Reading a dog: What does this mean? - Page 3

Carry fencing pliers....ya greenhorn.

What! Cut the fence and get fired ! Easier to ride over the guard. :-)

Avoid grate is natural propensity and good one. On the other hand dog needs to be part of a team and needs to trust to helper to the point that he will do things which he would not naturally do. Like walking on the high bar climbing and descending ladder jumping broad and deep jumps and so on where in the nature the dog would go around or under such obstacles. Thus if Ihave to choose between the two i would  personally prefer dog who is worried but does it anyway then dog who is so driven that he s not recognizing that he is in front of danger. of course best is dog who recognize danger and deals with it in confident way without benefit of prey drive over ride. When I visited NYPD patrol K9 S&R program I was told that and all their patrol dogs are trained for urban S&R ( since 9.11.) they put dog on rubble and observe them .  The have different rubbles of concrete, logs and pallets, pips and so on.  They want level headed confident dog to move with ease and no trepidation but not motivated by blind prey drive . The NYPD patrol handlers told me that for that reason they are using strictly GSDs. below is NYPD patrol S&R training facility showing here the part with rubble piles for testing and training of their dogs. 

Well Joan you rejoin the wires when yr thru, dam its hard to get good help these days.

Lol. ^^

I don't blame the dog - I don't like storm drains either.

While I appreciate DenWolf's posts all through this thred
& find they make perfect sense to me, I am still wondering
about the one phrase: "...(or) something where drains are considered dangerous."

Examples ???
ROFL, & SMH !

If u can't get your dog to walk over a storm drain . How do u expect to get him into high end jobs police, prisons etc .most prisons if seen have grid floors most stairs are grid steel dog can see right through.dog must go over all surfaces. If your dog has a problem well that is your fault bad environmental soundness all this should be done as a young pup redirection of your dog when goes into adviodenc with a little food is a grate way to help your dog through feer.adviodence of any kind makes your dog week.

The drain grate we're talking about, a pup would fall through, lol. Walking on drains, steel stairs like at the cargo loading docks, no problem for my dogs.
If the grate over the drain wasn't in place, and a dog didn't pay attention, he would not be much use ending up in the drain system, except for maybe catching a few rats.

Joan it like teaching a pup to walk a ladder he will fall through many times .and then it clicks in the brain I must walk on the runs a good harness and a lead and make sure u are alert. It doesn't take long before you use the same training on storm drains