Re: [TSCM-L] Re: [OT] malinois certification/trainning

From: Fernando Martins <fernand..._at_iol.pt>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 13:18:13 -0000

Thanks for your reply and for the url's provided. Good hints.

> By the way, KNPV dogs are held to a *much* higher standard that
> Schutzhund dogs during trial. For example, the decoy (person that takes
> the
> bite) will give the dog an 'out' (let go) command - if your dog lets go of
> the bad guy then you are rightfully penalized. In Schutzhund, this type
> of
> trickery from the decoy is strictly forbidden. Schutzhund is more of a
> 'show' and KNPV is more of a 'go' - this is not to say Schutzhund dogs are
> inadequate, because I have seen plenty of Schutzhund dogs that would not
> be
> so easily fooled, simply just that there are less rigorous requirements to
> a
> Schutzhund title!

wow ... so the information I had was not right, because I was convinced that
KNPV and Schutzhund was more or less the same.
This decoy issue of course is a major issue, because one must consider that
an adversary may have knowledge on that trainning and may test the dog to
see if can be fooled.

Regards
Fernando
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