Protection & Real Bites

It was a beautiful afternoon up at Port Royal School. Jojo had Gunner, Ann worked Basco, Jermaine brought Capone, William had Errol and Charles brought the puppy.

We started with an obedience session. I worked them in heeling, recalls, in motion excercises and voraus. The session wasnt too long, the heat was kicking in and I wanted some energy for protection.

Aron worked the blinds, hold and bark, call out, sit from hold and bark and escorts. I also did a couple of 2 stride attack bites from a down to help his targeting on the courage test.

I worked the second round of dogs doing the helper work. It felt really good and fluid today. The only issue was when working Errol for William. He is primarily a personal protection dog, so the work has a different focus. I was working in close, threatening, applying pressure and he managed to pull an extra foot of line from William and grab my right arm, sans sleeve. He eased the grip immediately so I pulled out and gave the inside of the sleeve. He switched over and held firm while I applied much more pressure and fight. After a couple more bites and a back up attack I stopped to check my arm.