Italian bonitations

massimo · 10-09-2009, 01:47

Maybe some of you are interested to know what and how the bonitations in Italy really are.
As it was already said, the morphology is more or less the same as in other countries.
The difference is the Character test.
Some of you know that the character test is made, in Slovakia for example, first by doing a human group and the dog must walk within it.
Then the dog is tied to a pole an the figurant comes out once attacking him and then trying to have a normal contact with him in a calm way.
By these features, the judge is supposed to know, also considering how the dog behaved during the measurement, what kind of character code it deserves.
In italy we have the same group introduction, then the dog is tied up to a long leash and the onwer is holding the other side.
The figurant comes out of the revier with a menacing approach and the dog must react to the person protecting his owner and never pulling back.

We also have a moment in which somebody shoots to empty shots in the air and the dog must remain as it was before, no fear or anger.

I want to share the videos with you, maybe you have some further comments.

In this video Barishka is teaching Mio some manners...she is used to much stronger males...sorry!!

martiou07 · 10-09-2009, 09:12

hello, thank you for these vidéos.

how made you in Italy for correctly judging the characters in the presence of the owner ???

I made pass the bonitation to my female by Monika Soukupova, the test of character passed in my presence then without my presence. This year Daiva Rimaityte made pass to my male, the test of character without my presence. Thus a Czech bonitation and Slovak, we have well could see the character.

correct me if i am wrong :

interest of this test is to see whether the dog is able to go up in pressure and to go down again in pressure when it there does not have threat in front of the same person and without the owner?

I really do not see how to judge the character correctly; a dog then it is with its owner?? the dog defers its confidence on its owner, and the reaction can be completely different without its owner.

Afflicted, but I am not agreement with the test of character of the Italian bonitation, for me the results are not right whole .....

impossible to see whether the dog of itself goes down again in pressure, therefore to see the real stability of the dog , no ???

why do Italy make different test, which reproach towards the tests of Czech and Slovak ?????

sorry for my english

Martial

Hanka · 10-09-2009, 09:28

Hello Martial, I think the same. It is important to see dog reaction without owner. Some wolfdogs are selfconfident with owner behind back and the same dog is shy without owner. The reaction can be absolutly different.

wolfin · 10-09-2009, 10:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by massimo

attack:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904533370/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904574640/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904510540/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/39036911

khmm i not saw normal psychical test ONLY training to defence with figurant and veeery gut figurant, he make dog agresive to atack, but this is training not normal behavior test, who make dog when in real he atack other man when he is alone without owner.
Nice training but not moore

massimo · 10-09-2009, 10:40

i posted the videos not because I think they are wrong or right, but just to show you what we are speaking about as TOO MANY of you speak about something they really know nothing of except "hearing" from others or guessing.
You've seen the video of the Slovak bonitation and here is the video of the Italian bonitation.

I am trying to be as open and subjective as possible.

According to the judge this test is sufficient to be able to evaluate the character of a dog.
This is the Character test made in Italy, whether you like it or not.

Leaving a dog on a pole alone and having an attack is forbidden in Italy.

My opinion is that the real character of a wolfdog cannot really be seen neither with this test or the Czech or Slovak test.
But we need an approximate information about the dog and the judge, when it's a GOOD judge, can see it even from a weak attack like the Slovak test or a strong attack next to the owner like the Italian one.

I respect your opinions, I hope you respect mine.

Massimo

Hanka · 10-09-2009, 10:47

Wow Massimo, write me more about it:
"Leaving a dog on a pole alone and having an attack is forbidden in Italy."
It is interest for me. Why? Is it any law? is it for short test of character too????

wolfin · 10-09-2009, 10:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hanka

Wow Massimo, write me more about it:
"Leaving a dog on a pole alone and having an attack is forbidden in Italy."
It is interest for me. Why? Is it any law? is it for short test of character too????

aha, Hanka see this

dogs in italian bonitation are atacked from figurant and very strong atack with jumping and speaking, and this is ok

but dog leaving alone and normal people who make with hem contact and later wish atack hem like normal, but stupid real man, this is not ok

why?
this 1 type is moore agresive dog type like 2 bonitation type

wolfin · 10-09-2009, 10:48

Massimo, i respect

only for my this is normal traning but not normal real situation when cann saw normal dogs character.
I know dogs, who are real agresive and cann make this italian atack when is with owner, but alone in CZ/SK test this dogs is veery small and not bark not atack only make down, not are owner, dog not is strong.
for this my like and I tested character like slovak - dog, cann be without training from house, but You cann saw normal realy hes character.
this is my opinion

massimo · 10-09-2009, 10:49

Navarre · 10-09-2009, 10:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by massimo

Leaving a dog on a pole alone and having an attack is forbidden in Italy.

