| Bigwright.
You're right. A sport dog is trained under rehearsed scenarios, where the dog anticipates all the moves from the decoy and learns to bite in a precise momentum, finding no opposition (the stick is not really threatening). So the dog is conditioned to respond in an "automated" mode... Is that dog fighting or playing around?
In personal protection the dog is taught to fight under unexpected circumstances and scenarios, where the dog has to fight to prevail, because the decoy will put more pressure than just raise his arm with a stick or caressing the dog with it a couple of times. For instance, hidden sleeve and muzzle fighting are hardly ever used by most schH enthusiasts, however, in PP those are normal tools of training.
By the way, I think is well worth to clarify that muzzle work is more complex than whatever has been described in this thread. I don't want people be left under the impression that you put a muzzle on the dog and then piss him off (some call it "work him up") and that's it. That would only ruin a dog.  |