On November 09 2007, blackdoggy wrote:I am working on my little girl to pull weight just using her collar and a makeshift cart shes a bit spooked by it but she can pull it around the house with ease. I need to make a harness for her (with out stitching) since shes still growing. The cart I build is around thirty pounds on steel wheels its a little noisy but its working. The next challenge will be trying to find #1 a trainer close to me that works on protection dogs and #2 finding a some one willing to run around with a bite sleeve. She has a great prey drive and likes to jump to get her spring pole toy (its funny watching her fall on her back when she tries to get her toy at the wrong angle) but when she gets it she will hold on and try to rip the toy apart.
On November 09 2007, 2:32 PM, ellie@ny wrote:On November 09 2007, blackdoggy wrote:I am working on my little girl to pull weight just using her collar and a makeshift cart shes a bit spooked by it but she can pull it around the house with ease. I need to make a harness for her (with out stitching) since shes still growing. The cart I build is around thirty pounds on steel wheels its a little noisy but its working. The next challenge will be trying to find #1 a trainer close to me that works on protection dogs and #2 finding a some one willing to run around with a bite sleeve. She has a great prey drive and likes to jump to get her spring pole toy (its funny watching her fall on her back when she tries to get her toy at the wrong angle) but when she gets it she will hold on and try to rip the toy apart.
Can I ask you how old is your girl?
I believe it's a great thing to get involved with different things with your dog,a tired dog is a happy dog to me!
Now when you start to train a dog in weight pull you shouldn't use big weights,until she's used to noises.First just use a milk jug filled with rocks,she has to get used to that first.That's very important.Then with baby steps you bulid up the weight week by week month by month....Specially with a young dog.
And please do not use collar for weight pulling.If she is still under a year ad has a lot to grow,then I would just wait until she's done with that first,then order a great harness,then start the whole training.
About the protection training.Which direction do you want to go?
PSA SCH FR PP?
When you know what are you interested in,then you just have to look up the main websites for each sports,and usually all the regional clubs are listed there.
I'm training one of my dog in SCH now,she also do WP and conformation.
And I already have new plans for her next year.
Hope I helped a little bit.
On November 09 2007, 5:53 PM, blackdoggy wrote:She is around eight to ten months old (no more puppy teeth) and I am thinking just personal protection for her training, I have been working with her every few weeks pulling a 5Lb window weight. Around here most people look at you cross eyed and wonder what the hell your talking about when you mention protection training or bite sport. There is only ONE actual dog trainer here beside the nice lady down at pets mart but from what I heard from them and what I heard from the other trainer they are idiots and a rip off. According to what they said even tho my pup is house broken and knows how to sit and speak she still would need to be in there puppy program where as the lady at pets mart said she would be a class or two ahead of the puppy program and cost less not to mention the smaller classes. I am here in the middle of no where, where the police don't even have enough to feed there dogs and they only own one or two K9's speaking of which would I some how be able to rent my dog to them for special events? So far her temperament is very good to the point a computer case can be thrown in her general direction and she wont take off and actually go check it out as well as meeting new people and demanding to get some loving from them.
On November 09 2007, 11:41 PM, blackdoggy wrote:If you know your Confederate history and know where the last town was or are familiar with Dan River fabrics then I am just north of there otherwise check your map for Lynchburg Va. and go south fifty miles. What I mean by rent is try to get my girl to do some (not all) of the things they do since frankly we don't have much here for one to do full time and I figure if I got one they may as well pay me for the once a month or once every six months that they would need a dog. What would also be incredible is to train her (or the lab that poops him self when he spooks him self) to do narcotic searches but I also know things like that are really tough to train a dog to do not to mention nearly impossible to get training aids for.
Basically I would like to get baby trained to be smarter than a fifth grader and able to do something besides look good and do dumb doggy tricks.
On November 10 2007, 10:32 AM, blackdoggy wrote:Eh sure lets see what type of numbers were talking about for training. What other sports would this little girl be good at that is not in the normal realm of doggy sports?
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