My 4 month old GS is crazy about food. He is not interested in toy's for more than 1 min at a time. I have been doing short sessions with different toy's to build his toy drive, without much success. How can i build more toy drive? I even tried to tie him, while trying to excite him with different toy's. He goes for the chase for about 30 seconds or so and that's it. I let him catch the toy and when he lets go, i move it fast with a buggy whip and end the game before he gets it again.
Any thoughts on building his drive towards toy'? His food drive is crazy. How can i use this to my advantage in changing drives?
Reason for wanting to change eventualy, so that i do not need food everywhere i take him. Having a toy drive is so much easier to use.
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It's sort of funny you posted this because I literally just said in a PM with another member that my dog didn't have a whole lot of toy-drive at that age. Food drive out the wazoo but not very interested in toys.
I kept up with Flinks' method of building drive and around 6 months he became a toy maniac. As soon as I saw his interest in toys catch on, I started phasing out treats.
I don't know if this was due to me and anything I was doing or more due to his age.
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One drive doesnt cross over into another drive. A dog is born with a genetically predetermined amount of drive, the most you can do is build the dogs drive to his genetic cap.
Sarah , thanks at least you got my hopes up..
what else did you do for motivation, and which excercises did you use? Which toy's sparked his interest?
His drive is ok but needs to be biult up big time.
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The first thing I need to say is that this was my first time training a puppy, much less using Flinks' method of building drive. I didn't even understand the concept of drives in dogs until I found this site.
I don't have a GSD nor am I training a PPD or sport dog. I'm NO expert
We played a lot of tug and used the orbee on a string...not for training OB but just to play. Kept it fun and short and tried to lower my expectations of what we were trying to accomplish with the tug and ball. I couldn't move that tug around as skillfully as Flinks and my Lab pup wasn't Flinks' dog....LOL Every training difficulty I've had came from me expecting too much, too soon.
Like Mike said, it is what it is. I thought I had a low-drive puppy and then one day he surprised me. Maybe it kicked in a little later than some? Maybe making the whole thing fun and less of an "exercise" or a means to an end helped? Maybe it was pure dumb luck? I don't know
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