Human-dog-relations

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Dobermann TAI

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Was für eine Ehe, Vergnügen und Ersterfahrung ich mit diesem, bei uns spontan einziehenden Hund, machen durfte! Kampfhunderasse? Listenhunde? Ich glaube das war einmal. Heute wird bei Dobermännern auf familien- sowie sozialkompatible Kriterien wert gelegt und genau diese Eigenschaften durfte ich mit TAI während ganzer 3 Tage erleben…von morgens bis abends.

In der Enzyklopädie der Rassenhunde von Hans Räber wird der Dobermann wie folgt beschrieben:

Er gehört den pinscherartigen Hunden an. Pinscher? Früher bezog sich dieser Ausdruck primär auf das Haarkleid und zwar die stupphaarigen, kleinen bis mittelgrossen Hunde. Die sogenannten Stuppis also.

Heute bezieht sich der Ausdruck Pinscher primär auf die Körperform eines Hundes. Kompakt, schnittig, quadratisch gebaut mit flachem Schädel. Einem eher schwach, aber doch noch deutlich sichtbar markiertem Stop (=Übergang von Nasenwurzel zur Schädelkalotte) und einem kräftigen, in einen stumpfen Keil auslaufenden Fang (=Schnauze).

Alle Pinscher abgesehen vom Affenpinscher (Sonderfall) haben kurzes, glattes und recht hartes Haar. Die Verwandtschaft unter den einzelnen Rassen wird durch die gleichen Farben betont. Schwarz mit Rost-bis Hirschroten Abzeichen. Das Kupieren von Ohren und Ruten ist heute zum Glück nicht mehr erlaubt!

Als erster Züchter der Rasse gilt Friedrich Lois Dobermann, geboren am 2. Januar 1834 und gestorben 1894 in Apolda Deutschland. Gemäss Überlieferung war Herr Dobermann ein städtischer Hundefänger, Steuereintreiber und Nachtwächter. Wobei letztere zwei in Ihm wahrscheinlich den Wunsch sich mit Schutzhunden zu umgeben förderten. Offiziell gab es damals in Deutschland noch keine Schutzhunde und so erschuf Herr Dobermann Hunde nach seinen Bedürfnissen.

Aus diesen kunderbunten Schmelztiegel (Pinschern, Metzgerhunden, Rottweilern, Jagt- und Schäferhunde, Greyhounds ect. ) nahm die Karriere des Dobermann’s seinen Lauf zum zukünftigen Schutzhund. 1897 erschienen die ersten Dobermannhunde in Erfurt auf einer Ausstellung. 1902 wurden sie anscheinend erstmals in der Schweiz gezeigt.

Im Wesen kann man die Dobis in etwa so umschreiben:

Unbestechlich, selbstbewusst, entschlossen, beschützend, skeptisch gegenüber Fremden sowie neuen Situationen. Er fixiert sich gerne auf eine Bezugsperson aber generalisieren sollte man das nicht. Anhänglich und verschmust sowie äusserst Kinderlieb sind diese grossen und anmutigen Hunde ebenfalls.

TAI hat mir genau dieses Wesen gezeigt. Was für ein zartbesaiteter Schoss- und Schmusehund! Er hat mich in seinem Eigenschaften sehr stark an Duke erinnert. Muss ehrlich zugeben, dass mir so ein Dobermann als Begleithund sehr gefallen würde. Das wächtern wäre für das Gasthaus Gletscherschlucht sicher auch nicht schlecht, hält man sich mit Hunden doch noch immer effektiv unerwünschten Besuch fern.

Das wars zum Dobermann und dessen Geschichte in gekürzter Fassung. Mal schauen welcher Rassehund mir als nächstes im Dogness Alltag begegnet und ich euch vorstelle.

Herzlichst_Andrea & the dogness gang

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The BH1 is reality!

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Yes, it is actually true … Willow and I have passed the “Begleithund1” assessment according to national examination regulations. In a line-up of purebred Shepherd dogs, we were complete newcomers and definitely the odd couple at this Dog Sporting event in the town of Schmitten on January 8th. Such an exam is nerve wrecking and the conditions on site are often not according to our wishes and ideas. At the tracking assessment site the entire crow population of Schmitten must have had their early morning meeting and according to the many fresh deer tracks in the snow, the deer must have gathered there just before. Well, such things simply have an influence on a dog’s performance. I was lucky that Willow did not pay any attention to that all day.

