Protection Dog Training Videos Aren't Always a Good Idea

There's nothing intrinsically wrong about a protection dog training video. However, these training techniques aren't for amateurs. If you don't know what you're doing, you're more than likely to turn your dog into a ferocious beast.

Guard dogs and police dogs can be trained to attack only certain people as commanded. However, this is due to concentrated, focused training that they undergo each day by a professional trainer. If you try to undertake this task yourself, your pet is likely to get less than optimal training.

An aggressive pet dog is a hazard to you, other people and the dog itself. Violent behavior is one of the major causes of dog abandonment by pet owners numbering in the millions annually. It is true that some animal shelters find out that some of these abandoned dogs don't really have a problem with aggression. However, many of them do, and the problem frequently stems from an inexperienced owner trying to follow the program on a protection dog training video.

Countless numbers of unwanted pets are put to sleep because they don't have a home. This is in spite of the upsurge in no-kill shelters. Most often the dogs that undergo immediate euthanasia are either very sick or very violent. They don't even have a chance to be adopted. This is what happens when you train your dog using the techniques in protection dog training videos, but don't know what you're doing. It's almost certain that if your dog escapes, it will be put down right away.

Don’t depend on your dog do be a weapon for your protection. In spite of the declarations of some of these dog training videos, dogs aren't cut out to be your personal bodyguard. Your dog won't be much of an impediment to a criminal who plans to rob or harm you. You might undergo the traumatic experience of seeing your dog killed right in front of you, and you'll still get mugged or injured. A dog is no match for a gun. This is something you probably won't see in any protection dog training video.

In dog hierarchy, attacking intruders is the job of the pack leader. The other dogs in the pack protect the vulnerable members and finish up the job. If you train your pet to be the attacker, you will forfeit your position as the pack leader. You won't be in charge, and your dog will have no cause to follow your commands.