Ok I'll take a bite too. How do you accomplish this action of restricting the dog's movements? Is this simply motivational training with some form of restrictions or am I missing something ? Intresting subject.
Ozzie
I think you are actually describing two different things here. Your first paragraph you are talking about pressing. It is done with a pinch collar and you would use it with some dogs to try to get them to focus and get into a rythmic bark in say, a bark and hold. You would use the pinch and your free hand to get a rythmic pop with the pinch and a pop with the free hand on the side of the dog in an attempt to get the dog to start to get a rythim going and kind of bark with it. I have seen it done with success with a certain type of dog, usually very high prey dogs that get all choked up and kind of can't get a bark going.
In you second paragraph I think you are trying to describe drive capping. I am no expert like some of the other folks on this board, but here is a link to a very good article on drive capping. It has work wonderful for my dogs and the dogs I train. http://www.schutzhundvillage.com/obed.html
I have been to an Armin seminar and use both pressing and capping with my SchIII male. Both work very well with him. He is an excellant do to demonstrate capping. He really bites hard and fast after. But did watch some dogs that were of different tempermants go flat with any try at capping. Couldn't handle the pressure of obedience in that manner with protection. We got a stronger more rhythmic bark in the bark and old with pressing. Then would as for a quiet, then command to bark and pressing.
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O.K. help the knuckle-dragger......I can not follow you all with the capping thing... a functional definition would help, thanks, Gordo. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
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Ok just read about capping. It is a fancy term for frustration. The example was put a cap on a coke bottle and shake then remove the cap. Boom the coke shoots out. IMO the Obedience is the cap, frustration is the shaking and drive is the coke. But the point that is missed is the key is not the cap but the frustration. Now onto pressing…
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