 

The most amusing moments, especially for the numerous spectators, was Willow’s “Fetch Test”.

Motivated and ambitious she rushed to my command to retrieve an object, picked it up and started back towards me when all of a sudden she changed her mind. She decided to run in a really big circle around me, full of energy and unbridled joy with a certain joke and charm. After another severe appeal, she finally brought it back and delivered it in the correct front sitting position. All the other commands she performed to perfection and full of dynamics. The judge said that even if the dog made a detour, which was obviously triggered by the excessive enthusiasm in snow, Willow had not dropped the object and ended the task correctly. In exactly that moment my heart skipped a beat and I was so proud of her. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that the two of us would one day participate in such an event and that in best behaviour. Willow’s fun personality and spunk did not affect the test results at all.

That day she taught me a lesson: NEVER GIVE UP & SHOW YOUR ZEST FOR LIFE, even under the eye of a judge!   .

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BH1 exam…we come!

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Begleithund 1 test simulation of last week worked out well for Willow and me. Obedience 89, Leadership 94 and tracking 96 of 100 points. Now we are working out details and look forward to our first official exam experience. Wish us good luck and nice conditions.

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Blog: Human-dog-relations

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Truffle dream-team Gizmo&Andrea? In the newly started truffledog-apprenticeship we are working on our skill. Every dog is suitable for this training. No matter what size, breed or mixed-breed. It takes a patient and months long build up of the skill before the dog gets into a kind of truffle-search-routine. Humans observation gift is highly required and crucial in finding truffles. When i miss or misinterpreting Gizmos pointing sign and give him then the wrong signal, the truffle-search works poorly. The truffle-dog-apprenticeship is therefore as challenging for our dogs as us dogowners. Humans often have difficulties to trully trust the nosework of our doggies. Fortunately little Gizmo is showing me the locality very clear. He is digging, then is looks at me and waits…of course for his reward. But there are dogs who only dip once on the ground and walk away or some dig the truffle out and eat them immediatly. We will keep you up to date with our success stories and wish you all a happy weekend.

Picture: © andrea jäggi / dogness.ch

 
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Dogness Blog

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Blogging? Me? About dogs? Honestly, this was unimaginable until recently. But life is holding always some nice surprises for us ready. Certain things arise spontaneously unplanned and push us in a very magical way into the appropriate and matching direction. In my daily life with my doggies, knowledge and experience accumulated quite a bit. I want to use this blog to text about topics related to our furry social partners called dogs. Founded researched from various angles presented with a pinch of lightness and humor. The following categories were selected for this:

Willows dog walking stories

My street dog grenade talks about inside happenings of our dog walking services. Funny and adventurous stories from dogs, who spend their holidays with their humans in wintery Grindelwald and got picked up one day by a foreign blonde and got taken on a walk.

Dogmind

What is going on in the insight of dogs? We spotlight their thinking, their emotions, their communication, instinctively-impulsive behaviours and the intentions behind it. Dogness goes on treasure search in a bouffant and diverse world of literature from dog behavior experts, researchers and scientist of the canis lupus familiaris.

Educational matters

Many ways end up in Rom (a figure of speech). What is working for one dog is maybe not working well for another. Only a matter of teaching or pure human failure? It will get exciting, varied and the diversity of methods is impressive.

Human-Dog-Connections

Everyone meets/chooses/gets the dog that he needs? Or is finding us the dog who needs us? About the true gifts that dog-human/human-dog connections really give us. Just open your heart and allow it to be.

Doctor nature

Many from humans developed treatment methods in human-and veterinary medicine have a very denaturalized view on desease pictures. But you can also do different. Impulses for that we want to give in this posts.

Canine happy moments

Here are images talking with just one sentence.

Legalities in Switzerland

A jungle, because it is different in every canton (state). Of course we will question some curiousities and amuse us a little about the „over-bureaucracy“ of Switzerland.

Dog breed knowledge

Headlight on for the projected human terms of interests into dogs and its histories. Guaranteed interesting, revealing and promoting understanding.

Of course our categories can change, grow or maybe desappear again, so we reserve this right for us. The dogness blogs will appear about two times a month. Via facebook you can comment our blogs, join conversations and exchange point of views with other blog-readers. So please „like us“ soon.

Dogness is very happy to start this journey with you and will remain, until the next blog, with holiday greetings from the beautiful Eiger valley.

PS. Please note that my English skills are not perfect and you will find many grammar mistakes….but i am working on improvement.

Picture: © andrea jäggi / dogness.ch