 Hyper or high drive?
#321891 - 03/14/2011 05:33 PM |
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I was out at the pet food store to weigh in Harley and do some ob work.
He was very good until someone decided to trow a ball in front of him and then just got to teas him by bouncing the ball around.
I got Harley back under control. He got very high and frustrated so he barked wildly for a bit. As soon as I could handle him, we left. The person followed me tell me how hyper was my dog. I told him that he was just not ready for such distraction due he level of training and that he has a high pray drive. He went on telling me that if he was driven he would not go wild once corrected even if the thing is still there. Drive is only something that comes on commend as per this person.
So what is hyper and what is high drive? I know that Harley is a bit sharp and that my other guy, Dexter has a very low drive in general.
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#321893 - 03/14/2011 05:42 PM |
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Re: Hyper or high drive?
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#321894 - 03/14/2011 05:54 PM |
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That would make a couple of my dogs antsy, and they are neither sharp nor hyper. I mean, the person was in your space, right? And probably looking at the dog while bouncing the ball?
Pretty HL distraction. What a jackwagon (my favorite new word from a Geico commercial).
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#321895 - 03/14/2011 06:00 PM |
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Connie always knows how to cut to the point!
Hyper, high drive.. what's it matter, really? Your training for distractions and you found a new thing to work through, and you will. No biggie.
There are all sorts of people that have really stupid ideas of dog training.
I had a guy tell me to cure dog aggression you should take the dog to an offleash park, in muzzle, and correct with an alpha roll for fighting.
Another one told me that if the dog knows you really really love them, and then you yell at them for being bad, they feel sorry about it and learn their lesson.
Someone else advised me to pet my dog when she growls so that she will grow up to protect me.
More bad advice I have heard includes spanking, scruffing and muzzle squeezing and using a crate for punishment.
People have no idea what they are talking about most of the time. Feel confident in your own knowledge and work the dog. You're dog will be awesome, and they will still be working on housebreaking when their dog is five.
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#321896 - 03/14/2011 06:02 PM |
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Perhaps your dog sensed something menancing in the person, unrelated to the ball.
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#321898 - 03/14/2011 06:08 PM |
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Oh no it was the BALL! I can't yet use a ball as a reward. He just goes wild for it.
Ball game for now is trow the ball he brings it back, I trow it again. I will slip a command once in a while, but if I over do it he will do it but BARK that very crazy bark  Lie trow the ball, come on, come on faster, faster.
Harley's middle name the tornado 
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How'd all them wolves avoid starving to death with no one there to tell 'em, "Chase the rabbit"?
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Re: Hyper or high drive?
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#321901 - 03/14/2011 06:11 PM |
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Yeah, ya never know about advice sometimes it's worth while but usually not.
My lastest was a pair of horse riders on a trail Cassie and I often walk (surprising this time of year to see horses), any ways, Cass knows horses okay and I have good control of her. Recall, leash, step aside horses go by.....usually. This time the riders stop, hello etc. Horse snorts, Cassie goes off, I'm handling, rider yelling to me what I SHOULD be doing, horses prancing, I get Cassie's attention, I get a lecture on how I should be doing it (I should do it just like on tv) and then what's wrong with my dog.
Yeah yeah, thanks. Could you just get gone aready?
Don't worry about it. The people that can or would know how to help would just say let me know if I can help while walking away.
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#321914 - 03/14/2011 07:31 PM |
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The person followed me tell me how hyper was my dog. Hand signals can be very effective in a situation like this; most people will not follow you, once you flip them the bird :wink:
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#321915 - 03/14/2011 07:37 PM |
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The person followed me tell me how hyper was my dog. Hand signals can be very effective in a situation like this; most people will not follow you, once you flip them the bird :wink:
Spoken like a true Boston girl! Love it 
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