Working your dog in defense

[onyx'girl]

courage is fear that has said its prayers

[Mrs.K]

Originally Posted by codmaster

Is it courage or something else that makes a dog challenge a full grown bull or sends a human charging into gunfire to save someone else?

Is courage "the lack of fear" or something that lets a dog or person overcome it?

It's not the lack of fear. It is the power to overcome it. Here is a nice article about it. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...-cowardly-lion

[hunterisgreat]

Originally Posted by codmaster

Is it courage or something else that makes a dog challenge a full grown bull or sends a human charging into gunfire to save someone else?

Is courage "the lack of fear" or something that lets a dog or person overcome it?

Courage is absolutely not a lack of fear. It is a soundness when one is under a great deal of fear

[codmaster]

Originally Posted by onyx'girl

courage is fear that has said its prayers

Heh! Heh!

[Liesje]

Originally Posted by onyx'girl

It happens often, or a cat can be lingering on the edge of the field(in training as well), have you been to a trial?

Oh no, the cat again! LOL we were just talking about this at the seminar.

All of these have happened to me/my dog in trial/show/run:
- cat on the field during my obedience
- goats about 20 feet away running zoomies and humping each other
- 4 inches of standing water on the field (had to do a cram session convincing the dog she *could* sit and down in standing water)
- dog up in the long down
- female in standing heat in front of my dog
- judge stopping my performance to play-criticize me as if I wasn't nervous enough already
- dog run to judge instead of helper
- judge having a medical emergency (heart attack?)

You just never know....

[hunterisgreat]

Originally Posted by Liesje

Oh no, the cat again! LOL we were just talking about this at the seminar.

All of these have happened to me/my dog in trial/show/run:
- cat on the field during my obedience
- goats about 20 feet away running zoomies and humping each other
- 4 inches of standing water on the field (had to do a cram session convincing the dog she *could* sit and down in standing water)
- dog up in the long down
- female in standing heat in front of my dog
- judge stopping my performance to play-criticize me as if I wasn't nervous enough already
- dog run to judge instead of helper
- judge having a medical emergency (heart attack?)

You just never know....

Thought you said zombies when I first read that lol... Did just watch the walking dead so they're on my mind

[Liesje]

LOL at this point I would no longer be surprised.

[onyx'girl]

and the dog that left the group during the BH test to go pee on the judges leg....that was epic.

[Liesje]

Poor judge, he got peed on, nearly guarded (by my dog), and the dog brought him the dumbbell remember?

[RocketDog]

Originally Posted by Liesje

Oh no, the cat again! LOL we were just talking about this at the seminar.

All of these have happened to me/my dog in trial/show/run:
- cat on the field during my obedience
- goats about 20 feet away running zoomies and humping each other
- 4 inches of standing water on the field (had to do a cram session convincing the dog she *could* sit and down in standing water)
- dog up in the long down
- female in standing heat in front of my dog
- judge stopping my performance to play-criticize me as if I wasn't nervous enough already
- dog run to judge instead of helper
- judge having a medical emergency (heart attack?)

You just never know....

This list made me LOL. Well, except for the last one. But then yours and Jane's comments made me laugh again.