… Previous I call this my colored dot concept. Let me be clear here, this is totally made up and only an aid to help people understand things a little better. As you all know (if you don’t you should) dogs are macrosomatic animals. Loosely translated that word means, large nasal cavity. All animals that …
Tracking -books, -videos, -articles, and -seminars have one thing in common. They are written, produced or taught by people. That factor also presents the biggest flaw in tracking: The human perspective on the subject. As people, I believe we have to accept our position in tracking. We are to a large degree spectators to this …
At my seminars, I like to address specific training issues the dog handlers feel is their dogs’ weakest point in protection. I would say that with the dogs who have already had some protection training, the single most mentioned problem is the issue of gripping technique. The most lamented concerns are a shallow bite and …
Continued from Part 1 As promised, here is the second part of my article on prey drive promotion. Naturally, I won’t start at the beginning of prey drive training again. I am going to make the assumption that the reader has read part one of this article in order to continue my discussion. There are …
Following my article in the Nov/Dec issue I was asked to continue discussing the drives used in protection training in short articles. I will use my translation of Helmut Raiser’s book Der Schutzhund as a reference in my discussion. Let’s begin practical training for protection work where it should begin: with prey-drive promotion. Let me …
Following the popular response to Armin Winkler’s introduction to drives in protection training published in a previous issue he was asked to continue discussing the drives used in protection training in a series of articles. He uses his translation of Dr. Helmut Raiser’s book Der Schutzhund as a reference in his discussion. Let’s begin practical …