They teach these dogs to only react to commands in a foreign language. No one knew what to say to the dog.
That said, the dog was poorly trained to react in the way he did.
Good grief!!
Put pressure on the dogs eyeballs and they will release their bite. I’ll bet money on that.
This is a common misconception. The dogs are trained in whatever language the handler speaks. In many dog sports such as schutzhund, they are taught in German because.....it’s a German sport. Many of the malinois come from Holland, so guess what, they are taught in Dutch.
The dog was obviously not trained with a good ‘out’ or he would have let go after the command from the handler. They will however not obey commands from someone they don’t know, so another deputy giving the ‘out’ is pretty much worthless, just as it would if a bad guy commanded ‘out’. I have no doubt in my mind that I could have ‘hung’ the dog and choked him out. There was no reason to shoot him.
A distinct possibility is also that the handler was overly heavy handed. Malinois don’t respond well to being mistreated, but will sometimes take it till they’ve had enough, then a bad handler bite is the result. They respond to rewards, not coercion. He was likely a common bloodline from Arrack’s Home, a top malinois bloodline, which shares some ancestors with my dog.