Service dog training
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. service dog training Dog obedience trials. The basic threat of training that runs through each category is that they all need to have a foundation in prey. 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. service dog training Dog-agility-training-equipment. 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. 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. service dog training Dog obedience school main line. 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. 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.
Service dog training
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