 Alright, today's video is by far going to be the most complex, confusing, vast details and information that even deceives the eyes and mind of even professional dog trainers in the world. But I've had requests for this for a long time and I've avoided it. It's a big subject, it's a controversial subject in a lot of areas. But I decided that so many people have been asking me lately that it's time to do this video. Now as I'm doing this video I just want to make clear that I am not against or bashing or criticizing any of the areas or dog sports that I'm going to bring up and talk about in this video. I'm just going to lay out for you the truth so that you can be aware of how these exercises are truly being done and portrayed to the public trainers because everybody always wants to know what's the difference between a real protection dog and a sport titled protection dog. There's a big, big difference. So very complex subjects, this is definitely going to be the most complex thing I've ever done on my channel. Alright, so I thought by giving you three examples, three different sports, three different types of dog, of the base game and psychology of what we're going to be talking about and the function and the outlook that protection sport dogs have. So again we're talking about IPO shots and French ring, those are mainly the ones and many of the main ring sports like Mondio and that same thing. So keep that in mind. So in all three of these examples I'm going to show you and how the sports are based, this is what I call pursuing the rabbit or the prey not the fight. So that is going to be the cornerstone to how we're going to view everything in this video and what the sports are basing themselves on. So again in all three I'm going to show you a hunting dog, a Labrador, that cannot do protection work, it's not meant for protection work or biting, the French ring dog and the shots and IPO dog, but all have the same base philosophy within their sports and the outlook and what they breed for. So keep that in mind. Again it's what I call chasing the rabbit or their prey animal not pursuing a fight. That is the main basis of this video. So I'll show you the three examples here, a lot of people think you're throwing a lab in there with hunting because if you understand anything about the psychology of this and that's like you quickly into the video you're going to see the relation between all three. Just because it appears that the shots and dog bites or the ring sport dog grabs the suit and shakes the guy that the lab is not in the same category because he's chasing his toy, his bumper, it's all three the same. So we're going to go into it here and I'm just going to show you an example of all three doing the same thing but in just their ways of how they pursue prey. So all identical, starting, all either in a sit or a down passive, the game is for all three the rule for those dogs is before you go get your toy you must be passive state of mind. So all three of the lab, the shepherd and the Malawa, all still you see a little bit of jumpiness but that is only because they're going oh please let me go get my toy. So let's now take a look at what the psychology here is between the three here. So let's take the lab first. The woman out there so since the dog has to be calm and steady right that's what he's taught by his owner handler and so now passive when the woman throws the toy you know it's killing the dog inside right because he wants to go get his toy so badly it's not that he wants to go kill his toy right he wants to go chase his prey object it's prey drive right and now when you see the shots in IPO dog the shepherd sitting there you see the guy right who would be the equivalent of the woman with the lab throwing the bumper you see the guy with the sleeve on for the shepherd down there the shepherd staring at him he's got the sleeve on he's doing this towards him and moving right a certain way like kind of running at him making it a little bit right the guy with the sleeve on to the dog the sleeve is the toy just as it was for the bumper for the lab the shepherd is not looking at the guy like he wants to kill him it's nothing to do with the guy he just happens to be wearing his toy right so he's in prey drive mode not fight drive and go get the guy it's not personal between him and the guy at all it's just about the toy that he's wearing on his sleeve that the dog knows he's going to go and grabbing it and be able to play with nothing about attacking the man right but that movement he's doing is the same as the woman doing this and throwing the bumper which drives the lab crazy right oh my god the toy was thrown right the shepherd he's going oh he's moving he's moving and doing right that turns his juices on the same as the lab it's only prey drive you all please let me go catch a toy it's moving it's like the rabbit moving then you have the French ring dog who's sitting there passively and the guy in the suit is running around trying to make the dog nuts and get his juices flowing it's a rabbit moving it's the prey moving the dog is not thinking about the man that he wants to fight the man and have confrontation with the man right the guy is wearing his toy okay so the three examples one is wearing the toy in a full body one is wearing the toy on the arm and the other one is throwing the toy away from the body all same things so I'm going to give you an example right here to show you right