Schutzhund

Susan Barwig

Description

Schutzhund is one of the fastest-growing forms of canine competition in the United States. The desire to have a reliable protector and steady family companion all in the same dog has encouraged interest in the Schutzhund philosophy. Schutzhund began in nineteenth-century Europe as a test of a dog's ability to work for humans. In the early 1900s. Max von Stephanitz refined and redesigned the tests to include obedience, protection and tracking. Schutzhund: Theory and Training Methods, a superb explanation of Schutzhund and its components, shows how obedience, protection and tracking all play an integral part in training a Schutzhund dog.

Authors Barwig and Hilliard emphasize selection and raising of the dog to suit the owner's needs as well as crystallizing the goals and techniques in training for each phase of the process. A unique format guides the reader first through an overview of each component and then into the philosophy and training techniques for all activities.

Beautifully organized and abundantly illustrated, this book will allow the reader to tailor these training systems to suit individual needs, producing a dog of value to many. Schutzhund: Theory and Training Methods is a volume essential to any obedience or Schutzhund fan's library.

Sujets

• Breeds
• Pets
• Schutzhund
• Dogs

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 01 mars 1991
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781620459836
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

SCHUTZHUND
SCHUTZHUND
THEORY AND TRAINING METHODS
Susan Barwig and Stewart Hilliard
Copyright 1991 by Susan Barwig and Stewart Hilliard
Howell Book House
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., New York, NY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Barwig, Susan.
Schutzhund : theory and training methods / by Susan Barwig and Stewart Hilliard.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-87605-731-5
1. Schutzhund dogs-Training. I. Hilliard, Stewart. II. Title.
SF428.78.B37 1991
90-37408 CIP
636.73-dc20
Manufactured in the United States of America.
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Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
1 What Is Schutzhund?
2 Selecting the Schutzhund Dog
3 An Overview of Schutzhund Training
4 Tracking: Requirements of the Trial
5 An Overview of the Tracking Phase
6 Tracking: Roles of the Handler and Tracklayer
Goal 1: The Handler
Goal 2: The Tracklayer
7 Tracking: Schooling the Dog
Goal 1: Straight Tracks
Goal 2: Turns
Goal 3: Articles
Goal 4: Age and Length
Goal 5: Proofing Tracking
8 Obedience: Requirements of the Trial
9 An Overview of the Obedience Phase
10 Obedience: Basic Training
Goal 1: Teaching Play
Goal 2: The Sit
Goal 3: The Down
Goal 4: The Long Down
Goal 5: The Stand
Goal 6: The Finish
Goal 7: Heeling
11 Obedience: The Exercises out of Motion
Goal 1: Stand out of Motion
Goal 2: Sit out of Motion
Goal 3: Down out of Motion
Goal 4: The Recall
Goal 5: Maintaining the Exercises out of Motion
12 Obedience: Retrieves, Obstacles and Send Away
Goal 1: The Forced Retrieve
Goal 2: Retrieving over the Obstacles
Goal 3: The Send Away
13 Protection: Requirements of the Trial
14 An Overview of the Protection Phase
15 Protection: Drive Work
Goal 1: Biting the Sack
Goal 2: Biting the Sleeve
Goal 3: Runaway Bites
Goal 4: The Stick and Drive
Goal 5: The Courage Test
16 Protection: The Hold and Bark and the Out
Goal 1: The Hold and Bark
Goal 2: The Out
17 Protection: Obedience for Bites and the Blind Search
Goal 1: Obedience for Bites
Goal 2: The Blind Search
Conclusion
Glossary of Schutzhund Terminology
Suggested Viewing and Reading
Bibliography
Preface
When Susan Barwig published the first edition of this book in 1978, she meant it to be a basic introduction to the sport, an answer to the question What is Schutzhund?
In 1978, Schutzhund was a little-known and arcane discipline practiced by a few hundred devotees across the United States. They were regarded with suspicion and even horror by many American dog fanciers. In the United States there was no old and accepted tradition of working dogs, as there was in Western Europe, and twelve years ago Americans tended to associate any sort of biting-dog training with shady characters in greasy overalls who fed their dogs gunpowder in order to make them mean.
In 1978, advertisements for German Shepherd Dogs mentioned side gait more often than working ability, and not many people considered a pedigree full of German Schutzhund III dogs a selling point for a litter of puppies.
In 1978, animals with AKC Companion Dog titles were advertised as working dogs. Much has changed in twelve years.
