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- My name is Gerald Antoine, I'm a native of Jackson
Mississippi but I'm an avid dog lover
and an avid lover of the European Doberman Pinscher.
The breed was created for specifically
to be a protection dog for personal protection.
In the 19th century the creator of the breed,
his name was Karl Friedrich Louis Doberman.
Back in the 19th century the tax collectors like the
IRS today, they would, back then they would knock
on your door, whether it was monthly or weekly
or whatever the time period was.
And he had gotten threatened so many times
with people saying oh don't come to my door,
don't come to my door, don't ask me for no money
and he would get his life threatened.
So, he decided to create a breed that would not
only physically intimidate them but
would do some personal protection.
So he made a combination of the different type of breeds
like with the Great Dane for the speed, the Rottweiler
for the size, the Terrier for the heart, the drive.
He created this breed, he also included the cropping
of the ears for an intimidating factor.
So that's what the breed, that's how it evolved.
There's a difference between estate guardian,
personal protection and police K-9 training.
There's a huge difference.
If you're talking about an estate guardian,
we're guarding his compound, his territory, his domicile.
Examples of compound guardians or estate guardian dogs
are like Bull Mastiffs, English Mastiffs,
and Great Danes, those are some of the examples
of some of the compound and an estate guardian dogs.
Personal protection dog protects the individual
no matter where they're located.
Whether they're going to the ATM,
going to the park, going to a late night
neighborhood walk, whether they're driving.
The personal protection guards that
person where ever that person is.
Examples for personal protection dog are like
German Shepherds, Rottweilers and the Doberman Pinscher.
When you're talking police K-9 training
a dog specifically trained to not only probably
sniff out drugs but also to do a deterrent and
catch a fleeing felon or fleeing criminal
where the actual police would not go.
So if they go into a building where it's dark,
the police gonna call out K-9 because they're the
ones that will go in when the police don't wanna
go into the building to secure it or clear a building.
Some examples of the K-9 police dogs are German Shepherds,
Dutch Shepherds and Belgium Malinois.
So it's a whole different gambit of what these dogs do
but the end of the day they're trained to protect,
they're trained to protect on command.
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The reason why I chose the European Doberman Pinscher
for personal protection is because it had a combination
of a lot of other dogs but it didn't have some of the
things that the other dogs had.
It was short haired and I like that,
it was smart, it's part Greyhound so it loves to run.
I love to run and it was, I've found to realize that
I've determined and found by research that they are
very co-dependent upon their owners.
They love to be around their owners.
And maybe a lot of dogs do but for me I think
the personal protection for this particular breed
fit me good because it had the right amount of size, right
amount of stealth and the right amount of intelligence.
During my process of determining what type of dog I wanted
it narrowed down to some of the most popular dogs.
Malinois, the reason why I didn't like the Malinois
because they're great dogs and they do great work the drive
is very high but some of them lack the size that I wanted.
And that's something you can't make them, you can't make
them big if he wasn't born genetically big.
The reason why I chose the Doberman over the
German Shepherd is because obviously a lot of hair shedding.
I don't wanna keep every morning using a roller,
getting a lot of hair off of me throughout my house
because I want my personal protection dog to not
only be an outside dog but an inside dog.
The Rottweiler, don't get me wrong, I love the
Rottweiler's they're probably one of the best
breeds out there compared to a Doberman's.
But they tend to have the tendency to gain weight
if you don't work them out a lot.
You know, they tend to have a little bit of a
hip dysplasia in some of them as they get older.
And I love the Rottweiler because the Rottweiler
shares some of the same DNA as the Doberman Pinscher.
But I decided to stick with the Doberman
because I did more research, the Doberman Pinscher
does have some genetic issues but if you get a right one
you can get a good 10 to 12 years
out of the dog with minimal hip issues.
And I know all of the working lines, the show lines,
and it's like you give me a pedigree I can tell you right
off the back if the pedigree is what I would buy.
A lot of people come to me and ask me
how do you think about this pedigree?
If I see certain lines in there that is very similar
to a lot of show lines I say hey it's gonna be a pretty dog
but I don't know about the workability.
I'll be honest with you.
The reason why I decided to protection train my dog
and let me put this out there first.
I am not a K-9 trainer I'm apart of a club and I give all
props and respects to the trainers who have helped me out a
long the way, Louis Williams of Black Mask Kennel.
You've got Adrianne Santino from who did the rings
for a trainer with my dog, you've got Wolfgang Radar
who's a German K-9 expert, that's the name of his club.
You've got Alvin (mumbles) who has won national titles
in personal protections and you've got O.J.,
Otis James Knight from the K-9 Coach.
You know, all these guys helped me
build my dogs up to what they are now.
