Finally, we get to sleep in for the first time since arriving in Brazil. We have lunch a little after noon with Luiz Gabriel and Supervisor Cesar from Diadema, exchanging a few more gifts and some CDs with photos and videos. Trades are made fr some of the clothes we brought, and then we return to the room for a couple hours, during which we packed, and during an exchange of jokes between Shawn and I he thought I was joking about him needing a slip of paper we were given upon arrival, to turn in at departure. He tore the paper and then spent the next 5 hours worried that he would be stuck in Brazil. His plan was to rat me out as a pig flu patient if he didn't get through.....
We were then picked up for our last bit of sightseeing before heading off to the airport. Over night, my head cold kicked into high gear, and I was feeling pretty miserable, but heading into downtown Sao Paulo took my mind off of it. We started the afternoon with a visit to some of the military surplus stores. We were also taken to a place that sews patches, and found out that Luiz Gabriel made a patch for the class and gave Shawn and I a few of them each. Very nice. The rest were to be distributed to the attendees.
We then went to the Mercado Municipal, which is a big central food market which carries virtually every food Brazilian you can imagine. Varieties of fresh fish, meats, mountains of fruits, nuts, candies are everywhere to be found, as well as restaurants upstairs where you can order up some of the foods for lunch. We stopped and got some dried fruits, and sampled a bunch of the candies and fruits, amd we could have stayed a while longer but time was drawing late, and we walked around the streets for an hour or so around the market looking at the goods the street sellers were peddling. The guys at the seminar joked about the goods in the streets being "made in China" and they weren't kidding.
We decided to start off toward the airport, and the traffic was hell. Shawn fell asleep in the back and the exhaust fumes that came off the trucks into the car were choking me, being that I had such a bad cold. Whoever designed the exhaust pipes to blow directly into the cars adjacent to the trucks needs to be shot. Finally we made it to the airport, and we went to the United counter to check in. The ticket agent made Shawn think he was in serious trouble for ripping up the immigration form, which I thought was hilarious, but he was relieved to know that the woman was just kidding, and he wouldn't be detained after all.
We upgraded from Economy to Economy plus, got good seats, and settled in for a long 9 hour flight home to our families. We arrived on time. I was so Nyquilled-up I barely remember getting the car from the long term lot. Shawn drove to Baltimore (I recall none of that part of the trip except for a brief moment looking at the washington monument wondering how that got moved to I-495), and then I took the car to the house. I slept the majority of the day between coughing fits.
As I sit here writing this, and reflecting on the 5 days we spent there I have to say the people were very warm and open, and extremely hospitable. The culture is a lot like America, with a mix of cultures melting into one Brazilian culture. Everything about the culture is eclectic from the food to the music, and they are very proud of what they have, and they are a very hard working people. They love to speak about their country. To think they were governed by a Military dictatorship only 20 years ago, they have come a long way from that. We listened to countless conversations about friends they knew who went into the Amazon basin, and some who even lost their lives (evidently a trip to that region is not to be taken lightly). They told us about the industries, what they produce, where they work, and how they see their country progressing. They are not afraid to ask for help, to learn new things, to improve what they do. That was evident from the reaction to the seminar, with people taking notes, and asking a lot of questions.
Shawn and I will miss our friends, and hope to see them again soon, as we were invited to return in the early fall for another adventure this time in Rio. We hope we can get it arranged, so we can both come back and see a new place and also see some of our old friends from this seminar.
Thank you to Luiz Gabriel of LGK9 for taking the time to contact me and set up the seminar which gave Shawn and I a great experience we will remember for a long time. Thanks also to Shawn Edwards for being a great partner in teaching the seminar. We had a lot of laughs over the 5 days that is for sure.
The official seminar was concluded yesterday, and today (tuesday) we were picked up in the morning at the hotel by the Guarda Civil for the district of Diadema. The Guarda Civil for Diadema was established in November of 1999 in order to reduce the violence in that district. The homicide rate was through the roof in the 1980s and 1990s, and in addition to establishing the Guarda Civil, the authorities limited bar hours to closing at 11pm instead of being open 24 hours, and installed cameras in high crime areas and streets. By 2007 the violent crime rate was reduced by 75%.
We were introduced to many of the administrators on our tour, including the comandant of the Guarda. We got to see the K9 Unit Kennels, which were very well designed and spotless, and also were shown the Motorcycle Unit, and were taken to the transportation authority which houses the traffic cameras and crime surveillence cameras. Interestingly, many of the officers carry revolvers, and the supervisors carry .380 semi-automatics. Each police car is equipped with a 12 Guage shotgun as well. We put up some photos of the K9 cars, but the dogs rarely ride in the cages, preferring the back seat and open windows.....
