[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: showgsd-l Digest V2 #470
- From: "Maureen" <murk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:35:23 -0600
Leslye,
You said a mouth full there! I LOVE Ian Dunbar............he has wise words.
These pups are born with jello for brains.....it is up to us to challenge them
from day 1! It is in the challenging that we help them build their brain. I
pick them up roll them over in my lap and rub their tummies. I hold them next
to my face and hum.........so they can fell the vibrations.This is when I can
pick a week old up roll them onto my lap and they go spread eagle asleep. By 3
weeks they are out of the whelping box and in the puppy pen in the garage. I
hang mirrors........plastic cups........anything I can think of around the pen.
They have boxes to crawl in....... By 4 weeks they are visiting in the kitchen,
By 6 weeks they get thier first shot and a couple of days later......they are
in the kitchen during the day and getting house trained. It is amazing to watch
them learn to hold it till they go out when they are so young! Some just get
out the door......but they did it! By 9-19 weeks and they are going to their
new homes, people are getting pups that have been highly socialized........and
house trained. They go straight into the crates, not a problem. I do have a
stipulation in the contract that any sold locally WILL go thru my puppy class
to boot. Mo
I agree with Mo and Linda. Clarence Pfaffenberger proved that puppies develop
adult brain waves at 21 days of age and training can start then. He did his
testing on German Shepherds being raised as seeing eye dogs in Morristown, NJ.
I first experimented with this in the late 1970s. At 3 weeks of age I began
positive training on my Vance daughter. I didn't use much food back then. She
was happy to work for verbal praise and pats. When she was six months and two
days old she got her first leg on her CD with a respectable 187 1/2.
I've continued to begin puppy training at 3 weeks with the (admittedly few)
litters I've bred. It's all positive at that point, with lots of Ian Dunbar's
puppy pushups included. I also begin to socialize at 3 weeks, taking pups for
rides in cars. My last Sheltie litter went herding with us every week. Have a
great shot somewhere of a 3 week old Dream staring avidly at the sheep. She
later became a great herding dog.
When my puppies go home, they already know how to walk on a lead, and
understand sit, come, down, stand, and stay. They are crate and car trained.
They've walked on a variety of surfaces and met lots of different people.
They've even been exposed to some agility equipment. Since I place my puppies
only in natural-rearing performance homes, this basic training has been much
appreciated by the new owners who can just pick up where I left off.
I accept puppies as young as 8 weeks in my training classes, and prefer to do
a lengthy private lesson at the owner's home. It's much easier, as we all
know, to prevent a bad habit than to correct one.
Leslye Morrow
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