Puppy Finder Service?

There is a trade in 'green' and part and fully trained patrol/service/protection dogs. Training and experience/accreditation varies widely and prices are usually astronomical, and people often pay a premium for a dog they later find out can only bark at the end of a lead and bite a man in a padded suit/with a visible target, in a certain scenario.
The washout rate is incredible and a lot of dogs are sourced cheaply, trained and sold for humongous profit.
I have strong feelings in terms of the ethics of this whole area.

In terms of sport, it is not uncommon to leave a pup with someone for foundation training and take it on later and pay for food/board on top of that etc.
Some big names have sold fully trained dogs to novice handlers complete with follow up training and there was often a situation, that in a country where there was no competition to get onto a world team, that someone who'd never done the basic entry level traffic-safe companion dog test, could buy and walk onto the field at a world championships with a fully trained dog.
However mechanisms have since been put in place to stop this.
I'll never forget seeing one of the greats in my lifetime, lashed with sweat and swearing profusely, walking behind a guy on the practice pitch and operating his arms for him, as he literally turned up with a made dog and no idea what he was supposed to be doing.

Generally, people want to be able to say, they trained their own dog from scratch, I met a woman last year from America who buys dogs and places them with top handlers 'as it's the only way to get ahead'.
It's a more common thing there.

Thank you.?I knew certain breeds were trained and sold on re protection\security/for owners to look like a hard nut/moron etc?. I do wonder though if there is a market for a newly bought pup with inexperienced owners to go for basic training etc?
 
Top