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Hey guys how’s your shield canine today We are going to talk about bite training Does it make dogs Less dangerous or more dangerous to have Around children now this is a topic we Need to talk about Protection dogs and kids is it safe is It not a lot of people with a lot of Opinions on this Of course my opinion is the most valid Because i actually have the most Experience on a personal and Professional level with this topic I’m talking about in relation to your General joe blow i’m sure there’s other Professionals out there that have come To similar conclusions that i have but You know it’s youtube so i get to be Hyperbolic anyways guys There are two reasons i want to talk About this in a general sense People need to be educated on this topic Um from a specific Uh sense There was an incident that occurred a Couple of weeks ago i want to talk about It it really really bothered me So Don’t worry i will show also some videos Of dogs you don’t just have to look at Me for the entire video I think what we should do is we should Start with the specific incident that Occurred okay
So Uh was it a week a week or two ago got a Call from somebody that had purchased a Dog from us The dog apparently had bitten their Five-year-old daughter Now We weren’t particularly perturbed Because it didn’t sound like the dog had Done much if any damage beyond some Scratches But We said by all means bring the dog in For some training now I know you guys are thinking well hold On hold on one of your expensive Protection dogs No This dog was a washout So let me explain We have litters from time to time here At shield canine We always Like to hold some puppies back from each Litter And we like to raise these puppies And if when the dogs hit eight to ten Months they come back from the puppy Raiser and we like the dog We will begin to train the dog for a Role either as a police dog Or A protection dog Now
For those of you wondering why we use Puppy razors you know the puppy raiser Is important because they expose the dog To everyday life Sights sounds surfaces kids cats other Dogs whatever basically the dog gets to See everything that he or she is Probably going to see Throughout their daily life and whatever Job they’re called upon to perform And you don’t get that same experience Living in a kennel right or it’s more Difficult to provide that experience Let’s say Now We get the dog back we get our dogs back Between eight and ten months and then we Usually do a little testing figure out What’s what in the what And then Um Decide what to do with the dogs from There now we got a dog back about a year And a half ago From the razor and unfortunately He had floppy ears so his ears weren’t Fully erect though they did become fully Erect a couple months after selling him But at the time they weren’t fully erect Which is a problem Nobody really wants german shepherds With slightly floppy ears unfortunately And number two he didn’t have much drive And he certainly didn’t have
The Can do king kong mentality that we want In our working dogs he was kind of a Social goofy You know Soft bittable puppy with floppy ears So unfortunately it wasn’t going to work We realized that real quick After some basic testing And We decided to sell him As a pet dog Now Here’s the deal With a dog like that You know we’re not going to train him We’re not going to put some time put too Much time into training him beyond the Puppy raise which actually does cost us Money So we just decided now we’ll sell them For a thousand bucks No problems it’s enough money to make Sure that whoever’s buying him probably Has the means to look after him feed him Vet him you know all the things the Normal dog needs but it’s not so much That it discourages the average person From from you know giving him a good Home and we just at this point want that Dog to have a good hold Long story short that’s been about a Year plus year and a half We get a call
A couple weeks ago like i said Dog bit our daughter Very surprising and i’ll tell you why It’s surprising because we knew the dog When we got him back in eight to ten Months and even as a puppy very social Dog Wasn’t a mean nasty kind of dog we also Know that combination because i repeated That combination between that particular Male and that particular female a number Of times and the dogs almost every one Of them lives in family situations and Are very stable easy social dogs with Mediocre drive Right not my cup of tea because there Just wasn’t enough drive there for me And not enough intensity but a lot of People like that combination Because they were such easy dogs Now i actually think that dog has a Litter mate who is a police dog who does Live with Um children go figure and i know he has Numerous litter mates who are personal Protection dogs or just dogs we sold as Puppies that live with children as well No problems right actually the owners Really really like those dogs they are Very They’re very family oriented dogs let’s Say So very surprised because we knew the Dog and he certainly wasn’t oriented to
Do that type of stuff Anyways no problem bring him in Bring him in we’ll help you we’ll train Them you know worst case scenario we can Always take them back right We just we i was 99 sure when i heard it That it was owner error let’s say Because a dog like that doesn’t just Get to that place out of nowhere Certain a lot of things had to happen For for it to progress to a year You know for a year the dog lived there Without any issues then all of a sudden In a few months we’ve got a situation Where bites are occurring It makes no sense right so i knew it Would be something that was relatively Easy to fix Unfortunately we did not hear back from This individual Until they started cropping up on our Social media commenting on some of our Posts The first post i saw them comment on was A post where We were um showing one of our trained Protection dogs who also ironically Lives with kids it’s the one of the Malwa I’ll post it there so you guys can kind Of see it Um and the malware doing the muzzle work And they said oh it’s it’s too bad that You sell these dogs to people that have
