WUSV results - Page 4

Good to see 4 females in the top 10 and 1 female GSD winner,

Some months ago in a discussion here I told females can do the same as males @ top competitions, some  members doubt about this  I,m this looking forward to see this in the future.

Congratultions US with third place
 

Awesome Debby won it after-all.. You go girl- bitches rock-- females did great this year , the D- litter Eisernen kreuz was one heck of a litter what a combination of Quardes and the late great Yucca female. I,m all for hard tracking also, some tracks are just too easy.

interesting moment. if dog was able to pass selection to such level of competition, what then went wrong?

See Pierre Wahlström's post on his Facebook page regarding this topic; he covers it very well.

I recall seeing similar responses in dogs in the club I was a member of, when we hosted a young Belgian helper over the course of a summer--the majority of the dogs had never been worked by a helper who vocalized as the dog approached and readied itself for the strike.

The helpers certainly did challenge the dogs and their commitment to the bite. In that clip, you can see the dog really put on the brakes just before engaging, making me wonder about his commitment to the bite with the presentation and the helper aggressively advancing on the dog. We cannot conjecture about how this dog got to the top level of competition thus far, but perhaps some other helpers that he encountered along the way presented the sleeve in a more prey-oriented fashion on the long attack.

A few dogs did not 'stick the landing' and either came off the bite due to forward momentum, did not engage initially or after they lost the initial bite. I think the helpers did a good job of testing the dogs.

If you can read a dog, then you know what happened on the video above.

well, i'm not much about dog's first contact with helper.
shit can happen.
i'm more about second phase, when dog get up on his feet and supposedly should got back in action.
please note, at that moment helper slowed and finally stopped his pressure.

Koots, both presentation of the sleeve on the long bite and the sleeve model being used also seem to be a topic of discussion after this week...

Gustav
sure. actually dog's ears are best indicator of dog's confidence upon approaching to decoy. not many dogs in sport, during interaction with unfamiliar helper and surrounding setting, shows absolute confidence.
in the past, we called the dogs which go against aggressive decoy without second thought, the "hussar" :)

Hexe, Can you please elaborate?!!!! If there is a discussion of this please direct me to link as I am quite interested in what the competitors and spectators thought about the helper work! I have already gathered from previous comments that the track was quite difficult and tested the dogs calmness and ability to find a track once lost. It also seems from some comments I have read that this competition really tested the dogs stringently in protection and maybe more so than other competitions. So, it makes the bitch's achievement that much more impressive! As a side note....Do you have a video of her protection? Thank you!