Steve K9Pro

K9: The ringing of the bell does work well, the oringinal article is HERE

K9: well you know what to do, build that drive around you as high as you can in preparation....

K9: I hope when you go your spinning with him? If not you should be!

K9: One am it is!

K9: I nomnate you Sid

K9: My Triangle of Temptation program builds a very strong release command & also a verbal marker... Look it up on DOL its here...

K9: Thanks every one for your kind words, I had a really great time over the weekend, though Im sure you could all see that, especially when I was setting the hides... lol... Thank you all for coming & for your never ending enthusiasm all weekend, & thanks every one who I volunteered to be bodies, I hope you got a lot out of it... Thanks to those who helped me with the set up, taking pics etc, really took some of the pressure off leading up to the day.. & Finally thanks to Andrew, Julie, Chris & Pat, (SARDA Team), it was a lot of fun having you around & sharing the experience with you... ************************** The weekend I feel opened up peoples minds to the world of SAR & Training in drive, a great demonstration of just how effective a dog trained through drive can be. It would easily put rest to any comment that a dog cannot be 100% reliable. I have stated here & many places that I have trained dogs to be 100% reliable under any distraction, & have had this argued, it was nice to be able to show people dogs (other than mine) that ARE 100% reliable, & of course extremly effective. All this completed with a method fundamentally the same as mine... Training in drive rarely requires any corrective measures, punishment or physical corrections to achieve success, so great for the dog, great for the handler.... The technical side of SAR is really interesting too, the Navigational side, organisational side, equipment etc all play a big part in a successful SAR team. As SARDOG has mentioned, a NSW branch would be a great success, a great deal of fun & Im sure a lot easier than one would think to set up... I look forward to the the Next one we are having in Victoria, we have a couple of places left & this one should be just as good if not better! Anyone with interest in dogs, training or working dogs will love this seminar...

K9: without knowing what a good anal sack should look like you may not know if you have a problem (or your dog does) unless its a very badly impacted gland. Take a look anyway, it cant hurt to look. There should be no swelling either side of the anus nor redness etc... Many smaller breed dogs have problems here & it causes the symptom you describe.. At worst a vet can check them quickly for you & express them making sure the ducts are clear... Your welcome on the TOT, it is what I feel all dogs should be on & all rescue/fosters start on straight away...

K9: re worm her again... Also check the dogs anal sacks, they may be impacted / infected or need draining....

K9: as a base program for respect & control, try my program the Triangle of Temptation... Its here in DOL, there is a later version & the basic version, if you cant find it PM me & I will email it to you.

K9: Hey Alibear great job, the last time I saw Bear he was going very well in training & it was obvious the amount of time & effort you had put into him through my programs. I do hear how those at the DOL days out say he is so well behaved, there is your pay off for the behavioural training! I am really glad you have gained the freedom of offleash work & I bet Bear is too... It gives me such pleasure to hear success stories like this one... Im sure you will only get happiness from him, he is a great dog... Plenty of personality & drive..

K9: Once we have enough numbers confirmed I will place it on my website front page www.k9force.net As you may have seen I have just released a new workshop there in Victoria... That page gets over 20 000 hits per month... so it may help you get more numbers... I have seven workshops to be run by the end of May, so once they are done (& I have a little rest) I will be happy to look at dates for you... August is still possible but I have bookings then for consults so it would need to be decided soon.

K9: no, not really. If the dog performs the excercise 20 times successfully & you have then stopped, no training took place. You just re inforced what was already known more. The dog has to make a mistake so the option of not complying with the command is removed....

K9: The dog needs to have drive developed for the ball or the tug, some dogs like the tug more than the ball, the retrieve is something you do when you have already built drive....

K9: prey drive is natural in all dogs, some have been bred to have lower thresholds to prey drive than others, dogs with high prey drive usually are very smart, dogs that think on their feet. They are also responsible for most of my work as few people can get results with them as the dogs get bored with standard training procedures. Many trainers see prey drive as something they need to squash, but it doesnt work like that, you can push it down here, but it will rise up somewhere else. Like pushing on a balloon, down here, up there. Excessive pressure & you shut the dog down, burst the balloon. Dogs that chase mowers, snippers, clothes on the line etc etc, have just found a way that they can get some drive satisfaction... These dogs can excel in advanced learning programs when their drive is used to train them... When someone calls a dog hyper active, a ball nut, obessive over a toy etc, I see POTENTIAL for high level work with often little training. I these days try & incorporate satisfying the dogs drives in just about every program I specify to solve behaviour problems these days & its always a hot topic for discussion in my workshops & seminars..

K9: as your results already show, the advice you have been given is good, keep in mind always that the command should be seen by the dog as an opportunity to earn a reward. This means the reward must have value to the dog... ball, food, praise what ever it may be the dog must want it. After that its as simple as chaining the command either signal or voice into the movement for the dog to earn the reward... Finally the timing of how the reward is given will increase the speed of the drop....

K9: The key is that you dont intro the ball & the snipper together, otherwise you will turn on the dogs nerves...

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K9: actually it will cure the problem when its done right. The dog will look less for drive satisfaction in otehr places (like cats etc) & more in the excercises you teach.. K9: Where are you locarted Bullyluvr?

K9: Ned needs to be Trained IN DRIVE, trained to achieve drive satisfaction through obedience...

K9: its unlikely that these dogs hate the whipper snipper, in fact its , most likely the other way about.... Often dogs bark & bite at whipper snippers in prey drive.... which is a positive drive that the dogs get great pleasure from... You may find this is compulsive with your dog as your not providing enough prey drive satisfaction & your dog is trying to satisfy it any way it can... You can stop your dog from chasing the whipper snipper, but if it does stop chasing, kit will then go looking for satisfaction other ways.... Those may be worse...

K9: yes you can, you can alos teach him to calm down from a certain posture you can show him, less obvious in a trial...

K9: well there are many, & that whole topic will be covered in the workshops for Training in Drive & the SAR one... Its very easy to mis read these signs & go the wrong way....

K9: yes, remember that the drool (salivation) would only be a secondary or tertiary marker of stress, there will be other signs....

K9: can be but also be aware that high activity (increased respitory action) can cause this too... K9: poor? Stamp?