Ed Frawley Administrator Reg: 07-11-2001
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This week I finished editing a 75 minute DVD on how to raise a working puppy. This has been a project that had been in the worls for a couple of years. Cindy and I put our heads together and the information in this tape is a result of over 60 years of combined experience in raising working dogs.
Hello Ed.I loved this video and I noticed that you said no one other than you plays with,feeds or pets youre dog.Does this only mean when the dog is young or should you do this even when he is older.My dog is for personal protection and I have heard that interacting with friendly people is OK so he can see the differnce between a friendly person and a threatening one.I have also read that if the dog is friendly and was properly socialized its OK not to have people pet him so he learns to not pay attention to others.I was confused
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Rich - No one pets my dogs - or puppies. Not unless they want my foot up their ass. This has nothing to do with what the final goal is with the dog - if I wanted people to touch my pets I would have got a PET ROCK.
Dogs are pack animals - strangers arfe not part of the family pack. I dont even pet Cindy's dogs and we live together
Does that make a dog be aggressive towards people.someone that approaches you to say hello and shake you're hand?If they are trained for personal protection would that turn the dog into a monster towards people?
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I don't think so. You're still getting the dog around other people and making him behave, just not letting him play and be petted.
I think that's a good point. Seems like people I know that want 'protection' dogs do zero socialization because they are afraid the dogs will be too friendly. Rather than still bringing the dogs out and about everywhere to see and be exposed to everything, just having much clearer boundaries with the interaction between people and their pups.
Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect --- W.R. Koehler
I have done the same thing in the past,after the first week He is mine and hands off.I have people say to me,and quite nasty too,"What do you want a dog like that for,that bites and does not like people."I should not say this but I think in my opinion,a dog that likes all people and that is friendly is useless to me.My last GSD took no prisioners.He was wonderful,I had to put him down almost 4 months ago of DM.A truly evil disease.
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