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Originally Posted by woland77
ethologically on the reaction of the dog alone there is much to discuss, is not simple like: "dog alone have support by owner" is realy but dog alone have primary instict of self-defence, we can't select the dog about reaction from instinctive primary, and is too dificult know with the dog threaten at the pole, the border of the lack of psychological support by owner, and the emergence of instinct primary!
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But with bonitation we don't want to see self-defence, we want to see how the dog evaluates the situation on its own. Self-confident dog with stable character may react in different ways to the attack (whether weak or strong) but should not evaluate contact as attack even if it was attacked previously by the same person... Instinct says to the dog when to run and when to fight if it considers the situation dangerous, but the character says how it will evaluate the situation...
I like weak attack better myself because it better shows the evaluation by the dog - it is easy to evaluate the strong attack as danger allways, but with weak attack lots of self-confident dog evaluate the situation as only potentially dangerous and show the good stability of their character, not attacking prematurely.
BUT, even if attack on a tied dog is not allowed in Italy, I bet they cannot forbid contact of tied dog with owner absent, and that might show a lot about the character, even bringing it close to the Slovak and Czech bonitation. There you can see already how the dog evaluates the situation. Because shy dog will not allow contact, or will shy away from it, while stable dog will either ignore or be positive about it.
I do not understand your mention of politics. As far as I know, the Slovak and Czech bonitations, althogh different, are acknowledged by our breeding commitees. We do not acknowledge the Italian bonitation, for reasons I stated previously, there is no situation where the dog will be evaluating a situation on its own.