Protection Work for Pit Bull
If you do protection work right, it
turns out to be the most challenging and sophisticated
training of all. Most of pit bulls successfully pass
obedience, tracking or agility training courses, but not all
pit bulls can be trained for effective protection work. You
can often hear people say: "My pit bull wasn't taught
protection work, but if someone threatens me, he is going to
protect me". In 99 per cent of cases this opinion is false.
Actually most of pit bulls avoid the fight and run away
leaving the master behind.
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The reason why is the pit
bull's temperament. Briefly speaking the attack and snatch
skills are connected with the pit bull's ability to deal with
stress. Good protection dog must be trained from its early days
to act the right way when attacked. It realizes that it cannot
solve the problem by running away.
To be successful in
protection training, the pit bull owner has to know the
motivations that influences the dog's behavior. These are:
- Prey instinct
- Protection reflex
- Fight reflex
- Deviation
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If you'd like to learn the right tactics of protection
training, your work must be derived from understanding of these
motivations and the way they are interconnected. If the trainer
does not understand the motivation of the dog for 100 per cent,
he can't start working, because he'll never achieve anything.
If dog training is new to you,
you will have to study the pit bull motivation well or address a
more experienced trainer. Every time you watch a pit bull
performing protection work, you have to consider what is its
motivation to do so. When you watch an experienced trainer work
with a dog, ask yourself which motivation he uses to achieve his
goal and why.
You have to tell pit bulls who
inherited protection instincts from those who did not and
subsequently cannot be taught protection work.
Important note: pit bulls
inherit protection skills. It is a genetic factor, not a matter
of training or a breed feature. In other words, if a pit bull
does not have the gens for protection work, you can never
replace them. The fact alone your dog is a pit bull does not
mean it can be trained for protection work. It's quite the same
as every horse must become a racing star.
So let's define the motivation
that drives pit bulls for protection work, then proceed to dog
training stages.
