Protection without aggression!

[UnleashDogTraining]

Proper protection training is not as difficult to achieve as you think. Their are many resources available. Bite on command is more of a game of tug, than an actual attack on a human. If your interested in training your puppy, dont be afraid to look for an academy near you, open up a few books. The least you can achieve, is a dog who is very well versed in the fundamentals. Oh yeah, and start practicing tug and release on cue (play tug, gently push the toy deeper into its jaws to each it to bite deep, say drop it, exchange for a treat/another toy x repeat)

However, do not try to raise a guard dog by beating it, not socializing it, confining it, etc.You will only have an uncontrollable mess on your hands, and will ruin the dogs life.

[CurtisM]

No dog will protect you out of some breed specific special super guard dog gene. No dog is going to protect you because they "lovers" you.

The true Doberman Pinscher is all but extinct, I've only seen a very few capable of doing work that a mediocre Malinois or GSD is capable of much less GOOD work.

If you want a REAL protection dog you're going to need to have a professional trainer guide you through raising and training your pup, OR, better yet, you'll need to buy an adult dog who's already trained to your exact specifications that way there's no chance you raising the pup will influence it negatively to the work or it's temperament ie soft owners creating dominance problems, hard owners causing confidence issues ect ect.

If you want REAL protection ie a dog who'll back up his bark when told to do so or when your home has been invaded or if you're assaulted, it takes thousands of dollars and hundreds of man hours of training and decoy work from qualified personnel. If it was as easy as picking up a Dobie pup police departments wouldn't buy $10,000+ dogs imported from Europe.

[CurtisM]

Proper protection training is not as difficult to achieve as you think. Their are many resources available. Bite on command is more of a game of tug, than an actual attack on a human. If your interested in training your puppy, dont be afraid to look for an academy near you, open up a few books. The least you can achieve, is a dog who is very well versed in the fundamentals. Oh yeah, and start practicing tug and release on cue (play tug, gently push the toy deeper into its jaws to each it to bite deep, say drop it, exchange for a treat/another toy x repeat)

However, do not try to raise a guard dog by beating it, not socializing it, confining it, etc.You will only have an uncontrollable mess on your hands, and will ruin the dogs life.

Wow, how incorrect...bite on command isn't a tug of war to GOOD dogs with proper training. Only crappy Police Departments and the Military still think a dog should "play" bite a man (US/British/Australian Police Departments and Military have the WORST K9 programs on the planet).

A dog of correct drive should be biting a man out of "fight drive" or social drive, the drive and will to dominate through violence, compete, and win. Only dogs trained by crappy trainers or dogs of poor genetics think biting a man is a game. It's a DANGEROUS task NOT a game. A dog who thinks it's a game will RUN when scared or hurt. A dog who thinks of it as a fight, a competition for dominance, will not run, he will INCREASE the aggression, which is GOOD when you're talking about protection work.

Your info is outdated and borderline harmful!