Best Pets Dog Training Series: Your agility dog: Building focus and drive «

Your agility dog: Building focus and drive (Part One)

Posted on March 25th, 2008 Sarah No comments

In agility or other dog sports, we often hear about a dog’s drive. Maybe someone has said your dog has a lot of drive, or could use more drive.
What is “drive”?
Sometimes you’ll hear people talk about different types of drive in dogs, such as fight drive, play drive or prey drive. For our purposes, we’ll [...]

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Your agility dog: Building focus and drive (Part Two)

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 Sarah No comments

In Part One of this two-part series, we talked about what drive is, why it’s important, and the difference between drive and arousal. This week, we’re going to take a peek at some strategies to increase focus for dogs prone to arousal and talk about how to build drive.
Focus and agility
Now that we can tell [...]

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