Instinct of safety and protection

 Dogs that have guard instinct, they will watch out their house, thing or person with the same success as the sheep. In Greece, some dogs probably descended from a Molossian dogs, guarding the sacred places. Plutarch tells us that a dog before the attack, 21 miles pursued the thief, robbed his temple of Aphrodite. Each dog had succumbed to the ancient instinct, barking warn residents of the house, if someone else would encroach on the things the owner. Even the smallest terriers forced to hear his barking and growling.

Common ancestor of all the guard dogs was a huge and aggressive Molossian dog. However, modern guard dogs in need of special dog training to be held by professional breeders. Guard dog should be able to overcome obstacles such as stairs, barriers and trenches, to protect the items entrusted to it, to attack the person, not harm him comfortable with the sound of shots, refuse to accept food from someone else's hands, did not react to provocations from the other animals running at large distances (up to 40 km)

Police used a very well-trained dogs. Most often the enforcers are the German and Belgian Shepherds, Dobermans, Airedale, Giant Schnauzers, Rottweilers, Bloodhound and Labrador. Dog training begins with the first months of life, and the service, which usually lasts 6-7 years, it comes together with his instructor.

Dogs - guards of private homes - are taught in special schools 6-8 months, depending on their abilities. Of course, the dog can be trained at home, but only the most basic commands: do not bark, sit, lie down, stand up, do not chase other animals, do not jump on guests, even close friends, immediately resorted to the call, but only from their bowls .

Trained dogs should be calm, without coercion, yelling and beating. It must be nice to run the command master. Therefore, the correct execution of commands should be encouraged. But as the promotion's best not to use food that can give any.

On some farms as a patrol passed nedressirovannyh keep dogs on a chain that can not produce anything except condemnation, because the result we get angry, unhappy, not-for-nothing dog.

 

On the other hand, the thieves also afraid of small decorative dogs that begin to bark at the slightest noise. They grabbed the robber in the throat or caviar, but their bark is not nothing to stop. A chain can poison a dog or put to sleep, tossing her a poisoned piece of meat.

 

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Guard dogs, which have five thousand years

To make sure that the dogs actually existed in ancient times, and understand what the social function performed Canis familiaris, to refer to the drawings made by ancient man.

However, the prehistoric artists more inspired by animals, which were the object of hunting. In the caves there are images of deer, bison, wild boars, and dogs do not. Perhaps the dogs were so common that it is not particularly interested in ancient art. However, later in the so-called prehistoric art has changed and people began to depict the jackals and hyenas. Around 4500 BC. e. came the first image of a dog: naturally, it helped the hunter. True, the outward image of the animal is like no one from the existing breeds of dogs. Ancient people portrayed not only hunting dogs: the handle of a knife, made 4-5 thousand years ago, shows a dog with a collar. Perhaps this is the first evidence that already existed at that time guard dogs.
Through ancient Egyptian paintings survived the first pictures of dogs, resembling modern. Initially portrayed hunting dogs and taxis. Later, mastiffs, perhaps imported from the East, then - hounds. Important role in the dissemination of new breeds in Egypt, Rome and Athens played the Phoenicians, who traded in the Mediterranean countries and Central Europe.