Children because it’s not safe blah blah Blah i was like what the heck oh we have One of your dogs and you know I was like You have a washout We didn’t do any of this with your dog Your dog couldn’t do this That’s what people don’t understand in Order to do bite work it takes a special Kind of dog It’s not something you could just do With any dog if your dog could do this Why would i have sold it to you for a Thousand bucks you know how much i sold That i’m not even gonna tell you guys How much i sold that malwa for Right he was not cheap he was like He cost as much as a car okay Dogs of that caliber are not cheap Dogs that can do that are not common That training is not easy training All right your dog certainly did not get Any of that stuff done Right you got a nice Social puppy that was a washout Okay This is Here’s the thing Then this individual posts in another Place that they put the dog down and It’s all our fault and blah blah all Right i was just flabber you put the Puppy you put him down What kind of a garbage human are you why
Wouldn’t you even try to get the dog Training why would you bring the dog Back Bring him back We’ll take him It won’t be a problem for us we’ll deal With it right i very much doubt that he Has some unsolvable issue it’s it’s Pride that’s what it is you’ve decided You’re not a professional you’ve never Trained a dog to do bite work you know You don’t know anything about dogs i Mean you can’t even control this little Soft puppy we gave you But you’re gonna determine what his Problem is or maybe some other idiot on The internet or some behaviorist or Something told them this who knows right There’s a lot of people that don’t do Things in dogs that talk about those Things as if they know And they really don’t here’s the thing With my work Okay So anyways long story short that problem R that really bothered me that we had Entrusted this person with our dog And we assumed that the dog was going to Have a good long and happy life just Like all his litter mates And instead dog Unfortunately gets an early grave from The sounds of it i i mean i hope they’re Not telling the truth and that the dog
Wasn’t put down but You know for all intents and purpose Sounds like that poor thing was killed Right needlessly Because you were too proud to get The help from the people that actually Know what they’re talking about you know The people that actually produce the dog That know everything about the dog i Know everything about him his mother his Father i spent years with both of them His brothers and sisters i’ve trained so Many of them right to various levels And you just killed him You mismanaged him and you killed him Because it doesn’t get to that out of Nowhere kit doesn’t just get bit out of Nowhere it’s not something where the dog Just snaps That’s not how it works especially with A german shepherd there were a thousand Things that went wrong before that ever Happened Right So anyways that’s what occurred that That really bothered me now let’s talk About General Okay so I’m going to start with showing you guys A video this is a video of a dog that we Imported from Slovakia his name is carr You guys can see him do some bite work
Here okay so he’s doing the bite work Now you can watch him collect the Christmas tree with the two children and His family look at him having fun with Them Look at him being not aggressive with Them He’s been there now i think well over a Year they love him right he’s great with The kids Every most every dog i sell Right most every train protection dog i Sell goes and lives with children Most of my clients are clients with kids Of varying ages A lot of the time they even have another Pet Okay So needless to say wouldn’t be Particularly good for business My dogs were going and nailing the kids Right and i’ll tell you this The protection dog industry in general Which is a very big industry all Throughout north america Almost every vendor Their primary client Are families with children Women and children Okay If these stocks were more dangerous Because of bite work there would be an Epidemic Of people getting sued of
You know of uh dogs getting put down the Word would be out Right this business has been going on For decades this is not like some new Thing protection dogs they’ve been Around for a long time Right so obviously if bitework created a Dog who was much more dangerous to Children You would see the results of that but Forget protection dogs let’s talk about Dual purpose police dogs a lot of those Live at home with the handler they live With the handler’s family they often Live with the handler’s children Not all of them but a lot of them do Right these are dogs that actually go Bite people for a living Right they do other things i know but They also do that All right this dog here you’re gonna see A picture of a dog i’m post him This dog i talked about this dog before He fought a bear okay he lives with two Little boys he loves them And he did a lot of bite work here He loves those boys he would never hurt Those boys Right and that dog that i just showed a Picture of is a full littermate to the Dog that this idiot put down Anyways Point b Um you know when you look at
Even sport dogs there are hundreds of Thousands of sport dogs that have bike Training To various degrees throughout north America And europe Bite sports it’s a pretty big thing in Dogs a lot of people do them okay german Shepherds malwas duchies dobermans Bucerods um You know the schnauzers the bouviers That kind of stuff see a lot of people Doing the bite sports Hundreds of thousands of these dogs Throughout north america throughout South america even they’re all Throughout the world by sports Everywhere now okay These dogs many of them Live with children There is no epidemic of sport dogs Biting kids It’s just not a thing Right these are not small dogs if they Were biting kids there would be a big Problem kids would be really really hurt Kids would be dying All right Now I don’t want to get it twisted There are certainly some working dogs That are extremely dangerous There are some dogs that have bite Training that are extremely dangerous
