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Feeding time at the zoo!

This is the first meat/bone meal that the pups have had. Prior to this they had been eating ground beef and goat’s milk, since they were three weeks old. Murray’s All Natural Chicken Wings. Yum!!!

Pups at 4 weeks old

Building Drive and Focus Demonstration

Posted in K-9 Behavior notes, Search and Rescue, Search Dog Training, Videos of Kyle and his dogs on March 27, 2009 by kwdogs

Courtesy of Mental Properties Productions, Inc.

This video is a brief demo on building drive and focus and the fundamental principles behind it. There are several major drives or as I like to refer to them as — instincts.

I break them down into the following: Chase, Retrieve, Fight, Defense, Possession, Hunt, Food, and Social. These are all primal instincts that dogs have and as working dog handlers, we want to prompt these drives depending upon what the dog’s task(s) will be. For myself, all of these instincts are very valuable other than the defensive component for search and rescue.

When anyone ever hears me talk about maximizing the dog’s genetic potential I’m talking about building drive and focus through various exercises to develop these instincts. That’s what makes a highly motivated dog that has a good work ethic!

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Below are notes that I wrote for the 2009 Spring Federation K-9 Training weekend.

Building Drive and Focus by Kyle Warren

Accomplished in developing a solid reward system

1. Ball on string

2. Tug toy

Play with these types of toys can stimulate and build all the instincts listed in the following section. I prefer to do roughly two-thirds tug play to one-third retrieve play. The tugging is very connected engaging with the handler and the dog is consciously thinking about its handler (or subject) and the fun involved. The retrieving is more energy release even though the dog knows the handler (or subject) is needed to throw it for them. This combination has worked well for me.

Spectrum of Instincts important for K-9 SAR

If we can say one is more important than another. This is my personal order of importance among all the instincts listed.

1. Retrieve: dog returns its toy to handler.

2. Hunt: dog searches for its toy for an extended period of time.

3. Possession: dog carries toy everywhere and refuses to give it up.

4. Social: dog is positively excited to engage with people.

5. Food: dog ravenously devours snack or meal.

If your dog rates high in these behaviors then it is the handler that is preventing success.You must evaluate the genetics of your dog and understand what it’s raw genetic potential is based on its breed, breeding, and specific personality.

K-9 Quax working cadaver in the cold

Posted in Quax's Area Searches, Search and Rescue, Videos of Kyle and his dogs on January 9, 2009 by kwdogs

This video is the last 2 minutes of a 20 minute cadaver area search training exercise today. The source is frozen under several inches of snow. You’ll see Quax lie down next to the source from a great distance. If Quax cannot see me from where the source is then he’ll return to me and give me a bark indication to let me know that he has found it then guide me back to its location. He was about 100 yards away from me and could just see me…. so when he located the source you will see him look back to look for me and once he sees me he then lies down to indicate that he has pinpointed the source.

Area Search Dogs in-training

Posted in Search and Rescue, Videos of Kyle and his dogs on January 9, 2009 by kwdogs

THE HANDLER’S PERSPECTIVE:

This first video is of K-9 Xavier (known as “X”) and I doing a short area search with Jana Martin as our subject. Hoping to have X certified by the fall of this year.

THE SUBJECT’S PERSPECTIVE:

This is K-9 Slam and Jana Martin with me (Kyle Warren) as their subject. Hoping to have K-9 Slam certified by this fall as well.

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