Dogs

I've learned to train dogs by mistake

Can you one time in your life when you think of an experience that your life had changed forever? Of course you can more than once. Or maybe you met someone, an influence on you with the same effect. I will share with you a little story that I learned to train dogs.

About 10 years a go, I met a man in a society, which proved to be a person who has forever changed my opinion on dogs. Until then, I had always been more interested than average in animals and the dog is no exception. But I had this idea that the trees and every dog was "Le Mans" best friend, and in most cases they are.

In a social setting, there are many things like, "What do you do for a living", etc. I put this question to the person to be polite. His answer changed my perspective on dog I always have a friend for life. And at 25, then not many soul mates New At that time he worked in Kabul, Afghanistan, and was just home for a few weeks before he will be directed to the field again. He had worked for the Norwegian army and a number of other humanitarian organizations and worked for more than fifteen years to recognize in the areas of disposal of explosives from the soil with the help of dogs.

I left the party and the following years, it is the conversation about dogs, I remember that day. And this interview with Tom Fossdal changed my opinion about the dogs and for all. When he on the elimination of explosives in the soil, where the war spoke a part of people's lives for decades, it has one of the most important of them could start work the people who were leading a normal life. Because it is so explosive into the ground, that many people are injured or die every day, it's a big obstacle in many places around the world. There are many people worldwide who are injured or die shortly after the war is over, and most of them are children who do not know the danger of playing just under their feet.

To the point, he told me how much land can be trained dog in a day compared to a man with a metal detector. A man cover approximately 15m2 per day, while a good dog trained to cover 500m2, and perhaps even 1000m2. It is not difficult to imagine that this job comes with some risk. Jobs put the safety of your life in the nose of a dog to do your job and you know, there is no room for error. Period.

So when I got to do more than to train my dog just for a hobby, and really learn to train dogs, I could not be better than Tom Fossdal and European research team think Dog Center.

I saw all the dog trainer on television, and they do much good for people with behavioral problems with her dog. But if you visit to Spain and the European Research Dog or take a look at their website, you will see that this type of training is just another sport. It is about 12-15 months to train a police dog spirit, and not all will make it the whole way. However, these dogs are often used in other types of research jobs as car bombs, drugs, etc.