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I totally know and have experience of such dogs ,infact I own one that is just like that.Very athelitic , high prey drive,easily distracted and the potential to be naughty.In the clip below meet selby three yaers old in this vid,she's the one that is playing with a dobermann cross and actually keeping up with it and still bats her brothr back to me when she eventually decides to listen.
In the next clip you can see one of the ways I deal with her ,for the want of a better word,her overly exhubruent nature.Although the leanest of my pack he is able to carry in her back pack 6 plus kilos.This has the benefit of giving her a job and carrying weight distracts her from going wayward dogs find it hard to multitask.Some may say it seems cruel specially when (about 2 mins into the clip) she is coming down the stirs of a moving double decker bus, but as you will see she does it on her own with only little encouragement from me and then steps off the bus and is calm and compliant when crossing a very busy road.
In the next clip you can see her returnuing home having carried 4 litres of water for about 3 miles,the others aren't challenge in the same way as they are better behaved lol .(you'll have to forgive my bad singing I had my earphones in and didn't realise till I uploaded the video to my computer)
If there is any doubt as to her intense nature watch her in the next clip,compared to the other dogs she has the higher intensity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQh63BXxSW8
In the next clip you can see her playing with a young staffordshire bull terrier a high energy dog giving her an outlet to release her intensity and develope her tolerance of smaller animals in a controlled enviroment.
And of course ,not as replacement for going out but as an addition to it,I now have her on her a treadmill to drain energy.
I think these sort of dogs,tho challenging, make excellent dogs that can be used or many things ,they are usually of higher intelligence so stimulation is good for them and exposing them to new challenges is always fun and often rewarding as you can see in the next clip where she has to tackle being on an escalator for the very first time and you can see she tolerates it well seeing as it i her first time.
I am not going o say it has been easy to get her to the way she is today,there have been many fustrating moments and lots of "ffs" moments but the rewards of getting these sort of dogs to a controlable and compliant stage is very satisfying and an absolute relief specially as there have been many times when I thought I would never get her right.