An Observation About PP Dogs and K-9
Right or left is no importance to a dog. In most basic training, a presented arm is considered the target arm. Most sports and stick work (which is what I assume you are commenting on) are designed to teach a dog to withstand an attack, which is supposed to ensure a dog that is not stick/weapon shy and therefore easily punked out by an aggressive threat with a stick. Some pp trainers are of the school of thought to teach a dog to protect themselves, targeting the weapon arm as well as teaching a dog to transfer its grip to prevent damage. Here are a couple of examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2lOrcdndM4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGuYvC46M68
This is controversial in some groups, and not every trainer likes this method, but frankly, I have seen no problems with any of these methods.
Our group trains for contact into an attack on handler. Whichever arm or body mass is present to the dog is getting bit.
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I was watching a few videos of performance dogs and K-9 unit dogs. I noticed that the dog always goes for the arm that is oriented to their right as they approach the decoy or perpetrator. If the person is facing the dog the dog goes for the left arm (sleeve arm), if the person is running away the dog goes for the right arm mostly. Now since I am right handed if I am facing an approaching dog my weapon will probably be in my right hand.. so why does the dog go for the left arm. Is it because that is where the sleeve would normally be. If so - that is very weird. If a dog grabs my left arm and I have a knife, gun or club in my right hand - the dog will probably end up dead. Since I am not in the PP sport business I probably don't know what I am talking about. What are your thoughts on this?
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Because most people are right handed, dogs generally get trained by decoys that use their left arm to catch and their right hand harnesses the stick/whip. That said, in almost all cases, these dogs will transfer to whichever arm is out front, presented, or in motion.
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Right or left is no importance to a dog. In most basic training, a presented arm is considered the target arm. Most sports and stick work (which is what I assume you are commenting on) are designed to teach a dog to withstand an attack, which is supposed to ensure a dog that is not stick/weapon shy and therefore easily punked out by an aggressive threat with a stick. Some pp trainers are of the school of thought to teach a dog to protect themselves, targeting the weapon arm as well as teaching a dog to transfer its grip to prevent damage. Here are a couple of examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2lOrcdndM4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGuYvC46M68 This is controversial in some groups, and not every trainer likes this method, but frankly, I have seen no problems with any of these methods. Our group trains for contact into an attack on handler. Whichever arm or body mass is present to the dog is getting bit.
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