog will go to police, as you should know as a specialist in czech situations, I need to title my dogs in order to be able to breed them so im forced to work them on the sleeve,
this however will not change their genetics or what they will give to their offspring

by Koots on 09 August 2016 - 16:08

by Prager on 09 August 2016 - 16:08
I tend to agree with some of your conclusion . Except I am talking about what we can see on the video. To me the dog is civil if he targets a man in preference of equipment. Accidental bites like we see on the video do not b\make dog civil.

by Prager on 09 August 2016 - 17:08
@duke. We have definition brake down. I do not consider dog which bites necessarily genetically "civil" dog per se. My definition of a civil dog is broader then that. That is what I call type 1 dog exactly for the reason that it is not same as civil. I see Civil dog as trained dog of type one or type two where type one dog is not necessarily trained to bite in a civil way ( for real) . I agree with you that if you consider type 1 dog included in definition of civil dog then such inherited "civil " attitude can not be changed by any training. But if genetically civil dog ( what I call type one dog) is trained from get go or is retrained in linear fashion to target equipment than suxch dog will do so. I mean that is why such training is done ! Right? The dog is trained to target equipment like sleeve for example. Once such ttraining is done in linear fashion and not in parallel fashion then such dog should no longer to be consider 100% civil.

by Prager on 09 August 2016 - 17:08
Duke:"some dogs like the one in "training badass dog " topic also have extreme possesiveness which makes him want to keep the sleeve, dumbell etc and carry it even more, but still are very civil" Hans: That is totally not so. The dog is not civil id\f he on certain occasions bite the man. The dog is civil if he prefers to bite a man 100% of the time over the sleeve.
This is again breakage in communication of definition of what is "civil" dog. Different often contrasting definitions of one term are usually the cause of much disagreement. For example we can see that in definition of the word "civil' dog:
Some believe that dog is civil if he has capability to bite man in specific occasions from 1%- 99% . If that is the case then Duke is correct.
I beleive that the dog can not be called civil unless he prefers to bite a man 100% of the time and not less. In that case duke is wrong.
Unfortunatelly there is no standard list of generally accepted definitions .

by susie on 09 August 2016 - 17:08
Prager: " the dog is not displaying civil behavior. She may be civil and probably is but civil dog is not just dog which will bite for real but also it matters what the dog does after the decoy pulls out of the bite equipment in this case sleeve. If the dog carries sleeve then the dog is not ready for street work despite of the dog's ability to bite for real and can not be declared civil because in this specific situation the dog is failing to demonstrate such ability. True civil dog must display such ability in all situations and not just now and then in select scenarios. Also if the formerly civil dog is retrained to be sport dog and if it is done in linear fashion rather then in parallel fashion ( separately) then such dog again is not civil any more. Not IMO. Prallel training will however generate sport dog and civil pp/le dog in one, if done correctly."
The term "civil" in itself has absolutely nothing to do with a dog "ready for streetwork".
"Civil" is a mindset, whereas "ready for streetwork" is the result of training.
A dog that "carries a sleeve" is a dog that has some prey drive ( as all of us have seen in the videos Prager posted, even his dogs tried to "carry the prey" ).
Once again, "civil" or "civility" is an inborn mindset, and not the result of training. A lot of "civil" dogs are very successful in IPO, they do carry the sleeve, but all of this doesn´t change their inborn mindset. It´s training, nothing else...
There is no 100% civil/ 0% prey dog ( okay, maybe some dogs with major behavioural disorders... ), otherwise every "healthy, normal" dog does have at least some prey drive, and in case you train this dog by using its prey drive, it will USE its prey drive ( proudly carrying the prey, winning, feeling good ).
Guess we need to distinguish between "civil" and "ready for the street" - but in this case we have to face the next problem: A lot of very successful "street" dogs are working because of prey, not because of "civility".

by susie on 09 August 2016 - 17:08
" I see Civil dog as trained dog of type one or type two ..."
You may see it like that, but that´s not true. "Civil/civility" is inborn, not trained.
You yourself called it "attitude", maybe the better word for "mindset" - my English sucks.
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