Dog agility
They threaten the dog, it gets its hair up a little, it barks aggressively and voila - the dog is doing instant protection work -- WRONG! Unless you are one of the lucky people to have a dog that has very strong nerves, this dog that has just been worked for the first time in defense is stressed to the max. dog agility Dog diseases. What needs to happen with young dogs is to have an evaluation of the dogs nerves and drives. When we study temperaments, we see a number of different types of dogs:Dogs with good nerves and strong prey driveDogs with weak nerves and strong prey driveDogs with a high threshold for prey and a low threshold for defenseDogs with a high threshold for prey and a high threshold for defenseEach one of these categories needs to be trained differently. The basic threat of training that runs through each category is that they all need to have a foundation in prey. dog agility Quiz-for-choosing-dog. A dog with good nerves and good prey drive needs to be moved into defensive training at an earlier age than a defensive dog. We run the risk of creating a problem with these strong nerved dogs by allowing them to become so comfortable working in prey that they have to physically hurt to flip them into defense. Where as if that same dog had been taken into strange environments (once its prey had been set) when it was a little younger and worked in light defense, this problem would not have developed. dog agility Dog-costumes. The point here is that there is no type of dog that needs to be started in defense. There are a group of people on PD-L who have herding dogs (Border Collies, Great Peryanese) that have recently claimed that because their dogs are so aggressive towards predators, they must have defense. After all if a dog will protect the flock and kill a coyote, how can that dog not have defense. Well, to be totally truthful these animals do not have defense (not the defense we are talking about in protection training). These dogs kill predators in prey drive. To them the predator is prey, just like to the predator the sheep are prey. There is not difference. This is why these dogs (BC, Pryanese and others like them) will not do a defensive bark and hold in front of a helper. They lack defense. Many people get very confused over this issue.
Dog agility
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