 All right Welcome to dog talking coffee. I am your host Richard Heinz So today's video is Gonna be about The best protection breeds protection dogs in the world now I'm doing this video Because Most of the things that you see out there on this and on YouTube top 20 best breeds top 10 top 5, right? Most of those things are being done from a generic YouTuber somebody who puts these things up and just goes generic information about a certain breed and Categorizes them up to number one Ten nine eight till we get to the number one to surprise you ready for the number one There's a lot more to it than that and it does not work that way Right. There is no one dog who holds ten. There's no one dog who holds nine eight seven, right? now on My list that I'm gonna give you keep in mind. I Know this subject very well, right? Just as well as anybody on earth. I have trained Thousands and thousands of protection dogs in my 20-plus years of dog training. I Have done most of the breeds right all your common protection breeds your What I call your underground your Connie Corsos your Argentine dogos your You know pre-second aerials all these you know Classified exotic breeds So I know this subject very well and have dealt with most of these breeds in In protection and not just a few of them I've dealt with many many in all the breeds and even the exotic Not as known breeds so I want to give you here the truth of How to classify protection breeds and Capabilities of these breeds Right what where you can go with them in protection what protection really is how I classify it so To me, there's two categories of Looking at protection breeds protection dogs and their Overall protection capabilities right making them what kind of Protection dog protection breed so is Basically goes from your bottom barrel protection dog breed Right, which I classify as Your guard dog watch dog Junkyard dog ish Category right and Then we have an opposite pole of the elite of the elite right in protection dogs and Certain breeds that are up in that elite of the elite that cannot be touched or Any breeds can come close to in Overall capabilities and when I talk overall capabilities, I'm talking about mind and body and Most of this has to do with most importantly genetic history breeding history performance history Right proving for generations hundreds of years right of Capability and testing that mind and body This is what it all comes down to when we talk about Classifying and categorizing What is the best and what just make Good guard dog watch dog types. Okay. There's a big difference So that is how I'm going to go about the rest of the video classifying Protection breeds okay, so here is how I personally now from those two categories right of Guard dog watch dog junkyard dog Bottom of the list up into the elite elite. We have four categories so We are going to have D Which is going to be our bottom and which is going to be the category that? specifically these breeds that are in D are really strictly Watch dog guard dog Types of breeds, okay, then we have C which can float between both of Good watch dog good guard dog Okay, and also can be taken to certain levels in skills because of their breeding history in protection performance sports and History of police work protection That have quicker mind more game more athleticism more genetic capabilities to do higher level protection work that's more sophisticated complicated then class D Then we have B Right now class B We have an elite dog, you know great protection dog and Has all the abilities mentally and physically to be a phenomenal overall skilled elite protection dog and In my classifications, there's only one breed in that class B and I'll get to that in a minute, and I'm going to give you all the breeds in a second Then we have class A class A is a league of its own There's only a few breeds in that category that are above all the rest of the dogs in the world and there is good reason for it and It just is what it is and no other breeds except for the one and B can come close To Performing and having the overall all abilities of being brilliant fast-minded right capable of Absolutely amazing right mental and physical skills capabilities Right the speed of those minds and the body to do what they can do is Unmatched in the dog world mentally and physically So now One other thing bite force does not matter on The list of protection breeds Great to have Right, but it is not a factor on my list Why? Because here's what I tell everybody and here's the basic right common sense thing. It's kind of like If I shoot you With a small gun right hand gun Or I hit you with an elephant gun They're both gonna hurt like hell and I can kill you either way with both It's just gonna be a little bit different version of how You go right how you suffer so When it comes to protection breeds when you have great protection breeds no matter if they're 50 pounds and don't have half the bite force of Most dogs in class D than I'm gonna talk about For a house protection dog or a personal protection dog for a family or house yard It really doesn't matter right because The elite dogs on my list that are smaller generally Are gonna hit you so fast and hard and annihilate somebody So fast and it's gonna be just horrendous that It's just pick your poison of How you want to get mauled right how you want that be town to go they're all not good right and In a suit when I wear these big bulky suits. I say it all the time Whether it's a 50 pound a big dog. I can feel the pain and the pressure right of all the calibers and One hurts more than the other right the bigger the dog the bigger the head the bigger the neck the more power The more pressure right just nature. That's the given