Question by moonkissedwarrior: What is the best breed of dog for obedience training?
I need 2 dogs for a training program for a school and I am having touble thinking of the beed to buy. I wanted to stay away from the most common choices like golden retreivers and labs, and go for a different breed.
I need one breed that would be awesome around people and great in obedience trials
I also need a different breed to do scent detection, It must have a high ball drive.
Best answer:
German Shepherd all the way, I don't care how common they would excel at this any day.
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I vote German Shepards. I have two and they are amazing. Obedience wise, they’re clearly great for training. There’s a reason they’re used by police officers.
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Rank Breed
1 Border Collie
2 Poodle
3 German Shepherd
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PS. Whoever rated down the American Pitbull Terrier suggestion needs to WATCH THIS. (Starting at 3 minutes IN, shows what I want you to actually SEE.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U7Z5oZhqA7g
EDIT:Pitbulls can be service dogs, police dogs used for tracking drugs, Therapy dogs, Agility dogs and much more… They are very versatile and can be the best at whatever you want them to be, you just have to be a good trainer.
Also, for the tracking event, look into getting a blood hound lol. They are the best at it, but the other scent hounds are great too.
PITBULLS ROCK <3
Any breed can be great for obedience. If you get them as a pup and spend the time to develop a relationship where all they want to do is please you, your there! The best dog I’ve ever had has been a Airedale. For scent detection any of the hounds would work, maybe a Beagle?
German Shepherd is the number one choice. Same with Basset Hounds. Both are “toy driven” and are great at scent tracking 🙂
You need 2 dogs for a training program for a school? Could you please elaborate as you must understand that some people may find this question a bit worrying.
a blood hound,border collie,husky, german shepard,st.bernard.
An awesome thing to do would get two dogs from a Shelter.
border collies are the best at competitive obedience, agility, flyball..
australian shepherds also excel
shelties are always winning too.
just go to akc.org and click on the awards for different sports,,
Well, honestly an American Pit Bull Terrier would probably be really good at the obedience because they are super intelligent, and many have a high prey drive, and are often used in scent detection. I’ll include a link of a place that trains pits for police work/scent detection.
However, I’m a little confused by your question. You’re going to be buying two dogs for a school program? That doesn’t sound like a good idea at all. Could you please clarify?
http://www.lawdogsusa.org/
Edit*
Haha ignore “Johnny”s rubbish. If you train the dog well enough to do good in obedience and scent detection, chances are you will have a well trained dog. Only poorly trained dogs attack.
border collies,superb temperaments,highly intelligent and easy to train as they love to learn and keep active.
I’d go with Border Collies–they’re whip-smart and great in these kinds of situations.