Puppy aggression - Page 17

BW; good insight and instruction. thank you.

Well i say you full of it too shawny...i have raised police dogs that i am more than proud of..just because mine are well rounded and truly represent the breed, to me is a compliment...not insult.
I have a waiting list for my dogs.
3 young pups wnt earlier this year, its yet to be seen if they will make it or not.. (I am betting they will).
I don t have wideo of the actual dog take downs while on duty, but there have been several for this guy..

 

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And, as far as my Cookie goes, my Bomber Wolfsheim daughter, (thanks hexe, you know I love to brag on my dogs, lol)....
I was basicly attacked by a madman who not only put a loaded shotgun in my face, he destroyed my property with an ax, when I tried blocking my driveway with my car until police could catch him, he ran my Cookie over, totally with a big GMC truck while he was headed for me in my car , which he rammed me head on and shoved my car backwards out the driveway. Cookies head was split open, but she was on her feet within seconds right on his ass when he stopped his truck got out, and pointed gun at me again and told me, i told you don t F'with me.
Who knows what he may have continued oto do if Cookie wasn t there.
As several police cars pulled up to my house, this dog was not scared at all..of people or vehicles. She inspected EVERY officer and their cars...all in defense of me.
She knew there was going to be a problem cause when i made the other dogs go in the house, she refused.
Yet when my grandkids are here....a gorgeous girl with them.
again, EVERYTHING A German Shepherd is supposed to represent.

"Yet when my grandkids are here....a gorgeous girl with them. again, EVERYTHING A German Shepherd is supposed to represent."

KitKat I remember the Cookie Incidence. That was one hell of a scary situation.

Shawnicus said:

I've imported a puppy recently from a famous breeder whose notorious for breeding highly civil dogs , I love the dog and he has the most well developed fight drive I have seen in a dog or GSD in that matter ., my question is although barley 4 months he's very aggressive towards dogs or even people ( hair up , teeth showing and going for it ) this dog is intended for patrol work so he's never going to be socialized with people or other dogs but to correct his aggression at this age would it kill or hurt his drive ?



What I was thinking from the beginning,

So this whole topic is a waste of time every health thinking handler/ dog owner will know this.( Mod edit, personal insult)

Precisely BM. And people who know better should not be given idiots with know respect for animals or respect for learning this amount of Internet time. Can never understand this .when it is in plain view this person is a total waist of time. And if u don't know better a little advice when u see mithuna jump on the bandwagon you will definitely know the thread is going nowhere

I'm actually quite curious now...didn't realize OP was DOD until later and I'm still not catching on if the dog is going to be a patrol dog in a department. From what I know of the DOD, they don't do business like that, if OP is raising this pup for future evaluation and maybe sale to the DOD I could understand, but I've never heard of a DOD program which allows handlers to raise their own puppies. I'd imagine if they did, there would be a strict protocol to follow and it's weird to me that the OP is asking such questions if they truly did have a program and a mentor/commanding officer to have to listen to in regards to raising the puppy a certain way.

I also don’t really think there is a single program in today’s DOD which wants a crazy, eat everything, kill anyone type of dog. There are very very few applications where that type of dog is useful and even in those situations could end up being a bigger liability than asset. I know people want to think that the Soviet block countries all wanted those types of dogs to “protect their borders” but they really weren’t “kill everyone” type dogs either. Russians tried developing those types of dogs and spent decades with breeding programs that even they admitted were failures and still went back to using German Shepherds (think Black Russian Terrier). I think western propaganda, the American need to believe that the Soviet Union was “true evil,” and marketing by certain importers of certain lines in order to differentiate themselves in the market has led people to believe that the dogs from behind the Iron Curtain were something that they really weren’t. On top of that, the lack of understanding of the difference between genetics and training has caused people to believe certain types of dogs are one way or another instead of focusing on the type of training those dogs had received.

DoD? That can mean anything.

Sometimes I am really naive -

when a poster talks about an "aggressive" puppy bought from a breeder known for breeding "highly civil dogs" I tend to believe the poster = the poster is dealing with a genetically aggressive puppy... I always forget a lot of people do have a very different perspective.

When I looked at the vids I almost laughed - I saw a normal, healthy, happy, outgoing puppy - a puppy almost everybody who wants to "work" would like to own.

What I didn´t like: The poster talked about "aggression" - I wasn´t able to see aggression but normal puppy behavior- on the other hand I heard the poster PRAISING his puppy when it barked at an other dog, and when it barked at a shopping cart.

Raising a puppy like this your pup will become "aggressive", no doubt...

"Normally" a handler would introduce a pup to things it doesn´t know ( dogs, shopping cart ), "normally" a handler would teach a pup to distinguish between a threat and a no-threat, but you support wrong behavior.

So why did you ask at all?