But here’s the kicker It’s not because of the bike training It’s because of the dog and that’s what People don’t understand i want you guys To think of it from a human perspective Someone that has some form of combat Training Very small percentage of the population But the average person that has combat Training There is no correlation let’s say Between criminality and combat training Right People that are prone to acts of Senseless violence Right aka crime or acts of Violence for for bad reasons Crime right there’s no correlation Between that and combat training because You have combat training doesn’t make You more likely to be a criminal if if Anything the the the inverse is true Right why is that I’ll tell you why it is Because the level First of all it takes work to get any Kind of combat training takes work it Takes commitment It takes energy and it takes discipline It takes a certain type of mentality to Go out there and engage in that type of Training for any length of time to the Extent that you would become actually Proficient at it
Those traits And criminality don’t generally go Together Right not always for sure there are Certainly some criminals that you know Have extensive combat training and They’re even more dangerous criminals For that reason But in a general when we’re speaking in General and we’re speaking in terms of You know does it make you more or less Likely to be dangerous i think Most people would agree that combat Training does not Make Somebody more dangerous to random people Around them or to their family or so on And so forth it’s no different with dogs You cannot train any dog to do bite work Even in a litter Right I would say Depending on the litter There’s always a huge You know Disparity between the level of my work That some dogs in the litter can achieve Versus others some dogs can’t even do it Period i’ve certainly seen litters where There’s a Banger in the litter he is a monster in Every capacity and he’s got a litter Mate that can’t be anything more than a Pet that you could release in a
Kindergarten Right That’s What you guys have to understand All my work does protection training Does is we’re taking what’s already in The dog we’re molding it and we’re Directing it a lot of people confuse Dangerous behavior in dogs unstable Behavior in dogs with the ability to do Protection you know how many times i get Someone called me oh i got this dog and You know he’s been a couple people and He’s real nasty and i want to do Protection with him no Hell no Right you’ve got an unstable out of Control dog why the hell would i be Doing protection work with you not that He probably could do it because usually When dogs are doing that type of thing That lack of stability that lack of Confidence that they have Actually Hurts them in the bitework process they Cannot do by work properly Right because that work takes a lot of Confidence It requires a certain level of clarity In the dog to be able to do it To any kind of level where it’s useful And that’s what people don’t understand They just say oh they’re training dogs To buy listen if i could just trade any
Dog to bite i wouldn’t wash dogs out I’d keep them all i’d trade them and i’d Sell them it doesn’t work like that Here’s the other thing If my dogs were biting my clients Children i wouldn’t be in business for Very long A big part of the job Is picking the right dog For the right family situation Now i’ve done a video somewhat on this Before where i talk about things like Drive levels sociability thresholds all These types of things There are certainly working dogs or even Dogs that i’ve produced here They Are Some nasty customers I would never Put those dogs in a family situation my Own or anyone else’s But there are many dogs that can do bike Work that have the perfect temperament To live in a family situation but also Have the capacity to do protection Training and bike work Just like there are many police dogs Like that just like there are many sport Dogs like that so on and so forth My personal dog gage there are videos All up and down my channel of him doing Bite work Right i’m not even going to bother to
Post them you guys can see them all Right Yet that dog lives in this house with my One-year-old son crawling on the floor And my four-year-old son The dog i have dizzy the malwa My son does everything in the book with Her right wrong And she loves him Right she’s been on the bodysuit Numerous times right she’s not a monster By any stretch but you guys get the She’s had bite work So this individual that had a puppy from Me that was a washout That at best maybe I can’t even remember but very unlike i Mean we didn’t keep the dog long right But Maybe bit like a puppy sleeve once That’s not why the dog turned on your Daughter the dog turned on your daughter Because you mismanaged it here’s the Reason here’s the thing with dogs and Kids people don’t understand this i’ve Trained a lot of dogs and i’ve seen a Lot of dogs with kids so i watch them And i Dogs that have problems with kids Generally treat those kids so like most Dogs view kids like small kids not big Kids but small kids the same way that They would view another dog Right they treat them the same
It’s very interesting and i think it’s Might be just where their heads are at So like that they’re they’re kind of on The same head level so they’re like well I’m used to seeing other dogs on this Level and dogs are kings of context Right they any everything they like to Put things into contextual boxes right So kids on my level therefore You know um he must be another dog i’m Going to treat him the same way i’ve Seen that a lot so a lot of the time You’ll see dogs that are really good With other dogs that they live with Tend to really be Really be good with the kids and then Dogs that are bad with the kids tend to Also be a little bit nasty with other Dogs that they live with i’ve seen that Correlation one hell of a lot it is Important that when you have a dog in Your house with small children that dog Understands there is no correlation Between my children and other dogs My children are something different they Are something special they are something To be respected of course you don’t set The dog up for failure that’s another Conversation there are many people that Do So many stupid things with their kids And with their dogs and they set their Dogs up to fail with those children Repeatedly and maybe sometimes they do
