Conditioning Pups

[DazAllison1 556]

After a few threads on gettinn our dogs in shape for the coming season, It got me thinking about how folk condition 1st season pups with a majority of them not evena year old yet, I have a deer x grey bitch here 10 1/2 month and she'll be ready to go this season so she will just get plenty of road work and mooching about, It will be next year before I introduce the trotting with the bike not wanting to damage any joints etc this year, just wondering your thoughts/veiws on it?

 

Cheers Darren

[fitchet 788]

In my view mate for the amount of work I'd be giving a first season dog they don't need to be highly conditioned at all. Just keep them at a level of fitness your happy with. Atb

[Westy76 546]

Drop any excess weight with road work/mooching and just run them fit through the season

[shaaark 11,475]

In my view mate for the amount of work I'd be giving a first season dog they don't need to be highly conditioned at all. Just keep them at a level of fitness your happy with. Atb

Same here, especially the bigger types. Our bitch is 29" tts and we only had her doing the usual exercise routine of a bit of roadwork and a few runabouts, every day, and only started her jumping over nothing more than fallen trees when out walking until she was over a year old, she was still puppyish and gangly at that age, then as her balance and coordination improved we started her over low jumps of about 18" and gradually built up the heights over a few months. Now she's a terrific jumper and will clear anything. Overcautious some might say, but I don't want to risk giving any of my pups unnecessary injurys just for the sake of some patience and common sense.

[mooney1 120]

 

 

In my view mate for the amount of work I'd be giving a first season dog they don't need to be highly conditioned at all. Just keep them at a level of fitness your happy with. Atb

Same here, especially the bigger types. Our bitch is 29" tts and we only had her doing the usual exercise routine of a bit of roadwork and a few runabouts, every day, and only started her jumping over nothing more than fallen trees when out walking until she was over a year old, she was still puppyish and gangly at that age, then as her balance and coordination improved we started her over low jumps of about 18" and gradually built up the heights over a few months. Now she's a terrific jumper and will clear anything. Overcautious some might say, but I don't want to risk giving any of my pups unnecessary injurys just for the sake of some patience and common sense.

well said pal makes sense

[roybo 2,873]

At under 12 months I'd take a guess a deerhound cross

Is far from mature and just normal walking off lead running

Is more than enough, damage to tendons and bones can last a lfetime

Plus this time of year I wouldn't want to run a dog about too much

With the heat jmho

[JAE B 553]

 

In my view mate for the amount of work I'd be giving a first season dog they don't need to be highly conditioned at all. Just keep them at a level of fitness your happy with. Atb

Same here, especially the bigger types. Our bitch is 29" tts and we only had her doing the usual exercise routine of a bit of roadwork and a few runabouts, every day, and only started her jumping over nothing more than fallen trees when out walking until she was over a year old, she was still puppyish and gangly at that age, then as her balance and coordination improved we started her over low jumps of about 18" and gradually built up the heights over a few months. Now she's a terrific jumper and will clear anything. Overcautious some might say, but I don't want to risk giving any of my pups unnecessary injurys just for the sake of some patience and common sense.

 

spot on pal

[the duke3 95]

seems you knows wat your doing mate ,,atb with pup

[C Hall 552]

No need to condition young 1st season dogs just start them off slow and keep them going at a steady pace and they get fit soon enough.

[Country Joe 1,411]

I just road walk, and lots of free running, don't do bikes