Doberman Chat Forum

A question I often get asked is 'Why do you train your dogs to attack people?'... I try to explain what we do in Schutzhund in a way they would understand, I tell them that we don't train our dogs to attack, that Schutzhund is a breed suitability test for selecting the best dogs for breeding purposes that has been made into a dog sport that dogs and their handlers enjoy, that our dogs are put through a series of exercises that displays the dogs character, their strengths and weaknesses etc ect..

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I'm starting a thread, sorry if there is one, where we can talk about things that our dobies do that most dogs don't. In my first week of beginners Rally class when I asked Gretchen to lay down she brought both paws up in the air and slapped the ground (like she always does, I thought it was just a Gretchen thing). My instructor started laughing and she said "That is such a Doberman thing, they all slap the ground when they lay down!"

Feel free to add your own "It's a dobie thing" to the list!