David C.Frost Webboard User Reg: 01-23-2002
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I've never worked with a chessie in any type of protection work, but I do have two Chessies as drug dogs, one male and one female. A bit hard headed, but great drug dogs. Both aggressive response, one uses a tennes ball, the second a hard rubber ball. The male, working weight of around 90 pounds, bit an officer that tried to take his tennis ball (not the handler). While both have some serious attitude, I don't see what would be needed in either of them to make PSD's out of them. I'd take more for detector work if I can find them.
DFrost
Any behavior that is reinforced is more likely to occur again.
Howie,
I have a friend with a ches bay too. I have only seen this one, but he is a GREAT gaurd dog. When he growls at someone his lips roll all the way up his forehead. My GSD could learn a lesson in "seriousness" from his dog. There is no question in my mind, the dog will take any pressure in a defending his owner. He uses his dog as a protection dog. No sports
This is exactly how my Dad's dog is. He is an awesome guard dog. He will protect my stepmom at any cost. We have to put him up when someone comes over and then bring him out to meet the new strangers or he will flip out. Once he learns that they are of no threat, he is fine. He even does well with little kids. He has had absolutely no protection training in the past. This all came naturally. He has amazing prey drive and one hell of a tough, hard dog he is too! Your right, my GSD could learn alot from my Chessie also.
Jerry Cudahy has talked about how good one was he's seen in the past, I think. I don't know if it was allowed to compete in the French Ring, but from what I heard he was a excellent dog.
This dog seems to be an exception for this type of work, in regards to it not being designed that way.
Perhaps you might want to ask him about it.
I will say though that in my opinion this won't be a breed you can count on everytime. You can find some but you can just pick one and always expect it to do well in protection work or sport. Not that you can with any dog, but I would think it'll be harder with this.
One thing working for you is they're trainable, have prey drive, and if you find one with the defense drive is there, then I guess it would work decent.
They seem to be one of the more civil hunting dogs out there. If one choose to breed them for protection work only it would be interesting to see the results.
After seeing Chessie's over the past 5 years ,I have seen some great hunting dogs,and some even doing the sport in some area or another ,many owners telling me they are hard headed, but still retain some of the natural working abilities of the breed.
I see them becoming more popular and wonder how long it will be before another breed is lost ,so hope that anyone on the list that has them keep those working lines going.
As far as doing real street work,I am sure there might be a dog out there that can do the job,like many breeds, but not the dog one would think of as being a complete PD ,but sure they have a place in some area like Drug work,or bomb detection IMHO . Peter
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