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Now your talking something I can explain, at least in a PP system.
That desire to win, or the competitiveness is as important as the initial “drive” used to start the dogs aggressive reaction to the handlers command.
With a PP, patrol, or police dog I always use the competitive nature of the dog to teach them effective fighting techniques. As SchH and other “tuff dog” sports in the US today only judge the initial bite or the “grip” for a short time after the initial engagement, possibly they are doing things differently than they did when I first got into it. So this may be a little different for some.
I will initiate the fight with the dog in prey drive, that gives me a confident dog. As the fight continues I will see if the dog has the competitiveness to continue.
If the dog is weakening I may switch to a more threatening posture and switch the dog over to “defense drive” if he was weakening in prey or maybe just his bite was not as hard as I think it could be (he isn't trying) I can now essentially restart him by triggering another survival instinct we refer to as “defense drive”.
If the dog now comes back with the more intense actions you get from defense I can reward the action by shifting back to prey. That is sort of what I referred to when I said we strived to balance the two drives. Of course that was back before bottled water, 100 brands of beer in every bar, and 150 kinds of drives in every dog trainer.
You questioned whether a dogs character was innate or learned, I think it is both but this balancing is how I handle the learning part. But I can only work with what is there. Luckily all dogs have these instinctual, species preserving traits, the trainer just hopes to maximize them.
That is also why the K9 PRO SPORTS motto is, Listen Well, Bite Hard
we want to utilize the entire dog, control, fight, instinctive, and learned. As well as social, stable, and friendly. Since we use these drives in training protection we don't have to worry about an unstable dog in our everyday lives, only when we trigger these drives will they become the fighter we need them to be.
So Listen Well, Bite Hard!!!
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