Law enforcement agencies are import sporting dogs from Europe. By doing this you pass up the small neighborhood breeder who takes such pride in his dogs and care of his litters, to put money in the hands of those who have pulled the wool over your eyes. Stay away from any agency that does not at least look stateside for their dogs first. It has become more important to have a dog with pink papers, than to have a good dog with no papers. If we took all the successful imports on the street in America and all the failures or loose cannons, it would take a box car to accommodate the later and a Volkswagen to house the first. When someone attempts to change over a sporting dog to a service dog, they are admitting, a sporting dog is not a true working dog. All of the loose foundation is present and remains so.

I am making these statements so that each and every one of you that reads this will do your homework. Don't take my word. Look around. Test the theories. You will find that unless your attacker challenges you with a Schutzarm or bite sleeve, he is in no danger of being bitten. All of the training done on full body bite suit or muzzle with a sporting dog is useless and although I will not say why here so the bad guys can find out. I will say any of you who challenge me on this statement simply have to bring your dog here to me. Then we will put you up on the net so people will know if I am right or I am wrong. I honestly hope someone comes forward.

Remember a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. When civilians with no military training start to use military terminology to describe training techniques of which they know nothing about. This is dangerous. The real world of rock and roll, down and dirty, covert activities will know them as charlatans. Unfortunately the innocent will not. One trainer suggests you should alert (have your dog bark out aggressively) your dog on people approaching on the street and knocking on your door at home. Then fake that you are correcting him for coming out and then tell them he has already bit somebody to put fear into an already confused individual. The damage and the lack of stability in such a dog is unimaginable. A real service dog is not a vicious, unmannerly animal and will indicate when necessary and will target and forewarn of an attacker only when the situation dictates. The truth is when all things are working you don't have to play the fool and pretend.

Just think in a time when so much legislation is being passed to not only ban protection dogs or working dogs but to move toward forced breed extinction, a trainer would actually give advice to people, that causes these noble creature to look like a vicious unruly animal. This advice in turn, causing fear and deepening the misconception of what a true working dog is.

You see you cannot take a Schutzhund dog and from him create a working dog. Schutzhund is a sport, a game, a competition. Not work. Sporting dogs are not working dogs. It has always amused me how sporting people want to call their dogs, working dogs and yet handlers of working dogs have no desire to refer to their dogs as sporting dogs. The reason for this is obvious. Working dogs are content to be known by their handlers for what they are. The fact that the German Shepherd's Dog was once a Working Breed does sadly today not mean that all members of this once noble breed meet that criteria. It is more important today than ever before that those of us that breed for true workability become more vocal than those set on destroying the breeds entirely. It is not easy perhaps. I feel that by informing people of the truth, they have enough common sense to make their own judgements. As I said in the beginning I am not flattered to see my terms and my words rewritten and used by others. I am angered by the fact they threaten the security and safety of unsuspecting innocent people by their lies and the irreversible damage they can cause to the already poor opinion of our great working breeds.

©Mike McConnery