Search and rescue dog training
After all if a dog will protect the flock and kill a coyote, how can that dog not have defense. search and rescue dog training Rare dog breeds. 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. search and rescue dog training Dog breads. 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. search and rescue dog training Akc dogs. Many people get very confused over this issue. They interpret a reaction of a dog to a certain thing that a helper does as defense. When in fact it is not defense, it is an accelerated form of prey. The use of a whip in training can often be seen as an example, the helper cracks the whip and this raises the intensity of drive. After awhile the whip itself becomes the stimulation to raise prey drive in the dog. To make the point, I have shown people how you can toss the whip to the side and the dog will leave the helper and move to the whip and either bark at it or try and get it. If the whip is used incorrectly in training, it becomes a prey item. The point to this section is that to the uneducated person (or under educated trainer) it can be difficult to distinguish the difference between prey and defense, especially when the intensity of the prey work is elevated. We also have to remember that there is also an overlapping of drives that occurs. Prey guarding is an example.
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