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Originally Posted by JKlatsky
You're wrong.  If your dog can be sent in for a Bark and Hold, maintain it even when the helper moves, and with a variety of distractions, and you can then reliably call the dog away from the helper, heel the dog around the field with the helper there and ask for sits and downs and attention to you and not the helper...then you probably have a safe dog. |
Jklatsky is right and the key word is probably. A lot of it will also depend on who the dog is doing the H & B on. A dog can be very clean with one helper and then you put another helper with less presence in the blinds and the dog decides he is going to punk the helper just to show him who is boss. Last week I did a H & B in a bitesuit with a Sch3 regional lvl dog and he did 5 barks and then bite me in the crotch (thank god for the padding lol). No matter how well trained, never forget they are still dogs ... so put as much obedience on the dog as you can.