Working Dog Quotes
Some more serious , some light hearted.
...A well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty
that you cannot enjoy it!!....
...When a dog runs at you, whistle for him...
Henry David Thoreau
...The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself....
Albert Payson Terhune
...Properly trained, a man can be a dog's best friend....
Corey Ford, Writer
..He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion..
...The only thing 2 dog handlers can agree on is that the 3rd one is doing it wrong!....
..If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them...
Phil Pastoret
...When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten....
Robert M. Pirsig
...work is an indispensable necessity for the shepherd dog....
...The most striking feature of the correctly bred German Shepherd are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity, and hardness....
...Take this trouble for me: Make sure my shepherd dog remains a working dog, for I have struggled all my life long for that aim...
..Utility is the true criterion of beauty...
...The breeding of Shepherd dogs must be the breeding of working dogs, this must always be the aim or we shall cease to produce working dogs...
All 5 quotes above Rittmeister Captain Max von Stephanitz (founder of the GSD and SV) 1864-1936
...If the work I make with my dog is shit, I am a shitty handler. If the work is good, then it must be because of the dog...
...The day my dog doesn't have a problem on the track is the day my dog doesn't learn something...
Juergen Ritzi
....Somewhere, someone is training harder than you are. And when you meet them, they will beat you....
..If you are going to have a dog, first make it a good dog; second train it to be useful. It takes a little trouble to train a dog, maybe, but you will find that it more than pays in the end. It will give you a broader sympathy with the animal world, and that includes your fellowmen....
Harry J. Mooney
...The reminder here is that the origin of Schutzhund and the rules under which we "compete" were developed to "test"
the dogs temperament (courage and hardness NOT "play prey" or "ball" drive) for breed suitability - not for a sport.
We cannot lose sight of the fact that Schutzhund is a BREED SUITABILITY test or we do a dis-service to the
German Shepherd Dog. Conscientious breeders should train and test their bloodlines...not simply be in the puppy business.....
Gunther Diegel
"Patience is the Virtue to Success."
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