Since working Giant aka Riesenschnauzer is a breed that is relatively unknown to Americans in Shutzhund, Ring Sports, Police work, etc...
This thread to show the Riesenschnauzer as first-rate working dogs.
Here is a link of some videos of 2005 ISPU-Weltmeisterschaft für Riesenschnauzer in Haren/Emsland Germany. Judged by Mattias Hallermann (He also was the Obedience Judge
2006 AWDF Championship & Team Challenge)
I have a 4 year old American showline Giant and have only really started learning the differences since finding this forumn. I've been looking all over for pictures and videos of "working" Schnauzers working and haven't been all that sucessful. Thank you so much for posting these!
Giant Schnauzer (like most working breeds) come in a wide variety of traits and temperaments depending on the lines: American Show lines, East German, West German, Czech, etc... They can be very high maintenance and docile in some of the show lines to low maintenance and extremely sharp in some of the working lines. Most are some where in the middle.
I met my first Giant the other day, lovely dogs. I can imagine they'd be good in schutzhund (hell, the one I met had me in a bark and hold and wasn't even trained to do it).
(joking, by the way, but it had a pretty intimidating bark!)
I am surprised that Giants have not participated in the european ring sports. I had a discussion about this under the Belgian ring topic. It seems that Melinois dominate the sport. My Giant is much stronger than a Malinois and as agile.
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