The value of letting a pup be a pup

[Lurcherman332 75]

I’m relatively new to the site and also visited topics on training lurcher pups I’ve came across some real good advice but very different opinions, I’ve seen people who train there pups as young as 9 weeks old and start them lamping at 6-7 months old, I’ve recently bought a new pup after my old collie x passed away I’m finding training at the moment is out the question to a certain extent and finding letting her be a pup is working out to be the best option whilst teaching her things whilst she is in play mode, sit , stay and recal she knows I want to play and making things fun and getting a bond what’s people’s opinions on letting a pup mature at its own pace and letting a pup be a pup ?

[mushroom 12,352]

Always force a pup to do everything it doesn't want to do mate.

I've posted some very interesting training methods, on previous threads. If you do a search you'll find them

Edited August 17, 2018 by mushroom

[Lurcherman332 75]

Ok mate il have a look 

[Lurcherman332 75]

Can’t find any topic mushroom. Quite intrested in hearing how forcing a pup to do something it doesn’t want to do works though? How do you go about that mate? 

Edited August 17, 2018 by Lurcherman332

[DavoH66 700]

let the puppy be a puppy you will no when the pup is ready I stock break them teach them to jump and that’s it the rest of the time a just leave them

[Lurcherman332 75]

Yeah I agree with you Davo get them around stock soon as they can nothing worse than a pup or older dog chasing stock, remember taking a friend out one day ferreting to permission I had just acquired whilst we were talking to the farmer his dog took off after a sheep was the most embarising thing ever I wasn’t sure if he was going to kick me off his ground but luckily his reply was you better keep that dog on a lead

[Terry Ermann 994]

Like them to be retrieving and comfortable around ferrets 5/6 weeks old then work on everything else over the next few months. 

[socks 32,253]

If it's not tackling big beasties by the time it's 10 weeks old I shoot it .....

[Lurcherman332 75]

Socks fair play that must be one keen pup

[socks 32,253]

That was her fourth of the day .....

[Lurcherman332 75]

You teach it to shoot did you mate 

[lurchers 2,596]

22 minutes ago, socks said:

That was her fourth of the day .....

If it didn’t carry it back at that age it would be in a hole

[mushroom 12,352]

56 minutes ago, Lurcherman332 said:

Can’t find any topic mushroom. Quite intrested in hearing how forcing a pup to do something it doesn’t want to do works though? How do you go about that mate? 

A loud voice, violence and electricity. Just persevere, the pup will soon come around

[Saltmoon 2,208]

Agree with socks this was 4 months old my dog had this I'm after the flying ones now

[Retsdon 63]

Dogs are like kids - they mature at different ages. With kids, you get parents wanting them do do this or that at 3 or 4 years old. and they becomr absolutely distraught if Johnny next door is tying his laces, or spelling his name before their own little Kevin. The reality is that -with a bit of encouragement -  they can ALL tie their laces and spell their names before they get to 8 or 9. Likewise with dogs. Everyone is in a fearful hurry. Fine to play around teaching a 10 week old pup to chase you when called, but at the end of the day it's far easier to train a dog at 5-6 months than it is at 3-4 months. They're that much older and grasp what I expected if them that much quicker. If it's any guide, I used to train border collies pretty successfully for farmwork and trialling. and I never bothered teaching a dog much more than its name until it was about 7 months old. For one thing it saved a lot of unnecessary running and shouting! As you said, spend the interim time getting to know each other...

Edited August 17, 2018 by Retsdon