| Re: Schutzhund?
This is the same way a breed would seek a good fighting Pit but instead of towards humans it would be towards dogs. Woops sorry I wrote this post really quickly and should of added that there is no doubt that due to a Pit being from dog fighting stock and not from Protection orientated stock that it has greatly reduced their ability to work in these fields overall. Their real aggression capabilites are targetted towards dogs and this is extremely different from doing so towards humans. Whilst I have a few other reasons that Pits would not be the first choice for such work their lack of civil human aggression and their capability to see the helper as someone to fight with is the biggest factor holding them back. Not that they are too soft or weak of nerve. As I have said before I find the exact opposite.
Speaking of only confident dogs biting a sleeve, I've seen many defensive and other wise nervy dogs bite the sleeve without issue. Raise a voice, give a hard correction, show them the stick and they run. Ok just for an interesting discussion I would like to discuss this a little. Thsi isn't really true. it may appear to a novice or s spectator that this is the case but anyone really working this dog (helper, decoy, agitator) would easily be able to see in such a dog the signs of it's nerve. There is no doubt a nervy dog can bite very hard, they often do as they view it that they are fighting for their life, any helper worth anything would see the signs of stress upon the dog (eyes widening, shoulder stiffening, sideways glances etc etc etc) that would show him what the dog is feeling. No helper should be shocked at the dog moving off the bite when he/she does things to increase stress upon the dog. He/she should easily be able to see the dog is nearing the edge. A dog will not be truly comfortable on the bite and show such avoidance and bite truly well.
Mick.  |