 All right today. I want to go over Socializing a protection dog so often, okay, I get this question all the time and It really bothers me. Okay, so Constantly through emails in person Right it's Should I socialize my protection dog? Okay, so my trainers are saying That I should not let anybody touch them Right to make them reliable, right? So this is the common theme all right that I always hear Yes, you Want everybody to pet your dog children Anybody that'll pet them you treat them as a normal dog a normal puppy Okay We do not want the dogs growing up having a totally suspicious outlook on the world and life Okay, it's not good It's not healthy It can be dangerous if the training is not done. Well All right, and there's no reason for that whatsoever Okay so All my young puppies all my clients young puppies Let everybody pet them socialize do not isolate them Do not put them away when guests come over All right, the kids friends come over don't let them play with it, right? Don't do that Let children play with them. Let the world touch them if you go out with them Let people touch the dog the puppy. Okay It you want as social of a dog as possible You do not want the suspicious time bomb It is not necessary the mentality that is out there in The in the protection world the majority of the thinking is Keep them away from people. Don't let strangers touch them. Don't let anybody but the family don't right No Absolutely not Right, let everybody pet them. So people come to my house Many many adult protection dogs Play with them pet them They're not gonna just go bite you or They're not dangerous and I can't trust them and I have to put them away in a room Because I don't know if they're gonna bite somebody or not Because I can't trust them because they're not good with people, right? Anybody who comes over the dogs treat them as if they were a gold retriever or a Labrador, right? Wiggling hey, how as long as we let everybody in the house The dogs accept them right away Okay, if we go out in public with them There's no threat. There's no problem. Anybody can pet and touch them Go to restaurants. It's safe if a waitress wants to pet them they go down and pet them. They're not gonna get bit in the face Right if we want to take them on an airplane and have them there with us everybody safe Will we take him, you know, especially the airport with so many people walking around them and all Anybody can come up and they ask to pet them. Sure, right? You want as social a protection dog as you can get Okay, there is no need to have a dog sit there with This suspicion in life and looking around all the time and making him paranoid and It's not healthy. It's not good. It's not safe You want a very social protection dog Okay When we need the dog They're so skilled That we can just turn them on at somebody and they'll instantly go on no matter who it is Okay, we just shut it back off They'll go mingle with the people we just made them bark at like it's no issue They're not gonna now when they're loose go kill them or bite them. It's all good Okay, just like here these two dogs were just biting this decoy Right after the session he's padding on he's fine and they can be around them Here me what Rocco here with the German Shepherd after he just lit me up So a good protection dog after training he just ate me up and Enjoys it that I can still be with him. He's stable. He's not gonna go kill me after the fact Try to attack me Everything's good when it's off. It's off Rocco. Come here. Good boy And this is what a perfect protection dog should be Affectionate stable when biting is on it's on when it's not it's not Right I can sit there and pet him and right with Rocco. I hang out with him all the time At the house It should not be dangerous. I Should be able to be in the house with these dogs even if I was the decoy and I don't have to worry About being bitten or attacked or anything like that. It should be normal That they're just happy and go lucky and we sit there we get paid and walk normal life Unless turned on Then it's on So it's always this thing with trainers That it's like if you make them so show then they're not gonna bite me body if when you need it Right that is so untrue If they're trained well, right that is not true at all So don't do those things that I've heard for 25 years in this game till today I still hear it all the time Put the puppy or dog away and don't let anybody be around it when people come over When you have a party or anything put the dog away in the room and isolate it you don't want it social You don't want people touching it engaging with it Don't do those things Okay, it is not good So again from young Let them engage with anybody and everybody Children other dogs let them be Okay, we want a very social dog with people and with dogs Okay, I Cannot state the importance of this and not to listen to that kind of stuff. So That is my rent For today, it's such an important subject and I get it all the time. I just wanted to Clarify this bring it out because I've never really talked about it on video I might have done little tiny bits of it here or there, but I've never really just done something head on with this subject, but it is so important and so many people and It's always that thing of well if we Create a protection dog. He's gonna be aggressive, right? We're gonna make him mean not at all if it's done properly not at all You shouldn't even know that he was protection trained right unless you needed him or her Okay, that's the way so of course I understand from the public They don't have any concept right of how a protection dog should be or how the process works to creating one You know you naturally would think well if you create aggression and biting then you're creating a lunatic Right a dog. You got to be careful with that's just gonna bite people because you're teaching them that that is not true not at all Okay, so Very important Okay, and and I want to counter all those things I hear on a weekly basis all the time Socialize socialize socialize