How likely will your schutzhund dog protection you from an attack? - Page 1

What are the chances of your purely schutzhund trained dog (without any personal protection training) protect you when the chips are down, lets say you were out jogging and 2 people attacked you or you got your house broken into.

I know that with pure sports dogs it is not fair to expect them to jump to your rescue without proper PPD training BUT at the back of my mind I still have a degree of expectation that they will.

I have owned a non-sport, non-PPD pet german shepherd that would give 100% to defend you, no matter how bad the odds. My Samoyed will likely bark from a distance and maybe try and nip a foot or two. How about your dog??

I'm sorry the title should read :

How likely will your schutzhund dog protect you from an attack?

My Schutzhund Dog will give his life for me.

I honestly do not know what my boy would do.  He's always been very defensive behind the fence and in the house, since I got him at 4 1/2 months.  I do think that he would give someone a run for their money if they tried to break in the house.  And honestly, barking very aggressively at a door or window is probably enough in most cases.  And I would hope that if I was confronted or attacked while out walking he would at least put up a good front to at least deter the person.  As is, just walking him is deterent enough for people, ie: move to the other side of the street.  He's a bit much sometimes behind the fence, since I live in a city type area and there's occassionally some trouble, I don't encourage or correct the behavior.  I want people to know that he's here and they do.  Though, I do know that it's controllable, we had work being done on the house and I didn't see the worker enter the yard and had let the dogs out.  They were on him very quickly, but luckily my call off was quicker and they just gave the guy a good scare.  I honestly do not know what he'd do if someone entered the yeard uninvited.  He's also the kind of dog, that likes to mess with people.  He's friendly enough when people are in the house, but will mess with them.  In particular my father in law.  They were up to visit and my father in law, who'd he's never met went to enter the house without us.  Ike of course stood at the door barking at him, my father in law proceeded to hit his leg with a newspaper telling him to stop.  HA!  Ike had just started his protection training and was around a year old.  So, you know how that relationship started!  So, father in law is afraid of said dog, and dog knows it and will therefore mess with him.  Which is actually kind of amusing.  Put toy in his lap and bark at him.  LOL

My little girl, I have not seen any sort of "defensive" behaviors, so don't know there. 

My older bitch, who's probably the most defensive of the bunch, but really only shows it infrequently, would probably be the one to look out for the most! 

He has protected me a few times, .

Here is a funny one that I forgot, We were selling one home, remodleing another.  The first night in the new one, still under alot of construction. One of the contractors lost the pin to the old font doors, so you could close and lock but not secure them, If you pushed they would open. Husband and I in bed and very tired, just laying there and talking, We hear our male go off, and look at each other and say, ah, just a strange place he will settle down. Then our bedroom door flys open and our daughter is screaming at us "you guys are useless, just dam useless, what kinda parents are you? The dog had to protect me, would my parents protect me-no-the DOG had to do YOUR job. They saw all of the construction supplies being delivered, and decided that night they would come in and help themselves. She heard someone at the door and got up and there was this guy coming in, the dog immediately got in front of her and sent him packing, as he was trying to close the doors, the dog is up in the air at him.

We should have known when he went off, he has a real deep gutter growl, while he is already in the air. I was to tired and not paying attention. My female ran to the outside run, My daughter thought she was going to get the other 2 in the front, I did not tell her, she was just on her way out of the situation.

A lady I know imported some top dogs from Germany to train for personal protection and security work. All were already schutzhund titled. It took quite some time to convince most of them that 'fass' meant 'fasse', regardless of what the decoy was wearing!!

Also, didn't I see on here quite awhile back about this lady who was afraid of her ex, so she bought herself an expensilve Sch. trained dog? The husband broke into the house while she was out, and stole a whole bunch of stuff....

INCLUDING THE DOG!! 

Approximately the same probability as a family pet would, that had no training whatsoever.

My dog has had purely SCH training and he defended me one night. We found someone breaking in to my tool shed, The dog was already territorial so he alerted and raised holy hell. The guy armed with a crow bar came at me and my boy took him down hard.

But up to that point never being proving I would have never fully relied on him... Now i do.

    wolf

Sunsilver:  Okay, don't laugh, but I don't get it.  What is fass and fasse and  what abut the decoy?  I don't know how to spell in German, so does this have something to do with heeling?