Re: Schutzhund
[Re: James Morrissey]
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04/28/06 10:43 AM
04/28/06 10:43 AM
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Jim Garvie
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James, Schutzhund is, indeed, protection training and it incorporates a lot of basic obedience training in addition to the bite work. Most of the dogs that do Schutzhund are German Shepherds, Rotties, Malinois and dogs that you would normally associate with police work. The key to Schutzhund is the release: all dogs can bite but a well-trained Schutzhund dog will always release on command. If properly trained, it is a sport and the dogs actually enjoy the "play" with the agitator and the sleeve is thought of as a "toy". Although I own Rotties, I don't work in Schutzhund. I do, however, respect the dogs and people that do it well and I've shot a bunch of Schutzhund trials. In my household, my Golden, Crash, is the only dog with the temperament to actually get a Schutzhund title. Dee Dee, can you imagine a Schutzhund III Golden? Jim
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Re: Schutzhund
[Re: James Morrissey]
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05/01/06 12:57 PM
05/01/06 12:57 PM
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Dee Dee
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Do you mean for you to learn to train the dog or to get the dog trained? I don't know the norm but to send a dog with a good trainer around here (they keep the dog and train it) it runs around $400 a month. But most people train their own dogs, in that case you would need to take lessons which can run from around $35 or more an hour for privates, or $10 or so per hour for group lessons. I don't know anyone around here that does group lessons in Schutzhund though, I have trained and shown my dogs in obedience for over 20 years (gads I feel old! ) so mainly just needed to learn the Schutzhund exercises which I did by training with friends which didn't cost anything...so basically the most common way for someone starting out would be to join a club, get some private lessons and in between get together to practice with other club members.
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Last edited by Dee Dee; 05/01/06 12:58 PM.
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