If you find this post on the Protection thread, its only because I tried to branch out and post in a different forum. I didn't get any answer though, so I decided to repost here. Forgive me mod's if that was a no-no.

I'm just curious how many of the trainers would recommend training a dog to attack without a command?

What I mean by this is... if someone were to come up from behind you that you went to high school with that you hadn't seen in years and grabbed you from behind, you wouldn't want the dog to bite that person. Still, how would the dog know that this person was not a threat? Should the dog determine that a threat might be there, he would obviously bite. Should a dog bite w/o command and should a dog be allowed to make that assumption on it's own or should the handler take full responsibility for his/her surroundings? (kinda obvious, the answer is yes, but you know what I mean) On the other hand, what if you are in serious danger and for some weird reason?? you are unable to give the command and the dog is waiting for the release to bite? It is not something that I need to make a decision about at the moment as we just started protection training but is has been brought up to me by another trainer whose views were no dog should attack under any circumstances w/o a command and I thought it food for thought. I then asked my trainer today and there was no question that for him, his dog should bite. His dog is trained to bite if anyone puts two hands on him, w/o a command given. Take into consideration he has no children or a million people coming in and out of his house all day like I do. When people come for training they are put in the back rooms. They are still good around people but I didn't try to pet his malinois, either, lol. He said I would have to make this determination at some point in time and I was wondering what you thought of this. Would you mind helping me put this into perspective? Just another reminder for those that want a dog protection trained to put alot of thought into it. The variables of having a dog trained are many! While I am willing to make these adjustments to own a PPD not all are prepared for these kinds of things. I would like to hear arguement on both sides so that I might make a clear decision.

 Quote: RobbinMann

If you find this post on the Protection thread, its only because I tried to branch out and post in a different forum. I didn't get any answer though, so I decided to repost here. Forgive me mod's if that was a no-no.

Yep, it's definitely a no-no.

Responses can be posted here:

http://www.leerburg.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=161919#Post161919







Edited by Connie Sutherland (11/08/2007 05:21 PM)
Edit reason: duplicate post