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This very thorough book on training a protection dog builds from understanding protection work to training, being an agitator, evaluating temperament, and more. Safety is emphasized throughout. It is fun, exciting, compelling reading, even if protection work is not a goal but simply a fascination.
Acknowledgments.

Preface.

PART I: Preludes.

1. Command Performance.

2. Is This Trip Necessary?

3. Preferences.

4. Groundwork.

5. Slight Shifts in Perception.

6. Instincts and Drives.

PART II: Training.

7. Agitators and Agitation.

8. Agitation Methodologies.

9. Listen!

10. Backtrack.

11. Action!

12. The Next Three Hours.

13. Out!

14. Back!

15. Watchim!

16. Faster, Harder, Tougher.

17. Proofing

18. Poison Protection

PART III: Extras.

19. Puppy, Puppy

20. Procedures and Tactics

21. Q & A.

22. Lessons From the Best Teacher.

Postscript.

Glossary.

For Further Reading.

About the Author.

Index.

Sujets

Breeds

Pets

Dogs

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	05 mai 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780470366820
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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MANSTOPPER!
Training a Canine Guardian
by Joel M. McMains

HOWELL BOOK HOUSE
HOWELL BOOK HOUSE
NEW YORK
Copyright © 1998 by Joel M. McMains
Copyright © 1998 by Wiley Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved
Howell Book House
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data:
McMains, Joel M.
Manstopper! : training a canine guardian / by Joel M. McMains
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87605-144-1
1. Watchdogs-Training. I. Title.
SF428.8.M36 1998 636.7'0886—dc21 97-35213 CIP
5 4
Book Design by Rachael McBrearty-Madhouse Productions
DEDICATION
For Jo Sykes, trainer and teacher, who told me six books ago as I stared at my third rejection slip from as many publishers and pondered punching the Delete key, “Keep writing!”
And for Joyce Guerrero, who told me many other things.
WARNING
Like construction workers who walk narrow beams at dizzying heights and cops who race through darkened doorways against armed suspects, the work of guard dog trainers is high-risk. That designation should not be a revelation—it’s common sense.
Still, be forewarned: The training methods presented in this book carry high potential for danger to owners, trainers, helpers and dogs. Given the work’s nature, you, the people assisting you and your dogs are at great peril and may be seriously injured.
People aren’t supposed to be perfect. Neither are dogs. Mistakes and accidents happen, and the less experienced you are, the greater the risk. As a trainer-friend from Germany once said, “You get bit; that’s part of it, too.”
This book is not for children. Hide it from them. There is no great mystery about protection training. A child can learn it. A child can also be shredded trying it.
As can an adult.
The canine training techniques described herein are intended for stable canine temperaments only and are not intended for any dog whose lineage or temperament makes him clearly unsuited for protection work.
Neither the Author nor the Publisher shall be liable for any claim, made by any person, trainer or owner, that arises out of the use or implementation of the various training methods presented in this book.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface
PART I Preludes
1 Command Performance
2 Is This Trip Necessary?
3 Preferences
4 Groundwork
5 Slight Shifts in Perception
6 Instincts and Drives
PART II Training
7 Agitators and Agitation
8 Agitation Methodologies
9 Listen!
10 Backtrack
11 Action!
12 The Next Three Hours
13 Out!
14 Back!
15 Watchim!
16 Faster, Harder, Tougher
17 Proofing.
18 Poison Protection
PART III Extras
19 Puppy, Puppy
20 Procedures and Tactics
21 Q&A
22 Lessons From the Best Teacher
Postscript
Glossary
For Further Reading
About the Author
Index
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This page is always my favorite. It gives me a chance to thank those people toward whom Providence has nudged me. They have helped shape the person I am and, therefore, the books I have written.
Bud Swango, Jim Robinson, Robert McKie, Joanna Walker, Roger Davidson, Ron Flath, Lawrence Zillmer, Carol Lea Benjamin, Nancy West, Karen White, Steve and Suzanne SeRine, and most cherished, H.P. Many of you are dog knowledgeable, each of you have shown me love and patience. No one could ask more of friends.
Years ago Sean Frawley and Seymour Weiss of Howell Book House recognized the substance of what I call the Dog Logic series and took a chance. The debt I feel toward those gentlemen exceeds my ability to repay.
Beth Adelman, editor, thank you for your gentle, insightful touch that encouraged and allowed.
Jeanne Kuntz, photographer, without your artist’s compassion and patience, this book would only strain at the bit.
And a special “Bless you” to the dogs, for their acceptance and for what they’ve taught me.
Of course, some folks’ contributions would have been negative, had I accepted them. Such shadows fall across every life, perhaps for contrast. They are distractions that are better ignored.

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
Henry Beston
The Outermost House
PREFACE
This is a book about training man’s best friend to be an assailant’s worst nightmare, a canine protector who defends his human partner by threat or bite, according to command.
Manstopper is not just for protection buffs. Even trainers ill-disposed to guard dog work can profit from this book’s insights into canine nature and motivation, which can be adapted to enhance responsiveness in many areas of training. Moreover, obedience fans unschooled in protection work still have much to learn about obedience specifically and canine potential generally.
This guide operates beyond the genre’s typical “Do this, do that.” Though I’ve provided an extensive Glossary, the book uses a minimum of technical jargon, yet its style requires concentration and thought. This is appropriate, because guardian training demands concentration and thought. How much? Well, one does not sneeze when handling nitroglycerin.
By design, the book develops gradually; the first chapter does not open, “Start your pet’s protection training by. . . .” Beginners often wish to hasten the learning process; and while enthusiasm is understandable, even commendable, to race through bitework’s principles is like sticking your finger in a wall socket to study the nature of electricity. There is much you must know before ever attaching a leash.
In some instances the text is harsh. That’s because you and I are examining some harsh realities. No, it isn’t all serious. A sense of humor maintains perspective (and preserves sanity). Still, if certain passages make you wince, remember we seek neither show-ring trophies nor performance titles. Our focus is combat. Successful combat.
We are teaching Cards familiaris that, on cue, he must unleash his fighting attributes—teeth, nails, cunning, intensity, speed and raw power—against Homo sapiens . Not just against padded sleeves but against people. Polite niceties are not coefficients in that equation.
Action scenes abound in Manstopper , to provide word pictures of guard training rather than just string together declarative sentences. Q&A sections are provided to fill in anticipated blanks.
Every other photograph doesn’t depict a dog biting someone, a proclivity among many protection books that teaches little. I’d rather allocate photo space to subtler aspects of training and handling, because to the dog they are not subtle; they are as important as what occurs during bite practice.
Further, I don’t waste your time with captions like, “This is a German Shepherd Dog.” Anyone whose experience doesn’t enable them to recognize a German Shepherd (or Doberman Pinscher or Rottweiler) at a glance is not ready to try guard work.
People who have never owned or trained a dog, or possess but a vague awareness of the species, should first master obedience. They should not start in protection. One does not begin an education about cars or driving by entering the Indy 500. Dogs are pack animals from another age, not inarticulate children in furry costumes. They respect physical and mental strength, and submit t