But the reason why I decided to do personal protection
is because I wanted complete control over my dog.
People assume to believe that personal protection
training is cruel and it's not good for the dog.
Well I put that in perspective when you see these police
dogs, when they come to people's aid,
when you see this other personal protection dog,
when they come to their owner's aid
what do you think it took to get to that point?
I put that in the same context as these ballerina dancers.
You see how elegant they dance and how easy they move along
the floor but when you pull their shoes off you see the
deformities, the bone breakage, you see the corns,
you see the discoloration, you
see all the scars on their feet.
But what you see on the outside is them dancing around,
you don't see the work it took to get in there.
When you do a personal protection you have to break them
down where you let him know you're in charge
and then you build him up, you don't break him down as a dog
but you break him down and show him you're gonna
do things step by step by step.
You've gotta build the drive work, whether using
ball or food or a toy, you've gotta build the focus up.
So what I wanted to do the reason why I personal protection
training because I don't wanna a liability on my hands.
People already, when I walk my dogs on the street in
my neighborhood they part like the Red Sea.
But they don't know that I have complete control over him.
So when you're doing personal protection not only
are you obedience training him but you're training him
how to identify a threat, you're training him when to bite,
you're training him when to release that bite.
Dogs they come into a tunnel vision
and when they in a vision, a tunnel vision nothing around
them, they don't see nothing they don't hear anything.
When you do personal protection training
the dogs can be able to hear you and you only
even in the heat of a battle and that's
something you wanna be able to control.
If he goes after a person and that's the wrong person
you wanna be able to recall him in the middle of his pursuit
without using using e-collars, without
chasing behind him because you won't catch him.
He's got four leg you've only got two.
So personal protection is really obedience training
but you're giving the dog the training and the tools
in what he wants to do, he wants to play, he wants to prey.
He wants to bite, he wants to please you.
And when you water him down and not let him do
the things he were designed to do then are you
really getting what you asked for?
People buy Dobermans for a reason.
If they want just a house hold pet
they would have got a Maltese, they would have
got a Pomeranian, they would have got a Chihuahua,
something that's a lap dog, something that is docile
when it needs to be but a %100 pet and confidant.
When you get a Doberman understand what you may be
getting into, you may get a dog.
Not every Doberman is designed for protection work.
You know, not all of them are gonna bite on command.
Some of them may be scared of people,
some of them may be skittish but when you get a
Doberman and you do research on getting the right
genetic bloodline, you should know what you're getting into.
With that being said put them into some sport work.
Put them into ring sport, IPO training.
You know, PSA training but you wanna get him active
where he's stimulated all the time.
That way when you come home, your yards not tore up.
You know, these are, this is called a working breed.
It wants to work.
Since our last video, Brody has achieved his
IPO 2 and the handler was Alvin (mumbles).
Right now we're gonna be competing this month
in December in Las Vegas for his IPO 3.
If he does well enough with the scores
well, we're discussing about doing regionals with him.
Alonzo has an IPO 1, he's right now seven and a half
years old, human age is like 49.
So, he's into, he's a house dog now but we
still do personal protection work to keep him active,
keep his joints moving, keep his muscles
and his tone right and keep his mind right.
Alonzo is, he's dual title, he's got a few
obedience titles in AKC, CGC, CGCA.
He has an obedience title in a
ring sport it's called a CSAU.
We have a third dog his name is Bishop,
he's an up an coming champion.
He's an offspring of Brody.
Right now Bishop has a BH, and been working on IPO 1.
But he's a new breed and with dogs like anything else,
if you're gonna stay in this game,
you have to, if you're avid lover of the breed,
whatever breed it is and you wanna constantly do
something with the breed a working line,
you have to start getting another dog for replacement.
These dogs get old, you wanna make sure they live as
long as they can so you get a replacement.
So, Bishop now is two years old, he's the son of Brody.
He bites hard, he's bitter sweet.
That means he's very, very mild but when he works he
cranks up and he shoots like a torpedo
So right now, working on the third dog Bishop.
He's, the next time we do a video
or shoot hopefully, hopefully, we have him on.
At the end of the day, I'm always
gonna be into a working dog.
I think the Doberman is one of the best dogs out there.
That's my own personal perspective,
a lot of people have their own idea of what their dog is
but for me, for me only I think that the Doberman Pinscher
is the ideal dog whether it's for a small living quarters
or a large two and three acre compound.
No matter what dog I have I'm gonna always do a lot
personal protection because it stimulates the dog's mind
and body and it keeps them sharp.
But it also it keeps me sharp because when you're
training dogs, you're training yourself as well.
And it keeps me active and with that being said,
I'm always gonna be around people I'm always
around kids and I want my dog to be able to be acclimated to
society but also be able to work when he needs to work.