Sorry Max, this in NOT true. Really.

Quote:

Originally Posted by massimo

But we need an approximate information about the dog and the judge, when it's a GOOD judge, can see it even from a weak attack like the Slovak test or a strong attack next to the owner like the Italian one.

I agree, but we should give same possibility to every dog...as for the "stud list" we need rules that are the same for all.
If you make a different test, don't call it "bonitace" and give different results, what 's the problem ?

Navarre · 10-09-2009, 10:57

The italian "bonitace" is taken from a character test called CAL 1. This is the first step (of 3) for working breed as malinois and boxer.

This test provides as result APPROVED or NOT APPROVED, and not many results as bonitace.

massimo · 10-09-2009, 10:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by Navarre

Sorry Max, this in NOT true. Really.

This is what I was told, NOT by Italian Club but by one of the ENCI working persons.
Maybe I am wrong.
I will further investigate about it, and give you feedback.

Just one note: if we want...we can make ANY dog pull back if put on a pole and alone... all we need to do is make a STRONG attack.
The attacks I saw during Slovak Bonitations were NOT attacks...they were a lady with a stick going near the dog without looking at it.

In my opinion, i repeat, NEITHER of the tests are good enough to understand the real character of the dog. They help the judge, that's all.
If the Judge is a good judge (i never go to a Bonitation if I think the judge is NOT good enough...) he/she will be able to give the correct Character definition.
massimo

martiou07 · 10-09-2009, 11:05

I repeat my question, why does Italy make a different test? with a which aim? the Czechs and the Slovak ones set up tests adapted to a race they built, why Italy wants to make differently.

I am not at all agreement, a judge so good he can be cannot judge the character of the dog correctly right while basing himself on this test…

wolfin · 10-09-2009, 11:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by massimo

This is what I was told, NOT by Italian Club but by one of the ENCI working persons.
Maybe I am wrong.
I will further investigate about it, and give you feedback.

Just one note: if we want...we can make ANY dog pull back if put on a pole and alone... all we need to do is make a STRONG attack.
The attacks I saw during Slovak Bonitations were NOT attacks...they were a lady with a stick going near the dog without looking at it.

In my opinion, i repeat, NEITHER of the tests are good enough to understand the real character of the dog. They help the judge, that's all.
If the Judge is a good judge (i never go to a Bonitation if I think the judge is NOT good enough...) he/she will be able to give the correct Character definition.
massimo

AHA !!!!
Yes now I know all

You training dog for this and make this test in this method- You make like with GSD - hes korung cann make when dog have IPO 1 like minimum, this is same - You tested whe good is trainined dog, but NOT REAL dogs character.
Yes in this case italian dogs have good opinion in this test

when You tested hes trainable not real character

in this case i moore believe in this "lady with stick" but not in Yours profesional figurangt jumping

massimo this is my opinion

martiou07 · 10-09-2009, 11:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by massimo

Just one note: if we want...we can make ANY dog pull back if put on a pole and alone... all we need to do is make a STRONG attack.
The attacks I saw during Slovak Bonitations were NOT attacks...they were a lady with a stick going near the dog without looking at it.

you would have had to come at the time of the bonitations this year to France, this is not a woman and so that my dog is in this state, you can believe me, there was threat

massimo · 10-09-2009, 12:05

@martiou07
i speak for what i see.
If in france it's different, good for you. I referred ONLY to the slovak one, which i saw with my own eyes.
Allow me to quote a well known and well considered judge, Sona Bognarova.
"if the attack is strong or week it doesn't matter, i judge the reaction of the dog accordingly".

Daiva, i agree that we cannot see the real character of the dog with this Italian Character test. Any CSW can be trained to react to a figurant.
I agree with you 100%.
BUT I also don't think we can see the character from the slovak or czech test either.
The only thing I can do is trust the judge.
I am sorry but when I see a bonitation code i don't ask: where was it done??
I ask: who did it?
Some names are for me trustable with eyes closed...others I prefer seeing the dog with my own eyes.