Doesn't make it a better protection dog overall Right the skills on those bigger dogs are generally not there for a high level Skilled work. So we're taking that out of the equation. So Let's get down to it And go to class D and we're gonna start there Class D is the lowest of the four categories of ABCD and D will be your breed such as Connie Corso now This breed has really gotten on a move the last few years, right? It's been coming I've trained a lot of Connie Corso's in my career and from the best breedings for their that and Look the honest truth is of these class D dogs Can they do protection? And we can't say this all breeds remember this too The good ones from all the breeds for protection work even in class a You pick the right ones from these breeds You will get good protection from all the breeds and all the categories now class D though is specifically for me What I consider the watchdog guard dog category These are breeds like the Connie Corso Tibetan mastives Prisa canario Russian Ovarcha Argentine Dogo And all these rare people now bring up Kangles Right and all these kind of flock mountain dog types Right that haven't appeared anywhere in protection ever and all of a sudden because the flock dog got his Pressure bite pressure taken that it's really high all of a sudden he makes a good protection dog And now he's on the radar right of people talking about these breeds It's not like that, right? Nobody buys those dogs for a real protection, right? So they're a flock dog meant to sit out there and guard flocks of animals like sheep or whatever and Fight a wolf right if it comes to an attack. That's what it was bred for So remember breedings are everything when it comes to the mentality The speed and quickness of a dog's mind to make decisions in bite work in protection work It's toughness. It's aggression A flock dog Dogos have this problem I've seen a lot with dogos great Animal fighter and you can see on youtube they fight cougars they fight it. They're not afraid of anything. They are hard core But when it comes to going and running and biting a man, it's terrible to watch, right? It's hard to watch for me They just don't have it when it comes to man work that they do for an animal aggression And this is You know same kind of course those and all these Yes Now we're talking a home watchdog a home guardian That's just going to be in a house Right and guard a yard or inside a house. It does not take any real mental capabilities Or Any real training right Any skills really To guard a house guard a yard It just takes a good character Right, maybe a little building of the dog to have the tenacity and the follow through on the bites and not hesitate with somebody breaks in to bite little bit of You know tweaking and adjusting on that if necessary But really a home protector a yard protector Doesn't take much skill right for a home guardian and a backyard protector, so These are the breeds like conny corsos for me as an example and again, it's the Tibetan master so varchkas russian ovarchka Pracic anario All these types of dog feel the brassy ladder These are dogs that don't have history right like some other breeds that have a hundred plus years of sport work police work generation after generation after generation proving themselves to be Brilliant fast-minded man hunters This is what they were built for to go and hit the hard and furious right with courage Speed tenacity and be able to figure things out very cleverly brilliantly That is not the class D category Right, they were not built this way and as much hype as all these breeds have online and from breeders Oh, you know naturally they have this protection. They've been conny corsos in particular and all these You know, oh, yeah, the conny corso has listen. I I know the corso breed well Again, they're they're a good dog. They're a pretty dog And I think that's what's drawing most people is the size of them and they have a nice looking thing But if you want a guard dog a watch dog without very little skill, right conny corsos for you They're the kind of dog that were not bred like shepherds in the herding breeds of With the brilliance right and Teaching them skills of high level protection, right Takes a lot of work. It's much harder to do with class D dogs Because they were meant for animal hunting a lot of them just to guard flocks Right the conny corso mastiff breed way back in the day, you know Mastiff type mastiff types are harder in general. They're not the slick And it's not that these dogs are not intelligent in their own way Right They are smart in their own way. They just don't have the genius brilliance Workability right of solving high equations problems like these elite elite protection dogs in class b and a on my list Okay, so it's not that they're dumb Breeding dictates everything you get in a breed So conny corso's for example The varchkas the you know all these breeds They're generally very sloppy workers, right? And when you see them go and they go run to go hit a man It's very hard to watch. It's slow. They hit awkwardly They don't hit boom drives through with power and tenacity It's weird. It's gorky. It's it's just not pretty to why it's a weird thing And so but if somebody breaks into a house, right with any of class d dogs The dogo the conny corso any of these breeds because most of them big breeds very thick tough dogs If you break into a home with any of these breeds and they have what it takes It doesn't take skill Right to defend the house like this you walk in and any of these breeds hits you and attacks you You are in big trouble Okay, but we're taking away now Needing elite skills elite athleticism elite Mind set Hundreds of years of genetics in man work and High-level