motivational/drive building training question - Page 3

If I'm understanding you right, you're saying a dog with the correct genetics, already has what it takes, and more than building it up, your channeling it to work for you?   Do you do no drive building at all?  Or just not to the extremes that many others do?  Or do you only do it when actually teaching a specific action?

Or am I not understanding?

This may be more an issue of semantics?   For me, the term "building drive" has always meant working with, bringing out, encouraging and channelling the drives  the dog was born with, this is how you teach puppies to do what you want, work with his drives.  Not making drive where it either did not exist or was so low as to be unuseable.  Of course, there are many trainers who are very skilled and can take a very low drive dog and turn it into something, but I am not that good.

Neither am I, nor would I want to be.  Semantics, I suppose, but there are unquestionably some techniques that are commonly used in preparation prior to a trial or even mere practice on the field that are of dubious overall benefit to the dog's natural state, and pose a charade of its natural breeding qualities.  Oftentimes, you can see telltale signs of their use, if you know what to look for.  For example, the effects of eCollar use.