new sport for workign dogs - Page 1

i'm looking into starting a certification/test that will be more real life situations. it would be more of a sport but it will help breeders and trainers get there names out there and it will show police department that your dogs with this title is capable of being a police dogs

PSA is pretty close to what you are describing...

pack

PSA is pretty close to what you are describing...

pack

ow no this will be more intes,

Dream on, work hard, one day it will happen.

You don,t really need a "new" test or "sport" what you need is a good training program that includes real life stressors keep the training current and train for the job at hand. The word  Schutzhund it self tells you this dog has been tested and trained(or it should) and is ready for training in it,s individual jobs unfortunetly Schutzhund has been relegated to a yappy sport and does nothing to test the dog. Just make sure it has the proper foundation for a working bred dog.

It,s not rocket science or you don,t need to recreate the wheel.

But good luck on your endeavor.

interesting idea.

first thing i would do is drop the word sport.   sport to me implies rules, structure, and a routine.   real life does not play by these rules.  who has not heard someone say  "schutzhund is a sport, anyone can teach a dog a routine" .  as for ring sports,  the same can be said for them.   mondioring  can have different setups each time, so you may never know what you are going to run into,  but exercises are still set.    dont know much about knpv, but am told its a good test.

a dog is what a dog is.  u can train them to do anything (within the limits of the dog). 

as far as showing police.   i had a few people tell me my male should have been a police dog.  i finally got his sch3.  he now has 3 progeny with badges or in training and soon to get them.  the dog showed me he had the ability, and luckily he produced it.   producing it is more important than having it (from a breeders perspective).  

let me know what some of your ideas are and i will see if i can shoot holes in them. LOL. 

john

well your hiting it on the nail for me it will be like mondio and knpv

If your in the USA why not work toward bringing KNPV here?