So I think this is the best place to ask these but I may get moved.
I was watching Dealing with Dominant/Aggressive and there is a video bit with a decoy in a black suit in a red seated arena...the dog runs at him and hits the sleeve and the decoy swings the dog out and away in a twist. I was wondering, from a dog safety point of view if this is better / worse or what compared to hitting the sleeve offered out front and into the body impact. Just seemed that the arm out and swinging the dog was a way that both could get hurt...though it LOOKED really impressive.
Second question. I want to get some 'real' tugs to work with our dogs. I have, as the old training recommended, NOT played tug with the dogs but would like to work with some drive now. I have dogs from a 100# Ridgeback to 15# terrier mixes. Should I go by size of the dog or would a softer tug work better to start to work with or what? Any input would be great.
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You don't want to try and absorb the impact. You can hurt the dog, his neck or spine and it can knock the heck out of you too. Sometimes a big full circle swing may be just for show, but its important to go with the impact.
As far as tugs, the material seems to matter more with my dogs then hard or soft. Neither one really likes the fire hose material, but they both love bite suit material and leather.
Ya gotta remember Sonya the dogs we all see in vids are dogs either in training or trained. How many solid hits do you think they'd have to take getting to that level? How many would make it without debilitating injuries if we owners or the decoys didn't do something to lessen the impact?
All trainers that care take mind of the extraordinary physical demands made on our dogs.
Oh I realize the demands to some degree (not having trained a dog to bite work or done decoy work...just watched) I was just curious since I had seen some of the Mondio hits that the decoy seemed to more run out of and in a straight line to the hit or take full on. I was asking what was easier on the dog. Mostly it looked awkward to catch a dog and twist it. I was thinking maybe the twist and swing might be hard on them in a different way and perhaps harder on the decoy. So I was asking about the difference in the two techniques.
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two questions...re decoy hit and tug toys
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