off the bat what I'm saying about this with a bite dog appears to be a bite dog right so this is the 2018 world championships in Schutzen IPO okay these are the best of the best dogs in the world competing in this for the title of best IPO dog in the world Schutzen dog okay you're going to see here on the exercise which is every dog has to do this exercise the dog knows how it works he knows how to go chase his prey his toy off the guy so you're going to see the owner send the Malawa and when he takes off and hits the sleeve the sleeve goes flying right the dog takes the sleeve off of the guy which happens not too often in the competitions the dog picks the sleeve up and comes running past him that he just took the sleeve off and starts running around with the toy the sleeve in his mouth and comes back to the guy he just took the sleeve off of and puts it here because he wants to play with him with the sleeve okay so I want you to watch this right now so what does this tell you and this is not just this dog this is almost all IPO Schutzen dogs the game is play it's not real aggression protection this is just an example right on the competition field of the mindset of these dogs if he was a real protection dog and when he grabbed that sleeve and went flying in the air and had his mouth he would have dropped the sleeve and mauled the guy without the sleeve on with no equipment on he would have to fight the dog without any equipment if the dog was in the mindset he was in real protection game fighting the man not just going after the sleeve and playing with it he would have instantly dropped the sleeve and went after the guy we would have had a big problem on the championship field because that guy would have to fight that dog off if he was a real protection dog right and the dog does not know this guy right this is just a decoy that they pick for the competition the dog does not know this guy so it's just about the routine of running across the fields and chasing those toys that the dog has been on a million times in training over his life right there's no aggressive state of mind he's only in prey mode or else he would have mauled this guy when he took the sleeve off him and he brought it back to him to play with him so on the training fields in Schutzen IPO all of them during training and the dogs upbringing it's always that when the dog comes and flies in takes a sleeve dog takes it off and runs around with it will bring it back to the guy he just pulled the sleeve off and the guy will play with him with the toy pull around pet the dog and let him go and run with his toy there is no aggression to that game okay so that's the example I'm giving you about the lab the Schutzen dog and the French ring dog okay now if we go over to talking about the reality let's talk the French ring dog here you see when the guys running around he sends the dog and he gets on there and it looks like he's shaking and he's aggressive state the more of the movement in the suit the more it turns that drive on for the dog to stay in there and shake okay but the guys move so going backwards and away getting prey drive on then stops right doing a stick thing doesn't bother dog he's done this a million times since he's a puppy the stick doesn't bother him at all and the sound of the stick and touching just actually keeps him in driving and keeps him going because it stimulates the mind and the nerves right so for that dog because he's just chasing that toy that suit it's not a fight against the man in the suit so now you see the guy down there with his hands underneath the dog touching and picking him up his face is right here to the dog biting in there like this with a real protection dog they would have bit you in the face yep here you're gonna see we have helmets on a few of these guys while we're doing some of training with the dogs I was working with because they were headhunters these dogs are protecting for real they will bite you anywhere you give it to them they are gonna fight you they're gonna fight you and just get you and however they can giant snails are here up on me let's go doesn't like that spot comes down grabs me in the leg right I've never taught him leg bites it was just natural instinct he's gonna grab me anywhere he can and hold on and you hear the differences in the in the in the house in these bites and then you see the guy puts his hands on the dog's face when they call him off and he puts his hands against his face and lays him down with his hands on his head and then puts his hand out into the dog's face right if that was a real protection dog and you would have put your hands on his face and trying to lay him down he would have bit you in the hands you'd be bleeding losing fingers right because the dog is fighting the man no matter what you give him he's gonna get you he's in a fight state of mind the French ring dog is in a state of play with his suit toy he's not trying to hurt the man so the fingers are on his head all over him anywhere face he's not gonna bite him the face he's not the decoy knows that for sure if he's been playing in the French ring game even though the decoy doesn't know the dog he knows he's safe because the dogs that are in French ring the people who run these clubs and organizations are not gonna let a real protection dog in there that there's any chance that they would let go and bite the decoy in the face that are in the hands right so it's just a game of prey