dog breeding?

Question

Alot of people here are talking about breeding their dogs. Then they surely must know the following and be able to answer me.
What is pack drive, what is prey drive, what is defense drive, what is fight drive, what are instinctive behaviors, what are learned behaviors? What is the difference between prey and fight drive? What is the difference between temperament and drive? And finally, which of these behaviors does your dog have in BALANCE with the others that you want to pass alone?

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Good answer Danielle, and it is a breeding question. If you are not aware of your dogs drives, how can you find a suitable mate that will compliment what your dog already has to produce the best possible offspring?

Answer 1

You gotta be kidding. That is WAAYYY beyond what they care to know!!!!!!!!
It is hard enough to get them to actually think that health clearances are needed. Heck, the VET said they were healthy. Or the parents of the breeding dog didn't have any health problems!!!!
They are LUCKY if they know anything about the parents of their dogs, let alone what temperment problems might be in the line, or if their dog has any!!!!!!!
Unless it actually ATTACKS someone, there IS NOT temperment problem!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Too many questions, to answer at one time. You need a book. It isn't a breeding questions so much as it is a "training" question.

Pack drive is the drive of a dog to defend his/her pack
a predatory animal that means prey drive governs hunting and killing techniques. Chasing, flushing, pouncing, biting, and shaking-to-death, are the most important of these techniques when we are talking about protection training.
Defense behaviour is generally triggered by threats, real or perceived, or open aggression. The goal of defense behaviour is always to create avoidance behaviour in the threatener.
Aggression behaviour contains reactive aggression (defense) as well as active aggression (social aggression). With all the different theories that exist about aggression, there still is no conclusive proof available as to whether or not genuine spontaneous aggression exists.
The term fighting drive is an oxymoron. It combines the word drive refers to an inherited trait which serves to preserve life and species, with the word fight which refers to physical combat.

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Answer 3

If only more people who think about these things and stop doing it for the sole purpose of "making money", there would be a lot less shelters needed! Unfortunately people don't do enough to educate themselves before subjecting these poor animals to their ignorance and create so many innocent lives that a lot of the time end up abused, homeless, or killed. Sickening! I know nothing about breeding and couldn't answer a single one of your questions without looking it up, this is a big reason I would never dare dream of breeding!!!!!!! Not that I ever would anyway, I leave that to experienced true breeders.