We then were taken on a drive around the city. The district has about 375,000 people, and we got to see the markets, and the city center, and took some pictures of the local area before being taken back to the police station.
In the afternoon, we were interviewed by the local paper, the regional newspsper, and Brazilian TV. Questions were asked of us about the differences and similarities of US and Brazilian police departments, as well as our impressions of the police dogs in Brazil and how the seminar went off. They are even sending one of the supervisors to us in the morning with a CD of the photos and TV clip so we can have it before we return. Shawn did a demo with a couple of the K9s letting them bite him, and that seemed to be big excitement for all the reporters. I almost had the TV reported talked into taking a bite from one of the dogs, but she chickened out at the last second. They also did a drug detection demo with one of the labs handled by one of the K9 unit supervisors. Click here to go to the TV Interview:
After the press interviews, the 3 K9 officers who attended our seminar took us to a Churrascaria for a great lunch. Shawn amazed them with the sheer qualtity of food he was able to consume. After lunch we made out way back to Sao Paulo and said our goodbyes to the K9 guys, with agreements to trade some patches and t-shirts by post.
Dinner with our host Luiz Gabriel and translator Roberto Bautista followed at about 8pm, and we discussed another trip to Brazil in the near future to do 2 seminars, one in Diadema and another in Rio. Hopefully we wuill be able to return. Although we have had a great time here, we both miss our families back home, and it will be a welcome relief to be back home sleeping in our own beds and with our loved ones. Tomorrow is an easy day, we finally get to sleep in, and then we go to the famous Mercado Municipal in Sao Paulo a la Anthony Bourdain on the Travel Channel. We are going to pick up some gifts for the home front and some rememberances of our travels, and get to sample some of the more unique foods available here in Sao Paulo. More on that tomorrow!
Some of my impressions of Brazil.....
Nothing is as it seems from the street. Almost everywhere, stores, small shops, specialty markets, look like a garage from the outside, and once the roll up door is open you see a plethora of entrepreneurial activity. Little Bars, hardware stores, pet shops, cantinas, etc are literally on every street.
Napkins made of a wax-paper substance in some of the resturants.
They need some toilet engineers to help them design a toilet that actually flushes the first time you press the handle.
The food is very good.....lots of meat and lots of great fruit is available. There are Churrisacria Restaurants literally on every corner, and unlike in America they are relatively cheaper by a long shot.
Americans take our technology, and its portability for granted....Shawn's Ipod Touch was a big attraction. I forgot to pack my power cord for my Blackberry, and nobody seemed to think one would be available for purchase, or perhaps it would have been too much of a pain to find a store that sells it.
Traffic in Sao Paulo is a serious issue. Everything revolves around traffic and there are a million side streets. When we went to the Seminar it seemed we went a different way almost every time.
There are speed bumps on virtually every side street every .25 of a mile or so it seems to keep traffic slowed down.
The city of Sao Paulo is gigantic. The city has a population of around 11 million people, and the entire Sao Paulo Metropolitan area has something on the order of 21 million people.
The dog business is booming here. Pet shops, kennels, agility clubs, schutzhund clubs are popping up everywhere!
The people are warm and genuine, sometimes passionate, but empethetic and hospitable. We were treated with great care and in the small K9 circle we travelled in, we were treated kindly and with great resect.
The last day of the seminar there was again a miscommunication regarding who was to come and pick us up from the hotel, and we arrived about 20 minutes late. Once we arrived, there was coffee waiting, and we began with Shawn doing some lecture in obedience theory. With the language barrier, it is very hard to discuss the nuances of obedience, so we did a rough outline in lecture, and then came out to the training area to show them the ideas.
Shawn took a few of the dogs, and demonstrated the procedure for using the Jute roll in obedience, and how to develop attention in heeling. We also demonstrated how to use food. Both the food reward and toy reward methods were well received, and it struck us how different the US is from the rest of the world when it comes to using reward in obedience for police dogs. In my travels all across Europe, almost all trainers, be they in ring sports, IPO, SVV or Police use a reward method to, at a minimum, teach new behaviors in obedience.
