Posted by JasonSC on July 20, 2009, 4:10 pm, in reply to "Time to Teach Me ... Butch"
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I don't have your answers HB. In fact I am interested in the answers as well. I can share a lil of what i'm learning. I have been training for Schutzhund for about 4 months is all. I'm training with Pete Medina a 30 yr shepherd guy and on occassion Al Banuelos who put Schutzhund titles on American Bulldogs at national levels. When ever Levi is on the feild the tension level goes up because they know he is not a sleeve happy dog. He is a civil dog. He sees right through the exercise, right through the equipment and is focused on the man. It makes my training director a lil nervous. He's a good guy and I'm fortunate because he understands what Levi is and that I want him to stay that way. So i'm left with a civil dog being worked in sport with heavy control. And no we do not use electronics on him. Actually I use a small size prong with a tab and thats it. Butch will most likely remember Levi had to be choked out to get him to release....but now he is getting better and will out most of the time. When i'm working the shepherds I do the old helicopter with the sleeve to get the dog to focus on the equipment and yes I will pop the sleeve with the whip to zero the bite into the correct spot on the sleeve because thats what the owner wants. You gotta remember that we are training for a "sport" for points. I'm sure i'm doing things and I don't even know why yet. Every day we train I do new stuff and understand why we did something else yesterday....if that makes sense. In my novice opinion, if you bring a hard dog, a civil dog, a real world PP dog into sport and trial him it would be more along the lines of the origional reasons for the Schutzhund test.
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