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    1) Dogs have innate behavioral sequences called Fixed Action Patterns (FAPs) that are triggered by certain stimuli related to survival tasks like hunting. 2) Selective breeding has produced dog breeds specialized for different parts of the hunting FAP, such as herding dogs that chase but do not kill prey. Retrievers are bred to retrieve game without eating it. 3) To prevent unwanted chasing behaviors, owners should manage their dog's environment to avoid triggers and train alternative behaviors through structured recall training using high-value rewards. Consistent mental and physical stimulation is also important.

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    1) Dogs have innate behavioral sequences called Fixed Action Patterns (FAPs) that are triggered by certain stimuli related to survival tasks like hunting. 2) Selective breeding has produced dog breeds specialized for different parts of the hunting FAP, such as herding dogs that chase but do not kill prey. Retrievers are bred to retrieve game without eating it. 3) To prevent unwanted chasing behaviors, owners should manage their dog's environment to avoid triggers and train alternative behaviors through structured recall training using high-value rewards. Consistent mental and physical stimulation is also important.

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    1) Dogs have innate behavioral sequences called Fixed Action Patterns (FAPs) that are triggered by certain stimuli related to survival tasks like hunting. 2) Selective breeding has produced dog breeds specialized for different parts of the hunting FAP, such as herding dogs that chase but do not kill prey. Retrievers are bred to retrieve game without eating it. 3) To prevent unwanted chasing behaviors, owners should manage their dog's environment to avoid triggers and train alternative behaviors through structured recall training using high-value rewards. Consistent mental and physical stimulation is also important.

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    So your dog likes

    ask the trainer


    to chase things?

    Mirkka
    Koivusalo, MSc,
    PhD, owner
    of Mindful
    Behaviors and
    co-owner of the
    Toronto Centre
    For Canine
    Education

    You may have heard of Fenton, a


    Labrador who became a YouTube We humans have moulded the FAPs of Preventing your dog from getting
    sensation after he decided to chase some canines by breeding. The whole motor into life-threatening situations is a
    deer at Richmond Park in England (see pattern starting from seeing the prey combination of management and
    the clip here). I’m sure most of us find training. For example, if your dog
    animal to actually eating it for dinner
    this movie kind of funny, but we have has directed his hunting ambitions to
    consists of the following behaviours:
    also been in a similar situation with skateboarders and other fast-moving
    Orient > Eye > Stalk > Chase >
    our own dogs, and then it becomes objects, it is important to try to avoid
    Grab-bite > Kill-bite. putting him into situations where he
    somewhat less funny.
    can chase skateboarders (I know this
    What is actually going on here? Selective breeding of dogs has produced
    is sometimes more easily said than
    I recently went to the SPARCS stunted versions of the above motor
    done in the summer) because these
    conference on canine behaviour, where pattern. For example, if you have ever hardwired behaviours spread like
    one of the speakers was ethologist seen herding dogs at work, it is pretty wildfire. Then it is important to train
    Dr. Raymond Coppinger, who has obvious that they carry out the motor attention tools often, first when there
    dedicated his life to studying the origin pattern to the point of chase; some are no arousing stimuli present.
    and evolution of canines. He and other breeds (like my Australian Shepherds)
    I start with highly structured recall
    speakers at the conference talked about may nip the livestock a little bit, but they
    training, which I do every day A LOT,
    behavioural motor patterns in dogs. don’t proceed to the point of kill-bite. always reinforcing the dog coming
    Our friend Fenton is a retriever. They back to me with something absolutely
    Dogs, just like other animal species,
    are bred to orient to the prey, chase amazing. The frustrating part is that
    have behavioural sequences called
    it, and then stop the motor pattern at to override something as hardwired as
    Fixed Action Patterns (FAPs), which
    grab-bite, which is the point where they the FAPs, we have to work hundreds
    occur when they are presented with
    would bring the fallen bird to the hunter of times harder to get what we want.
    certain stimuli. FAPs are genetically
    without eating it. Humans are quite Obviously, with some dogs it comes
    encoded, hardwired behaviours that
    easier than with others. I, for example,
    must be completed once started genius in having been able to develop
    have one of both extremes at home. In
    because such behaviours are (or have these different breeds!
    addition, as I always keep saying in my
    been) essential for the survival of the Cranky Canine classes, we need to take
    What can do we do when our dog
    species. This is exactly what we see into consideration that having certain
    with Fenton: something very primal is shows these behaviours in an unwanted
    dog breeds in an urban environment
    triggered inside his brain when he sees context, like chasing deer across a
    is challenging and can also be unfair
    the deer, and he doesn’t understand road? It certainly will not be easy if to the dog if we don’t provide them
    that he is actually putting himself in your dog is already in the hunting with enough mental and physical
    danger of being run over by a car – and mode! There is a reason why we have stimulation, so make sure to engage
    I am 99.9% certain that he cannot even heard people say that it is very difficult your dog in activities that she enjoys
    hear his owner calling him. to train a recall to a hound. doing with you.

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