Can your protection dog STOP a knife Attack???

all right today we're going to go over knife attacks so this is something that I hear all the time from people right oh I can stab a dog no you can't not a well-trained dog you can right so here what we're going to do is we're going to show three different versions of knife attacks we've never done this before so I always want to test my dogs before they go out to their new owners to make sure that they're doing knife stops okay and understand the game before they go to their new homes all right so few things before we get into the video and show the examples one if I see somebody with a knife okay I am not going to send my dog to attack I am going to put the dog in a really bad situation running into a knife I'm giving the advantage to the person that I'm sending the dog on okay so especially the further the distance the more that person can set up and time this all right so just not a good idea seeing somebody with a knife sending your dog on the attack okay because now the person sets up the dog comes running in they can turn and out of the way and stab the dog right or frontal okay so don't want to send a dog when it's obvious that somebody is holding a knife already okay so what would we do we do the rever this is the importance of a rever okay a real life rever so I see the knife I want to keep that person at a distance with that knife I send the dog into a barking hold which we call Riv and they will go right up to the person stopping right before them and barking at the person and attacking if the arms come into an attack position okay nice here now what does this do for us oh and for the dog so as a dog shoots in they slow up and hold a little bit of space okay by doing that and hold slowing as they come in they are able to see things clearer knowing that they're going to slow in and hold up before the person all right so even if the dog slowed in and as they were slowing and the person went like this it's easy for the dog to catch that arm that's coming out towards them and stop it here oh damn good goodam because of the slowing the pace down knowing that they're not going in for the attack attack they can see things a lot clearer okay instead of missling and just thinking about the hit okay so it's much easier for a dog this way and to protect themselves all right so dog comes in stops here is looking at the situation okay and a trained dog is looking at the arms because it could be left it could be right we teach both arms because you never know what it's going to be okay most people are right-handed so we know 90% of the time it should be in the right but you never know even a right-handed person may not have shifted the knife to the right hand yet when they pulled it out and it ends up in the left hand so the dog has to be prepared for both things right or left here so as the dog sits there they're scoping the person barking at them just making sure all their arm movements are staying in place okay they're hyp sensitive to any fast movements okay so when the person goes like this the dog automatically goes after that movement and is gonna stop it before it ever gets around all right so just saying it is very difficult right to stop a knife attack on a well-trained dog very it's it's so I laugh when people say oh I'll stab the dog I'll so we're going to show the three versions of Jose trying to come here around and from this position okay okay okay right and try to come over the dog and stab it from above all right which would be the three position that somebody would try to do it and also guys we're going to be using a retractable knife of course not a real knife plastic knife so will not hurt the dogs at all if it makes contact so we want to see if there's going to be any contact at all if Jose will be able to touch them at all and see if we have to alter our positionings here oh nice here Point good here o nice oh come here come here oh dogs stopping knife attacks excellent now I have heard this stuff and especially from military or whatever and this this is not going to happen either so I have heard yeah but if the knife is back here in my pocket right well it's worse right the further back you are the worse you are I hear this as if it's an advantage to the person right so if you move your arm back here the dog is already suspicious of this arm that moved already now you're even going further back and you got to load more as you come out for that attack that's even worse for you all right so now that you put them on alert here the moment you come out from a behind they're already going to hit you over here because of this movement coming from behind this arm is not getting anywhere around that body okay and if you had a knife holder here and you were doing this and started to do this the dog is already alert to this slow movement and you to come out like this it's going to be it it's almost impossible with a good dog okay with a well-trained dog on this even though Jose is an expert Knife Guy trying to catch those dogs on an attack in and get the right timing when you don't do it ever right what you could see was difficult the dogs were running in he was trying to time it and this and got a little delayed sometimes right in that knife out to try to stab on the way in oh damn good good because the mind and eye the hand I coordination with this it's not like Jose has done it ever and has practiced you know dogs going attack and with knife attacks trying to get them on the entry so with somebody in the public you know that they've never been practicing knife attacks on dog coming in to attack them right so they're going to be absolutely clueless and the Deering headlights what do I do is he gonna actually attack is he going to hold off is he really they have no idea the dog training game they don't know what the dogs are supposed to do what the exercise is so you have somebody actually in the public who's clueless to what's going to happen and has never had any experience or practice with hand eye coordination on trying to stab a dog all right so it it makes it very difficult for somebody to get this right all right so all's good can't be caught wasn't even close so we're good so the positioning of the dogs are good I don't have to go switch things and alter things now because I know that they're pretty safe okay that it wasn't even really close right any of the shots Jose gave at trying to stab him so that's what you want to see and for people who think you know that they're just going to stab a dog now a trained dog we're talking right that understands bite work and targeting arms and all that kind of stuff very difficult with a good skilled dog okay so see you next time dog Forest one