I will NOT say the name but during a summer camp i went close to a dog who was on a chain and alone.
I was stupid because I thought he was young enough to accept me.
He bit my hand.
This dog is a wonderful and beautiful dog, used and appreciated internationally, but seeing a stranger approaching him in a calm way, he bit me.
I didn't tell anybody about this (of course, it was my fault) but I have my own opinion about him, I don't care what the judges say.
Oliver was on a chain alone too. He was barking and growling at ALL the dogs, but if a person came near him, he absolutely didn't care and wanted them to stroke him.
Again... i prefer having my own opinion of a dog's character, boniitation gives me just an idea.
massimo

Hanka · 10-09-2009, 10:57

"Navarre": Of course, the figurant must have sense for dogs. If he see the dog is not selfconfident, he will not press him out and he must not to do shock of dog for all life

.
But these test sof character are here normal for all working breeds and I think our breed have tis test much "softest" than other working breed here. How we can know if it is dog with labil (stabil) character without seeing dog in different conditions? Often we can see dog only on bonitation, so we want know maximum about him. This dog will be "in much next generations" and we have future of breed in our hand.
This breed was made for work, so we must keep good character of breed. The beauty only is for nothing.

Navarre · 10-09-2009, 10:45

This is the main difference from czech/slovak and italian, other are minimal.

I think it is a big difference as I said before.

@wolfin : about training...you can train even a dog leaved alone without owner!
W can discuss years about what test is better (for me leaving dog alone under attack is wrong and very useless, no other breed do this) but I really don't think this is the point.

10-09-2009, 01:47	#1
massimo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Prague 6 Posts: 2,090	Maybe some of you are interested to know what and how the bonitations in Italy really are. As it was already said, the morphology is more or less the same as in other countries. The difference is the Character test. Some of you know that the character test is made, in Slovakia for example, first by doing a human group and the dog must walk within it. Then the dog is tied to a pole an the figurant comes out once attacking him and then trying to have a normal contact with him in a calm way. By these features, the judge is supposed to know, also considering how the dog behaved during the measurement, what kind of character code it deserves. In italy we have the same group introduction, then the dog is tied up to a long leash and the onwer is holding the other side. The figurant comes out of the revier with a menacing approach and the dog must react to the person protecting his owner and never pulling back. We also have a moment in which somebody shoots to empty shots in the air and the dog must remain as it was before, no fear or anger. I want to share the videos with you, maybe you have some further comments. In this video Barishka is teaching Mio some manners...she is used to much stronger males...sorry!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/39038527 Bonitations: Group: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3903841 http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/39045516 http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/39044903 http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904460 Gunshot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904612042/ attack: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904533370/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904574640/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904510540/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/39036911 __________________ ---------- Oliver & Lunatica

10-09-2009, 09:12	#2
martiou07 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: France Posts: 1,986	hello, thank you for these vidéos. how made you in Italy for correctly judging the characters in the presence of the owner ??? I made pass the bonitation to my female by Monika Soukupova, the test of character passed in my presence then without my presence. This year Daiva Rimaityte made pass to my male, the test of character without my presence. Thus a Czech bonitation and Slovak, we have well could see the character. correct me if i am wrong : interest of this test is to see whether the dog is able to go up in pressure and to go down again in pressure when it there does not have threat in front of the same person and without the owner? I really do not see how to judge the character correctly; a dog then it is with its owner?? the dog defers its confidence on its owner, and the reaction can be completely different without its owner. Afflicted, but I am not agreement with the test of character of the Italian bonitation, for me the results are not right whole ..... impossible to see whether the dog of itself goes down again in pressure, therefore to see the real stability of the dog , no ??? why do Italy make different test, which reproach towards the tests of Czech and Slovak ????? sorry for my english Martial __________________ Last edited by martiou07; 10-09-2009 at 09:47.

10-09-2009, 10:40	#5
massimo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Prague 6 Posts: 2,090	i posted the videos not because I think they are wrong or right, but just to show you what we are speaking about as TOO MANY of you speak about something they really know nothing of except "hearing" from others or guessing. You've seen the video of the Slovak bonitation and here is the video of the Italian bonitation. I am trying to be as open and subjective as possible. According to the judge this test is sufficient to be able to evaluate the character of a dog. This is the Character test made in Italy, whether you like it or not. Leaving a dog on a pole alone and having an attack is forbidden in Italy. My opinion is that the real character of a wolfdog cannot really be seen neither with this test or the Czech or Slovak test. But we need an approximate information about the dog and the judge, when it's a GOOD judge, can see it even from a weak attack like the Slovak test or a strong attack next to the owner like the Italian one. I respect your opinions, I hope you respect mine. Massimo __________________ ---------- Oliver & Lunatica

