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This video (Part 1 & 2) shows us teaching young police dogs the advantage of taking a leg bite when encountering a decoy around a corner or in dark spaces, and even in training for door alerts. Sometimes with young dogs learning apprehension work certain scenarios such as dark rooms, hidden bites around corners or tight spaces can bring about a slower entry. Generally the dog can turn a corner then realize they have just passed the decoy then immediately turn back around to engage with the decoy. The dog will identify the decoy and then look for its primary target area. This can slow down the engagement if the dog has a primary upper body target as most police dogs do. We want to create and develop a familiar picture that if the dog encounters a decoy that is standing around a corner in a tight space or standing in a dark room, the dog will immediately take either leg.
The dog can be conditioned to take the leg with fast and confident strikes with many reps. You will find this useful for young dogs learning to bite in dark rooms, or for example in the video a dark small bathroom. Often dogs will go into a picture like this and bump into the decoys legs and then shoot up to find their target area. You may notice the dog might be on an awkward biting area such as the ribs, back, hip or even just a piece of the suit in the torso area. In this training progression we are trying to eliminate the dogs natural tendency to take its time to figure out its upper body target areas, biceps, triceps, forearms. Remember these pictures are tight spaces, dark rooms, hidden decoys around corners. The dog will have to take even the slightest amount of time to find an upper body target area. In building repetitions of the dog engaging in the legs you should notice it can help with faster, confident, and more committed strikes for these pictures.
This video shows dogs that have already learned leg targeting with the leg sleeve first. Then progressed to suit pants targeting. All these dogs are primarily upper body targeting dogs. We use the plastic barrel to block their primary target area and to help push them into the legs. When doing this you want to use something like this barrel, hard plastic something they can’t grab and satisfy themselves with. We can also let them try to go up and attempt to bite the barrel so they learn that won’t work, then they will start to look under at their secondary target. Throughout the video you will see we still use the barrel to block the primary around corners, in tight spaces, and in the dark room. We do this because we are still in the phase of trying to develop a habit for these contexts, building repetitions that either leg is a valuable choice. Eventually the dog will take the leg without the primary target area being blocked. The dog has learned what works most efficiently in these scenarios.
As you go through this process you can also incorporate this with things such as door alerts. The decoy can pop the door open and you can condition the dog to immediately go straight into the legs. This can be extended to scenarios such as open door vehicle extractions, where legs may be readily available, by blocking upper targets for a while to condition the leg target.
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