The Argentinian handlers and trainers go even further, using an instrumental method, where by the dogs are first taught "concepts" of following, left, right, up down, etc. and then these concepts are used to develop actual behaviors using a clicker training method. The dogs are expected to work around their rewards (toys, decoys) and are sent to the rewards for a successful chain of behaviors. We spent a fair bit of time having the spanish translated to Portuguese, and back to English, so it is amazing that we were able to understand what the trainers were saying about the methodology thyey used.
The last part of the morning was spent with Jerry explaining the method for using the e-collar. Everyone was very interested, as there seems to be very little information available in Brazil for good E-Collar methodology. The class was very interested to see how we used the e-collar in heeling, recalls, outs, redirects and call-offs, and to learn both the advantages and limitations that had to be considered with this tool when training police dogs.
The lunch break was called, and for the third day we went to the cantina in Sao Paulo. Upon our return, some photos were taken, gifts exchanged, and contact information was exchanged. Many of the participants expressed a heartfelt thanks for us coming to share our experiences and methods with them. In return we expressed our gratitude for the invitation and thanks for their attention and good questions.
We went on to bitework, and showed some techniques for building and improving bite quality in some of the younger dogs. As a rule they move to far too fast, and don;t take enough time to develop drive channelling so when the dogs work in prey they are very impressive, but when defense is brought the dogs have a hard time staying committed and even engaged, so we showed them techniques to slowly step-by-step build the dog's confidence when working in defense.
To end the afternoon session (we decided to call the end at 4pm as many had to travel from very far away) we set up a tactical building search exercise to clear a room with a 3 man team. We showed them how to position the dog handler, how to take consideration of cover, and manage the suspect once extracted. We set the extraction up so the dog would ebter through a window, and we did the extraction exercise a couple of times. The Argentinian dog did beautifully. The team did a nice job of maintaining proper position, and doing a tactical removal once the suspect was to a previously cleared position. The participants seemed to enjoy this application, and were very interested in the method.
What ensued next was a discussion of arrest techniques using a K9 and a cover officer, and we showed the procedures we teach fr avoiding cross-fire, and for using the dog to impress the subject. These were no bite scenarios of arrest. We then began discussing various other tactics, until we called the seminar over. Everyone was very interestyed in what we do and why.
The last part of the afternoon was spent handing out certificates and taking a lot of pictures with everyone at the seminar. In 3 days we made some new friends, and even with the language barriers managed to make some jokes that will be remembered. As I travel to ever more places, it strikes me that people do live somewhat differently, but on the whole, it always impresses me how similarly we all live. Despite what you hear on the news in America, people look to America as the example of what prosperity can bring when people are left to their own abilities. They always ask us how we live, what we eat, what our daily routines are like, what cars we drive, and unlike what you may hear in the media, we are still the example of what is posssibe. I think when people have a chance to meet as individuals there is a big difference, as everyone sees how alike they really are at the core.
Shawn and i woke up and realized we hadn't set our clocks to Atlantic time (Sao Paulo is in the Atlantic time zone, one hour later than EST) so we were a tad late getting to the seminar. However, once we arrived, we were introduced to the ranking Lt. representing the Brazilian Military who welcomed us to Brazail and to the seminar. They actually have a protocol to turn "command" over the instructors, and so we did.
The facility that is hosting the seminar is a large agility center and boarding kennel, and from the street you woud never know how nice a place it was.....there was a full agility field, covered, and lined with astro-turf, and surrounding that pavillion were some training fields. There were swimming pools for the dogs, classroom area, grooming, boarding kennels, and plenty of parking. The owners were also very gracious and hospitable. The agility class was running in the morning when we got there, and I have to say they looked very competitive, and the training looked very tight.
Back to our gig...Seminar attendees wanted to learn how we train narcotics/explosives dogs at TK9 - so we spent the better part of the morning in classroom instruction, with a translator and a white board. We also had some attendees from Argentina so the English was translated into Portuguese, then Portuguese into Spanish.....but surprisingly it all went very well. The attendees all took detailed notes, and asked a number of questions at every hour break. There was a wide variety of experience among the attendees, as some were experienced trainers and some were new handlers.
Once the classroom was finished, we began working the dogs, and we tested a number of the dogs for detection, and the quality of the dogs was generally good. As is usual, they do too much obedience, and supress some of the dogs too much, so we explained how to build the dogs without taking the intensity out with too much obedience and making the dogs too "polite."
Lunch was had at a Cantina in Sao Paulo, buffet style, and we got to try a few new foods. Overall, the food has been delicious. And the hospitality has been tremendous. Both of our hosts Luiz Gabriel and Roberto Bautista, have seen to our needs and have been very gracious.
