Just curious. As some of you know, I went to my first Schutzhund trial a couple of weeks ago. I noticed that in the protection phase, the helper is always behind the last blind. No variation. I was wondering why it's done this way. The reason I ask is when teaching my now 6 year old rottie to sit, stay, down, etc. I also taught him to roll over and speak. He quickly realised what was coming and just did it all before I could even command it in order to get the praise or treat. I noticed that some of the dogs in the trial did basically the same thing. After searching 1 or 2 blinds, they went straight for the last one knowing that's where the "bad guy" would be. Wouldn't it make more sense to vary where the "bad guy" is so the dog can't assume that's where he's going to be?
Originally posted by K Fox: I noticed that some of the dogs in the trial did basically the same thing. After searching 1 or 2 blinds, they went straight for the last one knowing that's where the "bad guy" would be. Wouldn't it make more sense to vary where the "bad guy" is so the dog can't assume that's where he's going to be?
Kory
Ah, yes, but you only see part of the equation. Do you think that the other dogs ran all six blinds because they didn't know where the helper was? It is an excercize in obedience to have to run all six as directed and is not by any stretch of the imagination easy to train a dog to do.
Dogs are not stupid. They look for feet under the blind, they have a far superior sense of smell, they know where he is. (especially in all this heat <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> )
I realise it's not easy to get the dog to do it correctly. The lady that runs the host club said that she considered that to be one of the hardest things to train. I guess I'm not really getting my point accross. Maybe it's because this is a sport and not real life situation, but my thinking was that make it more like a real type situation to have the variance in which blind the "bad guy" was behind.
O.K. I can understand that. Let me ask this then. Would it make it easier to get your dog to search all the blinds if, when training, you varied which blind the helper is behind? That way, the dog wouldn't have the urge to just go straight to the last blind.
Everybody tries this at some point when training their dog... Guess what? The dog isn't stupid and it doesn't work. You can play the shell game all you want. It doesn't work that way.
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