I have taken it upon myself to transform my house dogs, into multi functioning, useful, self sustaining animals for a SHTF scenario, as I believe that they could be the best possible tools with correct and constant training.
While they still make GREAT house dogs (great with kids,family, and other small pets), the have excellent obedience training. They respect commands for the basics (sit,stay,down,heal,come), and also know some special ones like 'Down and crawl', 'silence', 'Guard', 'warn'
We have also taught them about personal, and property protection (they will guard objects, places, or people), with bite training integrated as well (Comes naturally for most molosser breeds).
we have trained and practiced(which is SO much fun!!) to make the dogs useful for the following:
-Pulling any form of sled,cart,travois
-Hauling out objects
-Personal/property protection
-Hunting (they can hunt small game on their own, or when teamed with other dogs hunt in natural pack formation, have taken down healthy deer before)
-Scouting/Search and rescue
Do you have your dog(s) trained for anything in particular? Even small dogs can be useful!!
While they still make GREAT house dogs (great with kids,family, and other small pets), the have excellent obedience training. They respect commands for the basics (sit,stay,down,heal,come), and also know some special ones like 'Down and crawl', 'silence', 'Guard', 'warn'
We have also taught them about personal, and property protection (they will guard objects, places, or people), with bite training integrated as well (Comes naturally for most molosser breeds).
we have trained and practiced(which is SO much fun!!) to make the dogs useful for the following:
-Pulling any form of sled,cart,travois
-Hauling out objects
-Personal/property protection
-Hunting (they can hunt small game on their own, or when teamed with other dogs hunt in natural pack formation, have taken down healthy deer before)
-Scouting/Search and rescue
Do you have your dog(s) trained for anything in particular? Even small dogs can be useful!!