puppy training help

[bambam0827]

Hi all,

as you may have seen from some of my previous posts i have a now 9 week old drahthaar puppy. I have never trained a puppy by myself because all of my previous dogs before were my dads and he did the training.

Here are my issues and I would like to see if someone can give me some advice....

Blaze (my puppy) will now sit almost everytime i give the command inside but when we get outside its like he ignores me if he is more than 10 ft away. Should i be worried and if so how do i get him to listen to me better outside??

Next, I have been working really hard with blaze on retrieving he will now everytime inside and outside fetch what I throw but he never brings it back. I know not to chase him down and I have used the check cord technique to say come when they get it praise them the whole way in as you real them in but blaze ends up getting tangled and rolls/flips all over the ground and drops the throwing dummy.

Last, What is the correct way to keep a puppy from biting????


Thank you!!!!!!

[redlab1]

bambam there is to much to explain all of this to you on a thread. I think you need to get a good training program to start with. Then read it or watch it several times so you get the jist of it before you even start training. That way you know what to let the pup do and not to do, because letting him do somethings you are letting him create bad habbits and they will be harder to fix than to not let him do it in the first place. Evam gram has a good training program, Richard wolters has several different traing programs and there are several others out there. They will take you into detail as to what to do and how to do it. Its not that hard to train your dog, you just have to get the program and stick by it. Hope this helps!

[bambam0827]

Thanks redlab1!!!!

That gives me somewhere to start...

So I'm not much of reader so what training DVDs does anyone recommend???

[MNGooseHunter]

Total Retriever by Mike Lardy. Little expensive but incredibly easy to follow. Best of luck

Jake

[Jon McGrath]

Thanks redlab1!!!!

That gives me somewhere to start...

So I'm not much of reader so what training DVDs does anyone recommend???

Did your breeder give you a copy of the Green Drahthaar puppy manual? Every breeder that I've talked to has given those books to the new puppy owners as a training tool. When I get my DD I'm throwing every retriever training book out the window and using the VDD's training manual.

[bambam0827]

Thanks for the input so far everyone I ended up buying the smart works puppy
Training DVD. JON what breeder do u plan on getting ur vdd from. I would recommend Mansfield in st Louis Missouri. He had bred many successful dogs and he's been doing it forever


O and I did not recieve the vdd training booklet I'm asking my breeder about it tonight

[Jon McGrath]

Thanks for the input so far everyone I ended up buying the smart works puppy
Training DVD. JON what breeder do u plan on getting ur vdd from. I would recommend Mansfield in st Louis Missouri. He had bred many successful dogs and he's been doing it forever


O and I did not recieve the vdd training booklet I'm asking my breeder about it tonight

I have it narrowed down to Vom Wiredhaus, Vom tapferen-Herzen, Vom Buffeltaler and Vom Kervinshof. I liked all of their dogs and they all have respectable test scores. Test scores don't mean everything but for the average guy like me who hasn't seen these dogs work. It's all I have to go off of.

You can find the Drahthaar puppy manual here: http://altmoor.com/catalog/BookVideo.html

[Jon McGrath]

I'm also going to be checking out the Deutsche Langhaar's or the German Longhair as the are referred to in the states. They look like a dog that would be very suiting to my needs and they still have to pass the VJP, HZP and VGP just like the DD. My only concern is retrieving geese. If I can see enough proof that they can do it, i'm down. I don't hunt much upland right now, but I know if I had a dog could do it I would be doing it a lot more.

[redlab1]

Total Retriever by Mike Lardy. Little expensive but incredibly easy to follow. Best of luck

Jake

This is the program I used to train all my dogs. It is a bit expensive but it has 3 dvds and runs you puppy to finnished dog. It is very easy to follow and is explained very good.

[bambam0827]

It been very exciting to watch my drahthaar grow in skills and size from when I got I'm at age 7 weeks Til now which is 9.5 weeks. It's like he is twice the size of when we got him!!!!
He's still not Pointing yet though

I will look into total retriever does is just cover waterfowl or does it cover upland game also because I would need him to point me some quail and pheasant???

[bambam0827]

I and by the way thank you Jon McGrath. My breeder is sending me a copy of the drahthaar puppy book tomorrow!!!

[Jon McGrath]

I and by the way thank you Jon McGrath. My breeder is sending me a copy of the drahthaar puppy book tomorrow!!!

Keep us posted on how the little one does with training.

[redlab1]

bambam the Lardy training is for waterfowl, hunt test and field trials. The Richard Wolters I spoke of has a program for upland training. I have the book. He has several books for different thing and they give good pics and are very easy to follow along. He even gives some time frames, like at this age your dog should be doing this. But you can't always go by them because all dogs learn at there own pace and some learn faster than others.