The test originall purpose was to see which kind of training and use a dog was fitted for, it was developed by a facility which purpose was to train and breed dogs for servicework for the swedish state mainly as PSD, military and guarddogs, but that test also had some more situations with more advanced agitation. Maximum points is 300, and that describes the ideal PSD. A experienced person could see which kind of work a dog is suited for when looking thru the testresult. As an example the ideal result for sharpness +3, describes a dog with moderate sharpness with no remaining aggressivness after the threat is gone. -3 is a dog with very big sharpness and reamaining aggressivnes. So you have to know what kind of work the dog should do, and exactly what all the traits stands for that the test measures.
As this was a test for servicedogs, no strict rules was followed, a testleader which sense some fear when his playing tug of war with a dog could press him more to see his real character, the military figure on the slides doesn´t stop on a certain distance, it may bump into the dog, all because they want to see so much of the dogs character as possible.
When this test started to be used in the workingdogclubs, the purpose was to have a standarized test for all dogs with strict rules, so that all dogs was tested in the same way, because you can´t measure inborn differences in two dogs if they aren´t tested in the exactly same way. Now to the situations that vancamp wonders about.
test3, to test the dogs intresset and willignes to chase a moving object, what does the dog do with the "prey" when he gets it?, does he bite it intensly?, shakes it and so on. Prey/huntingdrive is needed when training a dog, because this drive you use in many trainingsituations.
test6. This test answears a lots of question about the dog. Do you get stressed when your handler is away? Are you affected by the figures?
Do you have the courage to run the same way as the handler? Are you concentrated to find your handler? Did you learn something after the first time? How brave are you? How curious are you? And so on.
Test 7. To see how a dog reacts in a surprise situation. Question to the dog, how afraid are you, how angry, how long does it take before the dog investigate the overall, does he need help from his handler, could you relax after a stressfull situation. This is a good test to see if a dangerous dog should be put down and are often done with dogs that have been involved in attacks on humans. A dog that goes straight for this "fake human" and attacks it, should obviously be put down.
test 10. A militaryfigure on slides drawn slowly towards the dog in the same speed, with a threating grin and eyes, which for the dog is a signal of threat. Purpoes is to test the dogs sharpness and defencedrive.
The whole purpose of the swedish korning is to see the inborn qualitys of a dog in situations he normaly not encounter in daily life, and therefore has no training for. A trained dog biting a sleeve in the german korung, don´t give you much information about this dogs inborn qualitys, it´s just a fancy title. Titles are not passed on by the genes, only the dogs inborn genetics. There are many example of high titled protectiondogs, that shows to much fear and needs to much help from the handler to be able to solve some of the situations in the swedish korning, obviously this dogs shouldn´t be breed if we want a dog that could function as a servicedog and not only on a field where he trained all his life.
I know that some changes are going to happen to this test, one of the highest priority of the swedish workingdog club is now to construct a test which where the testsituations should reflect practical work and function as close as possible.
Another test that I think has more value for a breeder and puppybuyer is the mh-test, where no points are given, only a judgment about the intensity of the dog in certain situations. No other test I´m aware of has the ability like this test to describe behaviours that are ruled by the genes. You get a good picture of the value of a studdog if some of his litters are tested, because it shows what he pass on to his offspring.
A test is only valuable for a breed or breeder if as many dogs as possible are tested so you could see what reactions this breed has, or to select a partner in a breeding. The beauty of this test is that it´s an organized test, that you could do in most of the workingdogclub in Sweden, and therefore the breeder has a very effective way to evaluate his breedingprogramm, where both the breeder and puppybuyers has a nice tool to compare the result with other kennels.
Kevins test is for selection servicedogs, he wouldn´t have time to test all the litters in the whole U.S of workingdogbreeders, to evaluate their breedings, and how many people has the experience to evaluate a dogs different qualitys in a very accurate way, so breedingselection could be done to eliminate certain traits that isn´t wanted in a workingdog. Look at the german korung where a dogs could get rated as "very high" in courage, how could they know this by watching a trained dog do a simple courage test? I bet a lot of dogs that gets rated as "very high" in courage and kampftrieb could never do servicework. One of the greatest benefit of the mh-test is that there is not much room for missjudgment, the judges have the testprotocol in their hands and observe the dog in a specific moment, as you could see in my previous link, the testprotocoll in the MH-test is quite detailed, and it´s not so hard to select the alternative which describes who a dog acts in a certain situation. If a judge fails to describe a certain trait in the right way, then this trait can´t be changed by breeding. The german korung has no detailed description, therefore missjudgment could be done, when they describe the different working-traits.
And van camp, no offense taken <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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