Comment to Personal Protecting vs. Sport.
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There is a big difference in North America. Schutzhund was created to be the working trials and was an excellent tool for just that until it slowely switched to a sport and the creation of prey drive increase. However the defense drives greatly decreased. Personal Protection can easily be taught to a sport dog, but the need to work up the defense drives is great. That is the thing that is truely missing from schutzhund and it is so unfortunate!