As some of you may or maynot know I do a dog sport called Schutzhund. One of the things that gets judged hard in this sport is the grip of the dog.
The judges are looking for deep, full, hard grips. When looking for a working puppy to do the sport with we tend to seleted the pup with this deep full hard grip that has it naturally as there are too many other things to work on in this sport such as the dreaded tracking and the obediance phase.
ADBA CH Candela V. Torque at 5 weeks old
and 18 months old
If you would take notice this female pup above has a full grip alreay in this photo at 5 weeks old and it was hard too. During training when dog dont have the hard grip we do things like give them misses before they get the grip so that when they do get it they bite it hard. I had one female that then took hunting and everytime she worked a hog she would go deep and hard mouth on it because it's all she knew.
This is the above pup's sire at 9.5 years old earning his Sch III title. If you look close you will see the bend in the decoy's sleeve becuase the grip is so nice full and hard.
This is his half brother Marshall's RCA (whitehead) Sch III FH II DVG National Champion. Displaying the same type of natural mouth and grip
Originally Posted by wrknapbt
As some of you may or maynot know I do a dog sport called Schutzhund. One of the things that gets judged hard in this sport is the grip of the dog.
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