|
Member
How Do You Identify?:
Femme
Preferred Pronoun?:
Serene Highness ;}
Relationship Status:
Dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Houston area
Posts: 1,362
Thanks: 1,417
Thanked 4,749 Times in 1,139 Posts
Rep Power: 21474853
|
I am training my dog, Lily, to rise above her natural predator drive.
I think it is starting to work. This morning she started to go after the neighbors cat and I was able to stop her and ask her to sit. It took a couple of corrections but she was able to maintain. This is progress because before we started formally working on the issue she couldn't even hear me when there was a small fast moving thing about, let alone a cat.
I think that there is no short cut to this. I just have to keep putting her in situations where her predator drive is triggered and ask her to focus on me instead of what all of her nature is telling her, oh and carry high reward treats with me.
It is a big responsibility having a dog with a high predator drive and a lot of bite force, I guess the training and refining never stops.
(She is an American Bulldog/Boxer mix)
__________________
.
"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. "
Ayn Rand, Anthem
"So you'll die happily for your sins. You'd rather die in guilt then live in love?" Timothy Leary
Last edited by Venus007; 06-11-2013 at 02:50 AM.
Reason: needed stronger more clear language
|