What is "work" for a working dog? - Page 2

Hi Bancroft,  I will go and visit a Sch trial next year, I promised Reason that I would "look see" and I will.  IF I get interested, it will be with a "show bred" dog!  Hope I meet you out there one day!

Like Bancroft, my first and foremost characteristic of importance is willingness, attentive willingness.  Work could be defined in many ways, in various forms, but a useful intended purpose is the whole point, above all.  Many of you have perhaps heard of SV2000 begun by Helmut Raiser and others, later name changed to RSV2000.  Here is a translation (to the best of my ablility) of their definition of "working dog".

 

Definition of Gebrauchshund (working dog) Translation and interpretation by Daryl Ehret

The working dog is an efficient working dog. He can be trained on grounds of his driving qualities and his constitution by the handler for various tasks trained and used.

The working dog is a value in itself. To possess him and his genetic resources, belongs to the maintenance of the heritage.

Working dog. He is used as such with his innate behaviour patterns and abilities of the handler to the support of his own work. With it the handler takes the right to utilize the dog. From the beginning of domestication, this was the essential motivation of human beings, to enter the symbiosis with the dog. This anthropocentric beginning comes to the animal in the benefit that it gets the opportunity to realize his operating potential and cognitive abilities.

Proficiency. In the capability of the performance, the working dog demands a special quality of the work. This is determined by physical and psychological components. A demand for performance involves developing and testing these skills. This aspiration will be limited by the idea of ethical animal welfare.

Aptitude. The working dog possesses the necessary conditions for training. These need not necessarily be realized. With a function as a pure society dog- and companion dog, he must also be given the opportunity of necessary training, to enjoy a thourough life.

Driving qualities describe the psychological components of the constitution. They determine kind and expiry of the functions and reactions. The different intended purposes of the working dog require different propelling qualities. The operating behavioral determinants arise from the bases of the preservation of the species: Hunger, sexual desire, escape, aggression. Composition and degree of manifestation determine the intended purpose.

Constitution. It is determined by components such as driving qualities, overall anatomical structure, vitality, longevity, agility, strength and stamina. These must correspond to the respective intended purposes.

From mankind. With the right to utilize the dog the man has taken over responsibility. He must breed him in such a way, retain and train so that the dog can fulfil the respective tasks within reason of ethical animal welfare. High regard is set for the preservation of genetic resources.

Versatility. The broad variance of the driving qualities and the constitution cause a huge number of application possibilities which the handler uses according to his respective need.

Qualified. The use of the working dog demands training. Training canalizes the natural driving qualities o

 

Qualified. The use of the working dog demands training. Training canalizes the natural driving qualities of the dog in desired behaviour patterns. This process orientates itself by ethological knowledge and kynologisch - to empiric knowledge. To assert the will of the handler, on the natural behavior of the dog to form it accordingly to purposes and to make controllable, also implies arbitrary measures. Besides, the standards must be maintained. The conflict management in the training forms the personality of the dog.

In addition, the training of the working dogs has breeding relevance. It is intended to appropriate individuals defined by these tests and to supply them for breeding.

 

For introductory information about Schäferhundverein RSV2000 e.V., here is a link written in english...

http://www.rsv2000.de/assets/media/pdf/presse/en/RSV2000_2008-01_EN.pdf

Have I got this right, Daryl?

Through proper training and by correctly exploiting the working dog’s instinctive drives, natural aptitudes and mental abilities, as well as physical attributes, it may be trained for a variety of useful tasks?

 

When PUT TO USE, alot of things could describe a "working" dog, even if it's only something like cell-phone detection within the prison systems.  Not sure about dock diving, though ;-)

You  put yours to good use, Daryl?

YOUR SIMPLE BRILLIANT AREN'T YOU CHISUIM!!!! ???? I'M NOT THE HYPOCRIT IN HIDING.NOR CONDESENDING TO ALL WHO DISAGREE.WE CAN NOT ALL HAVE YOUR WAY WITH WORDS.AND SOME OF YOUR WORDS HAVE A HIIDEN AGENDA.JUST LIKE YOU!!!!AND YOUR FOLLOWERS!!! HAVE A GOOD ONE----NOT!!!!  THE PHRASE LONG WINDED COMES TO MIND!! WHEN THINKING OF YOU.NOT THAT I SPEND MUCH TIME THINKING OF YOU!!

What's eating you?

Compared to you, the most puerile idiot on this board?

BACK AT YA !!!!