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Re: [boon] What is Schutzhund (SchH)
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What the judges look for in each of the section mentioned above ? He will look for good concentration, accuracy and attitude. High scores are for a dog that show his strong ability and willingness to work for the handler.
What is the minimum qualification score for each ? Each Phase contribute the score of 100 points with a grand total of 300 points maximum. The dog must get 70% of the points score to pass
What is the minimum age of dog that can take part ? 18 months ?
SchH1 - 18 months
SchH2 - 19 month
SchH3 - 20 month
How long on average to have one dog trained on this sport ? Dogs need to be brought through the right general guidelines if you have aspirations for a SchH dog. The puppyhood is an extreemely important phase where the dog must neither be opressed or domineered over by anyone or any other dogs. It must be well socialised in different environment and different places so that he will grow up to be confident of his surrounding and the handler. The aim of this is to tell him the world is a safe place to be in as long as you the handler is there for him. Then you have to do drive promotion particularly the prey drive in the begining and a bit of bites. These are the initial phase we call inprinting. These goes up to 4-5 month and thereafter we do motivational basic OB.....no correction, choking at all and more prey biting up to 1 yr old. Any negative behaviour is channeled towards another accepted behaviour motivationally. Then we can do some formal OB again the motivational way. The bites and OB continues to be polished alternating them until trialing minimum of 18 mths. Actually the dog has to pass a basic requirement of a BH(companion dog) by 15 mths before proceeding to SchH1.
What are the differences for the 3 levels of SchH title, SchH1, SchH2 & SchH3 ? SchH1
heeling on and off leash, walking sit, walking down, stay, send out, retrive on flat and over a 1M hurdle. In tracking he must be able to follow a track laid by the handler at least 20 mins earlier. The protection test for SchH1 is 2 blind search for the helper, Bark and hold once found the helper, defend against the attack of the helper on the handler with full hard bite, immediate and confidently. The helper will hit the dog twice with a padded stick but the dog must not release the bite. Once the handler stand still and discontinue the bite, the handler will command out the dog and he will then release and guard the helper intently. Then the dog is put on leashed again and there is another excercise for the dog to defend against the attack of the helper on the dog and handler position. Here the dog will sit next to the handler off leashed, the helper moves about 70-80 paces from the handler and dog, then handler will shout at the helper to stop but the helper will ignore and attack them head on. The handler than sends his dog to defend against this attack
SchH2 is more difficult obviously than 1, in OB there is an additional retrive over 6 foot high slanted wall. The tracking is for the scent not less than 30 mins which is laid by a stranger. (SchH 1 is by handler)
Protection is also more challenging where the blind search is now 6 instead of 2. Here the dog search hold and bark, then attack the escape of the helper where the helper will attempt to run away. Then excort the helper following him about 5 paces behind when the helper suddenly turn to a surprise attack the dog must re-attack against this without any commands. Then the courage test on the long head on attack.
SchH3 is like a master degree. All excercise in OB and Protection is done off leashed. In OB there is additional walking and running stand. Tracking is layed by a stranger for 60 mins earlier. The track has 4 turns instead of 2 in SchH1 & 2. Then there 3 obhect to be found by the dog instead of 2. The protection also is more through......wah my fingers crammed already so I think you should get the general idea.
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