Why personal protection dogs do not make the best Schutzhund dogs!

You have got to see this!

I just completed a finished product video with Nikko and have been proud with the controlled fighter we have created. What a great dog – I’m really going to miss him now that he is going home!! (the baby steps are in the members area)

Then, I was on the leerburg forum I saw a video of another Malinois doing the same arm switch we worked so hard to get Nikko to master – but here’s the catch. The other mal is doing it on the bare arm of the schutzhund agitator when he goes to hit the dog with the whip! It seems either the dog was crossed trained in personal protection or learned to do this himself since it seems the agitator was going to correct the dog for biting the sleeve at the wrong time by hitting the mal (very very bad choice!) as seen by the outcome of training like this in shutzhund. What was he thinking!!

for those of you not very familiar with schutzhund, it is a sport where the dog should obviously know that the sleeve is NOT the agitator, but bites it anyway even though the agiatator is beating the dog with the bare arm. it is very rare the dog will bite the agitator like this because the dogs are really taught to fight for the sleeve, it is kind of like a rough game of tug o war. the dogs generally dont see it as a real fight or think the agitator is going to really hurt them. it is a sport. but apparently no one told that to this particular malinois or to the agitator who tried to sting him with a whip. If i didnt have Nikko still at the kennel, I would have thought it was him in the video – and someone played a sick joke by slipping him into a schutzhund club.

watch Nikko here than click on the link to the other mal at the schutzhund club…

here’s the other Malinois:
http://shkola-orlova.ru/view/55525f3…ff8925b0.xhtml

after you watch it check out the spectators! what the heck… not easily startled eh? They must have all been to ‘nam or something…
um, the dog is ripping the guys ligaments out right in front of you…

The cool thing is that the dog is doing the same thing Nikko is doing – a bite, a switch, then a pulldown. It is difficult to see how effective a good pulldown is when you see it on an agitator that has the benefit of a suit, but if a dogs teeth are buried in your arm, you will go where the dog pulls you to avoid totally being ripped open.

I feel bad for the agitator but at least he has that strange proud look on his face that most agitators get when they recieve a bad bruise or injury short of disabling them.
He just recieved a WHOPPER.

oh, one more thing.. Nice ‘Out’ command lady!!!