Landseer Dogs: Training and Canine Sports for Large Breeds

Landseers are known as friendly giants with great eagerness to learn. You should keep these tips for training and dog sports in mind when caring for a Landseer.

Landseers are known to possess both sensitive and friendly natures, while at the same time serving as former guard dogs. With that being said, they remain alert quadrupeds who like to form themselves into different shapes; hunting instinct is less evident, yet natural protection and guarding instinct remains strong in this breed. A Landseer is eager to be used; his motivational powers enable him to take up tasks enthusiastically.

Education: Leverage the hardworking spirit of Landseer in order to expand on his achievements in his position.

Landseers possess an insatiable need to feel needed. To meet this desire, when raising a Landseer pup be sure to provide adequate tasks. Look out for requirements your four-legged friend likes fulfilling – carrying newspapers or opening and closing garden gates regularly may work great as tasks.

But the Landseer also excels at complex tasks, performing them perfectly with little supervision required. He’s great at intuitively finding solutions and making intelligent decisions, which explains his popularity as therapy or water rescue dogs; with most cases naturally innate child-friendliness. These traits, as well as consistent education are great strengths; yet teaching hierarchy should remain less about dominance than clear rules, consistency and security.

Which dog sport would best suit Landseers?

Landseers don’t typically excel at physical dog sports such as agility or flyball, but their physical qualities do make them capable companions for tasks that involve retrieving objects from water dummies – this type of training offers you a companion who dedicates himself fully to his task with great passion.

Obedience can also provide an engaging challenge and encouragement for Landseers. Obedience tournaments require perfect obedience from their four-legged partners, with your four-legged friend performing various exercises with incredible precision at your command – whether that be reaching marking points from great distance using sight/sound signals, changing between “sit,” “stay,” and “down”, or retrieving various objects. To compete in tournaments you must have passed an initial companion dog test successfully.