How feasible is it to train multiple dogs, say two or three, for personal protection at the same time. Can the bite work, in a suit, be worked at the same time safely. (I realize that compatibility would be a must for the dogs in question.)

I have considered it in muzzle, but that's about it. I have always assumed that Fifi and Fido would figure it out if it came down to real crunch time. Obedience at the same time no problem, but protection?

I'm talking off leash stuff here, with only one handler, on practiced/trained dogs.

VanCamp,

It is very feasible. It comes down to doing the complete work on the dogs first. Then the dogs are trained to hit in different areas, and that they won't lose their bite to the other dog. They do have to get along well. We have a couple of people in our group that have multiple dogs that they work together.

How do you train them to hit different areas, you target train each dog before to a specific area, then you work them together?

One goes left the other goes right?

VanCamp,

Yes, one left and one right or one high the other low. The dog will tend to take the closest target so the dogs are at first put on one at a time from opposite sides. Then the agitator turns when one is on to provide a different target from the same starting place. After that the dogs are taught that which ever gets there first takes the closest target and the second one in gets the other side.

THis is a good idea to train if you have multiple trained dogs loose in the same area or you take a chance on the dogs fighting each other for the bite rather than taking the bad guy.

I think I just saw something about a person being convicted of murder with two trained protection dogs. Be reasonable!!!!!!!!!

Oh, COME ON, how many of us have more than one dog in their households that do protection or Schutzhund. Quite a few. . . Does that make any of as at all like that SF case- not even -F-ing close. Please. . . <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Those animals were not trained to be controlable in any way, nothing like a Schutzhund dog or personal protection dog. It would not have been a problem if those people weren't A) total -F-ing psychos, and B) they had trained their dogs so as to maintain some level of control.

Not to many sub-human deviants out there like those two pukes. That has nothing to do with this thread. Using more than one dog (not more than a few) for home protection is absolutely legitimate as long as they are properly trained and housed responsibly. For years I left two dogs at home with my family, and had my personal dog with me most of the time.

Was that a joke?

Allan, I am going to guess you are being sarcastic based on the link you have on your post. If you are being serious than you are no better than all of those other idiots that think all protection dogs are like those untrained beasts in San Francisco, IGNORANCE pisses me off.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Alan is not an idiot. Pretty nice, intelligent guy. I just don't agree with his post. He might have been kidding, but looking back at the thread it does sound a little funny. :rolleyes: <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Allan,

In reality there is good reason for teaching dogs that will be loose together to work together. One it will prevent fights between the dogs in a frustration situation. With my dogs when there is a person out side that they can't reach the Giant will turn to warn off the other 2 dogs.

Another thing that makes this discussion worth while is that people have done some strange things in teaching dogs to work together. At one point there was a guy in California that used a pack of Dobies (6 of them). What he did was trained each with a job to "protect" him if was shot. The plan was for 2 dogs to cover him and the other 4 to form concentric rings around him to keep everybody away from him. It sounds like a good plan to keep the bad guy away, it also would prevent any form of rescue personel form reaching him with out the dogs being killed.

Since many people keep multiple trained dogs around it makes sense to look at how they will react and if they will work together or fight each other in a situation. In addition it makes good sense to work this out in training, rather than making a discovery in a real problem. Will the dogs out when commanded with the competetive nature of the dogs working on the same person? Can the dogs be directed at multiple assailants? Anything that you can train for is one less question mark in a real problem.