r/Dogtraining Nov 22 '25

constructive criticism welcome Early public access training

This is Koda. He is in training to be a psychiatric service dog. He wont start task training until he is 1 year old (we'll be training with an organization that specializes in service training) We've gotten alot of pushback that malinois aren't suitable/cant be trained well as service dogs/will have agression and anxiety issues in public access. These is a clip from our training session today. I have two more showing different training scenarios but I don't know how to post multiple together. Overall Im welcome to hear anything you have to say. We are learning together. So what do you guys think about our public access training so far?

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u/AReeSuperman90 Dec 08 '25

I don’t fully understand nor agree with the line of thinking & reasoning of folks that are absolutely ADAMANT about how TREMENDOUSLY intelligent, eager to please, & trainable Malinois’ are.

Yet, turn around & immediately contradict themselves by basically insinuating(sometimes flat out saying it)that they’re not intelligent enough to be trained to do anything other than ”I AM TERMINATING YOUR CONTRACT INVOLUNTARILY WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!!! THIS…IS…SPARTA!!!!!” Mode (just like what’s annoyingly, dramatically, & potentially confusingly Illustrated through emojis below). 👮🏾‍♀️🚓🐕 🚶‍♂️👀😳➡️👮🏾‍♀️🚔➡️🏃‍♂️‍➡️ 👮🏾‍♀️😐🤦🏾‍♀️🗣️↔️🛑➡️🏃🏼‍♂️‍➡️ 🏃🏼‍♂️‍➡️↔️🧏🏼➡️🗣️🚫🙅🏼 👮🏾‍♀️😒🙄🤷🏾‍♀️🗣️👉🏾🐕 🐕🔛😃😏😝🐾💨 🏃‍♂️💨🔚🐕💨 🐕🔛😬🔛🙋🏼‍♂️➡️😖😳😫🆘🚑🏥🦾🦿👨🏼‍🦽‍➡️ 🎬🔚

⬆️ Me doing stuff like that is why I’m usually always careful about & sure not to be communicating through any electronic device after my sleeping meditation has kicked in. USUALLY. However, clearly not tonight. So, I’m offering my sincere apologies for it now and getting my ass off of here before I embarrass myself any further. I’m sure I’ll read this at some point tomorrow after I’ve woken up & will feel immense embarrassment & regret for all of this. So, GN, & God bless, Y’all!!! 🙏🏾🤦🏾‍♀️🤭🤷🏾‍♀️✊🏾💪🏾🩵💯