Civil Aggression - Page 6

I just have to point out that this sort of discussion becomes unnecessarily complicated ^^^ when posters think everything re LE dogs 'works' exactly the same as it does in their neighbourhood, wherever in the world they are. Joe, in the UK the pattern is as follows: operational Police Dogs live at home with their handlers but they are not supposed to be in the house all the time; they have to have a garden kennel, with small attached run. How often Officers allow their dogs to sleep inside the house overnight, with their families, when not on duty, is not known - and is officially discouraged - but it happens. Partly because Officers get fond of their dog; partly because many will argue that the dog is expected to protect the handler (& family) against assault or burglary and it cannot do that from an outside kennel. Nobody but the Officer is supposed to handle, exercise, feed the dog.

[Military Police dogs are kept on a different basis, with most being centrally kennelled.]

Now, these PDs are fully bite-trained dogs; but the way they are used in the UK means A)) they do not get to actually bite perps 'routinely' (but they still need to come up with 'the goods' when necessary !); B)) they also have other roles in our society and therefore have to be polite, if aloof, with all sorts of strangers, including children. So dogs when selected by training are the dogs which CAN maintain a solid "off switch". Maybe this goes towards explaining why the UK is still mainly using GSDs ?

I do not know, on any State by State basis, what American PDs are supposed to do, when it comes to living around their handlers' children, or handlers' neighbours' children. From info gleaned on this site and elsewhere, it would appear there is a good deal of variation. In the european countries it may be different again. So it does become difficult to draw conclusions about what PDs are 'expected' to do, or what their temperament boundaries are supposed to be, or how 'civil' they are, when you can be 'comparing oranges to apples'.

Shawnicus no do parks no outside no interaction with family there is your problem no balance NO environmental skills and thats the reason you have never been abale to adapt your dogs to fit society and ill tell u another thing without those environmental skill your dog will let you down on the street big protection on your property bag of nerves on the street iv seen this a lot of time civil does not mean locked away.