Today's video is a small portion of Michael Ellis' clinic on Decoy or Helper Training at his school for dog trainer's in California.
This short lecture is about preventing face bites and hand bites on the decoy during protection work.
While getting bit in the face or hand is not a common thing in protection training dogs, whether for police service work or one of the biting dog sports, it does occassionally happen. When it happens, it's almost exclusively the result of the decoy making a mistake.
Michael explains some of the mistakes in this video. If you or your police department has an interest in learning to be a decoy, I would strongly suggest Michael's decoy clinic.
Next year, Micheal and I plan on producing a few decoy training DVDs that will compliment this clinic.
