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dog wants whatever it is and will do nearly anything to get it.
    In addition to wanting it while it’s in your possession, the dog will tear off after the object at high speed as soon as you throw it. The aggressive pursuit of that object, the speed at which the dog goes after it, is off the charts. To say that the dog goes after it is an understatement. Rather, the dog launches itself like a rocket.
    When the dog reaches the object, it plants its forelegs so forcefully that its hind legs rise up off the ground, kicking dust and debris all over the place. The dog will then grab the object, wrap its front legs and paws around it, and assume a guarding position, not allowing anyone near its prize.
    Compare that response to your typical ball-obsessed dog and I think you get the picture. Prey drive is the ability and desire to chase and catch anything that moves. What I’m looking for, as I’ve said, is over-the-top, extreme prey drive. The dogs have to be bold, powerful, stubborn, and dominant. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, they have to be absolutely crazy about retrieving things.
    Now, if you approach the dog once it has successfully retrieved an object and try to take that object away, you will encounter fierce resistance. Of course, I’m talking about a dog’s raw ability at this point. Eventually that dog will have to be trained to pursue an object with this kind of abandon only on command, and also learn to relinquish it when told to do so.
    I’ve taken clients who want a personal protection dog to view candidates, and when they see that kind of raw behavior they frequently ask, “Is there something wrong with that dog?”
    I always answer, “No. There’s a lot right with that dog.”
    That kind of nearly out-of-control pursuit is needed because frequently these working dogs, once in the field, have to charge into unknown environments, and just as frequently, ones that present a real danger to them. You don’t want dogs that are going to hesitate at all. They absolutely must remain task focused and able to block out all distractions. The ones that we deploy have to be unflappable in all circumstances. They can’t be spooked by dark rooms, slippery floors, open metal grating, helicopters, fast-roping, rappelling, parachuting, entering and exiting water, jumping onto unstable objects, or entering tight places like ducts and crawl spaces. Not only can’t they be spooked, they have to go into those places and do those activities willingly and with confidence and purpose, as evidenced by their upright carriage, their scorpion tails curling over their backs, their pricked ears, and their chests thrust forward, no matter how foreign or unfamiliar a situation they are in. They need to stroll in everywhere like they own the place and do the job. In other words, they need to act just like their human counterparts.
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    One of the main jobs that a Navy SEAL dog is trained to do is apprehension. Under combat conditions a dog is often required to find and apprehend a specific object and/or the enemy.
    In terms of apprehending—that is, cornering or holding on to an enemy—which a dog often physically does by using its mouth and biting down as hard as is needed, a dog has to have an inbred ability to be aggressive toward humans. I want to make this point as clear as possible. Animals can demonstrate aggression toward other animals or toward people. Just because a dog is aggressive toward animals doesn’t mean it has aggression toward people, and vice versa. I believe there is a great misconception in our society over this point. There’s no correlation between those two types of aggression.
    Belgian Malinois dogs can be human aggressive. They have a strong willingness to be assertive and to bite. That makes sense considering that they were bred to watch over flocks of animals and protect them from rustlers. Through selective