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Originally Posted by intilis  Wow, great article Jeanie! |
It is a great article. If you've ever had several big, powerful dogs getting into predatory drift, you learn how to anticipate it and stop it before it ever gets started as three big GSD's all going at each other is no fun to try to stop! But you are the only one to stop it so learning dog body language and how to anticipate what leads to predatory drift saves all of this and before long, the dogs learn that they are going to be stopped and learn to control themselves.
I think that is so funny how they would rather control themselves than have you step in and bring it to a screeching halt! Why do they care about our stopping them and work hard to control their own behavior once they know we are going to step in? That always amazes me about dogs that they prefer to control themselves than be corrected by a persistent human! It tell me they are genetically programmed to understand and defer to hierarchy, just as most people are.