Turbo: The Send, the Bite and the Out
Turbo, a Malinois, is sent from his handler to a decoy in a bite suit, lets go, sits watching the decoy, and heels back off the field.
The bite is a few seconds of this clip. The rest is what a buyer should actually watch: the dog letting go, staying with the decoy without biting again, and walking back at the handler’s leg.
This is sport-style work on a field with a suited decoy, so it shows control rather than a street encounter. The two moments worth pausing on come after the bite: the release, when the dog comes off the suit and sits beside the decoy instead of gripping again, and the walk back, when a dog that was biting seconds earlier heels at its handler’s leg past the person it just engaged.
More Films
Mamba, a Dutch Shepherd, waits at the open front passenger window of an SUV as a decoy approaches in a staged car-jacking training scenario.
Zorro lying on a dog bed at home, grooming and play-wrestling with a black-and-white cat, both of them relaxed.
Zorro, a black dog, strains against the handler’s hands at its collar, is let go across an open field, and is on a decoy in a bite suit who goes to the ground.
All 9 films, with a line on what each one is worth watching for.
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