I am a GSD owner and I love them ,but my dad has a Chessie and let me tell you that that dog is one of te hardest and most protective dogs that I know. He has never been trained in protection but is naturally protective of my dad's house and of him and my step mom. I also like boxers as protection dogs.
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Great hunting dogs, great watch dogs, crappy protection dogs.
Why waste the time putting the work into a dog that most likely will not have the juice to do the job as well as another breed. If you need a protection dog get one from a proven line and proven breed. It will eliminate head aches.
There are a lot of funny stories out there about Chessiies, I hunted over a friends who would have been a good and serious schutzhund dog. We put him on afrabo once just for the grins of it and the dog did well. He was hard and serious, only his handler could take the ducks he retrieved anyone else got a little of the dog's wrath.
I also worked one that was SchH III and one of that dog's pups was doing French Ring and doing it repectably (since it was not on the list of acceptable breeds for Ring it could only perform as the dog in white though). Kinda a hoot, but I will tell you that I like them as practical hunting dogs, they are rugged hard dogs.
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Best American hunting dog if you ask me. We have owned a few of them in the past. For late season duck hunting there is no better. The sick bastards will walk right over to the pond, break the ice, and lie in the water like it's a hot tub.
But, Kevin, protection? I have heard, and read stories of SchHIII Chessies, but I would think it would be a lot more work than picking up a Mal or GSD.
I like that idea too. There's also many officers who use these breeds for drug detection as well as SAR work. Your never going to find a dog that is so obediant AND has a nose like that (Labs, Goldens, Chessies, etc) The other Nose dogs are just that, all nose, little obediance. Just an opinion.
As for my favorite Retriever I have to go with a Lab. BUT, I've never been around Chessies before.
If my primary goal was a protection dog I agree there may be some better choices by getting a dog bred for protection work. If your primary goal is a hunting/companion dog that will protect there isn't a better breed. THe ones I have had were as tough and dominant as my of the protection dogs I have dealt with and won't back down from any thing. They do suffer from some of the same socialization issues that the protection breeds have. As a retriever they will work as long, or longer, than any Lab and swim faster. They are too smart for their own good, and have to be kept interested and challenged.
If I still had time to hunt I would have another one of them in a heart beat.
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Anyone say Weimeraners (sp) ran into a few that could find water fowl, work pheasants and if you didn't behave yourself correctly, put you in line as well. Rivals the Chessie, I think, in the same catagories with the same priorities.
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