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When in fact it is not defense, it is an accelerated form of prey. yerf dog Dog clothes. 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. yerf dog Medical dog. 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. yerf dog Choosing the right breed dog. Prey guarding is an example. When a dog is standing over the top of the sleeve that had been slipped by the helper and guarding it from the helper who is trying to steal it back - the dog is working in both drives - with the primary drive being prey. Again, a difficult concept for a novice to fully understand. Now, on the other end of the spectrum, we have these trainers that train their dogs in prey for so long that the dogs become locked in prey. This is also foolish. Dogs that become locked in prey always have sound temperament and good nerves. These dogs are so driven for their prey item that they are willing to tolerate strong doses of pressure or pain just to get their prey. They develop the attitude that "I can take anything you (the helper) can dish out as long as I get to bite my prey item in the end. "I saw a response to the defense statement on the PD-L by a national select French ring helper. He made the statement that the French ring trainers start to train in play (prey drive) from a very early age. His dog was 14 months old and working at the second level of Ring. The French Ring, (see my tapes on the French ring titled Training Techniques for the French Ring Sport), is an interesting sport. At one point the dogs are sent after the helper from a long distance away, the handler is required to call the dog off of the attack (and back to him) when the dog is within 1 meter of the decoy. In the biting portion of the French Ring, the dogs are hit with a split bamboo stick (called a clatter stick) 80 to 100 times within a minute. These hits are not painful, they are noisy.
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