After lunch, we then ran a test of the more experienced trained dogs on 2 odors with distractor odors in the search area (they requested this, which I was happy to see). Here we saw many of the training issues that began with the young dogs. The handlers were not familiar with off leash searching at all(we tested in an agility ring so it was fenced off), and so they tired the dogs out in the large area with too much presentation and a lack of systematic search patterning. Many of the dogs did not have a strong alert, so the handlers talked the dogs into a number of alerts with Portuguese versions of "is it there?" and "what's that?" - one day a dog in a seminar is going to answer the handler with "Hell if I know, but it seems like you want me to alert right here, so here goes!"
We then showed them how to do independent search work, and the dogs all improved - the one lab danced around like an imbicile because he probably never had so much freedom - but he quickly came to his senses and performed well. It was hard for the handlers to not be involved, but standing back I think they could see their dogs' potential to search more efficiently and search independently.
Shawn then took one of the trained dogs and showed how to handle the dog, and flow in the pattern without stressing the dog or getting in his way, and the malinois performed nicely, and it seemed this helped them understand the handling aspect - The handler manages the search, and the dog does the search.
The day was finished with some work with green dogs, doing some basic drive building as the dogs were of medium intensity. All the dogs seemed to improve, and the participants had a lot of questions about how to proceed. We wrapped in the classroom with a quick summary, and some more questions.
In Brazil, Breakfast is at a normal hour, lunch also at about noon, however, dinner is customarily eaten at 10 or 11pm! By 9:30 pm our host Luiz Gabriel and his wife and daughter picked us up to take us to a big restaurant ... we arrived to one of the largest restaurants I have ever seen.....and the wait at 10:15 at night was estimated to be one and a half hours....we had a drink and decided to go elsewhere to a deli-style restaurant and has some Brasilian Pizza and Cheese-steaks....we had a chance to talk with Luiz Gabriel over dinner and discussed the seminar and how to proceed with the next two days.
On the way home we were informed that we would have a tour of the Military base, Federal Police Training K9 Center and we were going to be interviewed by Brazilian Television on wednesday......So far we are having a great time. I have never had to teach with a translator, and at times it was frustrating, not being able to say things exactly as i would to a US audience, but it has been an education in choosing my words carefully and being brief (not a strong point of mine) but complete in my teaching. At the end of the day i was exhausted, and Shawn was ready to get to the bitework where he will be more directly involved as the teaching helper for the attendees.
Shawn and I were 15 minutes eary to the seminar today. The classroom was ready, although we still had some technical difficulties with the AV equipment (none available) which meant I had to lecture old school. We began with a discussion of Explosives recognition, and some of the newer advances in explosives training aids including NESTT, Scent-X (TATP & HMTD), and how we structured, specifically, the explosives training regimen. A lot of good questions followed the lecture, and we pressed on to the bitework.
As I began the lecture, discussing prey & defense drives, and drive channelling, one member of the class had some kind of objection to the theory - something to do with dogs don't go in defense in bitework - he was quite vociferous about it all....and then the entire class started arguing with one another about the veracity of what I said....never had such a thing happen in a seminar, so Shawn and I stepped out of the room, had some coffee while they continued to argue, and then when all calmed down, I tried to explain it again (was met with a disapproving look, again) and so I asked him if he had his dog with him (of course he did not) so instead we showed some video of Shawn doing a PSA style courage test, tried to relate a cop running after a suspect to a suspect fighting him for control of his weapon, etc to get the point accross thet defense is real and dogs experience it, and if they don't get trained in defense, they will more likely get run off a grip,
So we asked who had a dog thet could take the pressure seen on the video, and one guy from Argentina said his dog was very strong, so away we went to the agility field, moved some jumps and PSA in Brasil began. After Shawn ran the dog to a one tooth grip in the shoulder, the objections quieted, and we worked the rest of the dogs to introduce defense, teach drive channelling, and in some of the younger dogs, simple prey work, grip building, teaching the adjust, etc....
Lunch was called at about 12:40pm, and we adjourned to the Cantina for another lunch - some new stuff on the menu today (ribs, vegetable tempura, roast beef, abnd various rice preparations). After lunch we drove to the Brazilian equivalent of Costco (about 5 times bigger) and bought some DVDs so we could burn powerpoints, add pics and video clips to them, and that is what Shawn is doing now.
