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THE DOG SPORT FORMULA 1 by Andre Vandergeten

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Julius Ceasar, the great Roman conqueror said, “From all the Gaul the Belgians are the bravest”. If he had seen our “gladiators”, he would have said, “the Malinois is the bravest of the working breeds, since it is a Belgian”.

Unfortunately, the dog shows destroy a lot of good breeds. I remember the days when there were other breeds competing in working trials, and with success. But “beautiful” dogs bring money.

Most of the time, these dogs have lost the biomechanical qualities and the character needed to perform in working trials. The beauty standard is not functional, it is a relative judgement. Look at nature. Functionality, including adaptability, is the criterion of the fittest - ask Darwin. But mankind thinks it knows better than nature.

In Europe we can choose from a variety of working trials with Ring Sport being pinnacle of dog training. In order to realize a job well done, one needs the right tool. Just think of M. Schumacher and the Ferrari.

One of the best producers of dog training articles is Jean-Fracois Gallais, my French friend. He is also an excellent decoy and handler. That explains the high quality of his equipment.

Let me present you first of all, the Dutch Ring. Their trials are boreing. All dogs perform exercise one, then two, and so on. This gives the dog a chance to recover the stress between every exercise. They perform the same exercises in the same order.

Next, we have the French Ring. One word: Spectacular! Lots of action, lots of movement from the decoy as well as from the dogs. Pleasant to look at, Only movement invites biting. Unlike the sports with stationary biting exercises. On the other hand they always execute the same exercises in more or less the same way, with an accent on a fast-reacting dog, obedient to commands. Every decoy may, in his own style, esquive the dog and block it with stick barrages, to make the dog miss and steel its points. This results in selecting a fast athletic dog giving up on strong mind and stress resistance. Instead of evaluating the quality of the dogs, the handler’s quality is rewarded more.

Now we examine the Belgian Ring. Here the team of handler and dogs never know what they’ll have to perform. On the day of the trial the judge "invents" the program. You can believe these judges have an endless talent for imagination. This means lots of surprises and the dogs have to solve many unknown problems. Handlers must train their dogs in a very complete way, using lots of set ups to show them a variety of situations to cope with. The training never ends! Then there is the work of the decoy. They hardly move. This immobility, plus the fact that they are facing the dog, offers a strong opposition. They also use a variety of artifacts to trick the dogs, but they only may esquive the dog and put a barrage when the dog misses the bite. Judge, program, and decoy form a deadly combination. Selecting stress resistant, all-round dogs who perform no matter what the situation looks like.

On top of this, just like in the French Ring, an important part of the obedience are the jumps:

The high wall : 2,30m
The wide jump : 4,00m
The hurdle : 1,20m
The wide/high jump : 1,50m/1,20m

These jumps are merciless for hip dysplasia. Affected dogs can not compete. No working titles means no breeding. It is simple: only the best dogs are good enough!

What is left is the Mondio Ring program. It was supposed to be the perfect marriage of the three ring programs we have been talking about. But because of politics, it is only a shadow of what it was supposed to be. Merely dogs of the second ranking compete here. The top stay in the French or the Belgian programs. In reality it is an easy version of the Belgian program, with a French Ring style decoy.

We can only regret that we are not using the most selective and difficult exercises of Dutch, French and Belgian in one program. This would select:

The hardest,
The most athletic and fittest,
The most stress resistant, adaptable, flexible dogs.

Can you imagine? In the three programs, the Mali already out-rank all other breeds. This complete Mondio Ring would select the bravest of the brave! Back to Caesar’s opinion: vae victis!!!

The general tendency now a day is to lower dog competition standards under pressure of "animal protection" organizations. Let me tell you it results in the opposite. When they lowered the jumps in SCH, somewhere in the 60-ties, it was to cover the HD problem. Defending opposition of the decoy opens the door for less talented, less stress resistant dogs, which will go on breeding, only increasing the problems. The result? Health problems in body and mind.

In the last World Championship for Belgian Shepherds the top were still OK, but on average the quality was "far from outstanding".

Maybe it is time to raise the standards in order to not end up like other breeds.

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#1 Noto - 2010-05-12 20:23:51
Di Indonesia hanya blackhead kennel aja yg bisa diharapkan.Dan pak Liman jg Harapan Indonesia untuk memajukan Anjing karya Guna.Saya harap tahun kedepan anjing karya guna banyak berkembang seperti di luar negeri n mempunyai standard yg tak kalah dari standard luar negeri.


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