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Originally posted by Mick Trainer
If you use sleeve to sleeve work you should be able to reduce the conflict and stop the growling in only a few sessions. Do be careful not to do too much prey work. Using sleeves to train you dog in Personal Protection is not a problem (there is too much emphasis in equipment in PP these days which shows too me that not enough people know what they are doing) but he must get a wake up call every now and again just too make sure he realises that what he is doing is a serious business. Save your siut, muzzle and undercover arm work for this sort of senario, too test your dog is doing what he should in the real world.
Mick. |
This is also why I feel flanking might also be a nice alternative. It is how the helper is viewed that makes the difference. Too much equipment work and the dog will lock into prey. Prey should be used to free up the dog. Initial sessions should be taught with a lot of prey to teach the dog what to bite. After that you've got to implement the pressure. This is how the dog advances.
Being green myself, my word is not stone. ;) It is just what I have seen.