Distracting a trained guard dog - Page 2

One way to food proof the guard dog is to have a electric hot wire inside a piece of meat so when the dog bites into it h gets the shock of his life.

Putting an electric hot wire inside a piece of meat sounds really mean to me. Isn't food suppose to be a reward?  My vet once told me that the smart dogs won't take food from a complete stranger.

triodegirl:  your vet is wrong.

While a cop few years ago, I noticed a pit bull on top of a corner convenient store owned by an Arabic man, in the heart of the black neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland (East 93rd and Miles).  I stopped to talk to him about the dog on the roof.  I told him that it was just too hot up there for a dog to be there.  I actually climbed up on the roof, via a dumpster and a tree to check.  The dog did have water but no shelter at all.  He said he keeps it up there 24/7 due to having been broken into during the night, by someone going through the roof using a sledge hammer.  He has alarms on the doors and windows but going trough the roof would not set any alarms off.

I told him the dog had to come down, no matter what.  It was too hot and to much of a chance of it falling or jumping.  There was not a fence.  I told him to move the dumpster away from the building, cut the tree down and install motion sensor alarms in the store..

I went back the next day and the dog was still up there.  I called the dog cops (they like that name) and told the man that I would arrest him on the spot if he did not get that dog down right now.  He did so and he was cited for not heeding my instructions from the previous day.

I do not know if he has installed motion sensor alarms inside, but to this day, he still has not cut down that tree nor moved the dumpster, and that was about six years ago.   Go figure.

P.S.  as with many Arabic stores owned in that area (almost all the stores are), a male clerk working in there about 8 or 9 years ago was shot and killed in a robbery.  I have some close friends that own a couple of stores in that neighborhood and they make a TON of money, but have had several workers and family, shot and killed, shot and maimed and beat up.  It is a hard life, but it does pay well if you don't have any marketable skills and like money.  Sort of like drug dealing.

I agree that vet is way wrong. 

Most vets know nothing about those things....they just know medicine.

I liked the cell phone myth that they busted, where you cannot use your cell phone near a gas pump because someone blew up. I would have thought that I would have seen that on TV, but I have had cashiers turn off my gas because I was on the phone.

I thought this was cute.

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Putting an electric hot wire inside a piece of meat sounds really mean to me. Isn't food suppose to be a reward?  My vet once told me that the smart dogs won't take food from a complete stranger.

I have worked several other ways of teaching this, and the end result without electricity is pretty dismal. The stranger giving the food, no matter how hard I tried without electricity, was less than the effort was worth. My dogs will take the food and eat it if I am not around. I used electricity, and the dogs stopped taking food from them, wether I was around or not. Sad really, I tried really hard with several different dogs and several different methods.

With my current dog (get it? ) I just stick to getting him not to eat the food on the training field. I tell people not to feed him, so I do not have an issue overall so far.