ancestry discrimination? Chinese pastoral dogs are so smart, why can't they be police dogs?

I don't know if you have any impression of "the dog that escaped from the mouth of the crocodile with the help of the owner", but now it has a new occupation "police dog". The local police said that its tenacity is very suitable for police dogs. work, so it was included in the "civil servants".

In addition to the dog that escaped from the crocodile, Bawan, a stray dog, was also included in the "civil servant" because he entered the police station by mistake. He was also frequently searched because of repeatedly picking up other dogs and "escape from prison and eat garbage", becoming an Internet celebrity. red dog.

Seeing these news, you may think that the choice of police dogs is very broad, and even a stray dog ​​can become a police dog. Is this really the case?

In fact, the selection of police dogs is very strict, and the requirements for pedigree are very high. The main ones that are regarded as police dogs in China are:

German Shepherd: Tall, powerful, obedient, suitable for riot control, able to fight thugs, and even deter criminals.

Labrador: gentle personality, good physical strength, excellent sense of smell, suitable for guiding the blind and searching for drugs, explosions, and search and rescue.

Ronaway: A kind of bulldog, good obedience, more powerful, suitable for capturing enemies and tracking targets.

Some small dogs are also selected as police dogs because these small dogs are smaller and can search where larger dogs cannot, and small dogs are smaller and can search close to the ground. However, the disadvantage of small dogs is that their physical strength is not as good as that of large dogs, and they cannot act as riot dogs like large dogs.

The characteristics of a dog suitable to be a police dog are that the breed is better, and it is best to clearly know the blood of the parents, even the blood of the grandparents; the IQ is high and the obedience is strong. The shepherd is so smart that he will weigh the pros and cons, but the job of a police dog requires him to face difficulties, so the border collie can’t act as a police dog, and dogs with lower IQs are difficult to domesticate, and they won’t concentrate on work after domestication. , so it is not suitable.

In the past, people thought that the reason why Chinese pastoral dogs could not be police dogs was because they were too smart, but they were not, but their blood was not pure.

The Chinese pastoral dog is not a fixed breed, but a mixed name for all dogs without breeds. In some places, the Chinese pastoral dog is also called "earth dog".

The Chinese pastoral dogs living in different regions have different body sizes, different shapes, and even have great differences in temperament and habits, which brings difficulties to the selection work. Although some Chinese pastoral dogs have the conditions to become police dogs, it is too difficult to select Chinese pastoral dogs suitable for police dogs from dogs, so they gave up using Chinese pastoral dogs.

Of course, there is one more thing to say here. Sometimes we call Chinese native dogs "Chinese pastoral dogs", such as: Tibetan Mastiff, but what we are discussing here is only dogs that have no clear breed and are freely bred and bred, rather than having a fixed breed. Breeds, dogs only bred with the same breed.

In fact, there is also a native dog in China that will serve as a police dog. It is the Kunming dog. Its advantages are its large size, brave character, and strong obedience. More importantly, it can adapt to high altitude areas and meet the needs of China's plateau police dogs. .

The breed of police dogs is only the most basic condition. After being selected as police dogs, they will be weaned and trained from the 45th day of birth. The initial training is relatively simple, such as: desensitization training. Like other animals, dogs have a strong curiosity about the world and always pay too much attention to the world, which will affect its concentration at work, so training Members have been desensitizing it, interfering with its feeding, in order to cultivate its focused personality.

After that, the police dog began to perform the most basic training: command training and title training. The police dog has a set of passwords that must be familiar with, and can make corresponding actions for each password. At the same time, the actions must be very standard, such as: sit down immediately after hearing it, instead of hesitating to execute the order.

The second stage is to carry out long-distance training, such as: obeying orders from a distance. This is because the police dog will encounter many problems in the future job position, and may not always stay next to the trainer in real time, but when it is far away from the trainer. , but also to be able to obey the trainer's orders.

After the above training, the trainer will start to choose a major according to the breed and specialty of the dog. For example, the explosive detection dog has higher requirements on the dog's sense of smell; the anti-riot dog has a higher majesty and bite ability of the dog.

Only dogs that have undergone the above professional training and can complete each assessment can become police dogs, otherwise they will be eliminated and adopted by the public, or as breeding dogs to continue to breed the next generation of police dogs.

The elimination rate of police dogs is about 35%, and this is still the seedlings of police dogs selected from excellent breeds of police dogs. If police dogs are selected from Chinese pastoral dogs, the elimination rate will be higher from training to final assessment, which is a waste of trainers. At the same time, it cannot meet the needs of the frontline for police dogs, so today's police dogs have achieved "specialized breeding", not only to ensure that the breed is good, but also to ensure that the breed does not degenerate.

It is because of this that the Chinese pastoral dog has not become a police dog.