Genetic Drive of Drug Dogs

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Hi! I'm Captain Ray Varner with the Page Police Department for expertvillage.com. What I want to show you today is how to pick a dog through genetic drives. What we wanted to do is we wanted to see what genetic drive this dog has for retrieve, pray drive, play drive, hunting drive. We want to try to test out this dog. Now, everybody thinks that just because they have retriever in them, that they can automatically retrieve. I've talked to people that I say, "Does that dog play with a ball?", and they say, "We didn't teach him that yet." It's a genetic drive that's in the dog when they're born and they either have it or they don't. You can see puppies at a young age when they're first running around in the litter box. You can throw a sock or do something and you can see the drives coming out as puppies. Watch this dog. We wanted to show you. We get him all excited and we want him to play. Get the ball. Get the ball Where's the ball? Here's the ball. Get the ball. See he don't care. Here's the ball, come on. He doesn't care. He does not have that drive in him. He doesn't care what happens to the ball. He doesn't want to do it. It's not inside of him to do it. Now, you get one like this. Get the ball. Where's the ball. Get that ball. You can sit there and if she was sick and you picked up a ball, she would get up and start going after it. The genetic drive for this dog...Good girl. If I come and try to take it from her...That's prey drive. You see how she don't want to give it back. She says it's my prey, I've got it, I want it, and you're not getting. So she holds it and she takes it; that's prey drive. That's what you want to see. The higher that drive is, the better it is. Now, if she was a retrieve dog and had retrieve drive in her, she would bring it right back to you, drop it at your feet or allow you to take it from here and say, "Throw it, throw it, throw it again, I want to play again." She'd run and get it and bring it back, run, get it, and bring it back. It doesn't matter which one it is for detection work, as long as you have one of them in it. You can try to do food reward and try to emphasize it, but if they don't have the genetic drives in it, then you're just making the work a lot harder for yourself.

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