Just out of my curiousity, from your experience, how long do you think it will take for my dog to be able to do offleash in schutzhund field with the 10 minutes training only (mostly tugging with the sleeve or shutzhund pillow)?
The backstory of the dog is a personal protection dog trainer sold me this dog, which I thought this dog was already capable of everything like I see in CPI (please check out
www.protectiondogs.com). This is really my first GSD, as I thought this trainer would like to sell me the same dog like in CPI but much less. Anyway we bought the dog and brought him home, he was fine with us and never shown any aggression to anyone until few weeks later when he started bonding with us. He showed aggression toward anything that came approaching us. This situation really frustrated me. We went back for some follow up trainings from the trainer who sold me my dog, he taught me on how to handle this dog, but he himself many times warns me that this dog is really aggressive so be very careful. And what he showed me everytime was yanking the pronk collar until he whimpers everytime he looks alerted (like when he was looking or just even eye-balling someone).
I thought this wasn't fair to him because it's his nature to be alerted, and as long he doesn't show aggression, I don't want to do this to him because it hurt him so bad. So I browsed around and I found about schutzhund club around my area, and decided to check it out and I spoke with the trainer. The trainer told me to bring the dog, and I did the next week itself. He evaluated my dog and told me that he was to alerted that as if he were a car, he is always at red line. So he suggested me to have private obedience training sessions with him for few weeks, so I did for 4 weeks. He showed so much difference after this obedience training as I also stopped going to follow up trainings from the trainer where I got him from. He doesn't aggress people or dogs. In the meantime, this trainer already welcome me and my dog to the schutzhund club that he knows that my dog isn't crazy. I have been going there on and off because of seeing stagnant results and paying $30 each time for 10 minutes session. I am really in doubt whether I should continue going there.
Correct me if I am wrong, when the dog is able to do bark and hold, you probably can tell that your dog is already safe for offleash, correct? Please help newbie here. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by onyx'girl
I would still take him to the club and work on obedience, tracking only.
I pay that amount(helper fee) and I am a member of my club...we don't rush the training so sometimes it feels as if we are stagnant-but good training shouldn't be rushed.
What is the whole backstory on your dog?
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