Hi I have a Labrador Retriever(chocolat) It's an extremely intelligent dog. I taught him how to get a newspaper from the door, in half an hour. Of course, this was just for fun. He's ten months old now, and I want him to learn how to attack humans. My girlfriend often takes him to the park, and she wants him to attack someone on command as well. We live in a big city, and don't feel safe all the time. We aren't violent or agressive people, we want our dog for protection. Could someone please explain the basic procedure, to properly teach a dog to attack, and hold a person.

Thank you very much,


Freek

Here's some more info on my dog:

I've been reading some articles about the drives of the dog here on the site. I read about the pray drive, which my dog strongly has. My dog is a fairly calm dog, meaning he's not easely stressed. He is very aware when something in the house makes a noise, he runs like hell, to see what it is.
He likes to chase rabbits, and other animals out of the garden. Funny thing is that my dog hardly ever barks. The only times I can get him to bark, is when I run around the table, and he chases me. Then when I stop running, and look at him at the other side of the table, I stick out my tongue, and say phphphphhhh or something, he starts to bark!(after that he starts chasing me very fast, and will jump up to bite me in the arm)

If he does it on me, how can I project this little game on someone else?
And also, how do you teach a dog to show his teeth, in a mean way?

He's always been among a german shepard and a rottweiler, from whom he learned the awareness.

Does anyone have some tips for me, like I asked in my first post.

Thanks again. Freek

Ed has 2 video tapes that would be a good start. Bite training puppies and the Fist steps in bite training. he says on the tapes that Labs can't be trained for bite training, but I have seen it done. It is a little slower and they don't make good trial dogs, but they will do the work if properly trained. The other thing to do now is find a trainer to work with. If you do bite training then the dog will have a "hard" mouth and if you had any plans for hunting with it you could forget about it.

Good luck.

I have seen Labs that have competed in Schutzhund. This is very rare. When this happens these dogs are train totally in prey drive, wich is OK for sport work.

Labs do not have the genetic make-up for fight drive. They should not be considered for serious personal protection dog.

Thanks Richard and Ed.

Richard/ed:
I don't have any hunting plans... So the hard mouth is fine with me.
I live in The Netherlands, you wouldn't know where I could find such a trainer, would you? I'm not sure if these trainings are available for civilians as well here in The netherlands. Does anyone know?

Ed: I totally understand what you mean. I would like to train with my dog in bite-lessons/prey drive. But I also understand that Labs lack fight drive. I think my dog does have fight drive, 'cause he learned it from a rottweiler.
Anyway, I have the dog, and do want lessons.

Any suggestions?

thanks very much for the comment and the fast reply!

Freek

Keep your dog as a pet. Buy a Malinoise (you live in a country that has some of the best working Malinoise in the world)then train in the KNPV.

I come to Holland every year to film the KNPV Nationals (I will be there for 2 1/2 weeks in the first part of Sept)

So you are surounded by good trainers. Have you ever heard the saying "You can't see the forest for the tree" ? Well that would have to be you living in Holland looking for protection dog trainers. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Freak (Somehow I find calling someone freak funny):

Please listen to Ed. To some up a 1000 pages from Ed in one sentance. A dog can bite in play or real. Your dog will only bite in play. You can not expect this type of dog to protect you. The best you can do is teach it to bark and hope that is enough.