After lunch we discussed training skills of out and redirects, and demonstrated the out with a schutzhund dog who was having some out issues.....which we cleared up rather quickly. Nice solid black and red GSD and a very appreciative handler. We moved to the out with a couple other dogs, and then onto the redirects with the dogs from the Argentinian police. The dogs from Argentina were very powerful Malinois, big and strong, with very good fundamentals. Eartlier in the day we worked these dogs in the shoulder, PSA style, and they responded nicely, pushing into the grips, and moving with rather than against the helper. This afternoon, we worked on the redirects, using both compulsion to work the out, and also with a couple other dogs, using only motivation to get them out. Some of the dogs with existing out issues, showed some improvement, but will certainly require more training to get the exercise. The exercise itself was well received and new to many.After re-directs we got a couple new people to decoy, one Brazilian and one Argentinian) - and both did very well.
We left re-directs to discuss a tactical application, felony vehicle stops & extractions, and there once again erupted an argument about tactics, cars were moved, bulletproof glass was mentioned, local laws in Sao Paulo that generally prohibit any apprehension bite save for one where the suspect pulls a gun to shoot an officer in plain view of that officer or another one. Once the dust settled we explained how it works in the USA, and they liked to see how we do things, even if they can't do it themselves.
The day ended with a short lecture on tracking by Jerry, and then the Brazilians did their version of a tactical perimetered night track. Unbeknownst to Shawn, they brought 3 dogs into the area, and he ended getting blinded by a flashlight and double dogged without any prior warning.....I guess the language barrier got the better of everyone. Shawn was unscathed. We left for showers at 7:30pm after starting a 9am sharp, so it was a very long day.
Oh, and during one of the coffee breaks, there was a Brasilian Jiu-Jitsu match with Shawn and one of the cops in attendance. Shawn won by tap out from an arm bar in about 10 seconds.......I was pretty impressed and the crowd of Brasilians was pretty shocked. Shawn was happy, it was a nice side note to his trip here.
We had an update on our press appearances (I say that tongue in cheek) but we will be going to the Federal Kennels in Diadema - SP Brasil. Evidently a car is being sent for us to go to the kennel for a tour, and then we will be interviewed by a local reporter. Still a possibility of a TV appearance on wednesday before we leave.
We miss our families, but this is a unique experience. There was talk of another trip in the fall to Rio de Janerio for a seminar for the local authorities in Rio in August of this year. Depending on how things go, maybe another return trip to Brazil.
Photos are coming.....here is the URL of the photobucket folder where the pictures will be:
Shawn Edwards & I arrived in Sao Paulo Brazil this morning....9 hour plane ride from Washington Dulles. Weather is pretty mild, high 70s during the day, and showers in the afternoons.....city of 4 million people ... lots of traffic everywhere. Our host Luiz Gabriel of LGK9 picked us up at the airport and brought us to the hotel for some rest and a shower....then we went to a real Brazillian Churriscaria Barbecue a la Fogo de Chao for dinner.
Tomorrow we go to the Military base in the morning to set up for the detection portion of the seminar. There are 40 people registered for the seminar, coming from the Brazilian Military & Federal Police and from Argentine Military and from Chilean Military. We meet with our translator Roberto tonight to go over the details, and tomorrow we let it rip!
I will post pics here as soon as we get them.......
Just a quick wrap up......Ft. Belvoir Patrol Seminar...Dave Colborn and I did a 3 day patrol seminar for the military at Ft. Belvoir - handlers from Belvoir and Ft. Meyer were represented, with about 13 teams all together....both lecture and practical work....we introduced some new techniques for Human Focused Aggression training and redirects....as well as shared some new techniques on the standoff exercise for them to incorporate into training. A lot of time was spent on fundamentals of alert training, passive apprehensions, and civil aggression work.
The HITS conference was a big success as well. TK9 Head Trainer Janet Dooley and I attended, and we had a chance to see some of the TK9 handlers and customers who were attending and spend some time developing new relationships with potential clients at other police agencies.
Jerry presented on "The Power of Reward" to 2 classes, one on tuesday afternoon and one on Wednesday afternoon. We had a great response to the material which covered integrating reward methods into obedience training to improve controil and K9 handler relationship in general. The talk then covered using reward methodologies in the control exercises for aggression work in out training, developing more reliable recalls and outs (guard and returns) and redirects....
We had an excellent time and also had the opportunity to learn some new things as well to incorporate in our training programs.....