10-09-2009, 10:48	#8
wolfin Moderator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Where the wolf lives Posts: 6,095	Massimo, i respect only for my this is normal traning but not normal real situation when cann saw normal dogs character. I know dogs, who are real agresive and cann make this italian atack when is with owner, but alone in CZ/SK test this dogs is veery small and not bark not atack only make down, not are owner, dog not is strong. for this my like and I tested character like slovak - dog, cann be without training from house, but You cann saw normal realy hes character. this is my opinion __________________

10-09-2009, 10:49	#9
massimo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Prague 6 Posts: 2,090	Sorry i just noticed the links where not perfect. Please find below the right links Scusate i link ai video erano sbagliati! Barushka teaches Amore Mio http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3903852799/ Group http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3903841733/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904551672/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904490318/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904460162/ Shoot http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904612042/ Attack http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904574640/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904533370/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3904510540/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_luni/3903691113/ massimo __________________ ---------- Oliver & Lunatica

10-09-2009, 09:28	#3
Hanka Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Kadaň Posts: 1,622	Hello Martial, I think the same. It is important to see dog reaction without owner. Some wolfdogs are selfconfident with owner behind back and the same dog is shy without owner. The reaction can be absolutly different.

10-09-2009, 10:47	#6
Hanka Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Kadaň Posts: 1,622	Wow Massimo, write me more about it: "Leaving a dog on a pole alone and having an attack is forbidden in Italy." It is interest for me. Why? Is it any law? is it for short test of character too????

10-09-2009, 10:57	#11
Navarre VIP Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Roma Posts: 5,998	The italian "bonitace" is taken from a character test called CAL 1. This is the first step (of 3) for working breed as malinois and boxer. This test provides as result APPROVED or NOT APPROVED, and not many results as bonitace. __________________ Susanna & Gianluca & Andrea & Navarre & Isabeau & Brandimarte & Anastasia & Lana Last Navarre & Beau Isabeau

10-09-2009, 11:05	#13
martiou07 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: France Posts: 1,986	I repeat my question, why does Italy make a different test? with a which aim? the Czechs and the Slovak ones set up tests adapted to a race they built, why Italy wants to make differently. I am not at all agreement, a judge so good he can be cannot judge the character of the dog correctly right while basing himself on this test… __________________

10-09-2009, 12:05	#16
massimo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Prague 6 Posts: 2,090	@martiou07 i speak for what i see. If in france it's different, good for you. I referred ONLY to the slovak one, which i saw with my own eyes. Allow me to quote a well known and well considered judge, Sona Bognarova. "if the attack is strong or week it doesn't matter, i judge the reaction of the dog accordingly". Daiva, i agree that we cannot see the real character of the dog with this Italian Character test. Any CSW can be trained to react to a figurant. I agree with you 100%. BUT I also don't think we can see the character from the slovak or czech test either. The only thing I can do is trust the judge. I am sorry but when I see a bonitation code i don't ask: where was it done?? I ask: who did it? Some names are for me trustable with eyes closed...others I prefer seeing the dog with my own eyes. I will NOT say the name but during a summer camp i went close to a dog who was on a chain and alone. I was stupid because I thought he was young enough to accept me. He bit my hand. This dog is a wonderful and beautiful dog, used and appreciated internationally, but seeing a stranger approaching him in a calm way, he bit me. I didn't tell anybody about this (of course, it was my fault) but I have my own opinion about him, I don't care what the judges say. Oliver was on a chain alone too. He was barking and growling at ALL the dogs, but if a person came near him, he absolutely didn't care and wanted them to stroke him. Again... i prefer having my own opinion of a dog's character, boniitation gives me just an idea. massimo __________________ ---------- Oliver & Lunatica

10-09-2009, 10:45	#18
Navarre VIP Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Roma Posts: 5,998	This is the main difference from czech/slovak and italian, other are minimal. I think it is a big difference as I said before. @wolfin : about training...you can train even a dog leaved alone without owner! W can discuss years about what test is better (for me leaving dog alone under attack is wrong and very useless, no other breed do this) but I really don't think this is the point. __________________ Susanna & Gianluca & Andrea & Navarre & Isabeau & Brandimarte & Anastasia & Lana Last Navarre & Beau Isabeau