I Hope This Isn't True -- It Sickened Me !!! - Page 4

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Hey Maggie, how about the Eagles. Ya know, the ones born to fly high altitude ?

Ever see how happy they are in a 60' X 85' cage at a local zoo ? Hummmmmmmm 

It's pointless to try to explain this to someone bent on believing the worst despite what anyone has to say.  You are passing judgment  and arguing about dogs and handlers and sports that  you do not understand.  The best thing you can do is to start going out to clubs.  Learn from watching what goes on.  You may be surprised to find out how much most handlers love their  dogs and you might be surprised to find out how much our dogs love the sport and how much fun it is.  

Please, instead of being argumentative and negative, have an open mind, go see for yourself, feel free to ask questions, a word of advise, if you do go out, check your negative attitude and your preconceived notions at the door. 

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Watching a dog at a schutzhund trial is an amazing thing.  The work and time it takes to get a dog to ScH III is phenomenal.
Honestly Maggie, go to a club, you won't be disappointed, and that is the only way you will find out the truth for yourself.  It will answer a lot of your questions.  There is much more to Schutzhund than protection, which is my favourite part . 

As an aside, people ( young people) voluntarily hang themselves for the rush;   people are just strange.

Maggie, dog sport and police training have evolved a great deal over the last ten years which that article references.  Training has changed and things are certainly done differently now.  We have the left the stone ages and the dogs and us are better for it.

 Why don't you answer this question:  You have a new dog, lets say an 80 lb male GSD just imported from Europe.  He's a hard dog and doesn't tolerate corrections well.  You give him the sit command, which he knows and he ignores you.  You give a pop up on the leash and command again.  The dog jumps up and goes for your face, chest or arm because he didn't like th correction what do you do?  You have a split second to react or this dog is going to really hurt you.  If you had to think about it you just got bit very badly. 

You never answered my question: do you watch the "dog Whisperer?"  I bet you love that show, I enjoy it.  I think Cesar is great at socializing dogs and maintaining his "pack." 

Jim

Poeple who have never owned, worked even saw a hard dog will never understand.
I have chocked a dog off of me and guess what? I would do it again.
We get along pretty well. He had to give it a shot.. and that is OK.

Sorry to the article..
. I have seen a lot of boys with thier K 9 over here where I live and maybe the new dogs had to be (straightened out) none of them was tortured, kicked or hung...

The article is pretty strong..

Hi slamdunc

Tell me something,would you bring a dog like the one you described to maggiemay to a club?
Should a dog like that even belong at a club?   Oh by the way maggie,most of the things you have concern about do happen at clubs,dont let anyone try to fool you by saying they dont. I wont name names,but some of the biggest offenders are well known names.

Have a great day.