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Posted on 02/19/2015 2:55:58 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
After biting two people within three months — a police officer and a doughnut shop worker — a Coconut Creek police dog has been bounced off the force..
Renzo, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois, had been with the department about a year and a half. In November, he bit a Coconut Creek officer while tracking a suspect, wounding the officer's leg.
In a more severe attack last week, Renzo burst from a squad car and tore into a doughnut shop employee's calf. The worker has hired a lawyer.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
I know a German SV IPO judge that buys and trains dogs for a city in Germany (and he is also a GSD breeder, which is how I met him). They tend to use Mals for terrorist work, as they are cheap and plentiful, and they buy the ones that are only interested in bitework and nothing else. Those dogs are flat dangerous. I have done decoy work for over 30 years and it takes a lot of expertise and practice to work effectively with them. Mals are not dogs for inexperienced handlers and trainers; in other words, not for the general, pet-oriented public.
Some LEO must have mis-traeted the dog.
I’m not overly familiar with the breed, but as far as I know definitely smart & confident apply. I would think if they weren’t hardworking they wouldn’t be used in that kind of military program.
I watch people running in agility competitions with them and I hold my breath because the dogs are so darn intense, and after what the trainer told me about them, it’s a little worrisome.
Too much in-breeding? Well, the dog is going to live with his handler.
best post of the day... and i really needed a laugh
The deputy took the last fritter...
I used to teach skeet shooting at USM. Our range was at a Hattiesburg PD shooting range. It was a beautiful place with a lake and also next to the river.
One day a cop had a dog out working with him. The dog was a huge German Shepherd. Really a beautiful dog. Also the dog was playing and having a good time, literally chasing butterflys.
The cop told me they had bought him out of Germany and he cost $7,000. That was maybe 27 years ago. They were so pleased with the dog that they had ordered another one. I actually didn’t know they got that big.
The dog caught a guy his very first night on the job.
No. Has nothing to do with in-breeding. Just the nature of the breed and how it is bred in Europe. What you term in-breeding (as how it is done in some AKC show circles) is not permitted in Europe.
Turn in your badge and your gun... er, teeth.
If the inside of your K9 cruiser reeks of donuts, it’s probably not a good idea to let your dog out to eat a familiar scent!
Nobody told him about it. Give the boy a break!
GSDs from Europe were a bit bigger back then. They have “shrunk” the breed in the last 10 years or so, as they were getting bigger than the standard dictated. But, keep in mind that in Europe, the dogs that are not suitable for breeding and show (for one reason or another) are sold into police departments, and to foreign buyers. They keep the really good dogs until they are done breeding them, generally after they are 4 or 5 years old.
So, back then, any dog that was sold to a police department in the U.S. would have been a less valuable dog for breeding (i.e. with some sort of breed fault, such as size). It doesn’t mean in anyway that it wasn’t a good dog: it was just not a dog they wanted keep in-country for breeding and showing.
The GSD world in Germany and Europe in general is a very different world than what is here in the U.S.
And, as an aside, that price was a very cheap price for a trained, x-rayed, male GSD. For one we would have considered for our breeding program back then (an older, proven, titled male, essentially retired in Europe) a price of $15,000 and up would have been the norm. For a young, nice, titled breeding-quality male back then, the price started at $25,000 and then went up fast, if the dog was even for sale.
We board a CBP scent dog at my job. We also have a trainer who gets mal puppies from all sorts of sources and trains them for police purposes and then sells them. If you have a trained bite work dog and an untrained handler,bad stuff will happen. Our trainer would never place one of her dogs with a handler who was not complety aware of what a bite work dog can do. You do not allow that dog to see a shop worker reaching for the handler to give an order or change in a situation where the dog can get to that person. OTOH our scent mal is the sweetest boy ever just a love bug.
When I first got into civil service, I managed Mitchel Hall Service Club for a few months.
Lackland was the home of the Air Force’s dog training program. They had two types, sentry dogs and I think gurard dogs. I don’t recall which was which but one was vicious and the other very well trained.
every now and then a handler would drop by the club with his dog. They were always shepherds. They would do tricks such as shaking hands, playing dead etc. We also were allowed to pet them.
One day a guy who worked for me and I were just tussling playfully. Before any of us realized it, the dog began lunging at the Black guy. The handler got control of him but it surprised us.
Agreed; let him push some pencils until they get this sorted out.
Why would he shoot the diversion? ARF!
Just fired? Shooting a donut worker (interesting career title) is a capital crime.
The German Shepherd Rescue of Orange County (gsroc.org) will have 1-2 Belgian Malinois at any one time but none right now.
Typically they have a higher prey drive than GSDs. Our rescue will allow someone to adopt a Belgian Malinois only if they have had experience with GSDs, never a first time adopter.
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