[Dafydd]

I have a 10 month old Malinois who is high drive and absolutely loves to fetch balls and do bite work with a tug. When I first taught him to fetch, return and drop the ball at my feet, I used the command “aus” while holding a small piece of tasty food. It didn’t take long for him to learn how to drop the ball at my feet. Then when I started bite work with him, I would make him sit and wait until I said “ok” then he jumps at the tug and pulls like crazy.

I let him win and run around a little with the tug, then I tell him “bring it” and he comes.

I then tell him “aus”. At first he didn’t want to drop the tug. Since tug work is his favorite thing to do, if I turn away from him and say “No…. Aus” he knows I won’t play until he drops. He now drops all the time. Lastly I tell him to sit and we start the game all over again. Since I am trying to instill confidence in him I don’t think an e-collar is appropriate with simple tug work and I wouldn’t use it for a fun game of fetch. It may also help that I fed him by hand 3 times a day for the first 6 months of his life, so if he has something in his mouth I can reach for it, hold onto it, and he will let go of it without any thought of biting my hand.

[Dafydd]

Thank you for your response, but the military has the ability to set the rules for contractors that work with the military. The use of contractors for all the jobs which in the past were 100% done by the military, is not just to save money (in some cases) but also absolves the military from the responsibility and liability for these contract jobs.