 Oh Today we're gonna talk about what kind of dog Do I pick Should you pick to be a personal protection dog for a family or an individual whatever So it's very different than Picking for a police military Backyard junkyard dog Okay So we want something very specific when we're choosing To live in a home With a family and there's traffic kids friends Things of that right real life So The thing that we're looking for the most Okay Is yes, I want drive. I would like to see some good prey drive So the running away the chasing the sleeve biting the sleeve on the guy as he's running away All of this catching the pillow catching the sleeve stuff is all prey drive. Okay A dog chasing its prey its play item It's play stuff. Okay. There's nothing serious. There's no aggression. No man aggression attached to these things. Okay so This is Why We're losing a lot of dogs, right? Where Specifically sports because almost all sports are mostly prey driven Which dictates breeders to breed prey drive to prey drive Lacking and forgetting about the defense drive Because They're going by the sports Okay, and the sports dictating what kind of dog they want In the sport. Okay, so this is why you see A lot of fancy myths and all the strutting and Right, it looks really cool to the public um The sport means a lot to certain people Okay but You're getting all the fancieness and all that stuff Out of dogs who have very very good prey drive Okay, so to win in shots in or igp or whatever you want to call it You need great prey drive dogs not Defense drive not real fight. They don't want that in the sport. Okay Or any of the sports really So You're Getting weaker and weaker gene pools to pick from For real protection. Okay problem with shepherds Is that strictly they participate in shots in igp. Okay and The sport is really really prey driven Okay, and Problem is also that most trainers and players don't realize that there's no translation to real life In that protection or that fancy obedience that you're watching. Okay So because the defense has really been taken out of the sport And not judging that anymore so It's getting harder and harder To find good working dogs That have good defense drive for true protection All right, so the only way you can test for that Is behind the scenes Okay, you you cannot See it in the sports so the only way To know those dogs are really legit To be a police dog is behind the scenes Have people fight with that dog for real not people. He's known growing up Right have that dog tested Ah So Here for example, you're gonna see from my breeder One of the shepherds being tested here With the bottles with the jugs Right testing his courage his nerves was gonna let go And then slipping the suit and seeing the dog's reaction when the suit is off Will he continue the fight? and nastiness When there's no equipment. It's just the man against the dog with no identity to equipment That's exactly what we want to see right It's perfect This is a great job Okay by these guys Legitimately testing these dogs To see if they really have the temperament and the the defensive hardness To fight for themselves to take the fight to the person Equipment or no equipment. Okay, especially no equipment All right, so that's how you test A dog to see if they really have that fight defense drive to protect in real life All right, and again, you can only do this behind the scenes. All right, so My breeder is hardcore into the shutton sport but He sells to police departments. He sells to military sells his dogs to all You know types of people protection personal protection But behind the scenes There's a testing process that goes on to make sure That the dogs have that true nasty to fight Okay, or else they're worthless as a personal protection dog police dog military dog, okay So they need that true fight in their character. All right, so When i'm ordering my shepherds from My breeder He knows That's what i'm looking for I need those dogs who will fight Okay, but again not over the top not overly aggressive dangerous right Enough just enough that they will fight when they be Won't back down that they have the temperament. Okay, and that is you know one of his dogs and His guys they're testing that dog. Okay, and again, that's the way you should do it. That's a great job by these guys Getting at that dog and testing that dog for his true courage see what he's got All right, and that's a dog right there. I'll buy in a heartbeat. I was gonna buy him So That is what we want to see okay, so Fight drive necessary very important Again if the dog is strictly showing prey and only showing prey drive Can we pull it from the dogs? Most of the time we can Okay And and get some serious this out of them and defense drive that they'll do the job. Okay, but Really we want that genetic nature that has that already So we can just take that and run with it Instead of having to Pull something that wasn't there naturally And take time to do that Okay, because it takes time it takes good skill to do And then the dog has it right no problem. They're gonna be just as good as the defensive dogs but Really you just don't want to waste that time if you don't have to do it Okay So When picking a personal protection dog You want to see Some good defense At a right amount any Okay Before You buy that dog so That is what I am looking for when I buy my dogs