Has anyone ever heard of a Labrador Retriever in Schutzhund?
My fiance has a wild hair up his butt about having two dogs(our GSD and now our lab pup)Sch titled. Our GSD isn't but we're working our way to the competition(slowly but surely, lol). The lab, he first had the idea of tracking/hunting or SAR, but now he keeps saying how cool it could be if we could have our lab compete. I may be wrong but, most labs I've known had more food drive and ball/tug drive than prey drive. Sure my pup is showing signs of great focus, but I don't know if we could even make it to a Schutzhund trial w/him. I just don't know.
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There are a handful of Schh3 labs in this country - don't know about Europe. One black lab in Idaho, another yellow lab I saw years ago at the HOT Championships in Texas. I didn't see the black lab ever work, but did see the yellow - I believe he was also a working police K9 (narcotics) - "Buddy" I think was his name. He did the work! But the protection was all play drive - he seemed to do ok in practise, but failed protection in the trial when the helper put pressure on him he didn't seem to understand, and backed off. There were also two Schh3 Border Collies at the same trial!
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Molly,
I got to see the SchH III Black Lab work a couple of times way back then, he was....ok. It was a h*ll of an accomplishment just to get a breed like that to that level, so it was quite a thrill to get to see him trialing.
And yep, it was 100% prey drive.
Lugi was one of the SchH III Border Collies that was shown in the very first HOT trial done in Texas ( Molly was there and did mighty fine that trial, as I remember ) owned by a lady from Arizona. That dog did a blind search so fast you'd have thought that he'd been shot out of a cannon, it was cool to see.
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yes the border collies - VERY fast. Obviously very trainable - obedience very nice as could be expected. The Schh3 dumbbell was almost too much for the 40 lb dog - but he did it. Protection - as Will said - very fast, and yep he barked, bit and outed, obedience again was nice. All prey drive, no power or aggression - but he did it. Cool to see these "different" breeds do the sport. No harm in it IMO. I think if the helper had put more pressure on the BC he would also have cocked his head and said "hey that isn't part of the game" like the lab did. But for a "sporty" dog - no problem - they did the work.
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