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Schutzhund (/'ʃʊtshʊnt/, German for "protection dog" [c] ), currently known competitively as IGP [b] and previously as IPO, [a] is a dog sport that tests a dog's tracking, obedience, and protection skills, and evaluates if a dog has the appropriate traits and characteristics of a good working dog. [1] It was developed in Germany in the early ...
The 10 Best Dog Training Collars and How to Use Them, According to a Certified Dog Trainer Sarah Ashley May 7, 2024 at 7:00 AM
An FBI Dutch Shepherd police dog. A police dog, also known as a K-9, [1] is a dog that is trained to assist police and other law enforcement officers. Their duties may include searching for drugs and explosives, locating missing people, finding crime scene evidence, protecting officers and other people, and attacking suspects who flee from ...
A dog collar is a piece of material put around the neck of a dog. A collar may be used for restraint, identification, fashion, protection, or training (although some aversive training collars are illegal in many countries [1] [2] ). Identification tags and medical information are often placed on dog collars. [3] Collars are often used in conjunction with a leash for restraining a dog. Collars ...
A shock collar or remote training collar, also known as an e-collar, Ecollar, or electronic collar, is a type of training collar that utilizes electronic stimulation to the neck of a dog, at high levels this can cause pain or be extremely uncomfortable [3] or other parts of its body, depending on the desired outcome. These collars incorporate a radio-controlled electronic device and are worn ...
Protection sports are dog sports that test a dog 's ability to protect itself and its handler. All protection sports test the complete temperament of the dog, not just its protectiveness. The dog must be safe for its handler and for the public. The dog must be able to control itself upon command. All protection sports are modeled to some extent on the way dogs are used in police work. The ...
Detection dog. A detection dog or sniffer dog is a dog that is trained to use its senses to detect substances such as explosives, illegal drugs, wildlife scat, currency, blood, and contraband electronics such as illicit mobile phones. [1] The sense most used by detection dogs is smell.
Manual labour. Manual labour (in Commonwealth English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machines and working animals. It is most literally work done with the hands (the word manual coming from the Latin word for hand) and, by figurative extension, it is work done with any ...