Training German Shepherd Dogs

Can I get my German Shepherd trained like a police dog?

Is there a place or way that I can get my German Shepherd trained like a guard dog? Like when I’m gone it will guard and attack people that come in unless I say so. Can I get it trained so it will attack on command? My dog is 1 year old and I want to make it really obediant. Also I want to train it also as my hunting companion.

Probably—you’ll need to have it assessed first by someone who knows something about police dogs.

You’ll need to undergo serious training yourself—doing anything for the next 5 months? Then training the dog should only take a year or two—how much Obedience Training does the dog have now?

You know the dog should already be able to heel, stay, drop things on command, etc before you can even think about advanced training, right?

You’ll also need to take out special insurance on the dog—call your insurance agent about that. Shouldn’t cost more than an extra few thousand dollars a year.

What kind of hunting do you want to do? Retrieve game? track?

At a glance I would say training your dog will take a couple of years, thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours–still interested? Anything short of that and you are asking for trouble and risking your pet.

If you want obedience, why not looking into competitive obedience? get the manners stuff out of the way and teach him to retrieve over obstacles and find things by scent. Or learn how to track???

BTW Getting a dog to attack on command isn’t the hard part of police dog work—it is making sure you have enough control over the dog so he lets GO.

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