Dog World is now crammed full of ads for German Shepherds, Rottweilers and Doberman Pinschers imported from Germany, all of them proudly announcing the animals titles and accomplishments in Schutzhund sport. The United Schutzhund Clubs of America have even instituted a controlled-breeding program (modeled after that of the German Shepherd Dog Club of Germany) which emphasizes not only selection for correct conformation but also the deliberate promotion of character and working ability.
We are becoming acquainted with a new vision-the idea that dogs should be admired for more than pretty ears, a handsome coat, a correct topline and a perfect tail.
Now many of us look for character in our dogs rather than just conformation and beauty. We admire a fine working animal-and call it fine-for its courage, its spirit and its power. In short, it is formidable rather than just adorable. Instead of doting on it and spoiling it as we invariably seem to do with beauty dogs, we respect this animal for its power, love it for its devotion to us and keep and train it responsibly because of our respect for it.
Now more Americans than ever are asking What is Schutzhund? This book, like its predecessor, is designed to answer this question, giving the reader a feeling not just for the mechanics and ritual of a Schutzhund trial, but also for the theory and the atmosphere of the sport.
However, much more than its predecessor, it is also designed to convey a good general understanding of Schutzhund training and also many specific techniques for teaching the dogs. We think that Schutzhund: Theory and Training Methods will prove fascinating not only to novices getting their first introduction to the sport, but also to seasoned trainers looking for a new perspective.
The Requirements chapters describe what the dog must do in a trial-much more simply and readably than in a rule book.
The Overview chapters give the reader general information about, and also hopefully some insight into, each of the three phases of Schutzhund and the demands that they place on the animal.
The training chapters break all of the exercises which the dog must learn down into simple steps designed to be easily grasped by the animal, and also arrange them into meticulous progressions (the careful layerings of skills and concepts that eventually evolve into polished exercises).
For reasons of space, we were unable to describe the schooling of all the exercises in Schutzhund in full detail in this introductory volume. We were forced to be selective, especially in protection training, which is very complex.
We give a reasonably detailed picture of the theory and methods of drive work , because basic agitation is the foundation upon which all other training is based. Because the hold and bark and the out are by far the two most important skills of control, we treated them in some detail. With respect to those two exercises, we hope that we have succeeded in conveying a rich understanding of our methods to the reader and imparted information and ideas that can actually be used on the training field.
On the other hand, our methods for the blind search and what we call obedience for bites are subtle and complicated, and to describe them in detail would have required another volume.
Throughout the book we have employed the pronoun he to refer to the handler and also the agitator and the assistant in training. No sexism is implied. We fully recognize that there are many extremely capable female dog trainers in the sport. Our decision to use the masculine pronoun was prompted by stylistics, not chauvinism.
About the Authors
Susan Barwig holds master s degrees in both education and psychology, and currently teaches in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Colorado.
Ms. Barwig s hobby for many years has been dogs, and she is involved in all kinds of training, having enjoyed great success in training dogs for tracking, obedience and protection. She has entered her own dogs in international Schutzhund competitions for three consecutive years, traveling as a member of the American team to Belgium, Italy and Hungary.
In addition to working with her own dogs, Ms. Barwig is the author of Schutzhund (which in its original version won the Dog Writers Association of America s Best Technical Book of the Year award), and the editor of The German Shepherd Book. She is also the editor of The German Shepherd Quarterly. As the founder and president of Canine Training Systems, Ltd., she produces specialty dog training videos on a variety of dog sports.
Steward Hilliard began training working dogs in 198