capabilities. We're taking that out of the equation because All abc and d categories can do guard dog work watch dog work, right? Just class d is strictly For me a home protector a backyard protector if you're in the street and on a leash They go wild, which is not protection to me, right? It's an out of control dog with no skills but Most of the world doesn't understand that they think a dog who goes on a leash water Like this is a protection dog And they get turned on by that not knowing it takes no skill but Hey, you've needed and you you know have a problem out somewhere personally outside of your house or yard And they will actually do this and defend you and show threat and then actually bite somebody Great, right? That's what category d is for me It's the the lowest level of protection dogs of skills and abilities that we have In the protection world, okay but again If it's just home and a yard somebody breaks in and they come after you It doesn't take skill doesn't take much brains. It doesn't take much ability For them to come and attack somebody breaking in so those dogs for people who really don't care Or know what an elite protection dog is this is what their version most of the public This is how they see it. I like that breed. I like that power I like the bite force that all these people have been touting online about these breeds I want that right Great, just know what you're getting. It's a very basic bottom of the barrel protection caliber dog breed But hey, they will they have what it takes if you pick the right one from those breeds Nobody's going to break in your house. I could tell you that it is going to be ugly So that is class d Class c is Traditional breeds more like the doberman the rottweiler the boxer the giant schnauzer You can put american bulldog into that category. You can put pit bulls into that category Okay, so These are dogs that traditionally had history Of performance Right and still till today A lot of them that come from the right genetics and the right lines that Breeders are still working them in sports for bite and obedience Proving and testing them and this is why in class d None of those breeds really get tested or perform at all in any sports or police work So that's why the class c is now a step ahead of them So the right specimens in class c Rottweiler doorman boxer schnauzer american bulldog These ones that participate in schutzen Right, which is primarily their kind of sport that they can participate in and be judged in and be titled in Unlike class a on our list Which is not limited by any physical or mental capabilities Class c because it's been schutzen oriented You know obedience the type of protection the jumps and all that kind of stuff has made a certain kind of dog so They are not as athletic as class a Or be on my list that i'm going to bring up next but You can teach these breeds a good level of now from d Strictly house backyard dog You can start teaching them now higher level elite protection skills because of their history right in the sport of what that sport has been doing for their brains and their athleticism this what's all about right so Again any of these breeds as a home protector and yard protector These are very powerful breeds as well with more athleticism generally than class d And you get hit by any of these also breaking into somebody's house. You're in big trouble Right now the difference is we can take these breeds now Because of their breeding history and performance history And again start to make a higher level of personal protection With skills being taught to attack and hold and we walk backwards and circle and do all these kind of things That takes more brains More athleticism Which goes back to The breeding history is more there on class c than the others now When it comes to Categorizing now to look at this Class c You will very rarely ever see in police work anymore Anywhere in the world You used to see doleman's you used to see wrought wallers you used to see And boxers right now there are boxers in italy as protection dogs It's rare to see any of these other breeds Right that were a traditional protection dogs for the world the public To see them in police work right ever Because they just don't have The same workability the same working intelligence the same Want to work with the handler owner ability compliance and Attack capability right physically Athletically They lack just those things compared to class b and class a So that is a big thing for you to look at this is a big tell right That way back doleman's wrought wallers And boxers and all that used to be in police work Around all over right You don't see them anymore at all right. It's only class a and class b That are generally police dogs everywhere in the world in every country There are very few of those other breeds doing police work anywhere. There are There are right. There are wrought wallers. There are boxers. There are some don't but it's very small pool very rare Not common at all and that is because of just not having all the attributes right of Fast thing high level workability Genius right to figure out high level complex things quickly Went to bite not to bite athleticism into doing high performance things and takeoffs and so Class c is a great category. I love a lot of the dogs in that category But they just lack a lot of things That class b and class a have that they cannot compete with Now again as a watchdog guard dog They can do both that d generally would be much harder to do You can do a watchdog guard dog home kind of thing with them and teach them saw elite skills And most can do it to a to a pretty high level with the right specimens from c so That now we have class d and class c Class b is