Kenneth Smith Jr
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Steve thank you. I agree with all you said. I will keep you posted on my Corso’s progress. We are planning several things this year. 1. ATTS test in MayPeople that do work with their dogs like myself and a great myriad of others around the world understand that before you invest hundreds of hours into any dog, you need to see its drives, you need to test its hips, you need to test its nerves. Nobody wants to develop a 25k dog just to end up with a hip problem a few years down the road. Since I use my dog for protection work in todays environment, I have learned a great deal about what's involved in training for this. I can attest having owned dogs both normal obedience trained and dogs with protection training the later puts the owner much more in touch with the dog. It creates a great deal of discipline and much higher levels of obedience and by the way, my dog absolutely loves it.
Nothing wrong with allowing a dog to learn and use some of its instinctual genetics. For this reason breeds play a big part in which dogs are chosen for protection work. Mastiff is one of the top choices. Also I would feel much safer walking near a big dog with protection training then walking near a big dog with someone that has no clue as to control their dog.
In this video and any other video where they are testing drive, normally the dogs are young as this one is only 11 months and most likely is basic obedience trained. They are in the woods so the atmosphere alone puts the dog alert, secondly the man is approaching in a threatening manor with a bite sleeve. If i'm at the mall and hundreds of people are walking passed, my dog continues walking like nothing. If someone approaches me in a rapid manor or a loud manor my dog becomes alert as almost any dog would. By the time this dog is done with its training and the dog is wrong in its instinctual plus trained response that the man is a threat in the woods, then his/her master will say no. I mean its a very simple concept.
Since the dog has a decent reaction to that, they can move forward with bite work, then outs recall and all else. Which would make this dog a very valuable, possibly life saving dog to someone.
I think personally anyone thinking of getting a Boerboel better understand these concepts because apparently many of these dogs are naturally on very high alert so breeders are being very selective rightfully so. Its not going to be some watered down version where its a crap shoot, yet anyway.
2. AKC novice Rally obedience competition in July with goal to go as high as we can
3. Parkour intermediate event in August
Hope to somehow get back into IPO soon.
As you can see love working with my girl. I plan on doing this with my boy Boerboel (my baby triplet of 10 is naming him Bubbles. Lol) a potential big dog of 150 name Bubbles to my protection.