Attack Dog Training – My Story
Attack Dog Training – My Story
Last year I decided to semi retire my old police patrol dog ” Duke “, a 10 year old male German Shepherd, after 7 years of faithful service.
I spent 7 years between 8 and 10 hours a day with Duke on 1000’s of varied security assignments and during that time I learn’t a lot about what was required from a “real dog” in the “real world”
Following my decision to retire my old police dog I set out on the journey of finding a suitable replacement partner only this time around I had a much greater level of expectations and I must say that the process has been both incredibly rewarding in the new knowledge I have learn’t and some of the amazing and generous people that I met along the way, working dog breeders, professional trainers as well as other dog handlers and at the same time incredibly frustrating – mostly because of “some of the people I met along the way” haha – self proclaimed “experts” providing thier opinions and advice on “attack dogs” and “attack dog training”
I think that dog training and dog breeding is just one of those areas in life in which everyone has an opinion and strangely often the people that know the least are the most vocal with their opinions. I can not recall how many 1000’s of times that people I met on duty that felt compelled to regale me with their stories about how their dog was ” “trained to attack on command” or how protective their dog was of them that they didn’t need any training, and don’t get me started on the hooligans that thought their “pit bull” would make a better protection dog because he would “kick my dogs arse” – you have to laugh.
I have always been active in training with Duke, the degree of seriousness to which I pursued it waxed and waned at various points in time, based on my work schedule but I was always actively pursuing it at some level and as a result I feel I am very qualified you assess an opinion or theory, in short weeding out the truth from the myths and misconceptions but at the end of the day I can only offer my opinion an simply hope that you enjoy reading what I have to offer and find this site a source of useful information and references.
