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Date Posted: 08:44:25 03/23/10 Tue
Author: Norman Epstein
Subject: Re: Boerboels and Gunfire
In reply to: Sharon B 's message, "Boerboels and Gunfire" on 22:09:17 03/22/10 Mon

Sharon I am pleased to see your dog’s neutral reaction to gunfire. That said IMO it is never a good idea to introduce gunfire on any new experience to a dog especially a young dog when you do not control the entire situation. For example would you test for a dog’s neutral reaction to strangers by having 50 of them approach your dog all at once? You have to think what would I do if the dog evidenced a poor reaction. In that case you could do nothing. You couldn’t get all on the range to stop shooting and you couldn’t comfort your dog as this would just reinforce the behavior. All that would be left for you would be to exit the facility as quickly as possible, which is also not the best for your dog. Moreover testing for noise sensibility on a shooting range could be overwhelming for a dog that might have had some issues with noise that it might not have had, if introduced properly. Additionally when this is tested for Schutzhund usually a 22 long or short round is used. This produces a higher pitch sound which given a dogs sensitivity to sound can be harder to handle than a lower pitch sound like a shotgun. That said good l luck with your training and look forward to additional training videos.

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