Northern inuit dog

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Originally Posted by rolf

I agree and that is why the character-test at bonitation is worth nothing(or very little), but meassures is still importent

I don't think it is completely valueless. You can see extremely shy/aggresive dogs, which are needed to be put out of the breeding, and of course the behavior during measurement should be taken into account of the character.

Moreover, good judge can clearly see if the behavior at the pole is only hard-learned or is natural to the dog. It is actually not important that the dog defends agaist the figurant, it just has to show that it is not scared, often really good charactered dog will just step away from the guy, because they see that he is actually not dangerous. It is how the dog responds, moves, etc, that is evaluated (or should be), it's body language really tells a lot to experienced judge. What I see as a problem though is that the situation needs to be learned (that the dog stays alone somewhere, that there may be people around etc.) and this is sometimes a problem - if you cannot leave your dog somewhere alone for whatever reason (it can get stolen, harmed or in the other extreme taken away by dog rescue), it is not used to it and this affects really much how the dog behaves during the test. But this is different topic.

How does the MH exam look like?