I have a thirteen week old pup and I was thinking why wait for her permanent teeth to come in. Any of y'all ff a puppy? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm thinking I will be 3 months ahead.
Hope you're joking but if you're serious, please don't! Get yourself a copy of the Hillmann video "Training a Retriever Puppy." In the meantime, enjoy spending time with your pup.
We all know, you must have the right tools in your bag to FF. There might be someone out there that might be able to help. Do you have a program or belong to a club. Also, she must be able to seat on a duck first.
We all know, you must have the right tools in your bag to FF. There might be someone out there that might be able to help. Do you have a program or belong to a club. Also, she must be able to seat on a duck first.
I don't think ANY 13wk puppies have maturity to deal with FF. Personally, at that age I am working on developing bond with my puppy and just learning that puppy's individual personality traits etc. There are also several fear stages at different points in puppies' development you definitely want to avoid. These early weeks are my time to help my pup adjust to multiple surroundings and stimulI, I work on boldening him up, not the opposite. In my opinion, some things just can't be rushed. Hopefully, you'll have your dog as your partner for many, many years, why push such a young pup so hard to get ahead by 3mo?
Yes, at this point it's all about establishing a bond building trust, good nutrition, and teaching not to pee in the house! Seriously, this has to be a joke. I don't believe 13 week puppy has the ability to learn all that ff teaches.
She will sheet on anything TS I DON'T know what the problem is she was cigraring the bumpers so I put barb wire on the end and now she won't retrieve so I'M gonna force her.
That is what I'M thinking BJ why wait. HELL they want to bite and chew everything anyway why not channel it. I mean my big toe is bleeding now heck yea I'M gonna be a pioneer. Fetch means fetch
No fair deleting post. But something begs the question why did Ms. Paulson name the horse Rock Hard Ten? Perhaps it was wishful thinking since she was married to the near centurian Mr. Paulson. Also begs the question why did you name your dog Rock Hard Ten. lol Now when I showed my wife the toe hitch force on the puppy yesterday last night it was attached to me. So far I've fetched ice cream, water, tacos, coke, not that coke, a salad, ham sandwich, margarita, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and fried chicken. Thought it was for the wife but she fed it all to our rescue dog. Think I'm gonna let her force Twinkle she is doing a helluva job on me.
Maybe but you can't blame duk4me. Without his keen insight, forward-thinking approach to ff and seating on ducks, where would the retrieving community be??
.....and then there is this (took awhile to do a search).
Forum post 7/7/2006
"Correct me if I am wrong but Downtown Dusty Brown was force fetched at 4 months. I don't see anything wrong with it if the pup can handle it and the trainer is very good at reading dogs. Maybe they use minimal amounts of pressure. I could see it going both ways.................."
I guess its better late than never. I've been FF puppies when they were 7weeks old for a while now. By the time they are 13 weeks old we're already on FTP. But I guess you could wait till they are 13 weeks...
The horse was maybe Cigar (lol.. Like your bumper problem.. Lol). Rock Hard Ten was sold and is now standing Stud in Korea.. Ugh! Yeah Madeleine did real well being married to two millionaires. He was co owned by Mercedes Stables. I'll have to post a picture of his hat. I own one and bought one for my Ten's breeder.. He loved it
Yes mam. Saw Cigar win the OP Handicap in 95 I think. If I'm not mistaken it was early in his 16 race streak. Mottt's, the trainer, assistant was Ralph Nicks. His Dad Morris Nicks trained for us in later years and still does for my brother. When Ralph was about eight and I was around twelve we breezed horses for our Dad's in DeKalb TX. Had an occasional cash race. Ralph weighed about 60 llbs and I weighed about 90. Please don't tell my Mom to this day she doesn't know I rode on the brush tracks. lol Ralph is training on his own after a short career as a jockey me I was to big to make a jock. I miss the track.....
LOL Barb but that is not how rock hard ten got his name. Insider info regards. Ms. Paulson was a little shall we say off color in her humor. I can't believe she got that name by the Jockey Club.
Thank you. as far as getting back to the track I hope that is what I get back to. There is nothing like leading a winner to the test barn. I assume it is similar to winning a trial. Oh yeah I assume everyone knows by now I was bsing on this thread. I would never put barb wire on a bumper. Now back to the ff table with my thirteen week pup.
Some don't know the culture that RTF used to be. Satire, irony, often used to exaggerate a point, highlight an issue. There is often a rash of new pup owners, unknowingly pushing their pups too far, too fast, with too high of expectations, as well as a bunch of rather conflicting and perhaps, detrimental advice. The OP made such outrageous claims as to FFing a 13 week old, using barbed wire, etc, as a sort of spoof of that, at least, that's how I took it, knowing Mr. Bockman.
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