Over the past few weeks I have received contact from a few prospective K9 handlers. The story is the same. Their department had a dog-handler team, and the handler decided to leave, so the dog was passed to them. They tell me they are a certified handler (because they had a dog at one time in the past, evdently) so they say they don't need a full handler course with this new dog, but want a short course and certification. Here are some facts:
1. There are NO CERTIFIED HANDLERS only certified K9 Teams. No dog? You are not a certified handler. New Dog? You need to be certified again, and recertify each year at roughly the same time (doesn;t need to be to the day, but within a month or so annually).
2. The handler course is for the dog team - allowing the team time to learn one another in a structured training environment. No matter how many dogs you have had in the past, you need to train with the new dog for a sufficient time to learn the dog before going on deployments that matter. If you think your experience with one dog carries over automatically to the new dog, you DON'T have enough experience in K9, and you should avail yourself of a full handler course.
Tarheel Canine accepts K9 teams for handler courses, regardless of if TK9 trained the dog initially. We put you through a 4-week handler course (with the trained dog) and do a certification in the last week, all for the price of $3500 including housing. We also include free lifertie in service and annual recertification for that $3500. Contact Jerry at malinois_jb@mindspring.com for more information.
One of the best things we have done in a long time was to switch our dog food to Eagle Pack. Our police dogs are eating the kennel formulation, and many of my trainer's dogs, including mine, are eating the Holistic Formula. I have been feeding my two dogs the Lamb and Rice formula. Click here to learn more about this food: http://www.eaglepack.com/
Most of our personal dogs are Malinois, and the stools are firm, the coats are looking great. Even if you overfeed some, the stools stay firm. The food is really palatable, even finicky eaters dive in face first.
I have to thank my friends Sean Siggins of Southern York Regional and Shawn Edwards of Baltmore City for pushing us to try this food. We have been through so many commercial foods at the kennel over the last 3 years. We most recently loved Royal Canin until they changed their formula to the "Diarrhea Formulation" they are currently selling despite a boatload of complaints from their customers.
We also pair this food with the supplement Vertex, which is sold through our ProShop at http://www.tarheelcanine.com/proshop_care.cfm This supplement, makes a great coat, reduces significantly any shededing of the coat, keeping transport vehicles and K9 units clean of hair! It has supplements for joint care, including MSM, and you can read more about all the benefits at: http://www.tarheelcanine.com/documents/vertex_brochure.pdf
As a police dog vendor I see a lot of testing of dogs. Here are a couple things I have seen recently that don't make any sense at all.....trust me, I have a million of these....
1. Detection Test: The trainer doing the testing throws 3 or 4 retrieves in a row, where the tester uses a 2nd toy to induce the dog to release after bringing the first one back ...then throwing that second toy, and so on....(ok to this point) then on the 4th throw.....he throws the toy and times how long the dog holds the first toy without dropping it.....and what do a number of the dogs do?....YES, you guessed it, they run to the tester and drop the toy in anticipation of the next throw!! Thus failing the test!!
2. Testing a green patrol dog on a bite suit, and when the dog bites, the trainer doing the testing who is also in the suit, goes passive for the next 3 minutes.....and the dog stays strong in the grip for quite some time then starts getting into a little conflict because nothing he has ever done before in his short life as a biting dog has prepared him to bite a cadaver!
3. Stand in front of a patrol dog candidate, pull out a bull whip (yes, a real 8 foot long bullwhip) and flail it in helicopter fashion ..... the malinois being tested stood fast and I watched his head circle as his eyes tracked the motion of the whip....when asked what the purpose of that was, the trainer doing the testing said to see how the dog reacted to unfamiliar things. I would pay to see the stats of how many B&Es are committed with a bullwhip - I guess I'm old school testing on slick floors, tight spaces, and gunfire reaction.....This was clearly the stupidest thing I think I have ever seen.
4. Same trainer, calls his decoy to test the dog on a sleeve, the decoy proceeds to put a left handed bite bar sleeve on his right arm (as his trainer has taught him to do) and the trainer notes the poor bite of the dog, who is literally trying to bite under the sleeve, but has such a bad presentation there was no hope from the start......
4. Same trainer, puts a choke chain and leash on the same green malinois and starts speaking Dutch commands to the dog.....when I say the dog is from Slovakia AND knows no obedience at all, the trainer replies to me...."All dogs know the same language....." and he continued to jerk the collar, and say some bastardized version of "Heel" in Dutch.....with no response from the dog.
Brazil Seminar - Day 5 & 6
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