Selecting a Protection Dog…Part 5
The fifth step is to place you and your family through a school on how to use, work, and function with our highly trained protection dogs. We’ll teach you the basics, from asking the dog to go to his place to how to subdue an intruder. We will meet you wherever you’d like and are capable of training at your home, office, or our own facility. We have FAA licensed pilots on hand to deliver your protection companion. Since we offer a lifetime training guarantee, you can rest assured your dog will receive constant training throughout its lifetime.
Sure, you can go back to Farmer Joe and choose a $300-$600 dog, but what’s so special about his breeding stock? Have his parents earned any working titles? What proves that his puppies will provide you with a high level of protection, agility, and obedience along with intelligence? Now, you may get the luck of the draw and happen upon the best dog you’ve ever owned…but then again, you could have missed out on the chance to own one far superior.
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So….today I walked into PetSmart to purchase a ”Chuck it” (My dogs love the ball). On the way out I’m growled at by this lady’s catahoula mix while she paid the cashier. We are leaving at the same time and as she starts walking, the dog stops growling and forges in front of her. She then clicks her clicker and keeps walking. The dog then stops, urinates, then starts walking again. She again, clicks the clicker. I tell her (on my way to my vehicle), click the clicker after the behavior you request specifically. She replies by telling me that she knows what she’s doing and she’s been taking the classes at PetSmart.
So…I’m not knocking the excellent training at these local pet stores but I certainly encourage all of you to do your research with any trainer previous to signing up. Clearly, that girl and that catahoula mix are missing out on good instruction.
Just my thoughts.
Read MoreSelecting a Protection Dog…Part 4
The fourth step is to acclimate the dog to your household while enhancing protectiveness in a real scenario. We practice carjacking scenarios, mock break-ins with a variety of intruders, possible attacks and abductions, gun fire stressors, and so on. While continuing this real simulation, we acclimate the dog to a variety of real life needs: going to a coffee shop or grocery stores, long car rides without barriers, drive through restaurants, and the such.
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