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Motivation and Building Drive

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#1 ·
The greatest training obstacle I have encountered (with every dog I work with) is how to build drive (can you create drive?) and motivate. I find that if I can solve the puzzle of what works for the individual dog than everything else is just details.

There are a lot of opinions about this and I want to know how you motivate your dog. Have you ever worked with a seemingly unmotivated dog? How did you overcome that?

Any recommendations for resources?
 
#2 ·
That is a good question and something that's been really bothering me lately. If you dont already know, I'm a puppy raiser for guide dogs and I'm currently raising a 10 mth old female lab. She's lacking drive, I'm afraid. She doesnt seem to enjoy going out and working. :( My last dog would get so excited when he saw we were about to go somewhere and would obviously enjoy our outings. ET grudgingly obliges, but there's no joy and after a very short time, I'm practically dragging her around, to get our errands done. I could be reading her wrong, but I dont think I am. If this is the case, she wont be successful as a guide and all this training and hard work will have been for nothing. I am curious to see if anybody has any input. I've been wanting to talk to my trainer about it, but we dont have classes scheduled anytime soon. I might have to go make a trip down there soon anyhow.
 
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