take your time with the pup. get it socialised, stock broken, broken to ferrets and generally used to everyday life. work on recall, retreiving and obediance, get a good bond with the little one and entering and everything else will be much easyer and above all have fun...even when it totally ignores you have a look for a dvd by dave sleight - purdeys progress. it follows the progress of one of his young pups and how he trains it and at what age etc. theres allso a follow up called lurcher fieldcraft which is purdeys first year of work, again another good dvd. best of luck