Anyone do any long distance civil training at 20m or so with 7 or so month old dogs ? I was thinking of having decoy, big raincoat,hat , glasses act sneakily like <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> from around corner of building holding a big rag in each hand. When dog alerts , barks I give praise, decoy runs away and drops one rag in process. Walk dog over to spot , still on leash, let him bite,shake rag . Any input ideas ???
Jason Shipley Webboard User Reg: 05-13-2005
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This is a bad idea for a young pup. At that age you want to be building up the dog and working him in prey. A dog that age should barely show an interest in someone 20 meters away, and should not be showing any agression towards humans in general. At that age it's probably fear and not what you want.
Defense is fear. I would not go this route either. It will occur during prey type aggitation as well, but not like you did it on purpose. A new decoy running around in prey can be enough to bring some out. Not something you want to promote untill they are a bit more mature, say next week <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> Just kidding <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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What you are asking about is a BAD IDEA !!!!! It's an excellent way to screw up your dog - then you will need a much better trainer to help guide you into fixing the problems you created.
Young pups have long memories - you only need to make a serious problem like this once for them to remember it for a long time
A dog needs to be mature before it is worked in defense.
And Jeff - in mature dogs defense is not necessarily "fear"
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Long distance civil training
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