How Prey driven is your dog???

Harley would choose TREAT.  He is hardley prey driven.  He is more likely to be the prey, lol!

Roxie would follow Gaia's route.  She'd take whatever I had and then go after the squirrel.  Walks through the more wooded sections are a thrill for her, because she sees rabbits and squirrels.  And she wants them.  Oh, yes.  LOL!

OH without a doubt - squirrell first but you can bet they'd come back for the treat, too!  They don't forget a thing![]

That'd depend on whether I called Emma or not. If I called her, she'd be next to me. If I didn't, the squirrel would become the treat.

Teenie doesn't care if I call her or not. She'd be after the squirrel. She'd never catch it, though. She does not have a great recall, which is why she lives in a fence or on a leash.

Marlowe: Treat, what treat? Who can think about treats when there's prey around!?!?

Though I have to say that I seem to have been pretty successful in getting him out of the squirrel-chasing mode. My presumption has always been that Marlowe was previously a trained coonhunting dog. If he was trained, he was trained to not run "trash"--anything other than the hunter wanted him to hunt. It crossed my mind the other day that I may have simply moved squirrels into Marlowe's "trash" category that he already had formed through his previous training. Who knows. But he's about a kajillion times more manageable than he was before, so something clicked for him somewhere.


Conrad: What's Marlowe looking at and where's he going? Hey, wait up! Does it smell good? Is it fun? Are we playing "chase"?

Conrad has a pretty low prey drive, as befitting a bloodhound. He loves to smell animal smells, and if some furry woodland creature comes walking right up to him he'll give chase, but it's not his whole life. He's killed maybe 2 things that I've ever witnessed in the 5 years we've had him. He used to have the run of a pretty large tract of land so there may have been more but somehow I doubt it. He was more into scavenging the disgusting deer parts left by hunters field-dressing. By contrast, Marlowe has killed two squirrels and a bird in the past 8 months, each and every time while on a 4 foot leash.

Seven couldn't care less about the squirrel. I used to own pet rats and they would run across the top of him when they were out playing, and he wouldn't bat an eye. He would stare at it, eat the treat, and keep on tugging me along down the street. Breyna on the other hand, as I have learned from last night, would try to drag me down the road at top speeds toward the squirrel (or cat, as in the case last night on our walk!) Treats mean nothing to this very prey driven hound dog!!

Rascal would ignore the treat, since he doesn't care about food overly much, and run to wherever the squirrel had been standing so he could watch/smell the squirrel from a distance. Chasing? Way too much work! What he really wants for Christmas is a pair of binoculars.... [8|]

Gracie, she'd go for the squirrel, then 20 minutes later come for the treat pretending like she was a good dog who listened and came when she was called.
 
Tookey, he'd take the treat and a couple of fingers, then chase the squirrel.

Ya, I am gonna have to say squirrel first treat second and they certainly would NOT forget about the treat… these two have incredible memories.[]
 
 
No way in hell would they chose the treat first though … they LIVE to try and hunt every single time they are on a walk.  Their prey drive sometimes is truly unbelievable! [8D]

Maggie would ignore me and bark at the squirrel, only runing away if I tried to get her and end her fun. That is, if she sees the squirrel.
She is great with Sky, and only chases her on occation, but Ronnie always runs away and taunts Maggie, so she always chases him.

Tasha would never worry about the treat even after the squirrel was gone, but I think that she wants to play with it more than anything. She loves, loves, loves kitties and to her squirrels are just small kitties with bushy tails.
 
Wolfgang would take the treat and look for more treats before thinking about the squirrel.
 
Floyd would completely ignore a squirrel if it ran right in front of him and would tremble if it ran over him. If however, it was his ball, he'd go after the ball and never remember the treat.

Truthfully, I don't know.  We don't live where I've ever been able to take Max off leash and let him really chase squirrels.  He stops and watches them in the trees, hackles up, sort of a low growl. But when I give a little tug on his leash and say "come" he comes willingly and looks for his treat when he hears "good boy."
 
Joyce

Mine would run it until one (or both)  of them fell over dead.  To hell with the treat.

my dog is only a puppy...she is a very picky eater..so not really food driven...hardly at all...she usually only takes treats to PLAY w/ them! lol

but other than that.. i have little parrots at home..and she ALWAYS tries to "play" with them... more like nosy to see what they really are.... and my birds are downright MEAN! They will climb down their cage and attack her! lol too Funny...I have pictures some where... will post if I can.