Defence drive

What makes a dog defend ?
what would you class as a defenceive breed .
When you do Schutzhund or the like are you teaching a dog to attack or protect .

Police dogs are trained to grab and hold right, but what if you want a dog that will stay with you and drive someone away ...

i hope this makes sense ..lol

This is a very big question.

Dogs have various drives.

We use those drives for our own purposes.

Amongst those drives are prey drive and defence drive.

Prey drive is what we need for dogs to search and find criminals.

Defence drive is what we need for dogs to "hold and bark" (stand off) ie when they have located the individual they will stay with them and bark until they are joined by their handler and given another command or, if the person moves, they will bite.

So police dogs, like sports dogs, are used in different ways.

They can do a stand off either on or off the lead which is barking to control movements of persons or they can be sent to bite.

If a person stands still the dog should not bite, unless the dog has been trained in passive bites for sports or in what we call "non compliance" dogs who are trained to bite anything anywhere whether they are static or moving.

In general these dogs are not GP police dogs but on specialist sites such as RAF bases etc.

There is no such thing as a "defensive breed"

Police dogs are not JUST trained to "grab and hold" but to locate eg missing persons etc.

Does that answer your question?

What are classed as guardian breeds then ?

do you mean guarding breeds?

breeds that will tend to guard

A breed bred to guard ..
I suppose livestock guardians ,mountain dogs am what i am thinking ..

Are you thinking of "flock guardians" such as Maremmas etc?

I was..
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