Right But that’s another topic Suffice to say That Your dog doing bite work Here’s the only way i could think of to Make a dog more likely to bite children Doing bite work If i could get like a little Suit like like suit that would fit like Maybe like a toddler you know like a Little body suit that would fit a Toddler and then do like a lot of bite Work you know with like a toddler put Some hidden equipment on the toddler Send the dog on the toddler a lot and Really get the dog super intense around Like small children You know with a lot of repeated exposure And work and putting kids in different Scenarios and letting the dog go after Them That would be one way i guess I don’t know anyone doing that though So i mean enlighten me if there is i’m Certainly not my dogs only bite men They do not bite children i will never Ever do bite work with children even for Fun i don’t do it right Dogs should never bite children in my Opinion um I don’t think It’s it’s a picture i ever want the dog To see not that listen
People don’t understand this dogs Remember i said that dogs are kings of Context The biggest problem With protection dogs and even patrol Dogs is getting the dog to engage Reliably did you know that All that by work training and you still Need to really worry about whether or Not the dog’s going to engage Because dogs are very contextual well He’s not Waving that stick i’m used to seeing He’s not you know wearing that equipment I’m used to seeing i’m not wearing my Special protection harness we’re not on The field that i do protection at Right Dogs are very you know how how so so if I get a dog in That’s only let’s say done bite work for A year on a sleeve And i introduced one day the bodysuit Everything else could be absolutely the Same but i just put on a body suit and i Say all right you bite this you know the Majority of dogs actually struggle to Make that transition from the sleeve to The suit many of them won’t even engage Right and you have to kind of convince Them to do it Right not all of them but many of them I want you to think about that that’s When i’m trying to get the dog to bite
Me and he’s saying no i don’t want to But we’ve been biting for a year and You’ve been biting the sleeve and now All i’m asking is you to bite this Bodysuit that i’m wearing i don’t want To and then you convince them to do it Right It takes a while Well i mean you know what i mean like It’s just not like bang right Not in all cases some cases yes And it’s the same thing with anything oh If the dogs used to only biting the body Suit you put on a hidden sleeve and you Say well there’s no visible equipment on Me And i’m not acting like a decoy i don’t Have a stick a clatter stick anything You i’m sitting down over here come nail Me You know many dogs struggle with that Right And i’m a professional dog trainer There’s a lot of and i guarantee you Other dog trainers are struggling with This one as well it’s not that it’s Impossible it’s just it’s a process you Go through it and you show the dog all These different pictures to try and Create A dog that will Engage Under various Situations that he or she may encounter
Especially when you’re doing protection Dogs it’s more defensive like police Dogs you’re teaching more offensive Mindsets like go get that passive guy That’s sitting over there 100 yards away And not moving you know things like that But protection dogs we’re selecting dogs That are a little bit more defensive in Nature and we’re training in a more Defensive way it’s not so much offensive Right And that’s what people don’t understand Dogs are so contextual somehow you guys Are managing to get your dogs about your Kids And by you guys you know what i’m saying Right guys So You know Maybe you you missed your calling you Should have been a dog trainer right Protection dog trainer you could you can Get any dog to bite your kids Congratulations Right i think you guys get what i’m Saying here So It’s not just oh you know he learned to Bite a sleeve once so now he’s a danger To everybody around no it doesn’t work Like that it’s the propensity of the dog There are many dogs i turn down here for Bite work Because i can see the lack of stability
In the dog so i know even if the dog can Manage To scrape together the nerves to do the Bite work The outcome is not going to be ideal so I don’t do it i like doing my work with Stable dogs with driven dogs with dogs That want to be there that want to do That and dogs that aren’t you know A danger to to society at large okay So i hope that this helps you guys Understand a little bit the dogs Protection dogs why it doesn’t make a Difference if you do bite work with the Dog it doesn’t change the personality of The dog just like if you were a certain Type of person and you went you did mma For a year you’re not going to become a Different person Right you’re always going to be the same Person that you always wear you just now You know how to jab and cross or maybe You can wrestle and scramble a little Bit and hit a leg kick or something like That maybe you’re a little more Confident but you’re not a different Person right your propensity for Violence isn’t any more or less than it Ever was Right so I want you guys to understand it from That perspective i hope i’ve helped you Guys with this I think i and and to that woman i cannot
Believe you put that dog down It was a little like it was a puppy i i Cannot believe you did that that is Sickening do not post that on social Media that is something you should be Very embarrassed about You