only one dog Class b is the german shepherd all by itself. Why? The german shepherd was king of the working world Right no breeds could really beat it Not too long ago In shuts and work police work their intelligence their athleticism They had all the attributes that class c dogs like dormants boxers rottwallers don't have They're just a they're just above them in all around capabilities They're a great dog. They're brilliant Extremely intelligent. I sell more german shepherds than any other breed That is my choice breed to sell to the public as a home or home Family protector for the house the yard or out in public with high skills high level skills Because they are brilliant dogs and They can athletically do things That class c has a much harder time with even dormants and Boxers they just those breeds don't have the athleticism that shepherds have Shepherds are just so smart, right? You can teach them anything they can learn anything. They are brilliant dogs They're usually very compliant want to work with the handler So the shepherd overall is a phenomenal, right? Home family protector whether just for the house Or to have high skills to protect you When needed to know how to walk backwards circle guard things off When to bite when not to bite. I mean they have the package so and The shepherd is the only one really the german shepherd That when it comes to shots in sport can compete With the class a dogs i'm going to bring up right now and challenge them for the titles in that sport Only breed the german shepherd no dormants no raw wars. They all compete in the sport, right? But you're not going to see any other breeds up in that title contention Other than with those other breeds in class a that's it No rot wallers no dormants No box it right not at the top of the game because it takes a different intelligence And it takes a different physical capability to be at those levels That's just a fact and looking at the sports and police work tells you a lot About breeds and their capabilities now The elite of the elite class a Class a has two dogs in it And these are the best of the best hands down There's no way around this and there is no argument to this if you know anything about this The belgium allo and the dutch shepherd are the kings And reigning champs right of the protection dog world No question about that So why they are brilliant They are fast Right no other breeds and all those protection can even match them not even close Right in their physical capabilities So they are the fastest they are I want to say the smartest shepherds may be just as smart as they are But the shepherd doesn't have the physical capabilities Right that a maloan dutch shepherd have Maloas and dutch shepherds are so fast right they can cut quick They are tenacious They have a tenacity That shepherds don't generally have Shepherds are tough dogs right they can they'll put a beat down on you But maloas and dutch shepherds because of the hundred plus years That the belgians and dutch have done in their sport programs And their which their sport programs Especially the kmpv in holland breed and title Specific dogs strictly for police work, right? So they are Breeding generation after generation litter after litter after litter for hundreds of years of the toughest fastest man-hitting man hunting compliant Dogs that we have on planet earth Right and it all goes back hundreds over a hundred years That these sports have been around and these police tests have been around So It has given them The edge over all these other breeds because of the genetic history of performing And testing those parents and testing them over and over and over the grandparents. I mean it's just For these dogs to be bred They have to win they have to title on these police categories They have to be good tough Specimens right that will put a beat down on man They will hunt till the end till they find a man Right, they won't give up and then when they catch you they are going to absolutely annihilate you with that tenacity and that just aggression so And they're absolutely brilliant and those sports ring sports belgium ring french ring mondial ring kmpv All raise a dog's criteria of intelligence Unlike the sport of schutzen right so belgium malawa and dutch shepherd just here is the criteria to understand why they reign And the proof of why they reign like no other belgium ring kmpv mondial ring french ring no other breeds Can win at those sports or even come close. It's all dominated by malawa's and dutch shepherds So it's against each other to win the titles and to win the world championships and nation titles No other breeds right every once in a while a dog might come up like a shepherd I think one kmpv a few years back two of them actually Rare thing right to beat a malawa dutch shepherd in these sports and these protection sports They dominate They cannot no breed can come close to physically dealing with them in their capabilities and the smarts that these sports require of intelligence For these breeds So it's been engineered this way So for police work Right now in the world. It's all belgium malawa's and dutch shepherds on every country every country. It's belgium malawa dutch shepherds right They have taken the world over and for good reason They are untouchable In all of their capabilities physically mentally aggressively They are the elite of the elite And the world is telling you that right because we're talking about an overall Protection breed protection dog not a classification Like class d that those breeds down there can do protection work They are so out of the stratosphere of class a and malawa's in their intelligence In their workability athleticism Punch power in those bites tenacity I mean, it's