Will I thought you would appreciate this since there in your favorite city (Ohio). Be sure to check out the videos.

Now don't laugh too hard at this site

http://www.k9usa.com/video.html

http://www.k9usa.com/protection.html

http://www.k9usa.com/index.html

None of the protection videos are working links, but I watched that Demo video of theirs.

I am somewhat impressed with the dogs training, listens better than my dog that's for sure, but I would also feel very embarassed if I made my dog do most of the things he trained the dobie to do! Poor dobie.

I wonder if the Bengals got a group discount <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

While the tricks were indeed goofy, the trainer should use that well-trained dog to his advantage! He could go to area schools with his dobie and show the kids that not all dobies are mean and nasty. With a fun presentation, not just a "look what I trained my dog to do" kind of show, it could go a long way to reducing dog/breed anxieties in kids AND adults.

VERY obedient Dobe but I didn't find it enjoyable to watch at all. Not being biased but watching Cindy work with her dog on Ed's Basic Obedience DVD was much better. Can't put my finger on why???? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
The protection videos 'looked' good but haven't a clue if they 'were' good.

Well, the guy's site said he was working motivationally, but the dog looks a bit depressed working.

Lisa - it's not so much the dog as the handler, he may be a good trainer (I use the term "good" loosely), but when you see a trainer who respects their dogs, enjoys the work, encourages the dog excitedly to do something, it gives you a different feeling watching the dog work, compared to say, someone who is just throwing commands at the dog to show off on a video and not interacting with the dog or praising the dog or anything, it's a "hey look i snap my fingers n the dog does such n such, isnt that cool?" kinda attitude that I hate. I saw the "Raising a working puppy" leerburg DVD at a friends house a few days ago and it's much more enjoyable watching Ed working with puppies with a happy enthusiastic calm tone, laughing when his dog doesn't obey instantly the first time told to do something. Not only does it make me feel less badly about having a dog that is pretty stubborn and doesnt always want to do exactly as he's told the first time he's told to do it, but it also shows me that someone treats their dog like an animal and not a robot, if my dog did everything I said all of the time, yes it'd be alot less stressful dealing with him some days, but I would feel very badly for a robotic dog that just does what he's told to do because he's told to do it.

That's what it was- Cindy's dog semm to be really enjoying itself. That dog looked really p***ed off. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

The dogs level of obedience was amazing, but like you said the dog looks depressed. No wonder, five hundered tricks for a few lame ball throws (and no praise) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

excelent obedience and skill. lousy presentation. Just my humble opinion, Cute tricks and Dobies don't go together. If I was selling a school I would of used a cute mutt to let the client know you can train most any dog to do this. I was told by my instructor that you don't make large dogs do a lot of roll overs on a hard surface.