Understanding How Drive Thresholds, Nerves & Drive Interaction Affect Protection Training By This article is designed to follow my article on Understanding the Drives of Protection Work. If you have not read that article or if you don't understand prey drive, defensive drive, fight drive and avoidance, then you would want to refer to that article. This tape came directly from my training video titled The First Steps of Bite Training. If you like this information and want to go further with your training, get that video. Drive Development and Interaction: Just about the time you think that you are beginning to understand the various types dog breeds dog products drives to work in protection training, I am going to throw a curve and bring up "drive interaction." How drives interact with each other produces our dog's temperament. Understanding drive interaction is an important part of all dog training. If you are going to train protection dogs you are going to have to understand how to manipulate drives to accomplish your training goals. A helper or agitator is going to have to learn to change his training techniques so the dog reacts to him in different drives according to where the helper wants him to be at that point in training. A good dog products dog products example of drive interaction is fight drive. Fight drive is the product of drive interaction. Fight drive is the result of a good foundation in prey drive development in combination with the experience gained by a good foundation in defense. When that happens we have fight drive. Without drive development and drive interaction in these two areas - prey and defense - we would never have fight drive. A dog with a weak prey drive or just as importantly a dog that has not gone through prey drive development will become a hectic dog in defense training. This is because it dog obedience equipment dog products has not learned the skills of bite work, nor has it learned how to relieve the stress of defense through prey drive work. Another way to put it is that there is nowhere to go in the dog's temperament to allow it to relieve the stress of defense. I am often asked by puppy customers if my dogs will protect them when they are adults. My answer to this is, "I can give you a dog with the correct genetic make-up to do this work, what you do with him after you get him determines if he will protect you." I compare dog training equipment dog products this to
