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The Police Dog is Trained to Attack on Command 



3. Refusing food offered by strangers or thrown OT found on the ground. The 

 dog is made to lie down both free and in the absence of the guide, and he must refuse 

 bread, meat or other tempting morsels of food. Then a dish of food is placed within 

 his reach, but he must not touch it under penalty of lost points. 



4. Guarding objects. This is considered a most important acquisition. Every 

 possible effort is made to remove the object by the judge. The dog is chained beside 

 the object, which is well within his reach, and he is taught to lie down quietly beside 

 it and not to move or growl 1 or show his teeth until the judge makesi an effort to take 

 the object away quietly. ;If a vigorous attempt is made to snatch the object then the 

 dog is to defend it and himself in energetic fashion. Even when the judge threatens 

 the dog with a stick, or by coaxing, the faithful tyke will be proof against them all. 

 Bad marks are recorded if he gnaws the object or otherwise misuses it. 



5. Giving "tongue" on command. This must be dome continuously on command. 

 It is insufficient for him to bark once and imitation barking by the guide is forbidden. 



6. Retrieving objects weighing two pounds. The dog must sit down quietly and 

 await instructions. Then he must bring it coming over a fence or hedge promptly and 

 sit down again before his guide until relieved of the object. The varying heights of 

 the fence or wall provide a number of diverse exercises in the retrieving lesson. 



9. Scaling wall. 



10. Going ahead. The guide walks across the trial ground with the dog at heel 

 On command the dog runs ahead in the direction given to a distance of about 30 yards. 

 He shall "drop" immediately on command andi stay there until told to rise. 



11. Lying down. The dog is shown free in this exercise and immediately on 

 command he must rise and go away. 



The detective work is conducted as follows : 



1. Searching for objects left by a stranger at the end of a trail of 250 yards long 

 and half an hour old. The trailer proceeds on a track, directed by the judge, walk 

 at his natural pace and at the end of the trail stand still for one minute, wipe his feet 

 well on the ground, place the object between his footprints and then take the shortest 

 cut to a place again directed by the judge. An interesting variation of this is pro- 

 vided by the object being placed thirty yards away from the end of trail and at 

 right angles thereto. 



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