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by jayne241 on 05 March 2009 - 06:03

 Ok, it's real late here... and I am anxiously awaiting the time when I may have some good news... so I just had a bizarre idea.  Someone should do this:

Have a teensy weensy Schutzhund arena for Chihuahuas!  Someone with little bitty sleeves on their fingers or hands... have the dogs run up to someone hiding behind a cardboard box... etc.

Ok, I guess it's time to go to sleep now.


(What, you were expecting more drama?  or something that made sense??  LOL  Not this late!)

by jayne241 on 05 March 2009 - 06:03

 Holy cow...  not to pick apart ads but...  

www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/classifieds/75135.html

VonIsengard

by VonIsengard on 05 March 2009 - 07:03

I know someone who did a bit of bitework with her yorkie....agitator would wear a scrap of light leather over his finger...pretty funny stuff.

AandA

by AandA on 05 March 2009 - 12:03

It's easy to get the wrong idea about yorkies as you so often see them being carried, pampered & dressed up in bows etc but they are tough little dogs originally bred for ratting so it doesn't surprise me they  take to bitework.

I've heard it been said that 3/4 Jack Russels or Yorkies make good gaurd dogs as an assailant can only kick one of the buggers at any one time whilst the other two are biting from behind!!

As they say size isn't everything, ahem

AandA

grimmdog

by grimmdog on 05 March 2009 - 14:03

The greatest schutzhund video of all time. Claudia and Mr. Murphy!   :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTN5kTkdvME


                                                   Nate
                                                   www.sportwaffenk9.com


MVF

by MVF on 05 March 2009 - 15:03

Some small dogs have everything they need but size.

In Rose and Patterson's classic, Training the Competitive Working Dog, they point out that some Corgis are everything you would want in a SchH dog -- if they only had legs.  I have always planned to get a Corgi on my 65th bday if I live that long.

In 1985 in Springfield, MA, waiting to compete in AKC OB at an indoor show, I watched a young rottie in the Novice ring literally pick up a toy poodle by the head in the group sit.  The rottie's handler reacted quickly and the large dog dropped his tiny competitor -- who didn't take a second to regroup and go back to his ramrod-straight sitting position, and finished the exercise successfully.  What a temperament!  I hope that seven pound hero was later bred!  (For the record, the rottie was DQ'ed.)

I have also seen 40 pound pit bulls who seemed to have what it takes -- I can't judge from here if they would aus reliably --but they may have been able to jump the meter board w/o dispensation, too. (I once watched a 40 lb. pitbull and a 100 lb. gsd fight over a frisbee.  Neither would give up the grip -- but the frisbee gave up and was torn in two.  What a grip that little dog had and what perserverance in the face of that huge nose three inches from hers!)

Years ago there was also a yorkie named Tom -- that was his whole name, I think -- who was a ferocious competitor in AKC OB.  I once went nine or ten straight Open and Utility trials taking first or second at every one (average class of 50-60) and Tom was one of two dogs who frightened me.  (The other threat was my own dog's niece, who took us more often than I wish to recall.)

From 1990-2001 I had a female collie, not even 60 pounds in competitive shape, whose only desired reward in OB was to take a bite.  (I didn't offer her a sleeve, so I know she would bite any body part she could get away with.  I had to keep a towel on my belt to save my leg.)  She was also a natural retriever and scored 196 in AKC Novice B at nine months old.  I temperament tested her entire litter, and she was great and the rest of the litter had zero working aptitude.  (Imagine one puppy with all 2's and 3's on a Volhard and the rest of the litter moving about randomly. No other puppies came, followed, chased a toy.  She was a genius in a litter of morons.  Genetics can be mysterious!)  I am pretty sure that Isabel could have been a decent SchH dog.

I suspect there are lots of talented puppies out there hiding in all sorts of breeds and litters.  Some too small to play the game at the right scale, but many with the attitude to impress.  If you are the sort of person who stays the course with your puppy for life, it is far too risky to take a pup from weak breedings or weaker breeds (as puppy tests only go so far), but that doesn't mean that a lot of gems aren't living out their lives unknown -- their talents hidden -- in the backyard or, hopefully, on the couch.

 


by Held on 05 March 2009 - 16:03

Thanks Nate this has to be the classic.watched it a while back but always a treat and every time.
do not think there is any thing better out there. nice little dog.have a nice one.Nate i watched the vedios on your site

of the puppies of your black dog lokks like he is another good stud dog for you.real nice.like the vedios of dogs and puppies on your site really showes what you are producing. very nice .


grimmdog

by grimmdog on 05 March 2009 - 18:03

Thanks, Held. I appreciate that. That's Sunshadow's Caine SchH1.

I'm very proud of my breeding program and the dogs coming out of it.

                                        Nate
                                        www.sportwaffenk9.com


Jenni78

by Jenni78 on 05 March 2009 - 19:03

My Chihuahua has the perfect temperament for a PPD. No joke. He knows all the same commands as my GSD (cuz he was there the whole time the GSD was training, lol) and he will bite your ass for real. He's quite serious about it. Too bad he lost most of his teeth in a tug-o-war w/a GSD over his favorite stuffed toy.

by AnjaBlue on 05 March 2009 - 19:03

LOL Nate, I remember Mr. Murphy, he was great! I think Claudia said somewhere that if he had been a big dog he would have been scary...... he was one tough little guy.





 


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