it's not personal to the decoy he's not trying to bite the decoy and fight him he just wants to play with that toy right shepherds Malawas love to play tug of war and that fight but same thing it's prey drive it's not fighting the man now let's go here to the training field of the shots and IPO dog let's show you a few examples you're gonna see here those running hits right long flying hits and those you know nice things that people love to see and watch but you're gonna see the truth here of how these dogs are built and the mentality that's built into them so just watch these examples of these dogs biting and you're gonna see the little fight once the dog comes in grabs on and then the decoy lets the sleeve go gives it to him or has the sleeve toy and when the dog comes flying through they let him have it let go of it the dog runs around with it and the decoys just walking around like nothing right because the decoys know 100% that that dog is not in an aggressive state of mind he's not being taught protection work in defense drive in aggression in real aggression to go after the man it's about the style and flair of chasing the toy quickly looks great so the more style the more speed the more fancy the more points you get in Shudson the better it looks for the judges right it's all about the style how fast and the hits right so you see they'll give a little fight let him pull on his toy his rabbit right his prey that he's and then let him have it no it's all safe because the dog is not in real protection mode he's only in prey drive chasing his animal okay so this is the reality so watch the clips here okay so you see at one after another doesn't matter how he gives them the hits sleeve let's go dog runs within his mouth nothing to be worried about the dog is not gonna bite the man it's not real protection it's being done in prey drive now let's talk about the barking because a lot of people are confused about this when they see it in Shudson they really require not when sending dogs they want calm and passive opposite of a real protection dog so but once they send the dog in the examination in the competition the moment the dog when it from passive waits sent to go grab his toy the moment the decoy stops the judge tells him stop there they tell him to come off the dog is told to let go of the sleeve he lets go and what is expected of him raw raw raw he's to sit there and bark at the man right so what's the psychology behind this the dog is not barking at the man it appears to everybody that the dog is barking at the man aggressively he's talking to the man going please move again so I can get my toy please move again so I can get the toy he's not at the guy going oh I'm gonna kill you oh I can't bite you oh it's nothing personal so as nasty as it might look and spit coming he's frustrated how much do I have to bark to make you move right so in practice behind the scenes as the dog barks the reward is a movement of the sleeve and that's the dog's cue to be able to grab his toy again or sideways okay so it's either flipping the sleeve up giving a flinch or sideways movement any movement like that the dog is allowed to bite again but the dog knows he has to go through barking because in training the Schutzen game or IPO wants to see the talking acts as if there's stimulation and aggression just about grabbing his toy again so that's what you're seeing when the dogs come off the sleeve and it's only please move please move please move so I can bite the toy again it's not personal to the man even though it might look like that right and again here when he goes around the blind he starts talking to him inside the teepee bar because he knows right in time this what he's taught every day when he runs and finds the guy inside the teepee as long you've got to talk a lot keep it up because the judges want to see a lot of talking and good moment on that talking right you're gonna get judged on how good your talking is and all right your your style and your enthusiasm for the talking but he's not at the guy right he's trying to get him to move to get his toy he just knows the more he barks and the longer you make the dog bark the more frustration so you're gonna get more barking heavier barking like come on we're ready okay and then you see the guy backs up grabs a sleeve and what's he do he lets the sleeve go and gives it to him right while he's standing there and they move away to there's no aggression towards the guy whatsoever right so I just want everybody to understand the psychology of what's behind it there is no real protection happening behind these skills or what it appears to the to the eye right it's just the way it is right or they would not be dropping that sleeve and letting him right if it was a real protection dog you better have a whole body on to protect yourself because if you they go in there like that and they're that close you might get it here you might get it here you might get it here you might get it over here you might get it right hold hold hold wait wait wait right now here oh man he got your shirt oh yeah man what you see Brad damn he got you good man right that's the difference between sport training real protection dogs here French ring example when the dog is biting on the guy right and they tell him out he drops down the guy stays there waits cuz move the dog out same game as in IPO shots and they've always told out the dog stops and the decoy stays still right but