Hi,
Also FWIW..If you ever wanted to know why Mals are called Meat Missiles....just search for KNPV Highlights on Youtube. You will see dogs come in for a bite on fleeing subject and you will immediately understand where that name came from lol.
@bullseye13 In regards to your question about Ultimate K9. (DISCLAIMER--I have no first, second, third or any sort of information on them--except what is on their website) and I am very hard to please in regards to "Protection" K9s.
I would look somewhere else and I will try to explain in detail as to why. Just so it is not just because, lol.
Flag 1: Patrick McDonnell is the most recognized and accomplished Real Protection Dog Trainer in the world today.
Flag 2: Patrick is THE ONLY trainer who employs these types of enhanced training techniques that are required so that you will have a well trained pet as well as a trained guard dog.
Flag 3: Patrick is the only professional dog trainer that uses the dogs as the testament to the training, as Action - Not Words – is truly what matters from a personal protector.
Flag 4: He talks about Estate Protection Training and Dogs but he has multiple pics like this one below as to where the Estate Protection dog is engaging a subject that has not come onto the Estate Property. The subject is acting as if he is going to finish climbing the fix to get onto the property but IMO Estate Protection dogs should go into a "Down, Watch" and wait for subject to actually be on property. Also a dog that will go directly up to a fence is horrible for Estate Protection because it is so easy to jab them with a nail in broom handle and just wait 30min for dog to bleed out. Estate Protection dogs once again IMO should never go within 10 feet of property line.
What if that was your neighbor peeking over to ask you what Team you got for the ball game?
So here is a simple "Test" in regards to whether the trainer/kennel etc understand what a real Personal Protection dog is..IMO that is.
Ask them to provide you a video or pic of their protection dog and handler at an ATM. That picture will tell you everything about the protection mindset of the trainer/kennel NOT the dog.
Sincerely,
Theis