Your thoughts on German commands - Page 3

The German commands in SchH are tradition.

If you do fencing or ballet you use French terms. If you study music, you use Italian terms. If you're a lawyer, you use Latin terms. Sure there are English words, but doesn't it sound ever so much classier to say you're doing something pro bono rather than admitting you didn't get paid for a job?

sueincc: Well especially since "voraus" is a big no-no now too.

Really? That's news to me. What the heck else do you say on the send away?

Are you perhaps thinking of the German word "packihn" used of the courage test (also, a term no longer in favor).

Lets just say that if you tell a dog bought up in Belgium to Sit or speak to it in the english words the Dog will ignore you total, and that is any breed of  Dog over here

If a Dog ,learns words said in a language it will not do the commands from someone else telling it in another Language

leastways not there and then

 I did this with several Dogs when i was over in Belgium during the 80's and not one Dog responded to me at all

But if i said the same words in the Dutch Language it did as i requested

Steve

"Fass" is the politically incorrect word in Germany.

Chris

It matters not what language you use to train any dog in any discipline or if you use a mixture of words from various languages; what DOES matter is that you and the dog understand each other, what anyone else thinks is totally irrelevant.

 There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with using the command "voraus" unless you cannot keep it straight from "voran". The only word you will find trouble with is to command the dog to bite.

I agree with Langhaar......use whatever you like as long as you are consistent and they are not everyday words. IF you intend your dog to ever be worked by someone else, it helps to be consistent with the accepted language. Others have a point, as do I, in that if something ever happens to you or the dog is lost, a dog knowing only a foreign language is often assumed to be untrained. In a rescue or shelter situation, that can work to the disadvantage of the dog.