Brad . Martin Webboard User Reg: 09-14-2005
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In my quest to better understand defensive drives, I have learned a lot from the thread " Rewarding defense and aggression" originally started in 2002.
In this thread Kevin Sheldahl uses a phrase "loading the dog" in several of his posts. Can anyone explain this term to me? One of the contexts in which this phrase was used is as follows;
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So why do we use defense? When fight drive is lacking we resort to it. It is self rewarding and tends to load the dog so that it comes into a prey behavior for which it is rewarded at a higher level.
trevor morris Webboard User Reg: 01-17-2007
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I understand the term to describe the use of defense as a build up. Here is another quote from Kevin that explains it better.
"So why do we use defense? When fight drive is lacking we resort to it. It is self rewarding and tends to load the dog so that it comes into a prey behavior for which it is rewarded at a higher level."
I understand the term to describe the use of defense as a build up. Here is another quote from Kevin that explains it better.
"So why do we use defense? When fight drive is lacking we resort to it. It is self rewarding and tends to load the dog so that it comes into a prey behavior for which it is rewarded at a higher level."
Oh, dear... count me in as still unclear what "load the dog means".
Brad . Martin Webboard User Reg: 09-14-2005
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Trevor, that's the quote that I used. LOL.
Let's see...
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I use defense to load a dog so I can train in prey...
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Many people force a dog into self defense even if they can work in fight drive because it seems to be the thing to do these days. Much of the common work being done uses defense to load the dog in a attempt to acheive high degrees of barking at the blind...
These are other quotes from some of Kevin's posts, from the thread attached to the link above. It seems, from the context, as though he is referring to the level of stress being put on the dog.
load the dog - get them amped up. build drive. use some sort of stimulus to increase the level of excitement and therefore the level of intensity the dog displays in whatever activity, phase, or exercise they are about to perform.
a helper cracks a whip gets in the face of a dog about to go trial in protection out in the parking lot before they go on the field.
that's loading the dog.
someone holds a dog as the handler runs down the field swinging a toy and making noise before recalling the dog.
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