a huge gap right But again all categories for a home protection dog Can do it Right if you don't need much skill much and athleticism much You don't have to be high intelligent right For somebody to break in the house and your protection dog to go put a beat down They just have to be a good specimen And it doesn't take a lot of athleticism and skill to just go bite somebody who came in a window Or came in a door or in the yard It's a whole different game when you start climbing those levels to add skills to add elite protection skills all those things so Why as another sport dictates right shuts in the lowest level we have and I know Shoot shuts an enthusiast and people who really believe in shuts in will have a hard time with this because they just don't understand That's why the shepherd has gone out of police work when it was the number one dog In the world in police work Right got passed by and taken over by the belgium malo and dutch shepherd for a good reason The sport of shuts in is does not Take as much brains To do it's a very low level entry level type of sport that does not take high intelligence It does not take high athleticism Right, it is not challenging these dogs to high levels It's a very amateur sport, right? It's the lowest sport in caliber That we have in the protection sports period that's a fact so You can keep size on these dogs like rottweilers shepherds that are thicker bigger nice heads because You would need a smaller package To do ring sports right which would ruin the shepherd and the shepherd would turn into a malo looking dog If people tried to downsize the shepherd to compete in ring sports with those breeds So you would change the breeds you would change a shepherd from that beautiful look Have to downsize them to be able to jump a 10-foot wall Right where in shuts it. It's like three feet right four feet something like that right and The skills in ring sports Take much more intelligence timing control all those kind of things then shuts them So you get now a different type of brain as well even though shepherds are brilliant. They are phenomenal dogs Super intelligent. I love them and again, they're the dog. I sell the most But on an overall scale The Dutch shepherd the Belgian Malawa just ruled the world and none of these other breeds in total Protection performance can even come close. The shepherd is the only one That comes close and the only dog In shuts in That can challenge the Malawa and the shepherd In its sport the german shepherd is the only one That can compete with them in national titles for world championships Right and it really comes down to the sport being built more so that shepherd can compete with these two having lower jumps Less mental disciplines right and take less So there's more of a competitive You know component That shuts and brings dumbing things down a lot So that the shepherd can compete with the Malawa in this sport So That is how protection world goes If you are looking for a protection dog protection breed Keep these things in mind Right a dog who on a leash like this and just goes in bites is not a skilled protection dog That's great. It can bite if that's the case that does bite fantastic He bites you have a dog who will bite perfect It has no skills if it's on a leash going Right and doesn't take any skills to just have them go and bite somebody who breaks into the house or jumps in a window Right if any it's just a little tweaking to teach them how to do it give them a little more help Little more confidence showing them a scenario Right, this is when it's okay to do whatever build the confidence of the dog But it's not a high skilled protection game to have a home protection dog right so that is How You should look at Breeds that you're picking for protection And capabilities of those dogs and the most important thing that the world Really does not understand That again most people if they're thinking just to have a dog on a leash and With no control and just go bite a sleeve or somebody to suit Have at it all dogs can do it class D can do it Right, but that's not a trained protection dog That's that's an added control. Just see if he bites and hope he bites if he bites great and the least he bites Right, there's no brains to that. There's no skill to that. There's no technique to that There is nothing attached to that except for that's fantastic at least he bites Okay, so if you are looking for that kind of thing You want to lead protection? You're going to have to start getting from see up Right to start building some high level skills and some good And it's not that class D dogs cannot do Skills also right To a degree if good protection work It's just that mind right that they're slower akita's conny corsos Dough goes hard headed to you know, I mean, they're just different bread different Yes, you can get them do basic things of protection and It's not fancy. It doesn't look great. It's not with flair and style It's not So just keep in mind what you are buying and what your goal is of protection Because most people think out of control wildness and then at least bites a sleeve or somebody walks in the house And he goes and tags him. I have a protection dog. Yeah, no, you have a basic bottom level protection dog All right Yeah, at least he protects the house. That's what matters to most people, right But if you want skills all around and to do things High and outside in the streets with high level and this and that protect you and your family That level goes d cba and up Brains athleticism everything Starts to change so That is how the protection dog world works And this is the breed Low down so Hope you enjoyed And I hope you get something from this Until next time I'm Richard Heinz