Attack Dog Training – The New Standard

In my last post I mentioned that last year I decided to retire my police dog of 7 years and begin the search for a replacement partner. The first thing I would disclose here is that I think the standard for attack dog training has improved a LOT in the seven years since I purchased my first dog, Duke.

Seven years ago there weren’t a lot of breeders that even understood the requirements of a real working dog, in fact most breeders that where advertising their dogs as being of a “suitable type” for protection training  where in reality breeding “breeds” of dogs that long ago had their origin in working lines but generations of breeding down for the show ring or “conformation”meant that they were not really working dogs at all.

Today there are several working dog breeders in the US that are breeding from true working bloodlines based on imported Eastern European bloodlines and I would say that once I got down to a short list of possible suppliers I was extremely impressed with the standard of the breeding lines on offer.

The challenge is that the breeders of show line dogs haven’t gone away and most haven’t improved their lines to offer real working lines, rather there is simply more “choice” available and for a novice this has the effect of only clouding the water more and making the the right choice even more complex.

In the next few posts I will try to cover things to look for in selecting a breeder and then we will move on to attack dog trainers.  I hope you stay tuned.