Will pawned off one of Satan's spawn on me, AKA Princess Weasel, Fess'es favorite little girl. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

My other girl is WG working lines and I think I'm noticing some differences in drives.

Pepper has prey drive. For anything that moves. I can and have pulled up some weeds before and waved them aound to get her attention and to get her to come back to me when distracted by another animal or something. (All I had handy at the time, I had to improvise.) The down side to that of course was when my rather heavy neighbor was bent over weeding only to look up and see Pepper charging her with that glint in her eyes.....She was really confused when I was yelling "DROP THE WEEDS"

At first I thought the Weasel didn't have her prey drive which was fine, because of course Pepper is just an exceptional dog. But what I'm seeing now is indication that her drive is for "real" prey and not "fake" prey. And that that "real" prey drive is high. Real high.

Does this make any sense or am I just reading too much into it? And if I'm right, would that effect how to train her at all?

Shame to lose the weed thing, it's almost always handy when I'm outside.....

Whoops, Fetz's favorite baby girl, not Fess. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

(sorry Will!)

I know what you mean. My old Golden had an abundance of live prey drive and chased wildlife with the intent of killing and eating it (which he did... often), but he had little interest in balls, etc.

On the other hand, my GSD has oodles of ball drive and while he'll chase wildlife, it seems he does it just for the excitment of the chase. I think if I gave him the choice he'd prefer his ball to a rabbit.

Anyway... best of luck with your puppy! I hope you're having fun!

Hi Betty, elvis is the same way, if you judge his prey drive strictly on the ball, he'd be about a 6-7, the tug about a 9, the water hose and the sleeve are a 10+, or if i put the ball in a super hard spot for him to get it, he won't stop till he gets it, that's how i keep him busy sometimes, another words, it's got to be moving or interesting or he might ignore it.
AL

Weasel is shaping up the same way. Ball-well ok if there is nothing else around, tug, getting interesting. Bird, gopher, rabbit, and all bets are off.....

My poor cat.

Should be interesting once I get her with a decoy.

The last picture of Elvis was great, really making weasel look like, well, a weasel still!