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Update on poodle training
Posted on 5/25/20 at 6:25 pm
Posted on 5/25/20 at 6:25 pm
I have worked with one of my wife’s poodles on and off for a month or so on his obedience. He is so dang smart. I am going to give a pretty fare shot at getting this dog to senior hunt test level. I started force today. This is a 2 & 1/2 year old white standard poodle. I have never started a lab this late. First day of force fetch and he is reaching for the dowel in 4 ear pinches. Now I get him reaching for it with just rope pressure. This process took 5 minutes and you can’t see even redness in his ear. This dog is probably going to make a retriever. Tomorrow and for the next week or so I will be trying to get him aggressively fetching off of the ground. It has been a while since I have done this but feels like riding a bike. He is doing everything great so far.
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Posted on 5/25/20 at 7:16 pm to Ppro
Pinch collar baw.
When was the last time you FF a dog?
When was the last time you FF a dog?
Posted on 5/26/20 at 9:56 am to Ppro
Good stuff. Keep up the updates please! I think it is a grand idea to continue the practice of all sporting dogs being trained to hunt.
I started a yellow lab female at about 30 months once. A friend was dying of cancer and asked that I take her in. He was a duck hunter but his medical condition started when the dog was about 10 weeks old and he just did not have the time or stamina needed to train her. She turned out pretty good...and it wasn't that difficult really...she was much more mature and focused but she never had the drive that she would have had if she had been hunted in her first year and the game drive was instilled when she was impressionable. She would retrieve, handle and was well disciplined but she was never as interested in doing so as a dog that was started earlier.
My current lab was started at about 16 months. I got her at 7 weeks and disciplined trained her but I had a pinched nerve in my back that nearly crippled me for about a year and I couldn't do much more than bench train and work her in the yard from a lawn chair. She is a damned good dog but I chalk most of that up to genetics. It is never too late to train them it just takes a different approach....and of course they will have been trained in bad behavior of course which is much harder to overcome
I started a yellow lab female at about 30 months once. A friend was dying of cancer and asked that I take her in. He was a duck hunter but his medical condition started when the dog was about 10 weeks old and he just did not have the time or stamina needed to train her. She turned out pretty good...and it wasn't that difficult really...she was much more mature and focused but she never had the drive that she would have had if she had been hunted in her first year and the game drive was instilled when she was impressionable. She would retrieve, handle and was well disciplined but she was never as interested in doing so as a dog that was started earlier.
My current lab was started at about 16 months. I got her at 7 weeks and disciplined trained her but I had a pinched nerve in my back that nearly crippled me for about a year and I couldn't do much more than bench train and work her in the yard from a lawn chair. She is a damned good dog but I chalk most of that up to genetics. It is never too late to train them it just takes a different approach....and of course they will have been trained in bad behavior of course which is much harder to overcome
Posted on 5/28/20 at 11:56 am to Ppro
Does the poodle enjoy retrieving? Plenty of dogs don't, you can teach them to do something but they don't live for it. My golden retriever will wear me out on fetching, she'll go longer than my arm will be able to throw.
I don't know, I know poodles are smart but dogs are bred for their natural abilities just seems like fighting a losing battle to me OP. I wish you the best of luck though.
I don't know, I know poodles are smart but dogs are bred for their natural abilities just seems like fighting a losing battle to me OP. I wish you the best of luck though.
Posted on 5/28/20 at 2:13 pm to Ppro
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I have worked with one of my wife’s poodles...
She has more than one?
Posted on 5/28/20 at 2:20 pm to Ppro
My standard poodle was by far the easiest dog I have ever had to train for basic obedience. I never trained him to hunt but feel like I could pretty easily. Whenever I clean ducks, doves, etc he goes apeshit if i dont start tossing some for him.
ETA: He is fast as hell on land. Not the strongest swimmer though, but he loves the water.
ETA: He is fast as hell on land. Not the strongest swimmer though, but he loves the water.
This post was edited on 5/28/20 at 2:23 pm
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