Modal Theory - Drive Stuff

[corvus]

We have a mouse in our house at the moment, and I've been fascinated by the fact that my low drive dog is more interested in catching the mouse than my high drive dog. I came across this article talking about modal theory, which is pretty close to what Panksepp (and Steven Lindsay) talk about as well. It didn't really explain why I'm seeing the pattern I am, but it offered some hints and I thought it was interesting enough to share anyway.

[Seita]

Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting it Corvus.

[newfsie]

That was very interesting.....book marked now, Thank you

[Staranais]

It was interesting, although I would have liked to argue with the author about some of it.

[Kavik]

Very interesting but he contradicts himself a couple of times. By saying that encouraging retrieval as pups will produce dogs with high drive and not encouraging it will produce dogs with lower drive, then saying that dogs with high drive will turn neurotic if not given an outlet for that drive. Though I think I know what he is trying to say (certainly that encouraging it will help if you are after using drive in your training).