Posted by Butch Cappel
on November 3, 2009, 7:35 am
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Counting down to the weekend an everyone is starting to arrive. We worked PSD's and drug detection all day and Tony McCallum pulled in from Australia about mid-day.
Takei Maki (Yes I spelled that right) one of my apprentice dog training students, here from Tokyo, found out that no matter how many questions she had, Tony was the man with an answer, so she pulled out her note pad and kept asking.
One question got an answer I thought we could all appreciate. Maki is a dog trainer in Japan, and is trying to learn as many things as she can about dogs and dog training, trying to be a better professional in her country, that is why she is here, to learn about PP and PSD's in my two week apprenticeship program.
She has attended two or three dog trainer schools in the US and has a firm foundation in SchH, Ring, and American sports dogs. She asked Tony how you judge a PP dog if you don't count the stick hits or how far the dog is driven, or how many steps the decoy gets in an escape?
In other words she wanted to know, if you don't have a ritual with a precise pattern, a targeted bite, etc what do you look at, in PP, to judge the best dog?
Tony explained it this way.
"If you were at a public park and set your six year old child at a picnic table, as you went to a bathroom located near by, which dog, regardless of size would you want to own, if you came out of the restroom and saw a bloke, whose face had been all over the six 0:clock news, snatching your child? Which dog regardless of breed would you want to own at that moment? That is the dog that wins a K9 PRO SPORTS trial. There is no need to count steps or stick hits just know that dog will stop any human that crossed his family"
Not much to add to that one, just waiting to see which dog Tony picks this weekend,
Tony McCallum Seminar 9:am Friday Nov. 6
Trial 10:am Saturday Nov. 7
BE THERE BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Listen Well, Bite Hard!!!
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