Domain Specific Training to Dogs
Apart form basic training for household purposes which are normally
undertaken in the home or near by park or on the road side ground,
specific training is given for various purposes which involve strenuous
outdoor and indoor training by the professionals in the particular
field. These dogs are given special and some times coded names after
completion of the training. For example,
- Dogs for detection
- Dogs for assistance
- Dogs for hunting
- Dogs for police
- Dogs for rescue
- Dogs for narcotics identification’
- Dogs for military intelligence
- Dogs for security of the border of the country
- Dogs for livestock guardian
- Dogs for entertainment
- Guard dogs
Dogs are given training specifically for specific purposes;
especially the dogs which are trained by police force are used for
finding the thief, or killer and his whereabouts
 Training for protection The training for protection is
the most strenuous and difficult training for the owner of the dog.
Normally any dog can be trained in obedience, scent work or agility
but only a handful of dogs can be trained in handler protection.
Most of the handlers strongly believe that their dogs will protect
and shield them from the attack in extreme and difficult situation
even if the training is not given properly. To the utter surprise of
the handlers most of the dogs runaway and the handler has to protect
him by himself and his faith on the dog vanishes temporarily but it
is not the fault of the dog but the training given is insufficient.
The temperament of the dog plays vital role in the training
programme and only when the temperament changes the dog starts
biting the offender who threatens it.
 Need for early start of training Needless to emphasize
the dog training for protection purpose should start from young age
so that it retaliates in an appropriate and fitting manner when
threatened. There are few breeds which genetically is not suitable
for protection. These dogs may show an aggressive posture and start
barking at the intruders but when challenged they will turn and run
away. If your goal is to learn how to train a dog in protection
work, your job begins by understanding first their prey drive,
defensive drive, fight drive and avoidance and how they relate to
each other. If a trainer does not fully understand drive development
he may as well not even start this work because he is never going to
accomplish anything in protection training. If you see a dog running
after a rabbit, cat or Frisbee and grab it this is a prey drive.
When a dog is worked in prey it does not feel threatened and is
taking them as game. We can use the dog’s prey drive to teach him
the mechanics of fighting and biting. By teaching the dog to go
after his prey you can calm down from the stress while it is on
work. You will notice the dog is no more interested in prey when he
gets tired and exhausted during a prey drive. When a dog has the
ability to protect itself from aggression then it is said to have a
defense drive. The dog’s gene only determines the ability to defend
and unless it is in their genes we can not train them in. Before
getting the dog in to the defense drive he should be thoroughly
trained in prey drive Fight drive is the dogs’ ability to prey on
the subject, defend themselves when challenged by the prey and fight
to ensure their arrest. While giving protection training we should
be the master to give instruction to stop them from fighting and ask
him to leave the prey alone.
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