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If you are wondering why the guys are wearing the ' Michelin's Tyre Suit ', they are actually called ' decoy or helper ' in bite work training. Some used the term 'aggravator' or 'agitator' but commonly used term is 'decoy'.

There is big difference between decoy for sports dog and police or PP dog as each of these disciplines has different goals in mind. There is a distinction between training and certification.

If you are decoying in a certification trial you are testing a dog and when you are training a decoy work, your job is to bring out in a dog what you want to bring out in the dog. A lot of people call themselves a decoy thinking that by just putting on the suit and mimicking what they saw will do all the job. There's no goals setting and they have no idea what they want to achieve during the bite session.

In order for a decoy to carry out his job, he has to first have a little bit of understanding in what he wants to bring out in a dog.

The role of a decoy in training is he is the mechanism of reward for the dog. It is just like when you are training OB with your dog. Dog puts his butt on the ground, you reward the dog for sitting. In bite work training, dog barks you reward him with a bite!