Got Bite? - Page 4

Cowboy up and stand up for your rights do not hide in a corner.

The best way to cowboy up is to tell what real cowboys do!!  Ride fences, fix fences, castrate calves, find strays, treat injured and sick animals, feed animals in the winter and save calves from freezing or getting hurt.  Throw in a few flat tires to repair and breaking ice on water sources, an occasional busted water line, hauling hay and putting it out and that is what cowboys "cowboy up" and do.  No Native Americans to fight, no rustlers with black hats (just bankers with black brief cases), and no chasing down the bad guys and leaving the herd unattended.  Everyone in schutzhund wants to believe they are training police service dogs instead of what IPO really is (an obedience sport).  Schutzhund dogs can become police dogs with proper additional training if they have the nerve and the brains.  A dog with a retrieval item is closer to the truth than "got bite".

I didn't notice an SV, WDA or USCA logo on the shirt nor any thing that resembles SchH.  Who says the shirt is for sport dogs?  Not everything is about SchH or IPO, maybe the picture is more geared to MWD's or Police K-9's.  You know, "working dogs."  I'm not sure how this got off onto SchH dogs but I generally don't think about SchH when I see something labeled "working dogs."  

  Schutzhund dogs can become police dogs with proper additional training if they have the nerve and the brains. 

For the record; I have a National Level SchH dog here that I raised and trained from a pup for SchH competiton and at 2 years old I converted him to become my Dual Purpose Patrol / Narcotics K-9.  An awesome patrol dog with many apprehensions, street bites, longest track to an apprehension was almost 2 miles and an awful lot of Narcotics recovered.  This dog is now 7 and I am planning for my next dog, another puppy to raise and train.  I will not start with a SchH foundation on my next dog.  The control work is great, the OB and precision is fantastic.  The tracking and bite work are not as compatible or functional, IMHO.  

Many and probably the majority of any type of working dogs do not bite as a significant part of their "work".  The dog on the hoodie at the beginning of this thread was obviously a GSD.  Perhaps "got control", "got partner" or "got friend" would be a better slogan to present to the general public about the GSD than "Got Bite".  The Pit Bull is well on it's way to extinction or rebranding as a Staffordshire Terrier or some other alias for the breed because it has a reputation as an out of control biter and attacker of people.  I doubt the Pit Bull will ever recover from the stigma now attached to the breed.  I would hope that all GSD owners will go to the trouble to think about what the public sees and hears about the GSD in order to prevent the same fate for the GSD.  The emphasis for the GSD breed should be control, obedience, and service to the family and public as a breed that does a multitude of services for humans from loyal family member to Police K9 as well as S&R and substance detection.

I unerstand just because of what goofey ass people say about the breed , label, or wat ever they do dont make the dog at i love all breeds and can do as i please with watever i want, but i appriciate all the words from the wise...im gunna cange it for you

I watched an issue with a visitor to our club's, "screamer," (very vocal, talkative dog) mostly resolved in about 20 minutes today with some very clear direction to the dog's owner/handler how to proceed going forward with continuing to deal with that issue.  I've never had this issue with a dog but it was nice to see a real dog person with decades of real experience look at it in a common-sensical way and say, "yeah, that's a pretty easy one...her's what we do," and see the dog settle right down and fall into his groove.

When people see my dog I want them to think "GOT BITE" or that worse.