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Originally Posted by trevesty
I'd be pretty curious to hear about ScH in Bermuda. I am saying this under the assumption that you're an experienced dog owner but new to ScH, so please don't take it the wrong way... but I hope you know that ScH training & protection training are two very different beasts. ScH does provide one hell of a foundation, though, if the dog can handle that stress then further training into one thing(protection, SAR/detection, AKC obedience crap, etc.)
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I am quite new to ScH. I'm working with a club here one day a week but more often privately with the dog's breeder. I train every day in the early afternoon with the dog being exercised first thing in the morning and before dinner in the evening for his mental health and to outlet his energy. It's great because we go for a walk and swim every morning and he crashes when we get home until it's time to train.
My dog's dad is a Multi V rated ScH 3 working dog trained in Germany and an AKC/CKC/International conformance champion. I'm mostly interested in the obedience portion of it as I don't really need protection or SAR training. I've been training obedience all my life but never to the level of ScH 3. The first day we showed him a bite glove he hit it so hard that literally everybody on the field stopped dead in their tracks to watch. Monster drive in this dog and his natural protection instincts are pretty much off the chart, much stronger than any other dog I've had.
The method we're using is positive reinforcement. Basically, letting the dog think he's training us. It's kind of a neat concept I haven't really worked with before. Basically the dog knows exactly what to do to get the reward and ends up thinking that he is in control of the situation. "I will make them give me a reward by sitting fast and hard".