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Date Posted: 10:49:01 04/21/03 Mon
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Linda;-)
's message, "Re: question about feet..." on 22:43:05 04/20/03 Sun
I don't know that they do it for that reason. I have seen Dobermans do this for decades in all sorts of scenarios. They start as puppies using their feet for a lot of things too - they just have a 'hand and mouth' sort of constitution rather than just a 'mouth' one... oral and tactile as opposed to just oral... Even when they play with their buds, they primarily use their feet. Sid gave me three big red welts yesterday just 'patting' me on the face! hahaha They are 'grabby' - sort of like Rotties tend to be grabby as well but they don't hit with their feet with the bite as much maybe simply because of physical dynamics. But having watched Dobermans at play with one another, you will see that they use their feet to a great degree... even on their own 'long bites'. I was always worried that I would find broken limbs - dogs would rush at each other from opposite ends of the yard and reach out as they hit each other's bodies at top speed. They 'fly' with thier wings spread out! haha
As far as with the training, I think we work the dogs in prey a lot, which tends to bring out the 'grabby' tendency anyway - what is the best thing to do with prey, grab it - so they tend to be geared towards the grabbing thing. You can attempt to clean it up on the sleeve, but that really wasn't the problem I saw, it was on the impact as they were coming to the sleeve where those long legs hit the decoy ahead of the mouth getting to the sleeve and since they were both headed in the same direction, both recoiled a bit from the feet hitting, even ever so slightly, and just looked problematic. You can see when presentations are different than the long bite, that while they might slap a little with their feet, it doesn't lend itself to the 'bouncing' problem. I don't know how they can work it without doing a lot of semi-long bites and working on correcting entry, but then you could flub up the long bite as a whole, I guess?? It just seems like, as we know they are different dogs all, that as a whole the GSD and Mals sort of lead with their mouths and the Dobermans and Rotties lead with their 'hands'.
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