what you see the dog do here is the almost the same thing that the shepherd was doing with the sleeve barking at the man to get him to move so he can grab the sleeve now he's down here the guy stays and waits the dog is there by his leg and poking him in the leg barking while he pokes him in a leg like come on move move because I can only bite the toy when you move right so of course you see the dog bar and poking him with his nose he won't bite him he knows the rules but it's not personal to the decoy in French ring he just wants to play with his toy again right now when you see the guy move the dog goes and grabs the suit right it's all in play drive now let's look at the exercise of I've shown many dogs on my YouTube channel as we do our protection of when we tell them to watch they go start right barking at the decoy now when we start to do our backwards walking right up there talking to the decoy if we stay still the dog will circle us and keep barking at the decoy because what we've taught them is in real protection in real life we want to try to get rid of that threat to us right by having the dog threatened the guy that he'd be crazy to try to come near me with my dog in that state of mind that's the purpose of that right so it's getting him in that state of mind while he's walking backwards with us when we turned him on at the person right that's real life because you want to scare anybody who's trying to hurt you or that they better not even think about it when you see a dog going crazy and spit flying in teeth right that's real protection so I'm gonna show you here example in the French Ringsport that one it's very slow so they can keep the dog very concentrated it's not difficult to hold so the walking is very slow okay so it doesn't take a lot from the dog to hold that and focus when it's so slow second thing is you see there's no emotion the dogs are completely quiet and they just stay with the owner they've seen this game a million times they know how it's played out the decoys gonna walk around and eventually touch the owner and then the dogs allowed to bite from the touch now but what's the psychology difference the dog as he's walking with the owner in that protection exercise he's not talking one he wasn't told to but he knows the exercise nothing be told what's gonna happen the dog already knows what's gonna happen to it's not aggressive state of mind he's not worried about the decoy or thinking he's gonna fight him right it's just part of the game he holds the legs the more he stays with the owner and protects him or it kind of shields him he knows that the moment the touch will come he'll get to play with his toy again so it's not come on come and touch my owner I'm gonna hurt you that's what our dogs are taught talk vocalize threaten while you hold those legs much harder to do holding that backward walking or circling and talking while in an aggressive state of mind much harder to control the dog because they really want to fight we've taught them real protection that this is not a game the decoy is not a friend of yours you're not sparring partners right that you played this together for years right that you know there's no real threat from that person so you hear no barking so dog knows what's coming come on come on I just want to play my toy so he stands there walks around him holds on the leg and then waits for the touch when touch he goes and grabs and he starts to right but there's no threat factor no emotion no aggressive state no real fight drive happening while trying to hold those legs and control their emotions in themselves so that's why I always say the stuff that I show on my YouTube channel with my protection dogs doing their backwards walking while the dog is talking rah rah we've turned them on to threaten the guy in the suit is a way harder level because they're not only trying to hold the body while being aggressive in trying to bring a fight to a guy but they got to hold that back we also add faster movement and different directions of movement that the sports don't have right this takes things to a whole other level right so many more components and much harder because these dogs are in real fight drive they're not in play drive waiting to play with the toy like the dogs here I'm showing you here's the example also of they have the dog behind the guys here at the sleeve same thing as if he was in the blind but with no blind now the guys back is to the dog right so they tell the dog revere he goes and he runs from behind the guy with the sleeve and comes to the front where the sleeve is and starts barking now if this was a real protection dog he would have bit him from behind and bit him right in the leg bit him in the butt bit him in the back got up on him he did not want the man he wanted the object so he ran around to where the sleeve is presented because he knows this is where he'll get it if it was the man he would have bit him from behind already went straight for the man another indicator to you what the dog is thinking in what mindset he's in he is not out to hurt the man or have a fight with him he just wants his toy okay so big differences so it's very tricky line it's a very complicated subject and path and and whole thing so I hope that I did a good enough job giving you you know the outlook of this and again not trying to get anybody mad at me with this it's just the way it is and you go about things so till next time Miami dog whisper