something different from your herder drive set - Page 1

this dog did some suspicion as a pup and i stopped the work. what you see are natural drives, just a short eval session. would this dog run downfield to bite a man - nope, not his problem.

if you put a hand on me or my property will you be removing a bloody stump - most likely.

dog is as cool as a cucumber even indifferent until you step in his space then it's game on - right drive set for security work.

i will take this dog from this point to a sleeve in 3 sessions if anybody wants to see a different approach to what you typically find at GSD school.

 

 

Here's your change to teach a dumb showline person - why would you even want a dog to act like that?

please don't put words in my mouth, I don't think you or show people are dumb.

as to your question, i will answer with a question;

don't you want to know the dog you have?

 

OK then.....did  you tell your dog to attack that man or did he do it on his own? It doesn't look to me as if his handler - you I assume- had much control over the dog. He just took off after that man on his own.

yes that's yours truly, F no way would I let any else train my dog for me eeeeeew.

 

if you have good speakers you will hear the faintest command and then the dog launches instantaneously.

Since you gave a command, that's impressive. I couldn't hear that.

I think it is an American thing to yell commands.

I think its Australian thing to constantly knock Americans.

Blitzen, the dog is doing civil work. So, the dogs behavior is adjusting to accommodate the decoys actions, not necessarily what the OP was telling him to do. OP was holding dog just fine, decoy was safe in this exercise. 

We all know that dogs hear well, so yelling commands isn't necessary. It's actually one of my pet peeves :-)

Dang, vk, I watched 3 more times and can't even see your lips moving. I must need a new computer.

My 2nd GSD, a 100% GSL, went after people in a similar way, but he did it all on his own. I never told him to do it and when he launched himself, there was no stopping him. He was a big liability. Now if I were telling him to - get the bad guy - it would have been a different story. He died young, he was the first dog I didn't grieve for, it was almost a relief that he was gone.