Personal Protection Videos - Page 1

Seems to be a lot of discussion on the board lately about personal protection training.
 
I am no expert but I have always done personal protection with my German Shepherds.   Why?  I enjoy it.  And it gives me a sense of security I wouldn't otherwise have, my family has experienced violent crimes and my mother taught me to always own a GSD that is personal protection trained.  She herself purchased a 2 year old PP trained dog when I was only 2 years old (28 years ago) and I remember having fake intruders break into our house for training when I was a toddler.  I trained my first when I was 15 years old and the only place that dog didn't go with me was to school.  As soon as I could drive she lived in the back seat of my car, waited for me at the mall, at the movies, wherever I went so did she and she wouldn't have had it any other way.  There were several times that I felt she saved me from a potentially dangerous situation, I will never know what could of happened, I have her to thank for that. 

I train my dogs for every possible situation that either myself or my helper can think of but all the while with the intention of never using them.  I don't want to use them, I don't hope for something to happen so I can give my dog a "live" bite.  I hope that my dog will be deterrent enough for any thing dangerous to pass by me but just in case it doesn't I train for it all.

We train our dogs to work regardless of where the handler is, whether they be right next to the dog or 100 yards away.  In real life if I were to ever use my dog I would never send them on anyone, if the "bad guy" is more than 6 feet away then I don't need to use my dog, just my opinion.  I train my dogs bite just as hard and fight just as much regardless of how much or how little I say.  I train them to protect me, my house and my vehicle, to attack on command any subject and to respond to my cries for help when I am out of sight.  I set up scenarios at my house, in my car, in the areas I frequent, in dark alleys, abandoned buildings, anywhere we can gain access to.  I train in the bright of day and the dark of night.  I train my dog to respond to a physical threat against me or them self.  I also train complete control starting from day one.  I train my dog to bite on the ground, through car windows, on the roof of a car, on top of a stack of pallets, on stairs and slick or unsteady surfaces.  The more I train and the more varied my training, the more I enjoy it, the more my dog enjoys it and the more confidence that I have that if the situation should ever arise where it became necessary to use my dog that my dog would perform impeccably.

I wish I had video of my old dogs who have since passed, they were old school, before I had ever heard of schutzhund, great dogs, great training.

I only have 2 videos of my Husbands dog who he is currently training in personal protection.  She will be 2 in February and the videos are of only her 6th and 7th bite work sessions.  She is still in the early stages of training in the videos.  The firs video ist her first time doing short send offs and her first intro to veihcle protection while the handler get progressively farther away and she is tied inside the vehicle.  The second video is of her 7th training session where she is introduced to biting a fake hand and then biting a progressively more passive subject.  Yes, she is extrememly high pitched so you may want to turn your speakers down.

May be a pointless thread but I am just expressing my oppinion of and experience with personal protection training.