I got a lot of positive feedback about how much you all enjoyed taking the Penn State Behavior questionnaire yesterday. If you liked that one, here is another much shorter one to try. This one does not distinguish between human and canine elicited responses. There is an on line version, just scroll down to the middle of the page. At the end of the test you will get the results of your dog's drive. Drive being what motivates your dog, such as...

Play Drive
Food Drive
Sex Drive
Fight Drive
Defense Drive
Prey Drive
Herding Drive

The test will help you to distinguish the following:

Prey drive, pack drive, defense fight, and defense flight.

Your dog's natural drive will influence how you train them, ie toys, food, play, work. When I attended the Carolyn Scott Freestyle clinic she had us do an interesting test. We had to put our treats and toys away and we had one minute to find other ways to motivate our dogs to work for us. In competition of any dog sport there is no food and no toys allowed. Some people ran, and jumped and changed directions. Others blew in their dogs face, and some played a gentle shoving type game to name a few. I played a very successful mouth oriented got your feet game that Charlee and I often play. Originally I worked with her on that to help her to learn bite inhibition, since she didn't have it when we adopted her at 9 months. By the way it is not proven that bite inhibition can be taught after puppy hood, but I have given it my best shot and believe that she is much improved with the exercises we have done over the years and I no longer have bruises to prove it!

Click here to take the Volhard Canine personality Profile (aka CPP).

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