Not practical but I don't know if it's ment to be. Good or bad, it's ment to gain points. Just another aspect of the sport. Speaking for myself, I teach the "foose" just for sport. My "real world" command is just "walk easy". That means stay within 2-3 ft of me. A slap on leg will bring him in close when necessary. If you don't intend to compete, you don't need that "dreaming of a sausage" look. It's kinda like a nice, full grip. I doubt a K9 cop is concerned about wether his/her dog takes the badguy down with his canines or his molars, but as you say "It looks kind of cool". I sure like seeing both on my dog.
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To be honest, I don't really like that "dreaming of sausage look". I agree that it looks cool when a dog is extremely obeident, but if he's looking at my face or my butt makes no difference.
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That's the difference between heeling in Schutz and in ring. In schutz the excercises are very stylized and in ring it is more down to earth. It's like 2 types of 4X4's you've got on the one hand the Porche cayenne Very stylized and costs a lot of money on the other hand you've got Landrover defender down to earth 4X4. Both are 4X4 but different
The schutz version is to my point of vue not practical enough for the real world. In real world the ringversion is usable but sometimes when the dog goes left and you go right (or visa versa depending on the side it's going) gravity might take controle. Been there and the ground commes very quickly at you.
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You don't HAVE to have "walk in the park" heeling for ring. I train for ring and PSA and I teach SchH style heeling, of which my dog only does when I tell him "fuss" .. which we only do whilst working. When I take him out for a walk I tell him "yer pullin'!" and he walks nicely by my side like a "normal" dog LOL
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The point of competition heeling is to show the trainer's skill and the dog's ability to be trained.
Heeling with focus is hard to train for, to show a dog with great spirit in heeling and precision shows you are a good trainer and that you have a dog who has the mental ability and drive to be trained to a high level.
You can make a great argument that competition heeling isn't practical and that it looks pretty silly, but that isn't the point.
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