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Im gonna go out on a limb here and say its gonna hurt like hell!!! ....yup thats definately gonna leave a mark!

jroger says ...

You have to get another volunteer to take their place while the other one is at the hospital having their arm reattached!!!!! 

That would be hard to do.

cowgirllightning says ...

I'm just wondering but durring training what would happen if the k9 bit the wrong arm (arm without the sleeve)?

 

A lot of people are under the misunderstanding that the dog is trained to bite the arm. In fact, it's quite different than that. The decoy (person wearing the sleeve) is trained to put the arm in the dog's mouth. To answer your question, that event is what we in the professional dog training business call; a real dammit. Training has to be stopped, someone has to go out of their way to take the bitten one to the ER. There are reports to fill out, worker's comp forms to fill out, plus we are going to laugh at the person, make fun of them and call them unseemly names. To top it all off, when the person gets back, it may well be their turn again. It's a mistake that doesn't happen often, usually only once to a person. After all, the dog has not made a mistake, it did exactly as it was instructed to do; bite. That bite just probably tasted a bit better than jute or french linen.

 

 

DFrost says ...

cowgirllightning says ...

I'm just wondering but durring training what would happen if the k9 bit the wrong arm (arm without the sleeve)?

 

A lot of people are under the misunderstanding that the dog is trained to bite the arm. In fact, it's quite different than that. The decoy (person wearing the sleeve) is trained to put the arm in the dog's mouth. To answer your question, that event is what we in the professional dog training business call; a real dammit. Training has to be stopped, someone has to go out of their way to take the bitten one to the ER. There are reports to fill out, worker's comp forms to fill out, plus we are going to laugh at the person, make fun of them and call them unseemly names. To top it all off, when the person gets back, it may well be their turn again. It's a mistake that doesn't happen often, usually only once to a person. After all, the dog has not made a mistake, it did exactly as it was instructed to do; bite. That bite just probably tasted a bit better than jute or french linen.

 

 

I know that the dog is not asactly trained to bite the arm, I was just wondering what would happen if durring training the dog did bite the wrong arm or anywhere but the sleeve, and you anwered that, thanks.

When it comes to training with K-9's or being a handler.  It's not when you'll get bit, it a matter of how bad your gonna get bit.  It will happen in one form or another.  Battle scars!

A very big AMEN to you Sylvester. That is the best reply yet!

HAHAHA  some of these posts are awesome!  We have a dog that has crushed two of our hard sleeves and has injured two handlers.  One handler has a dislocated arm and another had a pinched nerve.  Our kennel master had never caught this particular dog and thought it would be cool during a building search to lay down on the ground and have the handler release the dog.  She was wearing a hidden wrap without a leather guantlet.  The dog did his job and thrashed her all over the damn place.  He bit through the hidden sleeve and left four puncture wounds on her arm. 

This same dog while doing a long distance bite hit the handler (on the wrap) and things were going great.  Up until the handler slipped the wrap and the dog spit it out and bit his leg.  This dog is a Czech Shepherd and is hell on wheels.  Sorry I had to tell the story the last story happened today.  We all laughed at the decoy and then took him to the hospital. 

shepherdg says ...

HAHAHA  some of these posts are awesome!  We have a dog that has crushed two of our hard sleeves and has injured two handlers.  One handler has a dislocated arm and another had a pinched nerve.  Our kennel master had never caught this particular dog and thought it would be cool during a building search to lay down on the ground and have the handler release the dog.  She was wearing a hidden wrap without a leather guantlet.  The dog did his job and thrashed her all over the damn place.  He bit through the hidden sleeve and left four puncture wounds on her arm. 

This same dog while doing a long distance bite hit the handler (on the wrap) and things were going great.  Up until the handler slipped the wrap and the dog spit it out and bit his leg.  This dog is a Czech Shepherd and is hell on wheels.  Sorry I had to tell the story the last story happened today.  We all laughed at the decoy and then took him to the hospital. 

AWSOME!   I've been around a dog like that before, crazy sun of a b^^^^