Demon Puppy

LOL, oh I would definitely say she has some drive. She destroys the house whenever I go out to the yard where the equipment is without her. If I crate her to work the other dog, she bites at the kennel bars and carries on like a banshee. Probably the biggest obstacle in training her is her rapt interest and enthusiasm, if that makes any sense. However, aside from that, she is quite peaceable and usually content to snooze underfoot. She's affectionate, and playful and seems content and not particularly manic - relatively easy to live with, provided the normal amount of skritching and play is administered. My friend decided that was medium drive. Now I'm kinda scared of what high drive would be.

LOL, well, manipulation skills are a whole 'nother country. What inspired the question was someone was thinking about getting a puppy from a repeat breeding of a litter that I have a puppy out of, and was asking (from an agility perspective) whether my puppy was medium drive or high drive. I really didn't know how to answer her, because I think of drive as a collection of things, the intensity of each which can vary separately from the other components.

Okay, no wonder I couldn't tie it down! People keep using those terms like they have some specific, everybody agrees on it meaning, but they just confused me. I just bailed and gave people examples of standard behaviors for the dog so they could fit the dog into whatever they meant by "high drive" or "medium drive" Thank you

So, I hear the terms "low drive," "medium drive" or "high drive" used to describe dogs. While I have been assuming that "low drive" is more snooze at your feet and "high drive" is more going through the window when it's still shut to get the fly buzzing on the other side, can someone give me an example of each, and an idea of where "medium drive" fits in? I just want to get a feel for what most people mean when they use these categories. Are they different from energy levels? How do they relate to bidability?

That was wonderful news to read - thanks for posting it.

I am so glad he's with you now and being given a chance to find himself.

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