Brian Agnew The Balanced Dog Mr T A Formerly Reactive Dog

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Once you understand the instinctive behaviour that drives dogs - the pack, prey and defence drives - you can focus on how to build the pack drive, limit high prey drive, and build the dog’s confidence to achieve a higher defence drive.

Mr T came to me as a highly reactive, insecure dog with a high prey drive and low defence drive. You can see from his behavior that Mr T’s prey drive is very high. Getting him to retrieve a ball is building that prey drive, which I don’t want because the chase impulse overloads his prey drive. Alternatively, by teaching him a structured game like “find it” I can fulfill his prey drive but in a controlled way. It also switches his drives making me more relevant to him and building his pack drive.

Working with T on a “find it” game also helps with “impulse control” and helps with controlling the adrenaline download. Over-stressed and highly-adrenalised dogs can’t make good choices. Getting the prey drive under control and building his pack drive helps build his confidence so that he can make better choices and be less reactive with other dogs.

For more information about prey and pack drives see the extract from Dog Training for Dummies (1-3rd edition, Wiley Publishing, 2001-2010 ©) reproduced in my Newsletter:
- with permission of Jack and Wendy Volhard.
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Many people unknowingly work their dogs in a manic state, not understanding they can get the same work when everyone is calm. Thank you for this, beautifully done!

jenniferberhow